(n.) The line or point at which two bodies are joined; a joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the bones.
(n.) A point of time; esp., one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency.
Example Sentences:
(1) The area of juncture of the ventral and dorsal divisions of the equine large colon was characterized, in 13 chronic unanesthetized animals and in 25 in vitro preparations, as an area of resistance to aboral flow.
(2) Melanocytes are cells of neural crest origin residing at the dermal-epidermal juncture.
(3) The in vitro breaking force of a braided nylon looped-suture tendon juncture designed to decrease tying time was compared with the breaking force of the modified Kessler and Bunnell techniques.
(4) The Farage adviser said he looked back on many people within Ukip as “a bunch of rag-tag, unprofessional, embarrassing people who let Nigel down at every juncture.” He told the Guardian: “Someone needs to go in there with a big stick.
(5) At such a juncture a writer can inject their own imagination to isolate them from the real world or maybe they can exaggerate the situation – making sure it is bold, vivid and has the signature of our real world.
(6) A technique is described to protect a tendon juncture on the back of the hand following tendon disruption.
(7) "I ask for a vote of confidence because we are at a critical juncture," said Papandreou in a speech opening a marathon parliamentary debate which will culminate with the crucial vote on Tuesday.
(8) It’s best not to think at what junctures his advice to “choose a partner, trust your instincts; the next generation will be your legacy” might unexpectedly and unwelcomely spring to mind, but I hope he looks away if there are happy hour shots involved.
(9) At this juncture, it appears that both of these phenomena might occur only in cells of neural origin.
(10) Our work shows that the morphological modifications of the vitreoretinal juncture during the aging process vary following location.
(11) At this perilous juncture, there's not much to be gained from saying that monetary union was always a daft idea.
(12) • A longer version of this essay will appear in the forthcoming issue of Juncture, the journal of the IPPR
(13) The intraoperative phase was found to be the most dangerous juncture for the development of thrombi, with 36 per cent of all thrombi emerging on the day of surgery and another 22 per cent on the first and second postoperative days.
(14) It is painted all in black, save for three steel roller shutters that each represent a juncture of White's life: one is yellow, a nod to the livery of the upholstery business he started when he was 21; the second is red, the signature colour of his blues-rock band, the White Stripes; the last is blue, the colour he has latterly adopted for his solo career.
(15) Sangin assault is sign of Taliban confidence and warning to Kabul Read more Sangin has for years been the scene of fierce fighting between the Taliban and Nato forces, and and sits at the juncture in the biggest poppy-growing region in the world.
(16) "We have now reached a critical juncture at these negotiations," Clinton told a press conference.
(17) Were the US and Europe to lead such an effort at this crucial juncture, Hezbollah would find itself facing a vastly more complicated spider web of domestic, regional and international constraints than it already does when it comes to its desire and ability to exercise violence – an outcome that would undoubtedly be welcomed by a great number of citizens, both here and beyond.
(18) At this juncture I received a tremendous outpouring of sympathy from my British friends.
(19) Juncture with abundant connective tissue rich in small-cell infiltrates was noted in intestinal anastomoses between outbreds, followed by dehiscence or incomplte junction.
(20) Rapid emptying of the peritoneal cavity permitted two laparoscopies, which revealed the tumoral origin of the ascites in two cases, and one laparotomy for porto-caval shunt in bleeding esophageal varices at the earliest possible juncture.
Nowadays
Definition:
(adv.) In these days; at the present time.
Example Sentences:
(1) D. latum infection has been an uncommon intestinal parasitosis, but it tends to increase nowadays.
(2) Nowadays hardly a publication comes out of the regulator without it laying down another "matter for government".
(3) Nowadays, many of the core welfare state functions have been devolved to the Scottish parliament.
(4) Nowadays, conventional cholecystectomy remains indicated when laparoscopy is contra-indicated, notably in cases with tight peritoneal adhesions precluding laparoscopy.
(5) However, certain principles should not be disputed, since nowadays there is hardly any doubt as to their validity.
(6) The treatment nowadays can depend largely on the results gained by computerized tomography.
(7) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
(8) We think therefore that meningiomas of the cavernous sinus should nowadays be the subject of a surgical biopsy followed by radiotherapy according to their grading.
(9) Nowadays, electro-oculography remains the only clinical method for ocular movement recording which is largely used in daily practise, but it has many drawbacks and limits.
(10) - Functional disturbances of the kidneys and of the upper urinary tract can nowadays be demonstrated early and carefully by means of the isotope nephrography.
(11) In the past Tularemia has largely affected animals, nowadays' in our country it could become actual one more because of wild animals repopulation actuated in many areas.
(12) People from all countries nowadays go through a vetting process, particularly from parts of the worlds where there is political instability and violence, and are thoroughly checked.
(13) Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta keeps on being nowadays a diagnostic problem, although it is a well known entity.
(14) BCG revaccination was given formerly to 20% of the age cohort but nowadays only 6% or 2% meet the criteria after receiving either Copenhagen or Glaxo BCG at birth.
(15) On the contrary, the fact that fewer people use a landline will in time prove challenging to phone polling (even if nowadays a proportion of the sample is interviewed by mobile phone), especially as internet polling is cheaper, so more data can be collected, and panels become increasingly representative of a population as they grow in size.
(16) The conspiratorially-minded might see Ed Miliband's decision to issue his own statement of support through one of his special advisers rather than directly to camera as proof that perhaps he was nowadays a little less committed to Brown's leadership than in the past.
(17) However, these favourable results are nowadays of importance for the patients concerned only then, when the diagnosis myocardial infarction or the tentative diagnosis infarction are made in a short period and already prehospitally adequate measures are begun.
(18) Also nowadays twin pregnancy is a risk pregnancy with a 2.3 fold higher perinatal mortality compared with singleton pregnancy in our matched-pair-group.
(19) To prolong the expected lifetime of pacemakers, more and more pulse generators with reduced output and electrodes with high impedance are used nowadays.
(20) Nowadays hard attacks have been launched by the media against the use of dental silver amalgams.