(n.) One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender.
(n.) One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Onycholysis with latero-distal "usure des ongles", koilonychia, longitudinal splitting with sometimes splinter haemorrhages are the most specific changes.
(2) As the pressure of the cyst may cause usuration of bone and distension of the osseous nasal skeleton, it is recommended to operate as soon as possible.
(3) Uranium Registry (USUR) Case 1001] had prearranged for donation of her body to the USUR and the National Cancer Institute for study.
(4) Hepatic tissue in USUR Case 1001 was estimated to have received an average lifetime absorbed dose of 16.2 Gy, based on radiochemical analyses, consistent with the high risks for liver tumors reported in all studied populations.
(5) Osteotomy of the pelvis according to Steele prolongs the vitality of the hip joint: a) by increasing the contact surface in the hip joint, b) by shifting the till then minimally burdened and thus minimally usurated cartilage into the zone of the main burdening, c) the usurated cartilage, on the other hand, is shifted beyond this zone.
(6) The distribution of radioactivity and the associated doses were evaluated postmortem for USUR Case 1001, a female who had been injected with Thorotrast some 36 y prior to death.
(7) The skeleton of USUR Case 1001, however, contained significant levels of radioactivity.
(8) The more desperate in our society are forced to borrow money at the most outrageous rates from the most appalling usurers."
(9) Thorotrast was present throughout the bone marrow of USUR Case 1001, who died secondary to complications of refractory anemia with excess blasts (RAEB).
(10) Other tissues evaluated in USUR Case 1001 included lung, eye, kidney, and breast, which did not contain elevated levels of radioactivity.
(11) The authors never observed usuration of the bone beneath the cerclage or slower healing, pseudoarthrosis or any other complications.