(a.) Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
(a.) Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.
(a.) Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.
(a.) Existing at all times without change; immutable.
(a.) Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive.
(n.) One of the appellations of God.
(n.) That which is endless and immortal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
(2) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
(3) In legend, Gilgamesh fell asleep on the water side and let slip from his fingers the plant of eternal youth.
(4) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
(5) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
(6) Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
(7) In each of his creative capacities, he was the eternal quiet man.
(8) Even Alec – eternally hard to please where his own work was concerned – loved it.
(9) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
(10) Boris Johnson accused of 'dishonest gymnastics' over TTIP U-turn Read more “But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe .
(11) They call it, rather unsurprisingly, the eternal flame.
(12) They were created on the basis that, whatever the cost, there are some eternal values that are worth upholding in a civilised society.
(13) He has taken the legacy of postwar abstract expressionism, and allied to that a deep love of the great eternal themes of the classical world.
(14) Murray said: "I'm eternally grateful to Ivan for all his hard work over the past two years, the most successful of my career so far.
(15) I am not sure that a lucrative career in rape gags is more helpful than a failed one, but the rape hum seems eternal.
(16) Ras proteins are membrane-associated transducers of eternal stimuli to unknown intracellular targets.
(17) One, Baroness O'Cathain, has said, in relation to politics and her evangelism: "For me it is a guarantee of eternal peace."
(18) Committed to eliminating the budget deficit by the end of next year, it just does not have the cash to fund, for example, big new infrastructure projects like an eternally proposed (and eternally postponed) bridge over the Straits of Messina.
(19) François Bayrou must have resigned himself to being the eternal also-ran of French presidential elections, by now.
(20) To all those who offered me their friendship, support and prayers, I will be eternally grateful.
Sternal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Primary sternal closure was difficult and delayed closure was performed using splint with a resin plate.
(2) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
(3) Times to sternal recumbency and times to standing were not significantly different.
(4) There was an increase in walking (5.3 per cent), lying in sternal recumbency (8 per cent) and lying in lateral recumbency (5.3 per cent) whereas standing (53.3 per cent) was decreased.
(5) Three patients, all in the cefonicid group, required sternal debridement to control postoperative deep wound infections.
(6) In the remaining seven patients, sternal and mediastinal debridement with rewiring of the sternum was successfully applied.
(7) The 66 patients were subdivided into four groups according to the type of conduit harvested (single left internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein) and the type of material used for the sternal closure (steel wires or nylon yarns).
(8) In two cases the author has successfully carried out retro-sternal transposition "of necessity", at 6 months and 4 years after coloesophagoplasty in the pre-thoracic variant.
(9) The present investigation examines metamorphosis in the sternal ribs of American blacks (N = 53 males, N = 20 females), and tests the application of age estimation standards developed by the authors from a white population.
(10) The average hospital stay was 24 days after sternal incision and drainage (range, nine to 85 days).
(11) This thin flap, usually extending from the hyoid bone to the sternal notch at the central part of the anterior neck, provides a skin island of about 4 by 8 cm.
(12) The chest X-ray showed widening of the mediastinum without rib or sternal fractures.
(13) In our opinion resection of the sternal end of the clavicle should not be used in old traumatic dislocation.
(14) In 84 patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia receiving a cytostatic monotherapy with busulfan, an aplastic syndrome developed which was confirmed by a biopsy of the pelvis crest and examination of the sternal marrow.
(15) Radiographic findings that were tabulated included joint space narrowing, sternal or costal osteophytes, articular calcification, vacuum phenomena, and the degree of ossification of the costal cartilages.
(16) Venous PCO2 was increased by insufflating the gut with high CO2 while recording changes in the amplitude of the sternal movements.
(17) Surgical procedures for the treatment of pectus excavatum--sternocostal elevation and sternal turnover--resulted in an excellent cosmetic result but did not importantly affect respiratory function.
(18) The R wave continued to recover toward the preanesthetic level at sternal closure.
(19) Immediately after the implantation of a temporary transvenous right ventricular pacemaker, a high-pitched systolic musical murmur was heard at the lower left sternal border.
(20) To evaluate the effect of median sternotomy and IMA dissection on sternal vascular supply, sternal bone tomography was performed 7 days and 1 month after cardiac operation in 67 patients.