(n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
(2) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
(3) Total radioactivity, including the volatile part of the solvents were registered by autoradiography of dried, evaporated tape-fastened sections.
(4) In order to more effectively separate the walls, a protector was applied consisting of a soft polyethylene tube, whose ends were fastened to the cervix uteri and remained there for 3-4 weeks.
(5) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
(6) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
(7) It is made light-impermeable through the use of nylon hook-and-loop fasteners.
(8) Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, I just didn’t understand why trade was so prominent this race David Lawrence, vice-president, AlphaUSA “Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, something that is so key to the economy [as trade], I just didn’t understand why it was so prominent this race, and not some other issue,” said David Lawrence, vice-president of AlphaUSA, a fastener manufacturer based in suburban Detroit.
(9) Sheets of oil paper fastened vertically to two wires at a height of 60 cm above the ground at a distance of 20 cm one from another (barriers) and sheets in the form of "flags" (Dergachova and others, 1973) were used simultaneously.
(10) One group was exposed to the regular hospital program and the other group had, in addition: a mock-up demonstration for the mothers on the correct method of fastening the baby into the car seat and the car seat into the automobile seat; written handouts of how to use a car seat with an infant; a physician's order for the mock-up demonstration; and a physician's order to be discharged in a car seat.
(11) Erection, increase in circumference as well as rigidity, can be measured with a simple device consisting of a calibrated felt band with a sliding collar fastened to 1 end.
(12) A supporting harness is attached to the mask by use of three flat straps connected by Dot fasteners.
(13) Prevention includes feeding with human milk in prematures with slow increase of partial and total volumes, early initial fastening in cases of asphyxia and careful and close surveillance of high-risk newborns.
(14) Based on its membrane topology, it has been suggested that MotB might be a linker that fastens the torque-generating machinery to the cell wall.
(15) Spontaneous "overnight" deflation of inflatable prostheses is rather uncommon, but we have had a 5.7% incidence of it in a 24-month period in which we used implants with a suturable tab and fastened them to the subjacent fascia.
(16) In case of a transverse position of the fetal head, a special fastener on the forceps makes it possible to use an excentric handle on the traction hook of the Kielland forceps and thus render possible rotation of the fetal head from the transverse position.
(17) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(18) Over a 0.009 inch flexible tip steel wire a diamond-coated brass burr fastened to a flexible drive shaft that rotates and tracks was advanced.
(19) Granulation tissue grows through the prosthesis which is fastened well to the connective-tissue cuff forming around it.
(20) The extension of the tracheostoma is achieved by means of an parallel incision which widens the trachea with the acid of 2 tough threads on each side, which are fastened to the clavicle.
Infibulation
Definition:
(n.) The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock.
(n.) The act of attaching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) During childbirth infibulation causes a variety of serious problems includind prolonged labor and obstructed delivery, with increased risk of fetal brain damage and fetal loss.
(2) The defibulation operation can cause heavy bleeding and infections, especially genital infections, which can multiply quickly and unnoticed in the tissues created by the infibulation.
(3) A women who has been infibulated suffers great difficulty and pain during sexual intercourse, which can be excruciating if a neuroma has formed at the point of section of the dorsal nerve of the clitoris.
(4) Just one surgeon in Britain, Dr Kamal Iskander , based at Northwick Park Hospital in Middlesex, is known to perform the occasional clitoroplasty on a patient but, he explains, only if he's already operating on them for more extensive post-FGM problems, such as chronic pain or infibulation.
(5) We saw three women born in the Horn of Africa in whom the residual state of infibulation could be observed.
(6) Cases have been reported in which infibulated unmarried girls have developed swollen bellies, owing to obstruction of the menstrual flow.
(7) Type 3: Infibulation Infibulation, a form of female genital mutilation.
(8) Men pay for their daughters' infibulation, retain the right to dispose of them in marriage, honour their wives after childbirth, and claim children of the union for their patriline.
(9) The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 repealed and replaced the 1985 act in England, Wales and Northern Ireland making it an offence if a person excises, infibulates or otherwise mutilates the whole or any part of a girl or woman's labia majora, labia minora or clitoris.
(10) They included "the massacre of people solely for reasons of their religious adherence"; "the execrable practice[s] of decapitation, crucifixion and hanging of corpses in public places"; "the choice imposed on Christians and Yazidis between conversion to Islam, payment of a tax (jizya) and exodus"; "the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of people, including children, old people, pregnant women and the sick"; "the abduction of women and girls belonging to the Yazidi and Christian communities as war booty (sabaya)", and "the imposition of the barbaric practice of infibulation".
(11) And, luckily, she has not suffered the infibulation ritual that stitches the vagina partially shut.
(12) In order to improve women's health and status, the international health organisations can use their influence to replace mutilating excision and infibulation by a minor ritual incision.
(13) Under section 1(1) of the Female Genital Mutilation Act (2003) a person is guilty of an offence if he excises, infibulates or otherwise mutilates the whole or any part of a girl or woman's labia majora, labia minora or clitoris.
(14) However, it is women who actually practice infibulation and who keep firmly within their hands all the ritual surrounding vital stages of their life cycle.
(15) Eighty-eight percent of them had been circumcised with excision and infibulation, 6.5% were circumcised with clitoridectomy and the remaining 5.5% with Sunna.
(16) Factors thought to influence this sexual transmission include (1) promiscuity, with a high prevalence of sexually transmitted disease; (2) sexual practices that have been associated with increased risk of transmission of AIDS virus (homosexuality and anal intercourse); and (3) cultural practices that are possibly connected with increased virus transmission (female "circumcision" and infibulation).
(17) Specific factors thought to influence AIDS transmission in Africa include: promiscuity, with a high prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases; sexual practices that have been associated with increased risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) such as homosexuality and anal intercourse; and cultural practices, including female circumcision and infibulation.
(18) 88% underwent excision and infibulation, 6.5% clitoridectomy, and 5.5% a Sunna procedure involving excision of the prepuce of the clitoris.
(19) 88% had been circumcised with excision and infibulation.
(20) Infibulation is the commonest type of circumcision used (75.7%).