(n.) A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
(n.) An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
(v. i.) To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.
(n.) A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter.
Example Sentences:
(1) In seven patients surgical correction of kinking with stenosis of the extracranial part of the carotid artery was performed.
(2) Occasionally symptomatic kinking of the internal carotid artery will require correction.
(3) A simple and effective surgical procedure as a routine method for correction of carotid kinking is described.
(4) It was concluded that photodimerization of the dTpdT unit to give the cis-syn product causes little perturbation of the DNA whereas dimerization to give the trans-syn product causes much greater perturbation, possibly in the form of a kink or dislocation at the 5'-side of the dimer.
(5) There is little chance of kinking the graft, since its angle of attachment is ideal, and due to the anatomical configuration of the transverse sinus, there is more room for the graft and compression is unlikely.
(6) On the aortogram, stenosis of the left common carotid artery, kinking and aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta were revealed.
(7) However, no reactivity is observed at the sites of the 40 degrees kinks described in the cocrystal structure (Steitz, 1990).
(8) However, there is enough evidence to warrant careful consideration of surgical correction in patients who have features of the carotid artery syndrome and kinking of the ICA as shown on angiography.
(9) The spin-echo technique with a short time to echo (TE = 40 msec) and a short time to recover (TR = 1000 msec) provided optimum imaging of tonsillar position, hydromyelia cavities, and cervicomedullary "kinking."
(10) Kinking, contractures, transverse splitting and disintegration were seen in muscle fibres from post mortem muscle.
(11) The former appears characteristic of circularly bent DNA and gives rise to a substantial retardation, the latter of bending across a knot or kink in the DNA chain associated with a relatively minor retardation relative to standards.
(12) The obstruction failed to resolve; careful longitudinal serotomy allowed the kinking in the bowel to be straightened and, at 1 year follow-up, there were no symptoms of recurrence.
(13) The most important contribution of this procedure is the decrease in manipulation of the ureter, resulting in minimal disturbance of the blood supply and in a straight course of the ureter without the risk of kinking or obstruction.
(14) Detection of venous backflow or obstruction, arterial stenosis, aneurysm formation, or graft kinking facilitated correction and thus salvage of the grafts.
(15) Proton and deuterium order parameters measured for the liquid crystalline phase of unsonicated lipid bilayer membranes are interpreted in terms of two motions: (i) chain reorientation and (ii) chain isomerization via kink diffusion.
(16) Twenty-three patients had slight stenosis, and bending and kinking were observed in 17.
(17) As we go along all these kinks will be ironed out.” Under Ghanaian law, farmers are only allowed to sell their beans to purchasing clerks who act as intermediaries between them and Cocobod.
(18) Failure to release this structure from the proximal ulna caused kinking and tethering of the nerve when transposition was attempted.
(19) During neo-pulmonary reconstruction, distal pulmonary orifice was shifted towards right to avoid kinking and compression on the coronary arteries.
(20) The large hyperchroism of the complex is consistent with loss of base stacking, as required by a kinked structure.
Whoop
Definition:
(n.) The hoopoe.
(v. i.) To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl.
(v. i.) To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
(v. t.) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
(n.) A shout of pursuit or of war; a very of eagerness, enthusiasm, enjoyment, vengeance, terror, or the like; an halloo; a hoot, or cry, as of an owl.
(n.) A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
Example Sentences:
(1) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(2) I really want people to know that pregnancy vaccination means we now have the power to minimise – if not completely stop – deaths from whooping cough,” she said.
(3) In the treatment of 31 cases of acute infections of pediatric field including upper and lower airway infections, empyema, whooping cough, acute urinary tract infections and phlegmon, CMNX was administered intravenously either as one shot injection as drip infusion.
(4) Over whoops and cheers from the residents, he turned to a huddle of police officers standing 50 yards away and warned: "I hope you're listening.
(5) From the third month of life the lymphocyte reactivity to a Bordetella pertussis germ suspension resulted in measurable stimulation following oral whooping cough vaccination.
(6) On average, in the last 10 years in England and Wales, 800 cases of whooping cough were reported, with more than 300 babies being admitted to hospital and four babies dying each year.
(7) No wry observations or whoops-a-daisy trombones to subvert the conceit for period lolz.
(8) As she ended her rousing peroration at the SNP’s manifesto launch , the 1,400-strong invited audience (the largest at any Holyrood manifesto launch ever) did not immediately explode with whoops and cheers.
(9) This was a group of 100 Serbian students invited by the Albania president, Edi Rama, to attend the game as a gesture of friendship; they were the only Serbia supporters inside the stadium and it was their noise, their high-pitched cheering and whooping, that echoed in the ears as Ivanovic and company finally filed inside.
(10) The parents of a one-month-old baby boy, Riley Hughes, who died from whooping cough in March, have shared a devastating video of his last few days of life, which shows how the illness was overwhelming his body.
(11) Following change to a programme with only three vaccinations with a weaker, non-aluminium-adsorbed pure whooping cough vaccine in 1970, whooping cough became again slightly more frequent in the nineteen seventies and eighties.
(12) Bordetella pertussis, the causative organism of whooping cough, produces a calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase.
(13) Because of the central rôle postulated for Pertussis Toxin in the pathogenesis of whooping cough, and the well-established ability of this toxin to alter insulin and glucose levels in animal blood, a study of insulin and glucose levels in hospitalised pertussis patients and in controls was made.
(14) An extended controlled epidemiological trial was carried out for the purpose of studying the reactogenic properties, immunological and epidemiological efficacy of immunization against whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus according to a scheme suggested by the authors (AKdeltaC-AKdeltaC-KB) in comparison with the official scheme (AKdeltaC-AKdeltaC-AKdeltaC).
(15) Intensive case-finding was undertaken to detect contacts of known cases of whooping cough and to take pernasal swabs from those with any cough; 102 swabs were taken.
(16) As Reckless was introduced on stage at the Ukip conference by a clearly delighted Farage, the crowd broke out into whoops and cheers.
(17) The epitopes defined by several of the Mabs might be useful in the context of a third-generation whooping cough vaccine.
(18) Leno's audience, admittedly, is never very hard to excite – you get whoops and cheers just for being Vin Diesel or Jessica Alba, never mind the president of the United States – but frequently they rose to their feet, applauding wildly.
(19) This is the first evidence that a vir-repressed gene may play an important role in the virulence of B. pertussis and the pathogenesis of whooping cough.
(20) Over a 2-year period 67 strains of Bordetella pertussis were identified in 231 single specimens of nasopharyngeal secretions submitted from patients suspected to have whooping cough in the National Capital Region; 89.5% of the identifications were made by culture.