(n.) The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cases of death which occur in a foreign country, the official post mortem diagnosis does often not correspond with our findings at obduction.
(2) Eight hundred and eighty-six cases of rectal cancer diagnosed and reported to the National Cancer Registry in 1980 were submitted to obduction.
(3) With regard to the hairy cell leukaemia, the patient was free of symptoms and the obduction confirmed the complete remission: the histological examination of bone marrow, spleen, liver and lymph nodes showed no more signs of hairy cell leukaemia.
(4) It is concluded that that the heme present in the insoluble iron fraction is caused by degradation of hemoglobin in the obduction material, and that heme is not a constituent of the insoluble depot iron.
(5) From 3497 obductions during the ten years between 1979 and 1988 100 homicides and 18 suicides were caused by sharp trauma.
(6) During the period from 1971 to 1988 there were 212 fatalities out of 24,822 obductions because of gastrointestinal bleeding.
(7) Obduction of a woman aged 52 years, showed a diffuse primary leptomeningeal melanoblastosis with development of a malignant melanoma in adjacent region of brain parenchyma.
(8) Affected were the liver in 38.7%, the lung in 16.1%, and the skeleton in 3.5% of the obducted cases.
(9) The tracheas of 37 tracheostomized patients (31 men and 6 women) were studied in connection with obduction.
(10) Therefore an obduction should be performed in dubious cases at arrival in the native country.
(11) This was the only such case of 16,580 obductions of women in the period from 1961 to 1976.
(12) 90% of these became known because of death caused by obduction.
(13) Case report about a carcinoma of the appendix, recognized by obduction of an 58-years old man.
(14) The authors report on serial chest radiographs during the courses after 71 unilateral orthotopic allogenic pulmonary transplantations in dogs with regard to the findings at obduction.
(15) From the rectum carcinoma cases diagnosed and reported to the National Cancer Registry in 1980, 886 were submitted to obduction.
(16) Planimetry, point-counting-technique and gravimetry were tested for their suitability for determining the degree of stenosis on the same material, the arteria femoralis dextra out of 103 unselected obduction cases.
(17) Venous air embolism was diagnosed only during obduction and was most probably the consequence of air aspiration through the split uterine veins.
(18) The 12,000 obductions at the Institute for Forensic Medicine of the University of Hamburg from 1981 to 1990 included 30 cases of strangulation in children up to the age of 14 years (16 females, 14 males).
(19) 26 muscles with one or more ringed fibres, corresponding to 2,83%, have been found in 939 muscles out of 313 unselected obductions.
Subduction
Definition:
(n.) The act of subducting or taking away.
(n.) Arithmetical subtraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The notion of lived time is at last studied in schizophrenia, then in mania where there is a subduction of lived time, it is the contrary in melancholia where the lived time is slower and some times stopped.
(2) The release of energy along the subduction zone between the Pacific and North Atlantic plates will transfer stress to other parts of the faultline, which could easily generate more earthquakes in the region in coming months.