(n.) The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Government officials cite this and a number of alleged irregularities in previous investigations as justification for the exhumations, to the outrage of some relatives.
(2) Sixteen family members led by Makaziwe won a court case against Mandla over his 2011 decision to secretly exhume and rebury Mandela's three late children in the village of Mvezo, where Mandla is chief and has built a visitor centre.
(3) In two cases an exhumation was necessary since the bodies had been buried without any further formalities.
(4) To this end, they must be exhumed and given military honours.
(5) The former, in association with the University of Leicester, kicked off last year's stunning exhumation of Richard III's body from a car park in Leicester, and Leicester is where it wants his final resting place to be.
(6) More alarmingly, since 2008, when a local tabloid newspaper published photographs of a clandestine gay wedding in Dakar, police have been cracking down, many homosexuals have gone into hiding or fled abroad (including to Gambia, whose president told them they should leave again within 24 hours or face decapitation), nine gay activists have been jailed after coming out, and the bodies of at least four gay men have been exhumed from their graves and dragged through the streets by jeering mobs.
(7) Before she died, Mobley had told loved ones that she did not want her son to be exhumed; she simply wanted the state of Mississippi to apologise.
(8) Like the fictional narrator of Soldiers of Salamis , Silva went looking for the past, beginning with the location and exhumation of the remains of his own grandfather from a ditch in north-west Spain.
(9) They ruled Grayling had acted reasonably and lawfully in consulting with the "sovereign, state and church", and in granting an exhumation licence which allowed the University of Leicester, which led the archeological dig on the site of the Grey Friars Priory in Leicester, to determine Leicester cathedral as the place of reburial.
(10) Blair’s decisions will be exhumed, his reputation may well be flayed once more.
(11) The exhumation was ordered by the magistrate on request of the parents of one of the victims who suspected that their son had been wrongly identified at the postmortem examination.
(12) The deposed president's body was exhumed in May for its first authoritative autopsy as Chile's independent judiciary began a criminal investigation into the death of Allende and hundreds of other victims of the Pinochet dictatorship.
(13) Dismissing a claim for wide-ranging public consultation, the judges said there was no "legitimate expectation" that Richard III's "collateral descendants would be consulted after centuries in relation to an exhumed historical figure".
(14) Spain to make first exhumations from civil war mausoleum Read more The Fossar is relatively inaccessible from the city.
(15) But in a dozen other cases graves have been opened and bodies exhumed to see if children deemed dead and buried were not in their proper place.
(16) These are Bosnians executed 20 years ago, painstakingly exhumed from one of the largest mass graves ever found in the country.
(17) The post mortem, pathological and toxological examinations of the exhumed corpse permitted the diagnosis of reticulum cell sarcoma 16 months after death.
(18) A historical memory association, which helped with the dig in Guadalajara, has carried out several exhumations in recent years at the request of families.
(19) For others, the push for exhumations is an unwelcome way of reviving old wounds.
(20) The panel was told that Carey had been called to examine the exhumed body of the five-year-old after concerns were raised about the initial recorded cause of death.
Interment
Definition:
(v. t.) The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) Type C-like particles were found inter- and intracellularly in gland and vessel lumina and scattered in the connective tissue.
(3) We did three repeated PD measures of mean aortic flow velocity in ten term infants (using four trained operators) to determine inter- and intraoperator reproducibility.
(4) The inter-molecular similarity measure used is the number of atoms in the 3-D common substructure (CS) between the two molecules which are being compared.
(5) The difference in APD between the first drive train and drive trains after at least 3 minutes of pacing when APD had stabilized was not significant for an inter-train pause exceeding 8 seconds.
(6) This suggests that (AGG)12 can form intra- and inter-molecular complexes by non-Watson-Crick, guanine:guanine base-pairing.
(7) Sets of specimens having quantitative linear inter-relationships for 25 analytes were prepared and used in a small survey of results with multi-channel analyzers.
(8) The large degree of inter-dose fluctuation between doses indicates that it is preferable to use pre-dose plasma sodium valproate levels to guide the clinical management of epileptic patients.
(9) These data suggested that an inter-thymic exchange of cells did not occur during larval life.
(10) The inter-connecting linkage system develops postnatally, and the 'tip-linkages' are already found in one-week-old mice, suggesting that the critical organization of the micromechanics of the stereocilia matures rapidly during the postnatal period.
(11) However, great inter-tumorous differences in proliferation behaviour existed particularly in papillary G2 and G3 urothelium carcinomas.
(12) The first two peptides have been proposed to occupy inter-transmembrane regions while the third represented the C-terminal segment, proposed by various models to be either extracellular or intracellular.
(13) The specificity of the test is high, the sensitivity is 4.0 microM, the inter-analysis variation is low as in 96% of the double determinations, agreement was present between the first and second analyses.
(14) These optic disk anomalies occurred bilaterally with some inter- and intra-individual variable expressivity.
(15) In order to assess this inter-relationship isolated rat glomeruli were incubated with and without shaking.
(16) Recovery of CHO (Polycose) added to fresh stool was greater than 95%, inter-assay coefficient of variation (CV) 6.2%.
(17) However, besides these obligatory alterations a high inter- and intraindividual variability of structural aspects is found in MS lesions.
(18) To determine reproducibility, inter- and intra-observer agreement were calculated and expressed as Cohen's kappa and as weighted kappa.
(19) There were no significant inter-group differences that could be attributed to rheumatoid arthritis.
(20) Yesterday's results: Torino 1-0 Cagliari, Siena 0-0 Livorno, Sampdoria 2-1 Atalanta, Reggina 1-1 Fiorentina, Palermo 0-0 Milan, Lazio 3-1 Catania, Inter 1-1 Udinese, Empoli 3-1 Messina, Chievo 2-2 Roma, Ascoli 0-0 Parma.