(n.) The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
(n.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
(n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
(v. t.) To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
(v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
(v. t.) To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
(n.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).
(interj.) Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
(n.) Alt. of Hipps
Example Sentences:
(1) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(2) However, low dose heparin prophylasix is relatively ineffective in patients having hip surgery, and has not been evaluated in patients having other types of orthopaidic surgery.
(3) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
(4) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
(5) The incidence of femur fracture in non-cemented hip arthroplasty has been reported to be between 4.1% and 27.8%.
(6) There was a larger difference in incidence between countries than between sexes, which suggests important genetic or environmental factors in the causation of hip fracture.
(7) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
(8) The author describes the utilization review process, utilization patterns, and service cost of the Mental Health Service of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP).
(9) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(10) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
(11) US clearly images the cartilaginous femoral head and enables accurate assessment of hip size, shape, and symmetry.
(12) Five cases of bilateral abduction contracture of the shoulder in adults including the first case of bilateral abduction contractures of shoulder and hip plus bilateral flexion contracture of elbow and extension contracture of a knee are reported.
(13) Four cases of a ganglion of the hip joint are reported.
(14) A case of a failed total hip replacement consisting of a Vitallium hip socket and a stainless steel femoral head prosthesis is presented.
(15) The authors decided to keep in this series only hips presenting with a very considerable upward displacement of the femoral head of type IV in Crowe, Maini and Ranawat's classification.
(16) The dimensions of the acetabular wall were thinner in the hips that had the thirty-two-millimeter component than in those that had the twenty-two-millimeter component (p less than 0.05).
(17) The thigh and hip manifestations can obscure the primary intra-abdominal process either due to the obvious emphysema or to the obtunded abdominal signs secondary to associated neuropathy.
(18) Trends in sex specific mortality from six conditions (hip fracture, septicemia, pneumonia, cancer, heart disease, and stroke) were examined for the period 1968 to 1980 to determine if recent increases in life expectancy at advanced ages were associated with significant shifts in the pattern of cause specific mortality at those ages.
(19) In patients with spastic paraplegia presenting with recurrent dislocation of the hip, operative treatment combining a soft tissue repair and a bone block to augment the acetabulum is recommended.
(20) From 1960 through 1975, 337 patients with surgically treated acute fracture of the hip received subcutaneously administered heparin to prevent thromboembolic disease according to various regimens.
Wader
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, wades.
(n.) Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wild parrots, waterfowl and migratory waders appear to present a minimal threat.
(2) The Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, made a more successful visit during the floods, donning waders to reach stranded residents, and his party is beginning to get a foothold in Somerset.
(3) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Standing in green rubber waders in a hastily emptied living room, thigh-deep in foul-smelling water, Steve, 56, had explained how he, his wife Kay, their daughter, her husband Ross, and their daughters now four and two, had moved in just weeks before, on 20 December.
(4) Another resident of the converted 18th century mill, John Bonham, arrived back from the shops in waders.
(5) "He's very helpful, is Jack," says Cummerford, pulling on his waders for a trip out.
(6) Men and women in hi-vis jackets and blue chest-high waders fill wheelbarrows with woodchips and spread them on the sodden riverbank.
(7) Eating dead birds is preferable to dumping them , as some shoots do, but this beautiful, elusive wader is rapidly declining .
(8) Stone-curlews (also known as ‘thick-knees’) are members of the wader tribe (though I have never seen a stone-curlew actually wade); and are mainly nocturnal – hence the large eyes.
(9) The speed of needle-fish, together with their tendency to leap out of the water when bright lights are used for fishing and at other times, occasionally result in deep, penetrating injuries to swimmers, waders, and, in particular, to fishermen who are working at night from small canoes.
(10) The effect of chronic endurance exercise on the emotionality of male albino rats was studied in five experimental groups: Controls, Runners, Walkers, Swimmers and Waders.
(11) On Tuesday, he was having to don waders and pick his way through waist-deep water to get to and from his front door.
(12) Clouds of waders have risen up from the rapidly disappearing mud: a tight flock of several thousand dunlins , together with a few hundred of the larger knots, which spend the winter here on the estuary.
(13) Migrant waders accumulate pollutants from their marine moulting and wintering grounds in Western Europe.
(14) On waders this genus is abundant and generally takes the dominant position in frequency, while members of the superfamily Amblycera remain scarce components in the simple communities constituted by the parasites (fig.
(15) This nomadic wader has been in the area for several weeks and seemed very much at home in this temporary wetland.
(16) The sun compass could be used for great circle orientation, but observed spring flight trajectories of high-arctic waders and geese seem to conform with rhumbline routes.
(17) I feel faint and wish I was wearing fewer clothes under my protective white suit and weighted plastic thigh-high waders.
(18) You park in the school car park, pull on your waders, and cross the bridge over the River Parrett by the King Alfred pub, its backroom piled high with boxes of biscuits, Pot Noodles, jars of instant coffee and tins of soup and beans, marked Somerset Levels Relief Donations .
(19) Either way, it's a jarring moment of decency in a carnival of exhibitionism; a disconcerting burst of modesty at a brazen flesh disco, like Liberace turning up at Studio 54 in duffle coat and waders.
(20) Walkers and Waders received comparable handling and exposure to the psychological aspects of the treadmill running and swimming routines but were not physically trained.