(1) Damage due to overstretching is probably the main cause.
(2) It mostly happens to strong men whose biceps muscle are contracted and overstretched unexpectedly.
(3) The Syrian military, overstretched by the civil war, has not retaliated, and it was not clear whether the embattled Syrian leader would choose to take action this time.
(4) Successful electrotherapy depends upon an early beginning, the selective stimulation of the paralyzed muscles with exponential current at a sufficiently high intensity under isometric conditions and by avoiding overstretching of the muscles.
(5) After all, our capacities aren't infinite, and overstretching ourselves wouldn't help us or the EU as a whole.
(6) But there’s probably three or four children in each class [making about 60 in the school] who I think need some kind of support because of their mental health issues.” It is a familiar story as overstretched NHS mental health services for children struggle to meet demand in the face of well-documented cutbacks that have seen thresholds for being seen by Camhs go up, waiting lists lengthen, and children turned away.
(7) The recommendations laid out today represent hard-edged delegation of responsibilities away from an overstretched and remote Department for Education.
(8) So has Amazon overstretched itself or is this just the pattern of a hyperactive business, one that can’t sit still and wants to play with everything in reach?
(9) During pregnancy, due to overstretching of the abdominal muscles, the ability to perform a sit-up is significantly decreased.
(10) The damage to the arterial wall by dilatation increased discontinuously with increasing overstretching.
(11) "The prison population has reached a record high and prison and probation officers are being increasingly overstretched.
(12) Overstretching with microtraumata of the myelum may be a more important factor.
(13) This leads to constipation, overstretching of sphincters and resultant faecal soiling.
(14) "The world knows that there is a problem in South Sudan but they don't know that people are coming to Ethiopia … Our efforts are overstretched and still people are coming," he says.
(15) The official, who spoke anonymously but with official sanction, said Pakistan's military were overstretched.
(16) Mount Sinai is so overstretched they couldn’t give a toss either way.
(17) Even before the recession, it was overstretched and understaffed.
(18) Andrew Brigden, of City consultancy Fathom, said there was a one in three chance of a "double-dip" downturn in the world economy, and warned that with demand at home likely to be depressed as governments and overstretched households sorted out their finances, all the major economies would be pinning their hopes on exporting to foreign markets – but they could not all play that game at once.
(19) When random stretches larger than the upper region of the dynamic range were applied, the spindle discharged at the maximum impulse rate and displayed no depolarization block or "overstretch" phenomenon.
(20) "Arab spring became Arab winter" March 18, 2014 In the case of Ukraine our western partners have overstretched their limit, says Putin.
Stretch
Definition:
(v. t.) To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
(v. t.) To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
(v. t.) To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
(v. t.) To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
(v. t.) To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
(v. i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.
(v. i.) To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
(v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.
(v. i.) To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
(v. i.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
(n.) Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
(n.) A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
(n.) The extent to which anything may be stretched.
(n.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.
(n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tendon (T) and Hoffmann (H) reflexes were analyzed during static stretching (SS).
(2) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
(3) Mechanosensitive ion channels may play a key role in transducing vascular smooth muscle (VSM) stretch into active force development.
(4) Endothelial release of the arachidonate derivative PGI2 may be increased in response to cyclic lung stretching.
(5) Differences in scar depression also supported the idea of more stretching in the Dexon group.
(6) The maximum force level reached during the stretch was affected very little.
(7) Cerebral angiogram displayed a contralateral shift and an unrolling of the anterior cerebral artery, a lateral stretch of middle cerebral artery, a downward stretch of anterior choroidal artery and a tumor stain fed by the Heubner artery.
(8) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(9) Phycomyces sporangiophores respond to four distinct physical stimuli: gravity, light, stretch, and an avoidance stimulus.
(10) Increase in activity of pulmonary stretch receptors causes inhibition of inspiration and bronchodilation.
(11) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(12) During ischaemia M1 stretch responses showed a more rapid and pronounced decline than did M2 responses and were abolished before voluntary power was appreciably affected.
(13) The stretch reflex in man has a direct role in compensating for small disturbances during motor tasks.
(14) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(15) Cubitus valgus or instability due to a pseudarthrosis of the lateral epicondyle or to ligamentous injury may stretch the nerve.
(16) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(17) The presence of a form of stretch reflex, previously described in the arm by other authors, has been confirmed in the gastrocnemius muscle of the human leg.
(18) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
(19) The bent DNA has been localized to a 40-55 base pair (bp) segment and contains six (A)3-5 stretches (that is, six poly(A) stretches, three to five nucleotides in length) phased approximately every 10.5 bp.
(20) This figure suggests that, unless there are substantial stretches of free DNA, the polyoma nucleoprotein complex contains about 26 nucleosomes.