(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.
Joint
Definition:
(n.) The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.
(n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation.
(n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg.
(n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting.
(n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.
(n.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.
(n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.
(a.) Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action.
(a.) Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together.
(a.) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc.
(a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond.
(v. t.) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards.
(v. t.) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
(v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
(v. t.) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
(v. i.) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(2) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(3) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(4) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(5) 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.
(6) By measurement and analysis of the changes in carpal angles and joint spaces, carpal instability was discovered in 41 fractures, an incidence of 30.6%.
(7) Apart from their pathogenic significance, these results may have some interest for the clinical investigation of patients with joint diseases.
(8) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(9) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
(10) This system may serve as a model to explain the mechanisms by which cells accumulate in inflamed joints.
(11) On the basis of these data, the computer, upon the basis of a program specially developed for this purpose, automatically calculates the corresponding amount of negative-points, which parallels the severity of the joint changes, i.e.
(12) The prognosis of meningococcal arthritis is excellent and joint sequelae are rare.
(13) In the anatomy laboratory we looked for an alternative approach to the glenohumeral joint which would accommodate these difficulties.
(14) These two enzymes may act jointly in filling up the gaps along the DNA molecule and elongating the DNA chain.
(15) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(16) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
(17) Hypermobility and instability following injury and degenerative joint disease is poorly understood and often not recognized as the cause of the patients symptoms.
(18) One middle carpal joint of each horse was injected 3 times with 100 mg of 6-alpha-methylprednisolone acetate, at 14-day intervals.
(19) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
(20) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.