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Norn


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Norna

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To resolve the apparent contradiction between Norn's work on human eyes suggesting that postoperative air protects the corneal endothelium and the work of Leibowitz on excised animal eyes suggesting that air damages the corneal endothelium, we have replicated Norn's findings in an animal model similar to that used by Leibowitz.
  • (2) This technique has been compared with that using the standardized Norn-pipette collecting fluid from the lateral part of the inferior fornix.
  • (3) Since fewer metabolically active cells may maintain corneal deturgesence even after cell loss we do not believe that Norn's work contradicts that of Leibowitz.
  • (4) N is also for Nibelungs , the race of dwarfs who live in the subterranean world of Nibelheim in the Ring cycle, and for Norns , three daughters of the earth goddess Erda who have a walk-on (or more usually sit-down) part in the Ring, where they are engaged in weaving the rope of destiny.
  • (5) November 8, 2013 David Buik (@truemagic68) What a messy set of Norn-farm Payrolls!
  • (6) 12.02pm: Sky's Norn Ironish correspondent Lawrie Sanchez looks glum and thinks his country's chances of finishing in the top two of their group with Italy, Serbia, Estonia, Slovenia and the Faroe Islands are slim.
  • (7) The methods of examination by which lacrimal insufficiency can be confirmed are discussed: Schirmer's test (I and II), Jones' test, Norn's dilution test, break-up time, tests with dyes such as fluorescein, rose bengal, and lissamine green 1%.
  • (8) Basophils were isolated with Day's technique modified by Shov and Norn.
  • (9) Possible cytological changes of the conjunctival fluid in association with physical activity were studied in a series of 39 subjects practising aerobics, 22 football players, and 29 marathon runners by means of the quantitative pipette method and the qualitative stix method of Norn.
  • (10) The Norn Lacrimal Dilution test showed increased tear flow after the climate-chamber exposures (P less than 0.05).
  • (11) to Norn 79%, and 55% for a standardized dilution (2.5 microliters of water) in the same pipette.

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.

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