(n.) The act or operation of eroding or eating away.
(n.) The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.
Example Sentences:
(1) The counts of EAC-receptor carrying neutrophils were two times lower in the patients with erosive ulcerative lichen planus as against those with the typical form of the disease.
(2) Endoscopy showed an irregular erosion of 4 by 2 cm, from which biopsies were taken.
(3) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(4) Poly(ortho ester) bioerodible polymers are suitable materials for the topical administration of a wide variety of therapeutic agents; varying the nature and amounts of excipients physically incorporated into the polymer will vary the erosion rates from a few hours to many months.
(5) In support of this argument, a case of erosive arthritis is reported in a skeleton from Kulubnarti, Republic of the Sudan (c. 700-1450 A.D.).
(6) As many as 72 patients with erosive and ulcerous injuries to the stomach and duodenum were examined for the clinical efficacy of antepsin (sucralfate).
(7) Important problems currently under study or requiring investigation for better understanding of the pathophysiology and management are reviewed under three major categories: acute peptic erosions and ulcers, gastric ulcer, and duodenal ulcer.
(8) We have summed up four types of essential X-ray features of cortical erosion and their pathological bases, clarified the limited ability of X-ray to reveal early cortical invasion and the range of infiltration.
(9) This is a report of the short- and long-term complications in a premature infant with tracheoesophageal fistula, including those related to central venous alimentation, seizures, chylothorax, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, dental erosions, gastroesophageal reflux, pulmonary problems, and gall stones.
(10) Erosion was observed on all teeth, but was commonest on the upper incisors, canines and premolars, and severest on palatal surfaces.
(11) Postoperatively, visual acuity was improved and symptoms of erosion decreased in both patients.
(12) Adrenaline produced severe sub-mucosal haemorrhage, but no erosions or ulceration, while prednisolone and fasting gave no gross pathology.
(13) A follow-up study of erosive prepyloric changes (EPC) was undertaken in 60 patients who originally presented with non-ulcer dyspepsia and EPC grade 2 or 3.
(14) The presence of granularity and erosion did not much affect the estimated risks.
(15) These mice also have circulating rheumatoid factor (RF) and develop histological changes in their joints characterized by pannus formation, cartilage and bone erosions.
(16) We consider that the rarity of stricture rules out the necessity of any change in management, whether or not erosive oesophagitis is observed at endoscopy.
(17) It was hypothesized that an autoaggressive attack of lymphoid cells against the epithelium of the oral mucosa played a role in the pathogenesis of this erosive stomatitis and it was suggested that there might be a correlation between the occurrence of stomatitis and the presence of Castleman's tumor.
(18) Fatale haemoptysis occurred as a result of circumferential caustic erosion to the right intermediate bronchus caused by a tablet of ferrous sulphate which remained in contact for 4 days.
(19) Prophylactic treatment by intra-articular injections twice weekly for 4 weeks caused amelioration of canine cartilage erosions.
(20) In 17 out of 18 such patients, the two-week therapy with sucralfat (venter) resulted in the disappearance of esophagitis with multiple erosions.
Gabion
Definition:
(n.) A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.
(n.) An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heselden, a former miner, used his redundancy money to make a fortune from manufacturing gabions, portable metal cages filled with sand or soil for blast protection at military bases and flood defence.
(2) "He protected the armies and peace-keeping forces of the world with his greatest invention, the Bastion Concertainer," said Chris Robinson, senior manager of the Hesco company whose modernised version of Roman defensive gabions - baskets filled with stones and crammed together to create makeshift walls - are used everywhere from Afghanistan to the flood levees of New Orleans.
(3) Updating the medieval defence system of gabions - baskets filled with stones and crammed together to create makeshift walls - he patented the Bastion, which proved an immediate bestseller for his Hesco firm.
(4) In front of each house are gabion walls, gabion being the form of construction used in road embankments, where loose stones are placed in wire cages.
(5) He invented a new version of the medieval gabion – baskets filled with stone or rubble which have been adapted in modern times to line riverbanks and road cuttings.
(6) Like the building, the car park is raised up on a defensive berm, surrounded by gabion walls and hedgerows, reinforcing the feeling that this alien spaceship is cut off from the surrounding streets.