(n.) The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.
(n.) Essential element, or constituent element.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(2) The momentum flux theory describes such phenomena most appropriately.
(3) It has given momentum to innovative tendencies in psychiatry.
(4) At least four US air strikes appear to have slowed the momentum of the jihadists, Kurdish peshmerga forces said on Saturday.
(5) At times, they gained a momentum that took even the protagonists by surprise.
(6) The expression of emotions by vocal behavior gains momentum in man and is based on certain transformations of the CNS that were fundamental for the emergence of speech.
(7) They've repeatedly deflated the pressure from Portland when it threatens to build into dangerous momentum, and for the most part Borchers and Schuler, and sometimes Beckerman have been first to the most dangerous balls in their own box.
(8) Coleman, in his efforts to sustain the national team's momentum, will be particularly eager to keep Craig Bellamy in the lineup, although it was the persuasiveness of Speed that brought his return.
(9) If Microsoft partnered with a major local brand it could help drive Windows Phone momentum but, with the Nokia takeover imminent, this does not look likely to happen anytime soon.
(10) Green groups condemn Glencore involvement in Garden Bridge project Read more Meanwhile, disquiet over the bridge’s environmental credentials is gathering momentum.
(11) He’s got enough momentum to keep his fundraising going.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bernie Sanders: I want to see major changes in the Democratic party But Clinton is still a comfortable favourite in polling at the national level and her team argued earlier that day that if she can shrink his lead to single digits in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, she will have blunted the surprise momentum that unnerved supporters when he came within a whisker of beating her in Iowa.
(13) As his campaign gained momentum, many have been in denial.
(14) It’s time to count real delegates, not measure some notional concept of momentum.
(15) The results of the scattering experiments were almost independent of whether the NaDNA fibers were oriented parallel or perpendicular to the momentum transfer.
(16) Brown also said there was growing momentum for "advancing" the date of the next major UN climate change conference, due to be held in Mexico City in December 2011.
(17) Retail sales have held up surprisingly well , according to the Confederation of British Industry's August survey published on Thursday, suggesting that momentum continued into the early part of the third quarter.
(18) The world is profoundly different from how it was then.” Schneider says Momentum breaks down into trade unionists, “Bennites and post-Bennites” (who share the background of Corbyn, McDonnell and a lot of Momentum’s older activists), and the younger members, who cut their teeth with the anti-tax avoidance activists UK Uncut or the Stop The War coalition.
(19) In terms of lifelong participation, if we build the momentum up to the age of 11 and then it all disappears it’s really hard to re-engage again later.” Olympic legacy failure: sporting numbers plummet amid confusion and blame Read more It is a view shared by David Ellis, the headteacher at York high school, another establishment where sport is thriving.
(20) The momentum of provision has slowed down in recent years.
Omentum
Definition:
(n.) A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although there was a considerable overlap in the values of acoustic nonlinearity of different body fats, in general their values followed the order: mesenteric fat greater than subcutaneous fat greater than omentum fat greater than breast fat.
(2) Also numerous small knots on the small intestine, peritoneum, and omentum, as well as a considerable amount of ascites were observed.
(3) certainly in site at the beginning of pregnancy and with asymptomatic perforation of the uterus during the pregnancy with incorporation of the device by the omentum.
(4) The omentum acts as sheath that reinforces the anastomosis.
(5) Endolymphatic administration of kanamycin provided an increase in its activity in the inflamed tissues of the peritoneum and omentum and markedly prolonged its halflife as compared to those after the routine intramuscular administration of the drug.
(6) Omentum transposition promoted rapid healing with a low mortality rate.
(7) Splenic conservation by suture with or without packing with omentum or oxidized cellulose was successful in 27 out of 37 attempts.
(8) When 15 small sections were transplanted to the omentum in a "necklace" fashion, good uptake and preservation were seen after six months.
(9) This complication may be prevented by interposing the omentum between the liver and the duodenum at the time of any operation on the biliary system and the duodenum.
(10) The results of treatment of 12 children with primary acute diseases of the greater omentum, in whom preoperative diagnosis is difficult, have been analysed.
(11) The IUD had migrated to the cul-desac of Douglas and the omentum, respectively, and surgery was uneventful.
(12) Therefore the omentum leads the traffic of peritoneal macrophages.
(13) The autografts were divided into 4 groups as follows; no preservation (control) group (n = 4), graft preserved in Collins solution (n = 11), graft preserved in phosphate buffered extracellular solution (Ep4) (n = 11), and graft preserved in physiological saline solution (n = 11) for 24 or 48 hours at 4 degrees C. After preservation, laparotomy was performed on the animals and the tracheal autograft was wrapped in the distal portion of the omentum.
(14) The effectiveness of extracts was measured by the growth activity of bovine aortic endothelial cell incubated for 6 days with various omentum extracts.
(15) Since 1984, eight pelvic ependymomas have been reported that have originated in the ovary, broad ligament, mesovarium, and omentum.
(16) This problem is inherent to the design of catheters using sideports for outflow and is enhanced by the tenacity of the omentum in this population in walling off foreign bodies.
(17) Computed tomography demonstrated prominent linear soft tissue densities, an increase in CT number of the involved greater omentum, and posterior displacement of the small bowel.
(18) In former investigations the author described the use of omentum majus in building microsurgical compound island flaps employing supporting tissue.
(19) Fischer 344 rats and a transplantable carcinogen-induced rat colon cancer were used to test: (1) whether the omentum is a unique site of intra-abdominal colon tumor implantation which contributes to S.B.O.
(20) In five dogs (group C) the omentum with its own vascular supply was completely wrapped around the graft.