(n.) Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.
Example Sentences:
(1) The madreporic ("caviar") prosthesis is a hinged knee prosthesis that can be inserted without the use of cement.
(2) The reconstruction of the anterior basis of the skull has been simplified as much as possible: it has been performed either with a bone graft removed from the frontal flap inner table, or with a precut madreporic coral graft.
(3) The Madreporic hip arthroplasty has provided encouraging clinical results.
(4) They have selected a particular type of prosthesis with a "madreporic" surface and have studied the potential danger or corrosion in such types of prosthesis as compared with prostheses with a plane surface.
(5) Forty-four Madreporic, cementless, total hip arthroplasties performed on 41 patients were reviewed, with special attention to overall clinical results and radiologic findings.
(6) Twenty two cranio-facial reconstructions were performed utilizing madreporic coral graft, genera porites.
(7) The cranial base was reconstructed with madreporic coral grafts; then a large extra-dural pediculated galea flap was placed onto the anterior base to line the sub-frontal dura.
(8) The authors, after putting forth several biomechanical premises, discuss their experience in total hip arthroplasty (THA) using a PCA-type press fit cementless prosthesis with partial Madreporic covering.
(9) Three madreporic prostheses in two patients were examined to evaluate resorption and formation of the surrounding bone tissue.
(10) The results of 58 cementless total hip prostheses (Lord madreporous type) were evaluated 4 to 7 years after implantation.
(11) Short-course indomethacin was felt to deter heterotopic bone formation significantly, while having no deleterious effect on stabilization of the St. Michael's madreporic system.
(12) We do not propose here a critical or a comparative study of the different materials mentioned: Our goal has been to transmit our finding, based on the importance of madrepore: its wide availability; easy use; economical price; biological qualities; consistent result.
(13) The authors conclude that short-term clinical results using Madreporic total hip replacement are satisfactory.
(14) Anterior skull base reconstruction was performed with a madreporic coral graft, which is a simple, fast and reliable technique, permitting a complete skull base closure.
(15) The authors strongly believe that the Madreporic cementless total hip arthroplasty should be used only in centres dealing with a large volume of hip conditions where staff are committed to documenting and reporting the results of surgery regularly.
(16) Seven Madreporic hip arthroplasties were implanted in adult male mongrel dogs.
(17) The aboral skeletal system of the juvenile immediately after metamorphosis is composed of one central, one madreporic, ten radial and interradial plates, in addition to five terminal plates on the arms.
(18) Since 1985, the authors have been using madreporic coral fragments (genera Porites) as a bone graft substitute.
(19) The surgical technique is described precisely including a paralateronasal approach combined with a bifrontocoronal incision, a bilateral ethmoidectomy and reconstruction of the anterior base of the skull by one sheets taken-out from the inner surface of the frontal flap or more recently madreporic coralline grafts; the dura is hermetically sealed and it is lined with a large galea flap.
(20) Firm mechanical anchorage of the Madreporic femoral prosthesis was demonstrated in this study.
Stony
Definition:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
(superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
(superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(2) Digital examination revealed that the prostate became stony-hard and larger 10 weeks after the initial BCG immunotherapy.
(3) Freed of the need to wave their tentacles around to hunt for food, the coral can devote more energy to secreting the mineral calcium carbonate, from which they form a stony exoskeleton.
(4) Not because the arts and humanities are especially hard to legitimise, but because everything is hard to justify when your opponent is standing there with crossed arms and a stony face.
(5) If someone’s able to keep such a stony-faced expression, it’s either high theatrics or they have no sympathy,” she added.
(6) It would face the same challenges and would continue to act in much the same way, steering the country towards new elections in late 2017 or 2018 and pursuing the stony path of incremental economic reform.
(7) We evaluated five enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays from Stony Brook (NY) University Hospital, Cambridge Bioscience (Worcester, Mass), Hillcrest Biologicals (Cypress, Calif), Sigma Diagnostics (St Louis, Mo), and Zeus-Wampole Scientific Inc (Raritan, NJ) and two fluorescent antibody tests (3M [Diagnostic Systems Inc, Santa Clara, Calif] and FIAX [Whittaker M.A.
(8) Without naming and shaming, during the USA's game against Portugal, I saw one leftwing tweeter ask with plaintive, stony-faced sincerity "how can anyone be supporting the imperialists?"
(9) No one is considered universally funny: there will always be someone stony-faced and dry-eyed in a room filled with hilarity, wondering what everyone else is laughing at.
(10) To a stony-faced audience at a conference organised by Learning Without Frontiers, she said: "We should recognise and embrace some of the good things that came out of the 19th century."
(11) The villages, whose populations range from a few hundred to 2,000, are scattered on stony land criss-crossed by busy roads, electricity pylons and cables and water pipes.
(12) Watched stony-faced by the Israeli delegation led by ambassador Ron Prosor, Abbas on Wednesday called for the international community to recognise Palestine as a state under occupation in the same way that countries were occupied in the second world war.
(13) If one of the first signs of ageing is being irritated by the young, I'd transformed into the ultimate short-fused, stony-eyed Methuselah.
(14) To help meet the need for physician manpower in preventive medicine a new residency was established at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in July 1983.
(15) The Stony Brook Child Psychiatric Checklist, a parent completed rating instrument based on DSM-III-R, was used as part of a psychiatric inpatient admission evaluation.
(16) At the School of Medicine of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the surgical clerkship became mandatory in 1976.
(17) Labour's riposte will be that the more difficult the economic news the stronger the yearning will be for a "change election" on the economy and the greater the premium on fairness in austerity – fertile terrain for Miliband, stony ground for the incumbent Cameron.
(18) The gland becomes stony hard, is not displaceable and, characteristically, the fibrous tissue penetrates the capsule and infiltrates into surrounding structures such as muscles, vessels, nerves and even the trachea.
(19) The liver was markedly enlarged and of stony consistency.
(20) The anti-Trident activists wave at the Faslane workers as they come and go; the workers remain stony-faced.