(v. i.) To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
(v. t.) To unite by locking or linking together; to secure in place by mutual fastening.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(2) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(3) Lens fibres were found to possess a varied array of well defined interlocking processes.
(4) Three subsequent phases of interface maturation can be distinguished, finally resulting in firm fixation of the implant by mechanical interlocking of supporting bone and ceramic.
(5) This revision rod, used temporarily, is interlocked in the distal healthy part of the femur.
(6) In cases of interlocked twins in which vaginal delivery is attempted, loss of the first twin is common.
(7) A consecutive, prospective series of ninety-seven patients who had 100 fractures of the femoral shaft that were treated with static interlocking nailing was analyzed to determine the incidence of union of the fracture without planned conversion from static to dynamic intramedullary fixation as a technique to stimulate healing of the fracture.
(8) A group of circles is attached to an adjacent group by one or more circles, each interlocking with many circles of both groups.
(9) Cancellous autogenous bone grafting was performed seven times during or after plating, but was not necessary in the interlocking nail group.
(10) DNA molecules are also in the form of catenanes consisting of two or more topologically interlocked circular units of the monomer size 0.45 mu.
(11) However, the complex interlocking of transference processes with rôle-specific and personality-conditioned behaviour patterns makes it more difficult to understand and make use of these emotional processes within the team.
(12) After a review of Küntsher's intramedullary nailing, the author resumed the informations about the interlocking medullary nail and its technique.
(13) As the temporal requirements increased in the interlocking schedules, the overall rate of responding increased, but the pattern of responding remained relatively unchanged.
(14) Three patients were treated with a combination of an interlocked intramedullary nail and lag screw fixation.
(15) Expansive open-plan floors are once again linked with weaving flights of escalators, only here they are suspended precipitously through dramatic interlocking rotundas, which climb from the cavernous lending library terraces, up through floating rings of bookshelves, to the heavenly reaches of the light-flooded atrium above.
(16) The gill bars (bearing gill rakers that interlock with rakers of adjacent arches) clearly function as a resistance within the oral cavity and restrict posterior water influx during mouth opening, creating a unidirectional flow during feeding.
(17) Compared with the intact humerus, interlocking nails were stiffer in torsion, but in bending they more closely simulated the stiffness of the bone.
(18) We treated forty-eight femoral-shaft fractures in forty-seven patients with the Grosse-Kempf interlocking intramedullary nail.
(19) Although we attempt to stent the urethra in order to align the ends, we condemn a vigorous attempt with interlocking sounds or other instruments since they may lead to iatrogenic injuries of the urogenital diaphragm.
(20) Recently, IM nails have been introduced to widen indications for their use based on variations in the cross-sectional geometry, length and shape of nails, interlocking designs, and surgical techniques.
Interplay
Definition:
(n.) Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, the analyses indicated an important interplay between environmental sources and social factors in the determination of hand lead and blood lead levels in very young children.
(2) In this review, Warner Greene and colleagues discuss recent studies that have revealed an intriguing molecular interplay between two pathogenic human retroviruses, HIV-1 and HTLV-1, and certain cellular genes that normally control T-cell growth.
(3) The utility of a life charting approach is emphasized in delineating past and present course of illness, considering the relevance of cycling pattern and past treatment efficacy in selection of present pharmacological interventions, and helping to formulate a multifactorial concept of the interplay of biological and psychosocial factors in the evolution or exacerbation of mood disorders.
(4) The authors hypothesize that an interplay of late adoption intrinsic vulnerabilities in the children, and weakness of parental bonds accounts for the differential outcomes.
(5) Watford’s front two have impressed with their hard work, their technical quality and their interplay – a classic strike duo.
(6) Dyslipaemia appears thus to be due to the interplay of several factors.
(7) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.
(8) Current work focuses on defining the biology of preneoplasia, the critical specific molecular events in multistep carcinogenesis, and the dynamic interplay between viral, behavioral, dietary, and genetic factors in human carcinogenesis.
(9) We interpret these findings as suggesting a complex interplay of endocrine and metabolic factors are necessary for retention of the behavioural response.
(10) Developmental psychobiology is the study of how the interplay between behavioral and physiological processes supports and directs development.
(11) It is proposed that such an interplay between the two regulatory genes results in a homeostatic system that may regulate the rate of viral replication as well as the growth of HTLV-I transformed cells.
(12) The megakaryocyte, however, remains responsive and the hypothesis advanced is that under these circumstances the intermenstrual platelet increase, normally caused by the interplay of the sex hormones, becomes grossly exaggerated.
(13) There is indirect evidence that this interplay is at the level of prostaglandin synthesis or release.
(14) Coronary atherosclerosis is the result of the interplay of a number of factors, the most important of which are abnormal levels of circulating lipoproteins.
(15) The interplay between these two neuro-endocrine disorders may account for some of the symptoms of these patients.
(16) That interplay between message and content became the basis of his consultancy, Good Business, dreamt up partly with the CND campaigner Marjorie Thompson.
(17) To investigate the interplay between endotoxin-induced circulatory shock and the cardiovascular effects of different doses of isoflurane, mean aortic pressure (MAP), central venous pressure (CVP), mean pulmonary arterial pressure (MPAP), heart rate (HR), cardiac output and superior mesenteric artery flow (SMAF), were monitored in rats anesthetized with either 1.4% or 2.0% isoflurane in oxygen.
(18) It is argued that this similarity in the frequency of ethnic differences among the polypeptides studied by 2-D PAGE and by 1-D E is further evidence that the proteins revealed by 2-D PAGE do not differ greatly in their response to the interplay of mutation, selection, and drift from those revealed by 1-D E studies of plasma proteins and erythrocyte enzymes.
(19) Further studies concerning the interplay between proximal and distal regulations under normal and pathological conditions may provide deeper insight into the way in which the kidney functions.
(20) The program must be problem-centered, affording the learners the opportunities to engage in the discovery of the role of nutrition in the health of people, the nutritional environment, and the interplay between the two.