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Flinders


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters; fragments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
  • (2) The present article summarizes some comparative studies of the Fawn-Hooded (FH) rat, a potential animal model of ethanol preference, and the Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) rat, a potential animal model of depression.
  • (3) The study was performed by retrospective case review at Flinders Medical Centre, a general teaching hospital.
  • (4) We were so blessed to spend five weeks with him last Christmas and January.” Head of Flinders’ junior school, Greg Partridge, said Luke was a confident boy with a positive impact on students around him.
  • (5) The preoperative requests for crossmatching of blood in elective surgical procedures were studied at the Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia.
  • (6) The Flinders curriculum attempts to fully integrate the teaching of medical science and clinical disciplines.
  • (7) It’s important that we get a full picture of what went on.” Jill Healy, the executive principal of Flinders Christian Community college, where the boy went to school, told Fairfax radio the school would hold briefings and that chaplains would be available for staff, students and parents.
  • (8) A survey of cephalosporin use was conducted at Flinders Medical Centre, a teaching hospital incorporating most specialty services.
  • (9) We performed a retrospective case analysis on 87 patients with 93 episodes of infective endocarditis admitted to Flinders Medical Centre over an 11 year period (1980-1990).
  • (10) Flinders Petrie, which additionally seems to show significant parallels to ancient Egyptian mythological and religious texts (Pyramid texts, Coffin texts, Book of the Dead, etc.).
  • (11) Until 1985 it was not unusual at Flinders for arrest audit sheets to have comments such as: "CPR not performed by ward staff" or "CPR not being performed correctly by ward staff" or, even worse, "Ward staff disappeared when the arrest team arrived".
  • (12) The Flinders curriculum has been able to adapt to the changing needs of medical education because its organisation is relatively free from the constraints of departmental rivalry over resources.
  • (13) In 1985 a coordinator of such a program was appointed, and it became mandatory at Flinders for all nursing staff to learn and be accredited annually in basic CPR skills.
  • (14) Flinders Street station's ballroom could house Melbourne's disadvantaged, says Salvation Army Read more Many found themselves without stable long-term accommodation when they left abusive relationships after their adult children had moved out.
  • (15) By applying an intelligence-led model and working with our partner agencies across the border continuum,” this Matrix-induced drivel goes on, “we deliver effective border control over who and what has the right to enter or exit, and under what conditions.” Other than the weird licence such words give to find and punish evil, well, anywhere – hot spots of global people smuggling such as Flinders Lane, my pub, your cafe – the last two clauses, eerily echo John Howard’s infamous 2001 speech in which he declared: “But we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.” Only now, it seems they seem to want to decide a whole lot more about us all.
  • (16) The reasonably detailed studies on the selectively-bred rats have revealed that the Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) rats weigh less, are less active, are more sensitive to muscarinic agonists and to stressors, and have higher concentrations of hippocampal and striatal muscarinic receptors than 'normal', or the selectively-bred, Flinders Resistant Line (FRL) rats.
  • (17) The film was due to go out last Thursday as part of a BBC4 season on archaeology but was replaced at the last minute by a repeat of a documentary about Egyptologist Flinders Petrie.
  • (18) In addition, the Flinders S-line exhibited a better memory on an inhibitory avoidance task.
  • (19) Paul Keating put it very well in a debate on the matter of public importance in response to the then member for Flinders when he said: 'Honourable members opposite have three more years of their lives trotting around in opposition, three more years in the corridors at night wandering in and out of each others' offices having cold cups of tea at 11 o'clock.'
  • (20) Twenty-six cases of a spotted-fever-like illness have been identified on Flinders Island, Tasmania, over a 17 year period.

Splinter


Definition:

  • (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
  • (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
  • (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
  • (n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the Democrats have often found in the US, when they have tried to construct rainbow coalitions out of class- and colour-defined blocs of the population, groups that can be counted on wholesale in theory often splinter into individuals that it may not be possible to count on at all.
  • (2) A splinter group of the nationalist National Liberation Front of Corsica had made a statement warning extremists that any attack on the island would trigger “a determined response, without any qualms”.
  • (3) Oleg Konstantinov, editor of local news site dumskaya.net, who was in hospital with gunshot wounds to his back and leg, and splinter wounds in his arm, said he had sent most of his reporters home for the two-day holiday.
  • (4) His National Congress party (NCP) feels sufficiently confident that it is not contesting 30% of the parliamentary seats, as an inducement to the splinter parties and smaller movements it has convinced to run in these elections.
  • (5) A patient with acute Leber's optic neuropathy had a large splinter retinal hemorrhage noted after he had strained to install fire hydrants.
  • (6) An elevated RP accumulation at the ends of the bone splinters was found from the 1st day after fracture.
  • (7) Splinter haemorrhages, hypocalcaemia and evidence of renal dysfunction were absent.
  • (8) The conclusion was drawn that the sciatic nerve is angulated at the osteotomy and further endangered by the risk of bone splintering at the sciatic notch.
  • (9) His power only grew after La Familia splintered, giving rise to the Knights Templar in 2011.
  • (10) In either case the chip waste also contains plenty of fine and finest compact chips which are broken off and splinter during the removal or knocking-off of the chips from solid bone.
  • (11) The various types of corticotomy, each with its own special purpose, include transverse or oblique, longitudinal, "splinter," and partial.
  • (12) Less than 24 hours after the murder, which many in Derry are blaming on the New IRA – an alliance of dissident republican splinter groups – the PSNI issued a description of Kieran McLaughlin.
  • (13) Extracts of Fernambouc splinters were made for serological testing.
  • (14) Last week a Taliban splinter group calling itself Asian Tigers executed Khalid Khawaja , a jihadi sympathiser it was holding hostage and accused of spying for the US and the Pakistani military.
  • (15) Iraq's "very future" will be determined in the coming days, the most senior US diplomat, John Kerry , said on Monday as he urged the country's feuding leaders to form a government and confront the jihadist surge currently splintering the country.
  • (16) Police inspector Mozammel Hoque said most of the injured were hit by bomb splinters but none was in critical condition.
  • (17) He wanted to check whether the abrasions and secondary wounds found on Steenkamp's body could have bee caused by wood splinters from the door.
  • (18) The duration of splinter hemorrhages ranged between six and 30 years.
  • (19) It can be shown that stone splinters do not injure the kidney tissue, but liquid jets generated by oscillating cavitation bubbles lead to tissue damage.
  • (20) Both excised lesions were abscesses, with associated granulomatous inflammation, fibrosis, and plant splinters.

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