How To Use Obliteration In A Sentence
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Isn't abbreviation a prelude to obliteration?
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Therefore I do not doubt that little folds of skin, which originally served as ovigerous frena, but which, likewise, very slightly aided the act of respiration, have been gradually converted by natural selection into branchiae, simply through an increase in their size and the obliteration of their adhesive glands.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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The most typical form of malformation of the esophagus is imperforation or obliteration.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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The resulting anterior wedging and angulation of adjacent vertebral bodies with disc space obliteration are responsible for the palpable spinal prominence and a classic radiographic appearance.
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But the obliteration of Nagasaki was, if comparisons on this scale are even possible, even worse than that of Hiroshima.
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Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called Plataea, Xerxes's hordes face obliteration!
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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Within a few hours he had issued Directive No. 25, decreeing Yugoslavia's obliteration and assigning secondary roles in its conquest to Italy and Hungary.
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It means disorganization, destruction, obliteration, of the institutions of government and nationhood.
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The panic I felt was the risk of fact obliteration, or an inversion of truths, all the truths I had known.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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Chemical pleurodesis consists of the introduction of asclerosing agent into the pleural cavity to achieve symphysis of the two pleural layers and, thus, obliteration of the pleural space.
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He promulgated the obliteration of all signs of tradition from compositions, even going so far as to denunciate Schoenberg and Stravinsky for elements of compromise in their later music.
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Obliteration of the superficial bursa over the summit of the os calcis is not likely to cause serious inconvenience or distress to the subject unless it be due to an infected wound.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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This has attracted little opprobrium and no calls for the obliteration of Sri Lanka or talk of its brutalisation.
Where are the protests?
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The irony was that this glorification of the individual was coterminous with its complete obliteration.
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A little while would suffice to see their obliteration, a little longer to witness the destruction of the town if the wind should carry the coals and blazing shingles to other roofs, dry as the sered grasses of the plain.
Trail's End
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Perhaps the danger we face is not the mutually assured obliteration of the two parties, but the destruction of our democracy.
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The disaster scenarios prophesied in such reasonable arguments will range from everything from personal ostracism to nuclear obliteration.
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Porro describes a case of congenital obliteration of the esophagus which ended in a cecal pouch about one inch below the inferior portion of the glottidean aperture and from this point to the stomach only measured an inch; there was also tracheal communication.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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The panic I felt was the risk of fact obliteration, or an inversion of truths, all the truths I had known.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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The 20th century saw the continuous loss of farmers and the obliteration of small farms, the decline in open and forested land near cities, and the higgledy-piggledy sprawl across the countryside of suburbs and exurbs.
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The present report is an example of the negligent obliteration of a page in the history of human endeavour.
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Porro 6.258 describes a case of congenital obliteration of the esophagus which ended in a cecal pouch about one inch below the inferior portion of the glottidean aperture and from this point to the stomach only measured an inch; there was also tracheal communication.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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In February 1945, the obliteration of the historic city of Dresden from the air became one of the most controversial episodes of the allied war effort.
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The usual finding is an area of obliteration in the portal vein surrounded by a large number of collateral vessels.
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Thrombolysis is often the best treatment as simple embolectomy or thrombectomy usually leads to early rethrombosis and surgical bypass is often precluded by obliteration of the distal run-off.
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They found that obliteration grade and costal pleural fibrosis score were significantly higher for the treated sides in the mechanical abrasion dogs, compared with the talc slurry-treated dogs.
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Over time, the process of restoration of traditional cults turned to whole-scale obliteration of all things associated with Akhenaten.
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She found a doctor across the border who claimed to have perfected a much simpler, essentially risk-free procedure called ‘laser obliteration of floaters,’ and her heart beat faster.
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Ever since, Indigenous Peoples have been forced into submission, if not obliteration, in the name of civilization and progress all over the globe.
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New Testament nowhere speaks of the indwelling Spirit in such a sense as implies an obliteration or absorption of the conscious individual ego, while "effacement" instead of fellowship is a favorite expression in the
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
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Distinct from this diffuse and moderate stenosis at the isthmus is the condition known as coarctation of the aorta, or marked stenosis often amounting to complete obliteration of its lumen, seen in adults and occuring at or near, oftenest a little below, the insertion of the ligamentum arteriosum into the aorta.
VI. The Arteries. 2. The Aorta
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The eminence of these works, in particular the Almagest, had been evident already to Ptolemy's contemporaries. this caused an almost total obliteration of the prehistory of the Ptolemaic astronomy.
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She says the men connived at their own obliteration from history, overwhelmed at learning of the deaths of Scott and the other members of the south pole party, for which any one of them could have been selected.
Scott of the Antarctic anniversary to focus on science, not the sideshow
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Neither man has even come close to achieving what they set out to achieve - helping their party recover from its crash towards obliteration.