(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.
Interweave
Definition:
(v. t.) To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven.
(v. t.) To intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect closely; as, to interweave truth with falsehood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tate Modern, London, 16 October to 9 March, tate.org.uk Australia The complex art traditions of this remarkable continent – from Aboriginal dreamings and immigrant Romantic painters to the visionary Sidney Nolan – interweave in what promises to be a compelling epic spanning centuries of landscape and myth.
(2) These structural features support the idea that pyridoxine-biosynthetic genes are members of complex operons, perhaps to interweave coenzyme biosynthesis genetically with other metabolic processes.
(3) The analysis of last years is showing stronger a interweave from clinical Psychology and clinical medicine.
(4) After an analysis of the complex interweaving reactions of laser on biological materials, the laser applications in medicine and surgery are reviewed by the author.
(5) The kind of total darkness that enfolds the Welsh seaside town of "Llareggub" at the opening of Dylan Thomas's wonderful mid-century "play for voices" , which interweaves the thoughts and words of upwards of 60 characters over one day, is lost to the modern world.
(6) Published in their original handwritten form, the minutes of meetings of the Bank’s Court of Directors from 1914 to 45 , and of another key decision-making body, the Committee of the Treasury, from 1914 to 1931 , reveal a rich interweaving of the Earth-shattering and the mundane, which carried several echoes of the most recent crisis period of 2007-09 – minutes from which were released by the Bank on Tuesday.
(7) The light-microscopic appearance of a background fibrillary matrix imparting a "neural" appearance was the result of the interweaving of myriad cell processes filled with thin cytoplasmic filaments possessing fusiform densities.
(8) In view of the intricate interweaving of the various factions, the shifting alliances and complexity of the front lines in Syria , communication between Russia and the US on the precise territory subject to a ceasefire will have to be tightly co-ordinated.
(9) The operationalization of the model is based upon the interweaving of the role dimensions of the CNS, the goals of case management, and the components of collaborative practice into patient care.
(10) An attempt is made to analyze the complex interweaving of psychological, religious, cultural, and sociological factors in the precipitation of the outbreak.
(11) This study was carried out by a large group of workers in the Institute of Anatomy in Prague, with close and mutual interweaving of their contributed works.
(12) The structure of the diaphragm was revealed thus to be composed of radial fibrils of 7 nm in diameter, interweaving in a central mesh, and creating by their geometric distribution, wedge-shaped channels around the periphery of the pore.
(13) Here the use of EM has provided a direct visualization of the form and architecture of coaggregates revealing a dense interweaving of presynaptic filaments and dsDNA.
(14) Guides Dr David Mathieson and Dr Justin Byrne interweave history with the moving story of John Cornford , a British man (and Darwin’s great grandson) who helped beat back Franco’s army.
(15) Clinical material is presented which demonstrates typical forms of identification, and the interweaving of these motives is shown.
(16) The mature parasite often exhibited a highly invaginated surface contour with the result that the cytoplasm of the host cell and parasite became intimately interdigitated, this interweaving is unlikely to be recognized in light microscopic studies.
(17) Fifth, in the inner and outer plexiform layers, numerous filamentous branchlets extend 20 microns or more from the radial trunk, interweaving with branchlets from nearby Müller cells to form dense and continuous strata.
(18) In the inferior layer the fibres leave their formation, run diagonally in the direction of the trophoblast and interweave with each other to a mat of fibrils at the border to the trophoblast.
(19) The interweaving of the properties of these Ca2+ channels, with their spatial distributions and their influence upon other channel types, acts to transduce and integrate information within cells.
(20) Reticulin staining of the fibrous trabeculae in the posterior (scleral) part of the lamina revealed a structure composed of interweaving skeins of collagen fibres frequently arranged tangentially around the canals, 40-220 microns in diameter, through which optic nerve axons pass.