(v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
(p. a.) Alt. of Lacerated
Example Sentences:
(1) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
(2) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
(3) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
(4) After resuscitation a laparotomy disclosed an anterior paramedian laceration of the uterus.
(5) It is pointed to the stiching up of skin over the prominent parts of bones after dividing the newborns sub partu to avoid a laceration of the mother womb and vagina.
(6) The incidence of tibial fractures, ankle injuries and lacerations also declined.
(7) Mares may suffer from a variety of genital injuries including vulval separations, vaginal lacerations and, less commonly, vaginal rupture.
(8) One other patient who had a satisfactory response underwent surgery for a pancreatic laceration.
(9) Two cases of uterine injury complicating midtrimester abortion induced by hypertonic saline are described, one with an extensive laceration of the cervix and the other with a rupture of the lower uterine segment extending into the vault of the vagina.
(10) The authors present a rare case of closed abdominal trauma in a five year old girl resulting from a washtub fall on her causing three lacerations in the middle third of the esophagus, identified 48 hours after the trauma.
(11) The use of intravenous lignocaine is thus recommended for children at risk, such as those needing an urgent operation because of lacerated eye injury under rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia.
(12) Placental laceration as a result of blunt maternal trauma has rarely been reported.
(13) We produce lung lacerations in 18 dogs ventilated with air containing charcoal powder.
(14) A case report of traumatic hemobilia following suture of superficial laceration of the liver is presented.
(15) The incidence of instrument-assisted deliveries (BC = 7, DT = 6), episiotomies (BC = 27, DT = 20), lacerations (BC = 17, DT = 5), and hemorrhoids (BC = 14, DT = 4) was similar between groups.
(16) The stitcher surgical treatment of the lacerations associated with gastrostomy and lengthy parenteral nutrition did not prevent the recurrence of the esophagus-pleural fistula, and an esophagectomy plus cervical esophagostomy was required.
(17) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
(18) The case of a patient with an extensive vertical laceration of the right cheek involving Stensen's duct is reported.
(19) Complications that were managed conservatively included splenic puncture, false aneurysm, laceration of the renal artery, arteriovenous fistula, hemorrhage requiring transfusion, pneumothorax-empyema, urinoma, septic shock and the hemolysis-hyponatremia-renal shutdown syndrome.
(20) Common signs and symptoms include forehead laceration and deformity, and fracture of the frontal sinus.
Torn
Definition:
(p. p.) of Tear
() p. p. of Tear.
Example Sentences:
(1) The logistics of maintaining and supplying underground clinics located in war-torn rural Afghanistan are presented.
(2) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(3) The shredded fibres were trimmed in most cases and this allowed better definition of the amount of ligament considered to be torn.
(4) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
(5) Plibersek on Thursday ruled out supporting sending ground troops into Syria, after the government announced on Wednesday that it would extend airstrikes into the war-torn country .
(6) We hurtled into Barcelona at speeds that should have torn Eglantine's juddering Peugeot 205 apart.
(7) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(8) The capsule is reattached to the boney rim of the anterioinferior glenoid deep to and lateral to the torn cartilagenous labrum, thus excluding the labrum from the joint anteriorly.
(9) Nine pedunculated benign synoviomata causing mechanical symptoms similar to those of a torn meniscus are described.
(10) The UNHCR estimates there are more than 60 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, with over 4 million Syrians alone leaving their war-torn country to seek safety in neighbouring countries and Europe.
(11) David Cameron has attacked Labour's "rank hypocrisy" in calling for him to boycott the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka as he claimed his visit to the country's war-torn north will help give a voice to the dispossessed.
(12) 'I am all the African chiefs who have sold their continent to the white men' … Samuel Fosso's self-portrait as an African chief The life work of one of Africa's most important living photographers and contemporary artists, Samuel Fosso , has been rescued from destruction after his studio and home were attacked by looters in war-torn Central African Republic .
(13) Arthroscopic operative procedures include the inspection of a torn glenoid labrum and certain lesions of the biceps tendon, viewing a torn rotator cuff, locating loose bodies in the shoulder, surgery for recurrent dislocations, and division of the coracoacromial ligament.
(14) Although not within the scope of this article, acute arthroscopic repair of a torn meniscus, evaluation of the degree of tear of the anterior cruciate ligament, and arthroscopic repair of osteochondral fractures are all benefited by acute arthroscopic examination.
(15) Jelacic's plans are to impact the tribunal's work in a country more torn than at any time during the war: "They involve entrenching the current outreach offices and moving the operation and the defence lines from The Hague to the Balkans: not just to Sarajevo, Zagreb, Belgrade and Pristina - but to the municipalities, the villages themselves.
(16) The quality of ultrasound image obtained from the patients in vivo proved similar to that obtained during the in vitro studies, and in addition six ulcerative lesions including two with torn intima were detected with transesophageal echocardiography.
(17) Those that do exist bear Saudi Arabia's logo, but they are torn and thin – leftovers from a huge aid donation during cyclone Nargis.
(18) In the marginal area, bone can be found lying open with torn remnants, which are lying free in the coagulum.
(19) The torn segment was mobile, the remainder of the meniscus stable.
(20) They also plan to disrupt the work of the crews by calling the Libyan coastguard and asking them to take migrants and refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean back to war-torn Libya.