(n.) A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.
(n.) Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.
(v. t.) To behead with the guillotine.
Example Sentences:
(1) I personally think we should go to the guillotine, but shooting is probably the right way to go,” he said.
(2) In cases of solid submucosal tumors confirmed on EUS, the guillotine needle biopsy enables a definitive histologic diagnosis.
(3) We conclude that the guillotine used in controlled circumstances is as safe as dissection.
(4) Twenty-nine (Group A) had a primary below-knee (BK) amputation at the site of election with delayed primary skin closure, while 44 patients (Group B) initially had a guillotine BK amputation below the site of election, with elective amputation at the appropriate level once infection had been eradicated (4-5 days later).
(5) A new multi-bladed air-driven guillotine is described.
(6) Not that I'd dare tell everyone to be vegetarian, but I can warn those silly gourmets defending F&M's right to sell this "delicacy", that come the revolution, it won't be the guillotine for them, just tubes of grain and fat pumped endlessly down their throats.
(7) In the event of advancing, unremitting infection involving the foot, ankle guillotine amputation may be a life-saving technique.
(8) They took three groups of children: one where the tonsils have been removed with both of the guillotines, then a group where only a Sluder was used, and the third group where only the Popper was used.
(9) Replantation of hands severed cleanly (guillotine type) and those with slight local crush injuries had the highest success rate.
(10) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
(11) Watched by a quiet, oddly tense crowd of onlookers, the couple looked almost unbearably young and vulnerable – as if, one observer joked, on their way to the guillotine.
(12) "Guillotine"-amputation in the acute phase and muscle plastic stump formation in the regeneration phase.
(13) When a patient with neuropathic diabetic gangrene of the foot has sepsis, it is not always necessary to do a below-knee guillotine amputation or a Syme's amputation.
(14) They range from the dorsal slit incision, the squeeze technique using the Gomco clamp or Plastibell, the sleeve resection technique, and the guillotine technique.
(15) Blood samples were collected via guillotine from mated and unmated controls at 1900-2000 h or 2100--2200 h. Serum LH levels were determined by two independent radioimmunoassays.
(16) After visualization by EUS the guillotine needle biopsy was performed in 21 patients with submucosal tumors of the stomach.
(17) The resultant order of preference as a standard method was compressive strength at 30 minutes after preparation of the specimen, the time to the last transverse cut on a cylindrical specimen with a "guillotine" blade and the time to nonfracture of a ball of a amalgam with a final set Gillmore needle.
(18) The papers tell the stories of deportees who were forced to listen to fellow prisoners being decapitated by guillotine in German prisons, or were ordered to bury those who died during forced marches across Germany at the end of the war.
(19) Three assay systems were used to measure pPTH levels from trunk blood samples obtained by guillotine decapitation.
(20) Henry Barnes Vive la guillotine Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly.
Guillotining
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guillotine
Example Sentences:
(1) I personally think we should go to the guillotine, but shooting is probably the right way to go,” he said.
(2) In cases of solid submucosal tumors confirmed on EUS, the guillotine needle biopsy enables a definitive histologic diagnosis.
(3) We conclude that the guillotine used in controlled circumstances is as safe as dissection.
(4) Twenty-nine (Group A) had a primary below-knee (BK) amputation at the site of election with delayed primary skin closure, while 44 patients (Group B) initially had a guillotine BK amputation below the site of election, with elective amputation at the appropriate level once infection had been eradicated (4-5 days later).
(5) A new multi-bladed air-driven guillotine is described.
(6) Not that I'd dare tell everyone to be vegetarian, but I can warn those silly gourmets defending F&M's right to sell this "delicacy", that come the revolution, it won't be the guillotine for them, just tubes of grain and fat pumped endlessly down their throats.
(7) In the event of advancing, unremitting infection involving the foot, ankle guillotine amputation may be a life-saving technique.
(8) They took three groups of children: one where the tonsils have been removed with both of the guillotines, then a group where only a Sluder was used, and the third group where only the Popper was used.
(9) Replantation of hands severed cleanly (guillotine type) and those with slight local crush injuries had the highest success rate.
(10) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
(11) Watched by a quiet, oddly tense crowd of onlookers, the couple looked almost unbearably young and vulnerable – as if, one observer joked, on their way to the guillotine.
(12) "Guillotine"-amputation in the acute phase and muscle plastic stump formation in the regeneration phase.
(13) When a patient with neuropathic diabetic gangrene of the foot has sepsis, it is not always necessary to do a below-knee guillotine amputation or a Syme's amputation.
(14) They range from the dorsal slit incision, the squeeze technique using the Gomco clamp or Plastibell, the sleeve resection technique, and the guillotine technique.
(15) Blood samples were collected via guillotine from mated and unmated controls at 1900-2000 h or 2100--2200 h. Serum LH levels were determined by two independent radioimmunoassays.
(16) After visualization by EUS the guillotine needle biopsy was performed in 21 patients with submucosal tumors of the stomach.
(17) The resultant order of preference as a standard method was compressive strength at 30 minutes after preparation of the specimen, the time to the last transverse cut on a cylindrical specimen with a "guillotine" blade and the time to nonfracture of a ball of a amalgam with a final set Gillmore needle.
(18) The papers tell the stories of deportees who were forced to listen to fellow prisoners being decapitated by guillotine in German prisons, or were ordered to bury those who died during forced marches across Germany at the end of the war.
(19) Three assay systems were used to measure pPTH levels from trunk blood samples obtained by guillotine decapitation.
(20) Henry Barnes Vive la guillotine Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly.