(n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
(n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
Example Sentences:
(1) Angiographic features felt to indicate valve tearing were present following 17 of 25 procedures and included increased excursion or straightening of leaflets, localized change in leaflet motion (flail leaflet), and the presence of an additional contrast jet through the valve.
(2) Such loads might worsen the chest wall distortion that is characteristic of patients with flail chest.
(3) The proximal ring of the graft effectively stabilized the flail aortic valve in two patients with aortic regurgitation associated with dissection of the ascending aorta.
(4) Serial studies demonstrated eventual disruption of the chordal attachments of the anterior tricuspid leaflet resulting in frank leaflet flail.
(5) Cardiac surgeons generally ignore the importance of the flail septum that results from anteroseptal infarction.
(6) The postoperative course of all the patients was uneventful and there was no incidence of flail chest or respiratory failure.
(7) We noted that mortality rate was highly dependent on major chest trauma: 68.6% for flail chest (FC), 56% for lung contusion (LC), 42.3% for hemothorax (HA), and 38.1% for pneumothorax (PN).
(8) Using type III struts, we have obtained stabilization of the flail chest in all cases even in patients with severe anterior paradoxical movement.
(9) Sixteen dogs were placed under general anesthesia and flail segments of the left chest were created by transecting ribs 7,8,9, and 10 anteriorly and posteriorly.
(10) The flurry of charges were announced in a statement released by the governing body on Monday evening which confirmed the referee, Mike Dean, had not witnessed Costa putting his hands in Laurent Koscielny’s face and, more significantly, the forward’s flailing left arm making contact with his marker.
(11) Localized pulmonary contusions were produced in the right lower lobes (RLL) of 12 anesthetized ventilated dogs, 6 of which had a flail segment in the chest wall over the RLL.
(12) The patients presented difficult management problems, having undergone an average of two previous operations per joint; 22 joints had suffered prior complications; 18 had less than 50 degrees of flexion and six were flail.
(13) But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their wooden batons, dragging and pushing him to a line of waiting Land Cruisers and more helmeted cops.
(14) In it, her character, Donna Stern, navigates a break up, a flailing career, an unplanned pregnancy, and, ultimately, an abortion.
(15) The symptoms of myoclonic flail movements and memorable dreams which are observed in association with G-LOC may provide key information for unraveling the neurophysiologic mechanism of G-LOC and subsequent recovery.
(16) "Shaggy" echoes recorded from the aortic leaflets in diastole as well as irregular diastolic densities in the left ventricular outflow tract suggested flail aortic leaflets secondary to bacterial endocarditis.
(17) In reality, this medium is so new and so ever-changing, that everyone seems to be flailing around (some less than others) trying to figure out what to do next.
(18) In the treatment of severe chest injuries with flail chest either positive-pressure mechanical ventilation (and tracheostomy) is necessary or the surgical stabilisation of the chest wall by osteosyntheses of the broken ribs.
(19) In cases of concomitant serial rib resection radius and ulna will serve as stabilizators of the thoracic wall, thus avoiding a flail chest.
(20) Total mortality was 4.1%, and 13.6% in patients with flail chest.
Flair
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As Harvey said with such flair, "nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten path".
(2) The clue is in the title: it takes a lot of work and rehearsal for a comedian to appear spontaneous, and this is a daft, enjoyable and impressively polished show from a comic with a natural flair for the absurd.
(3) It took Harry Guy Bartholomew, first editorial director and then chairman after Rothermere unloaded his shares, to run the business on despotic lines and, with a mixture of flair and vindictive thuggery, create one of the great popular newspapers.
(4) The UN has criticised these policies , which display none of the ingenuity or flair of the street papers or Housing First advocates, whose methods, while not perfect, have at least been shown to reduce urban homelessness.
(5) From that starting point, he immediately applied – with his colleagues – his flair, vision and enormous energy to create a €1.5bn worldwide communications group.
(6) Oscar Tabárez's side may not play with the same flair and commitment to attack, but Luis Suárez demonstrated here why he is so revered and the draw has been as inviting for La Celeste as they could possibly have dared hope.
(7) They attacked with great flair during the first half, sensing their opponents were there for the taking, and when they were put under sustained pressure we saw the old doggedness after the break, defending with great determination while still looking dangerous on the counterattack.
(8) For a politician whose stock-in-trade had always been a flair for exhibitionism and showmanship, it was a particularly cruel form of punishment.
(9) Wen has scored at least one big victory in his time as premier: he is widely considered instrumental in sacking the Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai – a charismatic leader with a flair for Mao-era grandiosity – triggering the party's most dramatic political upheaval in decades.
(10) With comic timing and a flair for the unusual, Rosling's style has undoubtedly helped make data cool.
(11) His light touch with pastry and flair for eclairs – always baked with a signature pencil perched behind his ear – have won over the hearts and tastebuds of the Great British Bake Off judges.
(12) Their showing was a triumph for the coach, Joachim Löw, who has pieced together many players of modest experience and swiftly achieved success without sacrificing flair.
(13) He had no hacking ability, but instead put his flair for writing and rhetoric to use.
(14) It is too soon to deliver a verdict on the value for money achieved in the spree but flair is insufficient.
(15) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
(16) And as her notorious campaign ad proved, she already has the Trumpian flair.
(17) Stoke did not just deal with them quite easily, they produced all the flair, vision and style.
(18) In 42 lesions, conspicuity was better with FLAIR sequences, equal in five and worse in one cystic lesion.
(19) Teams such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile and Algeria blew fresh air through the stale halls of international football's establishment with their teamwork and counter attacking flair.
(20) McGurk would not reveal how he would vote on Sunday, but said: "David is liked because he's got a lot of charisma, he's down to earth, he gives the place a sort of international flair – and apparently because we Scots have this reputation for being careful with our money, which I hadn't realised we had until I came to Germany."