(v. i.) To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.
(n.) The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
(n.) Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
(v. t.) To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.
(v. t.) To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
(n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.
(n.) Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(2) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(3) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(4) Post-irradiation hypertonic treatment inhibited both DNA repair and PLD recovery, while post-irradiation isotonic treatment inhibited neither phenomenon.
(5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
(6) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
(7) After early repair of congenital cardiovascular defects, such as coarctation of the aorta, late stenosis may become a problem.
(8) Carotid artery injury seems to have a good prognosis if repaired promptly within 3 h.
(9) This study demonstrated that significant global and regional ventricular dysfunction develops immediately after removal of the papillary muscles, whereas myocardial contractility is preserved in patients undergoing mitral valve repair.
(10) In situ repair was performed in 30 patients (arterial bypass: 17 patients; splenorenal bypass: 13 patients).
(11) Repair may be accomplished by open or closed techniques.
(12) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(13) Just don’t be surprised if they ask you to repair their phones, too.
(14) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
(15) In adults it reappears in malignant tumors and during inflammation and tissue repair.
(16) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
(17) irradiation by a mechanism that is independent of excision repair.
(18) Thus, there is still a need for improvement, particularly future research devoted to better understanding of the electrophysiological mechanisms responsible for arrhythmias, electrosurgical and medical arrhythmia therapy, and right and left ventricular mechanics after repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
(19) Such lesions should be chemically stable and should not be recognized by DNA-repair enzymes.
(20) Polypropylene mesh was used to repair the abdominal wall.
Transfix
Definition:
(v. t.) To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Major pin-tract infections are a potentially dangerous complication associated with the use of skeletal transfixation pins.
(2) Photograph: Getty So that was the grand import of the producer’s vision, realised on an unprecedented scale and to eventual rightful acclaim: despite Gagarin and the rest, Americans in particular (and then Australia, and Britain) became transfixed by all the unfolding tales and testimonies.
(3) In a series of trials involving a uniform axial load, different transfixing wire tensions, and the separation of paired proximal and distal rings, fragment displacement was measured.
(4) Transcutaneous wires and pins in wire-tension Ilizarov external fixators provide frame stability, transfix and transport bone segments, produce distraction, and stimulate transosseous osteogenesis.
(5) A modified Ilizarov external fixator was used to transfix the stifle joint in 13 dogs.
(6) The adjacent vertebrae were transfixed by two 3-mm Steinman pins placed vertically.
(7) We concluded that patients with non-union following high tibial osteotomy for osteoarthritis of the knee should undergo resection of the pseudarthrosis and transfixation compression as the treatment of choice.
(8) The windows become viewing stations to stare out of – transfixed by every small jet that magically lifts from the ground carrying tonnes of travellers and trinkets.
(9) The distal phalanx was then transfixed to the bone graft by 2 crossed-K-wires.
(10) The monofixateur is indicated for treatment of closed, open and infected fractures, pseudarthrosis, osteotomy adaption, arthrodesis and joint transfixations.
(11) I was transfixed by scholars such as Claire Pajaczkowska, who wore Doc Martens but were bringing us poststructuralism straight off the press.
(12) According to the principles of treatment for other tarsal injuries, we carried out open reduction with joint debridement, reconstruction of ligaments and internal stabilization with transfixation screws.
(13) Watching her on stage, as she coiled and uncoiled her impossible limbs, I had become transfixed by the question of what was going on in her head while she danced.
(14) Sahloul stood transfixed, the scene unfolding like a silent movie in front of him.
(15) With a stiff catheter in the urethra, via a horizontal 'H'-shaped perineal incision and through the puborectalis sling, the rectum was mobilised and the fistula transfixed.
(16) Anyway, back to these fraudsters, who are the least costly element of a leaky system, but nevertheless transfix the political imagination as though they were masterminds of cunning and audacity, whose long game were to destroy the fabric of society altogether.
(17) Because of delayed treatment, transfixation of carpal bones (necessary for stability), and surgical trauma, degenerative joint disease with osteophyte formation occurred in all 5 horses.
(18) Temperature measurements were performed during drilling, smooth part penetration (transfixing pins), tapping, and screwing.
(19) Rotational displacement was limited the most by transfixation between the vertebral bodies (position one or two).
(20) In order to prevent the making of a triangular-shaped crown, a false transfixed core removable is built over the intramobile component of the IMZ as well as pa periodontal ring.