(a.) Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
(a.) Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
(a.) Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
(n.) The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
(n.) Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
(n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
(2) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
(3) The law and justice minister, Anisul Huq, said the 73-year-old leader was hanged after he refused to seek mercy from the country’s president.
(4) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
(5) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
(6) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
(7) His photographs are hanging all over my house today.
(8) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
(9) Jan Krcmar observes: "Hang on a minute there, Drogba just clearly clapped his hands!
(10) 68 min: Ronaldo gets booked for hanging out of Ginaluca Zambrotta.
(11) At the time of the most recent follow-up, the success rate was 64% in the hang-back group and 85% in the conventional group.
(12) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
(13) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
(14) Their lineup proved to be stacked, with breakouts from AL home run leader Chris Davis and doubles machine Manny Machado, who powered the O's through starting-pitching issues to hang in a tight division.
(15) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
(16) Sixteen percent of the treatment sample were found to be abusive pattern drinkers; that is, persons who report not only drinking heavily but also spending a great deal of time hanging out on the street, getting high, and consuming many other additional drugs.
(17) Ellen White: It depends what group you hang around in.
(18) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(19) And they should also remember the alternatives to medically assisted dying: botched suicide attempts, death by voluntary starvation and dehydration, pilgrimages to Switzerland and help from one-off amateurs who have the threat of prosecution hanging over them.
(20) The recurrent cases were found to be caused by adhesion bands produced by hanging tags of incompletely removed yellow ligament.
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).