(a.) The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) In these three patients, laxity of the knee in flexion was so severe that posterior instability could not be corrected merely by patellar relocation.
(3) Ten patients gave a family history of recurrent dislocation of the patella and seven patients showed generalised joint laxity.
(4) Indications of precautions to be taken are defined and suggestions are drawn up whereby residual laxity in extension may be limited.
(5) The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effect of exercise on knee joint laxity.
(6) A new portable model of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) instrumented clinical knee testing apparatus and the KT-1000 knee arthrometer were used to measure anterior laxity in normal and anterior cruciate absent knees.
(7) The presence of flat feet and excessive laxity of the joints, associated with the characteristic facies, macro-orchidism, and behavior, justifies a referral for developmental and genetic evaluation.
(8) Endogenous factors such as acetabular dysplasia, increased anteversion of the femoral neck, capsular laxity support the genetic theory but they are neither constant nor necessary and are only facilitating factors.
(9) Twenty-two patients had traumatic anterior shoulder dislocations and another 12 patients had nontraumatic dislocations with generalized joint laxity.
(10) A progressive decrease in the absolute value of both translation and rotation laxity was evident as the age of the child increased.
(11) No correlation could be found between ligamentous laxity and the occurrence or type of injury.
(12) Indications for this technique include senile and paralytic ectropion, recurrent entropion, congenital malpositions, and lid laxity following trauma or enucleation.
(13) At the examination 30 minutes post-exercise, laxity at 30 degrees of knee flexion was still increased.
(14) The cause for this condition, we think, is laxity of the ulnar part of the lateral collateral ligament, which allows a transient rotatory subluxation of the ulnohumeral joint and a secondary dislocation of the radiohumeral joint.
(15) The evaluation method consisted of subjective, objective, and instrumented laxity testing.
(16) Used as hyperextensometer at the basal joint of the index finger, the device is of equal value in the diagnosis of ligamentous laxity.
(17) The pattern of abnormality was similar in each case and indicated an increased laxity of the conducting system.
(18) These findings have stimulated us to repair fresh lesions in young persons, especially in the presence of combined lesions but care needs to be exercised about the indications for surgery in chronic laxities during the first year of adaptation.
(19) Only 8% of normal knees had anterior laxity of 5 mm or more.
(20) At 90 degrees of flexion, there were no significant differences in stiffness or laxity between the patient groups.
Loose
Definition:
(superl.) Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
(superl.) Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
(superl.) Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.
(superl.) Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
(superl.) Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
(superl.) Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
(superl.) Unconnected; rambling.
(superl.) Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
(superl.) Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
(superl.) Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
(n.) Freedom from restraint.
(n.) A letting go; discharge.
(a.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
(a.) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
(a.) To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
(a.) To solve; to interpret.
(v. i.) To set sail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
(2) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(3) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
(4) Security forces have also tried to wrest back the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit from a loose alliance of Isis fighters, other jihadist groups and former Saddam Hussein loyalists.
(5) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
(6) We had our bicycles and we were just turned loose all day.
(7) Our model is a development of previous models, but differs in several respects: the overall activity is assumed to be dependent on the error level, the effect of errors in the translating system, giving rise to additional errors in the succeeding generation of products, is explicitly included as a special term in our model, and scavenging enzymes are assumed to break down and eliminate products with a loose structure.
(8) Clearance into the mediastinum may be the major pathway for liquid sequestered in the loose, binding connective tissue.
(9) Two tibial components (2%) were believed to be mechanically loose, but no revisions for mechanical loosening were done.
(10) The results indicate that the optimal cruciform loop size is four bases, with loose 'breathing' at the first base pair at the top of the cruciform stem at 37 degrees C, and little or no opening of base pairs at the four-way junction.
(11) Theresa May’s plan for a loose alliance with the Democratic Unionists to prop up her government was thrown into confusion on Saturday night after the Northern Ireland party contradicted a No 10 announcement that a deal had been reached.
(12) We have also confirmed loose linkage with the marker (Mfd22, locus D4S171) used to establish the initial assignment of the disorder to chromosome 4.
(13) As demonstrated by Ficoll density gradient centrifugation and HPLC gel filtration, the cholate dialysis method made the reductase bind tightly to the liposomal membranes, while the incubation with the preformed vesicles made the reductase bind loosely to the membranes.
(14) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
(15) Twenty-one of 24 adult male and female cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis ibis) collected in Geneva County, Alabama had numerous white cyst-like structures (1,466 microns X 354 microns) found within the loose connective tissues of the skeletal muscles of the inguinal region, beneath the serosa of the proventriculus and in the heart beneath the epicardium (one adult male bird).
(16) SCLC variant lines could further be divided into (a) biochemical variant lines having variant biochemical profile but retaining typical SCLC morphology and growth characteristics; and (b) morphological variant (SCLC-MV) lines having variant biochemical profile, altered morphology (features of large cell undifferentiated carcinoma) and altered growth characteristics (growth as loosely attached floating aggregates, relatively short doubling times and cloning efficiencies).
(17) At rostral levels, one third of the tracts are loosely built forming a king of curtain, while they become more compact at caudal levels.
(18) (1) The prerequisite for development of cholesteatoma is a cholesteatoma bed, that is a loose subepithelial connective tissue layer which acts as a nutrient bed and makes papillary growth of squamous epithelium possible.
(19) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
(20) Initially, 4-5 days post-operative, the plasma clot maintained the grafted cells in a loose sponge-like sack at the site of implantation.