(n.) A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted.
(v. t.) To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rumours swirl of a higher death toll, the use of poisonous gas and the body of a pregnant woman garrotted by pro-Ukraine fanatics.
(2) The screens of the handsets shown on the site as "the hottest phones at the coolest prices", meanwhile, depict scenes including a fight between two snowmen, which appears to culminate in decapitation, garrotted turkeys and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer's severed head.
(3) Ultrasonography shows the intraluminal thrombus better than phlebography, since the gastrocnemic veins, which bypass the larger deep veins, can be opacified only after a garrot is placed above the knee.
(4) Acute separation of the trachea can occur with trauma to the neck, either by garrotting or direct blunt force.
(5) Strangulation techniques include hanging, throttling, garrotting, and chokeholds.
Strangulation
Definition:
(n.) The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.
(n.) Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hernia ring, which was located medially to the suture line of previous herniorraphy, had strangulated the herniated bladder.
(2) The previous belief of strangulation of the malrotated kidney leading to hematuria is not confirmed.
(3) A radical approach to the infected abdominal wall, incorporating wide en-bloc excision of skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, and strangulated intestine, facilitates successful fascial and skin closure in a noninfected field in the morbidly obese.
(4) The blind-end segment had looped around and strangulated the ileum and 3.5 m of the jejunum.
(5) In the ligature strangulation, the reactions of histamine exclusively demonstrated in the Weibel-Palade bodies of the splenic central arterial endothelial cells.
(6) Strangulated abdominal hernias were operated in 654 patients, 40 of them died (6,1%).
(7) Absence of CT findings of ischemia or infarction does not rule out strangulation.
(8) The hernia was diagnosed preoperatively, but the gangrenous appendix was found in a strangulated loop of small bowel only at operation.
(9) The authors observed the endothelial cells of the pulmonary veins and the immunoreactions of histamine in the pulmonary blood vessels and measured the 3H-histamine contents of the pulmonary tissues of the guinea-pigs sacrificed by ligature strangulation.
(10) The majority of the toe and external genitalia cases were caused by hair, whereas the majority of finger strangulations were caused by thread from mittens.
(11) Histopathologically numerous dilated vascular and avascular cavities, probably caused by disturbances in the blood circulation due to the strangulating effect of Bruch's membrane, constitute the distinguishing features.
(12) Since there were no differences in postoperative complications, length of stay in hospital, period off work, or late results, and since conservative treatment entails lengthy, painful treatment in bed and a long period off work, emergency operation is recommended for all strangulated haemorrhoids.
(13) In no case the cup did loosen or had to be removed due to infections, strangulations or any local problems.
(14) In the paper, the errors in diagnosis of strangulated irreducible hernias are analysed.
(15) In both strangulation type and soy-beans type which had been shown through myelography, Met-CT could clearly demonstrate the subarachnoid space, and several structures around the lumbar spinal canal could be clearly identified.
(16) It is suggested that these thickened tubular walls suppress spermatogenesis by a nutritional disturbance, and the strangulations of infertile tubules interfere with sperm transport by tubular blockage or germinal disorganization and interrupted contractions of the tubules.
(17) A mechanism is proposed to explain this phenomenon by drawing analogies with neonatal intraventricular haemorrhage and the pathological findings in strangulation.
(18) Paraoesophageal hernias should be surgically treated due to their tendency towards strangulation and incarceration.
(19) The gut proved to be strangulated in 53 cases, irreversibly in 16 and reversibly in 37, while 75 patients had simple obstruction (12, 29 and 59%).
(20) The mode of accident was traffic accident (252), fall (48), fire arms (4), knife wounds (7), hanging or strangulation (9), others (2).