(a.) Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(2) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(3) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
(4) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
(5) Of the 594 patients, 23.7% died and 38.7% had documented inhalation injury.
(6) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(7) In more than 70 per cent of these, brain injury is the decisive lethal factor.
(8) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(9) An intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.
(10) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
(11) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(12) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(13) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
(14) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(15) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(16) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
(17) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(18) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
(19) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(20) The severity of injury in a gunshot wound is dependent on many factors, including the type of firearm; the velocity, mass, and construction of the bullet; and the structural properties of the tissues that are wounded.
Invulnerable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being wounded, or of receiving injury.
(a.) Unanswerable; irrefutable; that can not be refuted or convinced; as, an invulnerable argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Young adolescents typically operate under a state of cognitive egocentricism or "personal fable" such that they perceive themselves invulnerable to many risks, such as pregnancy.
(2) These apparently invulnerable adolescents were compared to the rest of the "user" sample on the remaining items of the questionnaire.
(3) The concept of heightened resilience or invulnerability in young profoundly stressed children is developed in terms of its implications for a psychology of wellness and for primary prevention in mental health.
(4) Increasing the knowledge of adolescents and young adults is not easy despite enormous media exposure; many engage in high-risk behaviors, believing themselves to be invulnerable to infection.
(5) His reputation as an advocate of austerity is invulnerable.
(6) "Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power," Plath writes.
(7) Catgut sutures proved susceptible to rapid proteolytic digestion throughout the gastrointestinal tract, whereas Dexon and Vicryl were invulnerable.
(8) Although the human brain stem is considered relatively invulnerable to ischemic anoxia, evaluation of 16 cases of a single acute asphyxial episode either at or following birth indicates that such involvement is a frequent and characteristic aspect of anoxic encephalopathy in the infant.
(9) Implicit in massage is the idea that a child's health is preserved by fostering its strength and invulnerability.
(10) Regimes that had seemed invulnerable can quickly fall.
(11) Experienced pilots obtained higher scores on a measure of "personal invulnerability" from factors commonly associated with accidents.
(12) It is hoped that this analysis will provoke others to consider the "invulnerable" among the abused and neglected so that we might ultimately learn what works to protect them.
(13) Various substituents in the ring are compatible with activity, though ortho-substitution, except by fluorine, renders the nitrile invulnerable to attack.
(14) In general, it explains, "hegemonic masculinity is characterised by attributes such as: striving for power and dominance, aggressiveness, courage, independency, efficiency, rationality, competitiveness, success, activity, control and invulnerability; not perceiving or admitting anxiety, problems and burdens; and withstanding danger, difficulties and threats".
(15) The data also support the hypothesis that selective focus is a source of the illusion of invulnerability.
(16) College students are often viewed as being at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, due to their needs to engage in exploratory behavior and their needs for peers' social approval, and their sense of invulnerability.
(17) The invulnerable students reported generally better physical and mental health and academic achievement.
(18) Seeing oneself as invulnerable to future negative events was accentuated among happy Ss and attenuated among sad Ss.
(19) The critical role of specific types of mastery skill development in the treatment of sexually abused children is explored, and defense mechanisms of "invulnerable children," who function adequately despite trauma and stress, are described.
(20) Factors such as sexual and drug experimentation, risk taking, and sense of invulnerability so characteristic of adolescence put adolescents at special risk for human immunodeficiency virus.