(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.
Pleach
Definition:
(v. t.) To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.