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She is using biodegradable polymers, basically specialty plastics, to help severed nerves regenerate and reconnect cell by cell.
His curveball came, though, in the form of a severed Achilles tendon that ended his dreams of making the majors.
It all smacks of pennypinching, a cheap box of tricks that may be no more effective than sticking a plaster on a severed artery.
Between about 8000 BC and 6000 BC rising sea levels severed the land bridge between Britain and the Continent.
Could he be a pirate captain, eager to hang my severed head from the bow of his corsair?
Attached to no man conjugally and bereft of blood kin, her primary ties to the domestic narrative have been severed.
The bureaucratic layers between the U.S. forces and the secretary of defense were severed.
Clinic staff cared for a man when he ran into the Plunket rooms with an almost severed finger.
The spokesman said one of the conditions of the company continuing their contract was that he severed links with the company.
How otherwise to explain the small dull ache within him always, the ache that a severed limb leaves?
Paramedics managed to find and pinch off the severed artery across his instep.
He was a little piqued when I brought it back with a few bullet holes, the antenna shot off and one rudder cable severed.
These connections were severed for a time when empirical psychology and speculative philosophy went their separate ways as academic disciplines.
He severed a tendon when he tried to block, with his foot, a bottle of cologne falling to the floor.
I had a large laceration to the left upper calf that severed the peroneal nerve.
After being blindfolded, she waited only a few seconds before a French swordsman severed her head from her delicate neck.
One boy lay swathed in bandages on a stretcher, his severed leg beside him.
At an open-air market in the city of Kisangani, flies swarm around severed goat heads, stacked up like a scene from a horror show.
The nerve, however, is severed at the preformed autotomy breakage plane and the nerve stub retracts into the coxal stump.
Then I took a bunch of wire nuts and some wire strippers and spliced the severed wires.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Thus, for instance, when a brittle-star has its nerve-ring severed between each ray, an interesting series of events follows.
The name, once upon it, was so severed that I could not link the fragments.
The violence of the shock had severed the rope which fastened him to his companion.
He could have severed himself from the ranch, and washed his hands of all that was doing there.
If Venex 17's head had been severed for less than three weeks he could reactivate it.
But on the other hand the adjacent island of Ceylon has been administratively severed and placed under the Colonial Office.
These two parts are severed when it is desired to utilize only the best part of the strick.
One stroke of the knife severed the remaining rope, already drawn as taut as a piano wire.
For it stood on the transcantine side, an anchoret in itself, severed by the river from the rest of the University.
Midwives differ on the point of the moment at which the umbilical cord should be severed.
Damascus sighed but smiled, and reopened diplomatic relations with Ankara that had been severed for more than twenty years.
On the 17th she departs to her port at leopoldville, and has severed all connection with the Expedition.
He saw at once that a small artery had been severed, and its adjacency to the jugular made it a matter of extreme danger.
Olmec did not bother to voice his belief that Conan's own gullet had already been severed according to his whispered command.
In point of fact, the charge is set with an interrupter detonator which will explode as soon at the power line is severed.
Here a corner of one of the massive entrance pillars had been sharply severed off by a British lyddite shell.
With this the severed fragments of the hussy and her foetus were mingled, and thus concealed in the wall of the tokonoma.
He abstracted the severed head of Becker on some criminological excuse, and took it home in his official box.
He had the last strand of the rope severed before the ecuadorean with the carbine reached the lancha next to him.
The base of the pterygium was then severed with the scalpel for the plastic operation on entropion.
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