(v. t.) To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.
(v. t.) To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.
(v. t.) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
(v. i.) To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.
(n.) A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of "Prune Belly" syndrome, its sonographic diagnosis, from the 15th week and its monitoring by sonography and biochemical exams of fetal urine for study of renal function is described.
(2) With an incidence of between 1 in 30,000 and 1 in 50,000 births, prune-belly syndrome (PBS) is a rare malformation syndrome.
(3) We report the clinical findings, diagnostic problems and treatment of a 1-year-old Coloured child (with classic 'prune belly syndrome') in whom the spleen had undergone torsion, thus simulating an intra-abdominal abscess.
(4) Others have found more striking-power, or more simple poetry, but none an interpretation at once so full (in the sense of histrionic volume) and so consistently bringing all the aspects together, without any shirking or pruning away of what is inconvenient.
(5) That is, when distal branches are pruned off surgically, the axon compensates by producing extra proximal branches.
(6) The current controversies revolving around the fetal treatment of hydrocephalus and obstructive uropathies (posterior urethral valves, prune belly syndrome, hydronephrosis) are compared and contrasted with the remarkably similar controversies that raged when fetal transfusions were first introduced.
(7) This organization supports rapid pruning of the list of drugs.
(8) The X-linked prune (pn) eye-colour mutation of Drosophila melanogaster has a highly specific, complementary lethal interaction with the conditional dominant Killer of prune (awdK-pn) mutation.
(9) Aggressive surgical management of patients with the prune belly syndrome provides improved abdominal wall function and appearance, and offers excellent testicular salvage.
(10) The prune belly syndrome is a well-recognized entity consisting of deficient abdominal musculature, cryptorchid testes, and urinary tract abnormalities most consistent with an obstructive phenomenon.
(11) Reduction cystoplasty is a useful procedure to treat a large, poorly functioning bladder in boys with prune belly syndrome who are candidates for urinary tract reconstruction.
(12) Staff, which account for half of the NHS's costs, are being pruned, and services are now following.
(13) Their growth could be divided into three distinct phases: first, a period of initial outgrowth (55-70%) during which the basic skeleton of major neurites is formed; second, a shorter period of rapid growth (70-80%) during which the basic skeleton is elaborated by the addition of many side branches; and third, a period of maturation (80-95%) during which the branches formed during earlier growth appear to be pruned.
(14) As the protests were staged the centre-left cabinet in Portugal called an emergency session to try to prune more from public spending, as it grappled with a debt and deficit crisis that has thrown the spotlight back on to the country.
(15) The pathophysiology of hyperammonemic encephalopathy in association with the prune belly syndrome and a review of the literature are presented.
(16) Male infants predominate and have either isolated genital abnormalities, hydronephrotic conditions, or classic prune-belly syndrome.
(17) Under the conditions of chronic caloric restriction, the phenomenon of exuberance was retarded and pruning was not observed.
(18) Cholangiograms showed attenuation and pruning of the intrahepatic bile ducts, some with beading and dilatation of the common bile duct.
(19) The majority of the new class of mutations, designated pnts-e, do not interact with the mutation Killer of prune (Kpn) at all of the experimental temperatures, i.e., pnts-e, Kpn flies do not die.
(20) It will need lots of tweaking to avoid annoying people – it's already being prodded to see whether it takes more or fewer clicks to reach the phone-dialer (more), and whether you can still set wallpaper (no, but your friends do with their picture – you may need to prune your friends).
Wrinkly
Definition:
(a.) Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know it might sound awful coming off a pair of old wrinklies, but we’re two halves of a coin.” The memory of informing women that their husbands had been killed haunts Barry more than conflict itself Powles had never been much of a drinker in the army, but he started to drink secretly after he retired, hiding alcohol in the garage.
(2) In his 1986 limited series, Miller brilliantly contrasts a shallow and self-centred, increasingly wrinkly and jaded caped crusader with a Kal-El who remains youthful, noble and good-hearted – yet as boring as dry toast for dinner.
(3) While the oldies carry on running the show, pocketing the cash for their pension funds, tweaking the levers with wrinkly hands.
(4) Writing in the Guardian , Zoe Williams offered wrinklies an update on modern culture.
(5) 800g frozen cleaned baby octopus, defrosted ½ lemon, thinly sliced, plus 1 small lemon, peeled, the flesh chopped Salt and black pepper 100ml olive oil, plus extra to serve 3 tbsp red-wine vinegar ¾ tsp dried oregano 130g cherry tomatoes ¼ tsp caster sugar 150g dried green lentils ½ small red onion, peeled and very thinly sliced 1 medium stick celery, thinly sliced 5g (about 1 tsp) fresh oregano leaves 30g wrinkly black olives, pitted and torn Separate the octopus heads from the tentacles and put both in a medium saucepan with the lemon slices, a teaspoon and a quarter of salt and enough water (probably about 500ml) amply to cover the octopus.
(6) We emerge with wrinkly fingers, while a more recent arrival performs somersaults to assembled applause.
(7) And in that already existing environment, where women are used to being told that they're too fat, too old, too wrinkly, just too much in general, what could be simpler than to add another to the list, in the form of too smelly?
(8) So are fat women and wrinklies taking an unfair share of maternity services?
(9) There seems to be a correspondence between mouse visible skin wrinking (UV-B event) and two histological events: increase in glycosaminoglycans and alteration in collagen.
(10) She still has a screenshot of a tweet he has deleted, calling her a “wrinkly old ginger bird”.
(11) So just because we’re now old and wrinkly doesn’t mean we’ve suddenly turned into Enoch Powell or George Wallace.Racism is indefensible, but so is ageism.
(12) The wrinkly skin syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by wrinkling of the skin of the dorsum of the hands and feet, decreased elastic recoil of the skin, an increased number of palmar and plantar creases, multiple musculoskeletal abnormalities, microcephaly, and mental retardation.
(13) Because instead of just selling us physical insecurity by implying we're fat or wrinkly, beauty companies are now trying to make us feel insecure about our insecurities – all while giving themselves a pat on the back for "empowering" us to feel better (and collecting our money, of course).
(14) But now I just want to live.” The operation will throw her “into early menopause and all the horrible things that go with that - it can affect bone density, make your skin get wrinkly, give you hot flushes.
(15) Here, too, adolescents are routinely sacrificed at the behest of a ruling elite, all the while maintaining their wrinkly grip on the levers of power.