(a.) Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.
(a.) Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis.
(n.) A medicine which tends to prevent stone in the bladder.
(a.) Pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the remaining 77% (296 cases) 94.5% were referred for extracorporeal lithotrity with shock waves, of which 89.8 were monotherapy and 4.7% a combination with other strategies (medico-lithic, surgical, endoscopic extrusion).
(2) The F complex contains Upper Paleolithic lithic elements, and the new hominid specimen from this complex appears to exhibit features similar to other early modern H. sapiens in southcentral Europe.
(3) We evaluated the serum osteocalcin and alkaline phosphatase levels and the urinary hydroxyproline excretion in patients with blastic, lithic or mixed metastases, humoral malignant hypercalcemia (HMH) and myeloma.
(4) The authors present their case where the metastasis imitated acute lithic obstruction.
(5) Eight of the specimens (seven cranial fragments and one complete hand proximal phalanx) were excavated from level G3, a stratum correlated to the Lower Würm stadial and containing Mousterian lithic elements.
(6) In addition, our results suggest that the Howiesons Poort lithic industry (approximately 45-75 kyr) and the MSA-LSA transition (approximately 35 kyr) are younger than often believed.
(7) Analysis of series of 64 instances of MU in 55 patients leads the authors to the following conclusions: --MU is fairly rare in adults since it is usually discovered at an earlier age; --adult MU shows little activity, even when it is complicated by lithiasis; --renal involvement frequently bears no strict relationship to the magnitude of the MU and is not always obviously improved by surgery; --surgical treatment of MU (anti-reflux ureterovesical reimplantation, with or without ureteral modelling) gives reliable results (14 successes, 2 failures, and 1 patient lost to follow up), comparable to those obtained in children); --the main operating indications consist of: infection, associated urinary, youth, and the possibility of pregnancy; --the problem of associated lithiasis must be dealt with before or during surgical treatment of MU, never after, because of the risk of postoperative lithic migration.
(8) The associated lithic artifacts recovered with it are Mousterian.
(9) Insufficient populations of Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter were found in a Pahokee muck soil (Lithic medidaprit) to account for the nitrate concentration observed.
(10) The cave also yielded Mousterian lithic industry and fauna indicating a paleoclimate condition with dry-warm tendency and savannah landscape.
Projectile
Definition:
(a.) Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
(a.) Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion.
(n.) A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.
(n.) A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force.
Example Sentences:
(1) Motor axons possessed elongate, irregularly shaped boutons en passant and morphologically variable boutons terminaux; the latter included huge endings with knobbed projectiles arising from thick collaterals, or smaller, round boutons from thin collaterals.
(2) The drug was administered from a distance by means of a projectile syringe shot from a special rifle.
(3) The bomb – known as an explosively formed projectile – is similar to devices used by Islamic insurgents to kill British and US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
(4) 223 of the Austrian army serves to demonstrate and discuss the wound ballistic effects in relation to the altered behaviour of the projectile.
(5) A 5-year-old boy presented with a 7-month history of headache and projectile vomiting.
(6) As rioters continued to torch vehicles and stone police lines several officers were injured by projectiles.
(7) Young people kept throwing rocks at police; the police fired projectiles.
(8) As friends start preparing for baby number two, I remember the sleepless nights, the toxic nappies and the projectile vomiting phase, and I'm fairly sure we've made the right decision.
(9) Asked to clarify Belmar’s remarks, Officer Brian Schellman, a spokesman for the county force, said in an email: “The Chief said we did not use rubber bullets, which are large rubber projectiles shot from the barrel of a firearm, which we did not use.
(10) (1) In sections showing no atherosclerotic changes, projectiles from hand weapons and from .22 calibre rimfire rifles leave remarkably small holes (comparable to the orifices of the intercostal arteries); in areas with sclerotic plaques the bullet holes are considerably larger.
(11) This initial study suggests that low- and high-velocity projectiles produce different types of tissue debris, with much more fragmentation and scarcity of cellular components in the high-velocity rounds.
(12) For fixed-diameter projectiles, very slow and high velocities produced minimal abrasion width.
(13) This calculation assumes that the nuclear interactions of the incident particles lead to a secondary particle with the velocity of the incident projectile at the interaction point moving in the direction of the incident projectile.
(14) An ambulance arrived at SMC hospital with penetrating damage from what seemed to be a large projectile.
(15) The solvent characteristics of synovial fluid and associated local arthritis are apparently important factors in the dissolution and absorption of lead from projectiles located in joints.
(16) Shami said rebels still had "secret lines" that allowed in food and weapons, and that they were making some projectiles in rudimentary workshops within the neighbourhood.
(17) The effects of the two projectiles at 7.7'' twist were found similar in soap; the SS 109 produced more tissue damage than the M 193 missile.
(18) The authors reconstruct this evolutionary process as a series of "bifurcation points" of either constraints or opportunities forming a sequence of preconditions for the formation of a high-speed projectile tongue characteristic of tropical salamanders.
(19) This article was amended on 21 November 2016 to clarify that Sophia Wilansky’s father told the Guardian that she was injured by a projectile, which North Dakota law enforcement denies.
(20) The women were killed by automatic rifle fire and grenades, and the bodies of the two men were blown up by a hand rocket-launcher projectiles.