(n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
(n.) The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural.
(n.) Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.
(n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
(n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
(n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.
(n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.
(v. t.) To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.
(v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.
Example Sentences:
(1) One developed recurrent dislocation of the shoulder.
(2) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
(3) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(4) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(5) The power spectrum of the EMG was analyzed during isometric contractions of the shoulder muscles.
(6) He shrugs his shoulders and laughs: "And they call us thieves!"
(7) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(8) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(9) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
(10) A prospective randomized study was carried out to discover the influence of the timing of shoulder physiotherapy after-axillary dissection for breast cancer upon the incidence and duration of lymphatic fluid production and seroma after these operations.
(11) Five cases of bilateral abduction contracture of the shoulder in adults including the first case of bilateral abduction contractures of shoulder and hip plus bilateral flexion contracture of elbow and extension contracture of a knee are reported.
(12) A case of unilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulder after a shock of 380 volts is presented here.
(13) We felt that this relatively high redislocation rate was due to failure to immobilize these shoulders for 3 weeks postoperatively.
(14) Forty percent of newly synthesized chains eluted on gel filtration as a lower molecular weight (LMW) shoulder and in vivo turned over faster than the larger species.
(15) Muscle sparing thoracotomy can be used safely for most thoracic procedures and we believe it permits easier pain control and early preservation of full shoulder motion.
(16) In severely impaired limbs, there was a marked shift in both the peak EMG angle and the angular domain of EMG activity for both biceps and triceps muscle groups, away from the normal elbow flexion-extension axis towards external humeral rotation and shoulder girdle elevation.
(17) The cervical discogenic (painful disc) syndrome consists of scapular pain radiating to the head, shoulder and upper arm, often associated with paraesthesiae but without neurological deficit.
(18) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
(19) The results suggest that patients with shoulder capsulitis should be investigated to exclude diabetes mellitus particularly when there is no history of antecedent trauma.
(20) Five shoulders had a posterior opening-wedge osteotomy of the scapular neck to correct the excessive retroversion of the glenoid cavity.
Smoulder
Definition:
(v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
(v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
(v. t.) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
(n.) Smoke; smother.
(v. i.) See Smolder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine patients showed "smouldering retinitis" at a late stage.
(2) In 4 patients leukemia developed within 2-4 months from the diagnosis ('imminent leukemia'), in 13 patients leukemia or smouldering leukemia developed between 4 and 25 months after the diagnosis ('true preleukemia').
(3) Here's a photo of the remains of the flag, smouldering away.
(4) He says they dragged him about 40 metres towards a fire that was still smouldering on the street, the remains of a protesters' barricade.
(5) When Barack Obama was photographed with a very weak beer in hand at a Washington Wizards game, the phone-in lines smouldered with anger.
(6) Immune deficiency probably permits continuation of the infections, with smouldering polyclonal B-cell proliferation proceeding.
(7) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(8) In the capital, burnt-out buildings and vehicles were still smouldering in the area around the grand bazaar, where violence broke out.
(9) While ATLL usually pursues an acute or subacute (prototypic) course, patients are also seen with 'chronic' or 'smouldering' disease.
(10) "We stand against the cuts, in solidarity with all the poor, elderly, disabled and working people affected," read the message, quickly circulated among a thousand rioting students in the forecourt below, who had run out of windows to smash and gathered around smouldering fires.
(11) Indoors and outdoors human baits seated at a distance of about 3 m from smouldering esbiothrin ropes experienced no bite at all from An.
(12) Intravenous injection of methylated bovine serum albumin (mBSA) in mice with unilateral, chronic, mBSA-induced arthritis has been shown to cause a flare of smouldering arthritis without affecting the contralateral, noninflamed knee joint.
(13) In Hong Kong, Liu’s death has rekindled an anti-mainland sentiment that has been smouldering for years.
(14) Justin Bieber does age-appropriate smouldering (and monkey shots ) for the tweens and Tyra Banks "smizes".
(15) Mortality in the emergency patients was 45.5% due to the bad general condition after longstanding ileus or due to continuing smouldering fecal peritonitis after perforation.
(16) Our positions is the migrants have to be informed of their rights and it’s their decision if they want to move.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Remains of shelters that had housed migrants smoulder in the dawn sun following the clearing of an area of the Jungle.
(17) And yet there she stands, serving that well-rehearsed smouldering look on the cover of Vogue’s September issue.
(18) Both start as genuine smouldering infections turning later into neoplasms.
(19) 12.52pm BST Caught in the heat of the Centre Court microscope , Sabine Lisicki begins to smoke and smoulder.
(20) We believe that bone marrow scintigraphy may be a useful technique in the early diagnosis and follow-up of multiple myeloma, particularly in the detection of unusual forms (i.e., "smouldering" myeloma), but it remains only an "additional" technique for bone imaging.