(n.) The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.
(n.) A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin.
(v. t.) To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) A simple method of selective catheterization of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) following antegrade puncture of the common femoral artery is described.
(2) Transthoracic puncture for peripheral pulmonary lesions not diagnosed by fibroscopy were performed on 70 patients under computed tomographic (CT) control.
(3) Thirty-seven patients with retinoblastoma were evaluated prospectively by clinical examination, lumbar puncture, and CT.
(4) The subjects underwent a lumbar puncture and three nights of polysomnography.
(5) In one of them, who sustained a complete membranous disruption 5 weeks ago, transluminal puncture failed because of the movable proximal urethra.
(6) Nine among 21 patients (42%) who were initially treated by percutaneous puncture were definitively cured: all pseudocysts were smaller than 55 mm.
(7) The hemodynamic measurements and mitral valve area calculations were performed with and without balloon occlusion of the atrial septal puncture site.
(8) A specific central vein catheter for puncture of the brachiocephalic vein has been developed which is provided with a valve by which air-embolism and unwanted bleeding from the catheter are eliminated.
(9) The excellent comparability of paired platelet counts, at variance to that found in some previous studies, indicates that skin puncture blood can be used for platelet estimation providing an appropriate counting method is used.
(10) A case of epidermoid tumor of the sacral area with S3 root irritation resulting in bladder dysfunction is presented and its possible relationship to spinal puncture is discussed.
(11) At the end of the study, blood was collected by cardiac puncture.
(12) Transthoracic puncture is the most effective and common diagnostic method.
(13) The authors wrote about the technics particularly of the percutaneous puncture or drainage.
(14) Consequently the puncture site becomes small (a balloon-catheter may be introduced through a 16 G catheter needle) allowing punctures proximal to lesions (e.g.
(15) 29 punctures were practiced on 19 patients, 9 women and 10 men of ages comprised between 34 and 94 years, with lesions in different organs of the abdominal cavity diagnosed by ultrasonography with real time equipment and lineal 3.5 and 5 MHz transducers.
(16) Wound infections were more likely to develop in patients with lower extremity wounds who did not receive prophylactic oral antibiotics (P = .071) and those with puncture wounds who did not receive prophylactic oral antibiotics (P = .085).
(17) The earliest increase in LI (180% above control) occurred 12 hrs after needle puncture, peaked at 24 hrs (ca.
(18) Two conditions must be fulfilled: a lesion of a non collapsible vein; and a pressure gradient from outside to inside the vein, as occurs for instance during puncture of a large vein in a hypovolemic patient.
(19) In conclusion, CSF spectrophotometry is a simple, fast, and extremely sensitive method, which in our opinion should be used routinely in the diagnosis of suspected subdural haematomas, if lumbar puncture is not contraindicated.
(20) Healthy volunteers had two lumbar punctures, at least 3 weeks apart, to assess reproducibility within subjects.
Tyre
Definition:
() Curdled milk.
(n. & v.) Attire. See 2d and 3d Tire.
(v. i.) To prey. See 4th Tire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aedes aegypti and Toxorhynchites splendens were found only in discarded tyres.
(2) Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and tyres, creating pillars of black smoke among the apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran.
(3) Called a truck stand, it involves balancing on the front tyre with your hands in the air.
(4) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
(5) When four leather strips were tied to the back tyre of the bicycle before laying the track, the one dog tested took the correct direction significantly more often than predicted by random choice.
(6) Amsterdam Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed.
(7) Within a month of his appointment, he had brokered a "four-figure" deal with local firm Kettering Tyres, and in a SL game against Bath City on January 24 1976, Kettering became the first British club to run out with a company's name emblazoned on their shirts.
(8) Switching to the faster soft tyre for runs in FP2, Hamilton again comfortably had the edge by 0.443sec over Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.
(9) The heat is getting oppressive but we stay alert and try to move with the flow, sticking to the left as much as possible and keeping an eye out for potholes and drain covers whose grilles face the direction of travel – lying in wait to trap unwary bike tyres.
(10) They reportedly threw rocks and paint at the car before smashing a window and slashing one of its tyres.
(11) When her car broke down, she ended up out of work with other labourers on a pea-picking farm, selling her tyres to buy food.
(12) The Formula One tyre manufacturer, Pirelli, expressed concerns at the decision and has warned that any decrease in viewing figures would lead to difficulties.
(13) The group's senior UK executives have privately told MPs in the West Midlands for months that the pound's fluctuations were undermining a plant that has exported more than 300m tyres since it opened in 1927.
(14) In Brisbane during October 1988 one larva of the exotic dengue vector Aedes albopictus (Skuse) was collected by quarantine officers from a consignment of used vehicle tyres imported from Asia.
(15) "I was getting cards saying 'I hope you die in an ambulance on the way to hospital now you have closed this one… ' I had my car tyres slashed, 'Bitch' written on my windows, and 'Shut your effing mouth'."
(16) The eight Goodyear tyre factory workers held two managers hostage in a meeting room for 30 hours in a high-profile “bossnapping” incident in the northern town of Amiens in 2014.
(17) Vettel was fourth on the timesheet, 1.120sec down, with Rosberg fifth after making a mistake on his fast lap on the soft tyres.
(18) Emma Sheppard, with an accomplice, brought three police cars to a juddering halt on New Year’s Eve 2014 in Bristol by puncturing their tyres with the crude device made of plywood and nails.
(19) He singled out measures taken against China’s steel, solar panel, ceramics and tyre industries.
(20) They tied up Badus and Amisi's wife, put them inside a tyre and burned them alive.