(n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians.
(n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight other additional cases of horseshoe lung without scimitar syndrome are mentioned here.
(2) The scimitar syndrome may be indistinguishable from BPS with this technique.
(3) Both patients had intact interatrial septum with partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, one to the inferior vena cava (The Scimitar Syndrome) and the other to the superior vena cava.
(5) A case of the scimitar sign due to an anomaly of the right sided pulmonary vein with normal drainage into the left atrium was associated with an azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava.
(6) The scimitar sign, characterised by a vertical opacity crossing the medial part of the right diaphragm, is generally attributed to abnormal pulmonary venous return draining into the inferior vena cava.
(7) A review of the roentgenograms and clinical records of 33 children with primary congenital underdevelopment of one lung showed that 9 patients had simple pulmonary hypoplasia, 8 had anomalous venous return to the right atrium or the inferior vena cava (scimitar syndrome), 7 had an absence of the ipsilateral pulmonary artery, 7 had an accessory diaphragm, and 2 had a pulmonary sequestration adjacent to a small diaphragmatic hernia.
(8) Most patients with such pulmonary fusion share many of those cardiovascular anomalies typical of the "scimitar" or hypogenetic right lung syndrome.
(9) A 26-year-old woman with partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage into the right atrium (Scimitar syndrome) was successfully operated upon by incorporating an intra-atrial conduit.
(10) A pulmonary angiogram revealed an anomalous pulmonary vein, having the appearance of a scimitar sign draining normally into the left atrium.
(11) The authors describe three new cases in children of abnormal right pulmonary venous drainage into the inferior vena cava, associated with sequestration of the right lower lobe and dextrocardia caused by right pulmonary hypoplasia with a scimitar sign.
(12) The scimitar syndrome, first described by Chassinat in 1836, consists aessentially of an anomalous pulmonary vein draining whole or part of the right lung into the inferior vena cava.
(13) Analysis of regional pulmonary function distribution using radioactive 133xenon gas and eight scintillation detectors was performed in a patient with scimitar syndrome.
(14) A rare case of scimitar syndrome associated with diaphragmatic herniation of the liver is reported.
(15) To our knowledge, this is the first successful surgical case of Scimitar syndrome with pulmonary hypertension in childhood reported in literature.
(16) However, a computed tomography of the chest showed this abnormal vascular shadow draining into the left atrium (pseudo-scimitar sign).
(17) The finding of a "scimitar sacrum" makes it essential to perform a contrast enema of the anorectum and a CT of the pelvic structures in the patient and his family.
(18) During repair, creation of an atrial septal defect in the distorted septal-left atrial junction of scimitar syndrome is facilitated by first incising the anteromedial aspect of the fossa ovalis to better delineate the optimal posterolateral margin.
(19) The term scimitar syndrome used in the literature is to some extent inaccurate as it is neither constant nor pathognomonic.
(20) Four new cases of scimitar syndrome illustrate the complex derangement of the right lung architecture.
Sword
Definition:
(n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
(n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
(n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
(n.) The military power of a country.
(n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone is expecting them to win and I think that’s a double-edged sword.
(2) Snipers fired from rooftops, and plainclothes Saleh supporters armed with automatic rifles, swords and batons attacked the protesters.
(3) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(4) In his book Swords and Ploughshares, Ashdown gives us two insights.
(5) Its sword-shaped columns tower up almost 100 feet, and grey concrete walls careen around its nearly half-mile circumference.
(6) This was a double-edged sword, for the futebol nation has displayed both the successes of the era and its limits.
(7) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(8) In a sign that Fox's decision to fall on his sword will not mark the end of the furore engulfing the Tories, both Liberal Democrat and Labour politicians stepped up their demands for the prime minister to explain why several senior members of his cabinet were involved in an Anglo-American organisation apparently at odds with his party's environmental commitments and pledge to defend free healthcare.
(9) If so, ministers may need to be prepared for a new breed of civil servants, who will no longer fall on their swords if they believe they have been stabbed in the back.
(10) This paper will give evidence of the exact wounds that Pizarro received in his final sword fight, as well as a facial sculpture of the skull now identified as that of the conqueror of Peru.
(11) Algeria deserved a better fate than an exit which inevitably will leave big regrets that they missed out on something monumental or unreal, but the national team left the Brazilian World Cup with sword in hand and head high.” In Germany most of the media were just thankful they had progressed.
(12) When you play music like that, it’s like being attacked with knives and swords,” he said.
(13) On the surface of course one can hardly blame them, given the difference in resources on either side – imagine, if you will, how much Arjen Robben or Van Persie would’ve enjoyed themselves had they played an open and adventurous system with designs on putting the Dutch to the sword.
(14) The European Union and the International Monetary Fund had handed enormous power to the Greeks, Parsons argued, just as Theseus handed power to Hippolyta by agreeing to lay down his sword.
(15) Long-term problems remain for new buyers looking to leave the rental market, and Funding for Lending is proving a double-edged sword.
(16) In the end the paper-clip turned out to be mightier than the sword.
(17) We really didn’t want to vote for it, but we made a mistake and now we’re trying to do what’s right and correct it.” But their letter also said while the intent of their vote “was to create a shield for all citizens’ religious liberties, the bill has been mischaracterized by its opponents as a sword for religious intolerance”.
(18) Police were ordered to apologise in person last year to an elderly blind man who was shot with a Taser electronic weapon after they mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.
(19) In subsequent years, armed with his trusty sword, Excalibur (a superannuated prop from John Boorman 's film of the same name), he persistently challenged the law against assembling at Stonehenge, while the site itself grew increasingly to resemble one of the military encampments on nearby Salisbury Plain.
(20) Swords IV was made by professional film-makers, al-Janabi also claims – and independent observers think he might be right.