(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.
Thrash
Definition:
(v. t.) Alt. of Thresh
(v. t.) Alt. of Thresh
Example Sentences:
(1) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(2) After a fairly competitive first set, it turned into a rout almost on the scale of the triple-bagle thrashing the Scot gave the Luxembourg part-timer Laurent Bram when he returned to Davis Cup action in Glasgow four years ago.
(3) Experts say they are encouraged that after months of simmering discord Xi and Trump are preparing to thrash it out at the so-called winter White House .
(4) Yet this was actually City’s second 4-1 beating in their last six league games, following on from the game at Tottenham Hotspur on 26 September, and it finished with their heaviest home defeat since a 5-1 thrashing against Arsenal at Maine Road in February 2003.
(5) So new newspaper enemies turn against the BBC, thrashing around for someone to blame for the danger newspapers are in.
(6) Woodward maintained that it would be simple to thrash out a "straightforward commercial settlement".
(7) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
(8) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(9) Courtney Love recently had some of the SuicideGirls on her MTV special, while 70 of them featured in the video for the latest offering from Dave Grohl's thrash metal side-project, Probot.
(10) During talks to thrash out his reform package on Wednesday, treasury minister Giulio Tremonti reportedly told Berlusconi that he was Italy's real problem.
(11) Previously it only had to move refugees towards Macedonia; now it has to address their cases directly, and potentially house them for days or weeks while logistics with Turkey are thrashed out.
(12) Some analysts interpreted the Kenyan atrocity as a sign of weakness, the thrashings of a dying animal.
(13) At the inaugural meeting of the Human Brain Project earlier this month, researchers from more than 80 European institutions converged on the Lausanne campus to thrash out who would contribute to what platform.
(14) Arsenal will be Everton’s opponents in Saturday night’s final after they thrashed a Singapore XI 4-0 .
(15) Details of the property tax and water rates have also been thrashed out with the IMF, which is in favour of restricting extra income taxes in favour of higher taxes on consumption and wealth Mass meetings in Dublin have drawn protesters from across the country and several prominent members of the Irish and European parliaments.
(16) They leave the Tories relieved, Labour saying it could have been worse, Ukip alive if going nowhere and the Liberal Democrats barely out of their concussion from last year’s election thrashing.
(17) I don’t think he got a fair trial, but that is something we will have to thrash out at appeal,” Robinson told the Guardian, after giving a seminar on the case to law students at Nottingham University on Thursday night.
(18) There’s a lot we can take from them.” For now, all they have to show for brushes with Spurs is a pair of sound thrashings, and eight goals shipped en route, and it has been Kane who has revelled in the fixture most of all.
(19) I had seen the intriguingly named Millbrook Proving Ground on Top Gear, when Jeremy Clarkson et al thrashed some trucks around its 45 miles of twisty track.
(20) BAE and EADS are working to a deadline of 10 October deadline to thrash out a deal.