(n.) The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.
(n.) The state of being expelled or driven out.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors describe a case of expulsive choroidal effusion which occurred in the course of a fistulating operation in a child with Sturge-Weber syndrome.
(2) The time-course of worm expulsion in mice infected on the day of transfer was similar in recipients of day 4 or day 8 cells, expulsion becoming marked only when the recipients had been infected for at least 6 days.
(3) Reductions in periesophageal EMG activity during expulsion were similar before and after cervical vagotomy, which abolishes reflex relaxation of the periesophageal diaphragm following esophageal distension.
(4) The Liberal Democrat investigation was carried out by Alistair Webster QC, who found it was not appropriate to charge Rennard with acting in a way that had brought the party into disrepute., which could have led to his expulsion expelled from the party.
(5) These findings were comparable to previously reported results of large studies, with the exception of partial expulsion.
(6) Primary immune expulsion of Trichuris muris was markedly delayed by concurrent infection with Nematospiroides dubius.
(7) Failures involve ending of pregnancy without expulsion (2.8%), and ongoing pregnancy (1.1%).
(8) The outlet should provide adequate outflow resistance to allow expulsion of urine under voluntary control and at convenient intervals.
(9) Reasons cited in the literature for partial expulsion include parity, timing, and low insertion technique.
(10) Experimental compression of the skull of the macerated fetus resulted in expulsion of the nervous tissue by way of the vertebral canal and into the retroperitoneal space along the peripheral nerves, with spreading into the adjacent tissues and in blood vessels.
(11) Evidence is presented that this "spontaneous" expulsion is mainly due to thrombolysis.
(12) The fetal heart tones were closely monitored by a Doppler instrument and the time from injection of abortifacient to fetal demise (IDT) and to fetal expulsion (IAT) was accurately recorded.
(13) When a reflex bladder contraction occurred in response to filling (expulsion phase) the intravesical pressure exceeded the urethral pressure and at the top of the vesical contraction a series of rapid intraluminal pressure high frequency oscillations (IPHFO) were recorded at the urethral recording site, which were abolished by neuromuscular blocking agents as well as after acute sectioning of pudendal nerves.
(14) In Mikumi National Park in Tanzania we recorded an interval in excess of 2 h between delivery of the infant and expulsion of the placenta in a yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus).
(15) It is suggested that this carbohydrate facilitates the adhesion of starter bacteria to the cheese-curd matrix and that during the initial stages of syneresis this serves to prevent their expulsion from the curd with the whey.
(16) However, this resulted in a delay of fetal expulsion.
(17) Further studies in pregnant women showed that PGE2 administered in special vaginal suppositories resulted in: 1) 1 case at the 23rd week of pregnancy, the expulsion of the dead fetus by inserting 2 suppositories (4 mg PGE2 each) with the induction delivery time of 2 hours 20 minutes, and 2) one case in which the expulsion occurred after 1 suppository with an induction delivery time of 4 hours 30 minutes.
(18) Maternal concentrations of DLIS increased significantly in the second half of pregnancy, peaked during labor, then decreased abruptly within 24 h of expulsion of the infant and placenta to values approaching the nonpregnant range.
(19) Prostaglandins cause rapid dilatation of the cervix and expulsion of the conceptus despite a lesser degree of measurable uterine activity than that induced by oxytocin.
(20) In diagnosis it is necessary to distin guish between unnoticed expulsion, ascent of the tail into the cavity, and perforation.
Sob
Definition:
(v. t.) To soak.
(v. i.) To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.
(n.) The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.
(n.) Any sorrowful cry or sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) "After I saw you there, I just went out and sobbed.
(2) The results suggest that (i) the SOS response of E. coli and the SOB response of B. subtilis are strikingly similar from both a phenotypic and a regulatory standpoint and that RecA and LexA protein analogs exist in B. subtilis, (ii) the Recbs protein is capable of regulating its own production, and (iii) SOS-inducing (RecA-activating) signals are generated in B. subtilis following either DNA damage or the development of physiological competence.
(3) Effects of amygdaloid lesions on the switch-off behavior (SOB) and behavioral changes induced by a delayed reinforcement (DR) for SOB were investigated in 12 cats.
(4) Acts of kindness move Langham to tears, and before long another memory has him sobbing.
(5) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(6) No one photographs the child with learning difficulty, sobbing as the teaching assistant they worked with for the past three years is booted out.
(7) He is very kind, honest, funny,” she said on Monday, sobbing as she remembered her only child, who had been flying home from Malaysia, where he was studying.
(8) In a televised meeting that has gone viral, the German chancellor rubs the shoulder of a sobbing teenager after telling her she was one of “thousands and thousands” of refugees that her country was unable to help.
(9) Since then, the cursing and sobbing have been plentiful.
(10) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
(11) She is generally a happy person, but in the last few weeks she has been showing signs of deep anxiety, phoning me sobbing with fear.
(12) The 56-year-old held a tissue to her face and sobbed during a five-minute hearing at City of Westminster magistrates court in central London.
(13) Liam Stacey , 21, of Pontypridd, south Wales, sobbed as he was taken away after the failed appeal hearing at Swansea crown court.
(14) The paper's "special investigation", headlined "No ID, no checks … and vouchers for sob stories: the truth behind those shock food bank claims", suggested that claims about the scale of Britain's welfare problems had been exaggerated.
(15) I sobbed for the last 30 pages but not, perhaps, for the reason you'd expect.
(16) Naturally I confronted them about it, halting their child's progress with a foot on the front bumper, loudly berating their crass behaviour while impressed pedestrians looked on, cheering and punching the air and chanting my name until Audi boy's parents fell to the ground, clutching pitifully at my trouser-legs and sobbing for forgiveness.
(17) 4.59pm BST "My fiancee have decided to get married in whichever country wins the World Cup so this game really has me torn," sobs Nate Philipps.
(18) She was followed by several women who must have been relatives or neighbours living nearby; the cries and sobs were so loud they could be heard clearly over the shooting and chanting from the street.
(19) "It's just so depressing this whole situation," sobs Angus Chisholm.
(20) One hand held the corner of the tomb and he sobbed uncontrollably into the other.