(n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.
(v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(2) The results are discussed in terms of both electrical and magnetic models of the calcarine fissure.
(3) Duane's retraction syndrome is a congenital eye movement disorder characterized by a deficiency of abduction, mild limitation of adduction, with retraction and narrowing of the palpebral fissure on attempted adduction.
(4) About 40% of all cysts were located along the midline, the sylvian fissure representing the predominant location.
(5) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
(6) The club captain, whose return had been delayed due to his participation at Euro 2012 with Holland, underwent his medical assessment and he and the manager sought to put a professional front on what has been a deep fissure in their relationship.
(7) The supratentorial part of the brain was extremely small, consisting of an irregularly lobulated mass about 3cm in diameter and without any median fissure or ventricular cavity.
(8) Correlation with high-resolution computed tomography in two patients indicated that this opacity represented a sagittal orientation of the anterior minor fissure, with resultant inferomedial curving of the right upper lobe of the lung along the right border of the heart.
(9) 19% of patients also suffered from chronic anal fissure which were treated by internal lateral sphincterotomy.
(10) Decreased colonization by S. mutans was found in the dental plaque collected from smooth surfaces and fissures and in saliva of subjects whose teeth were treated with the MAb, as compared with the saline-treated control subjects.
(11) Palpebral fissures are narrow with bilateral epicanthal folds, and the nasal bridge is hypoplasitc.
(12) The severity of fissured tongue changed with increasing age.
(13) Nodes were not found between the portal vein, hepatic artery and bile ducts in the fissures.
(14) For the experimental studies, fractures of the jaw bone in terms of oblique osteotomies from angle to sigmoid notch of the mandible of the Malaysian monkeys were made by using #700 fissure bur and reduced and fixed them in terms of interosseous wiring.
(15) An induction of TGF beta 1 mRNA was also observed in endothelial cells of the meninges, hippocampal fissure and choroid plexus, at 2 and 3 days.
(16) Following lobectomy of the right upper lobe of the lung, a single fissure, the neofissure, separates the right middle and lower lobes.
(17) This article outlines the authors' perceptions of the future of esthetic dental restorative materials such as composites, glass ionomer cements, pit and fissure sealants and laboratory fabricated resin.
(18) His achilles heel would be reconciling disparate sections of the grassroots party and restoring the fissures in the parliamentary party.
(19) We evaluated fissural (ie, visceral pleural) thickening on radiographs in two asbestos-exposed study populations and a control group.
(20) The purpose of this report is to document the current status of the teaching of pit and fissure sealants in British dental schools.
Shake
Definition:
() obs. p. p. of Shake.
(v.) To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate.
(v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
(v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
(v.) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.
(v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
(n.) The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
(n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
(n.) A fissure in rock or earth.
(n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
(n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
(n.) A shook of staves and headings.
(n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
Example Sentences:
(1) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(2) As part of the shake-up, the rule that says only half can be saved in cash is being abolished.
(3) Almost a year on, I am still shaking my head in disbelief.
(4) In the modified test, shake cultures in Brewer's fluid thioglycolate medium with 0.3% agar added are observed for growth in the anaerobic zone of the tubes.
(5) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(6) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
(7) In order to assess this inter-relationship isolated rat glomeruli were incubated with and without shaking.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
(9) In the spinalized preparation, steady-state and nonsteady-state responses have an equal likelihood of emerging from the initial cycles of a paw-shake response, suggesting that regular coupling of joint oscillations is not planned by pattern-generating networks within lumbosacral segments.
(10) Systemic administration of drugs that augment 5-HT2 activity generally induces 'wet dog' shaking (WDS) in rats.
(11) The yes camp should have made no bones about a call to the nation to shake things up, by bringing him down a peg or two.
(12) The after-discharge induced by subconvulsant electrical stimulations, is followed by a behavioral phenomenon, named Wet Dog Shakes (WDS).
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taylor Swift: Shake It Off Taylor Swift – 1989 Live web streams!
(14) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
(15) The relationship between ultrasonographic detection of fetal vernix and visual assessment of amniotic fluid (AF) and fetal pulmonary maturity evaluated by the "shake test" was studied in 73 high-risk patients undergoing amniocentesis for obstetrical indications.
(16) In light of how often during his career he has been forced to take on more defensive roles Mascherano shakes his head and insists that he is not shifting from the No5.
(17) I couldn't shake the harsh words from my head and worried about if, or when, they would spill over into real life.
(18) She slept in the hall, covered in a duvet, and by the time her cleaner arrived the next day, she was sweating, vomiting repeatedly and shaking.
(19) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(20) As the authors failed to obtain a contiuous cell line from a single cell colony the method of "shaking" was applied.