How To Use Rupture In A Sentence

  • In patients without subarachnoid hemorrhage from a separate aneurysm, larger aneurysms also were more likely to rupture.
  • Sudden ruptures of the artery can lead to fatal blood loss or severe brain damage.
  • We need not worry about the disappearance of this space because its elasticity prevents true rupture or breakage.
  • It was more than a break from what came before; it was a seismic rupture.
  • The diaphragm is the component that needs the most attention, as it hardens with age and could rupture.
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  • Nothing could heal the rupture with his father.
  • Byzance ne s'en remettra jamais complètement et cet évènement dramatique marqua la vraie rupture entre catholiques latins et orthodoxes grecs, beaucoup plus que le schisme de 1054 ! Archive 2007-03-01
  • As I looked at the ruptured eardrum with my otoscope, I was blasted by a shouting voice less than an inch away from my face. Paradise General
  • These acne cysts can rupture, spreading the infection into nearby skin tissue.
  • In the cases described in this article, the patients sought medical attention owing to symptoms caused by atraumatic splenic rupture.
  • It can run past the rings and cause the motor to bend rods, which is very costly and makes a mess in the water when the oil sump is ruptured.
  • During one particularly intense session of meditation, the patient had a vivid recollection of being three years old, and suffering a severe double hernial rupture, caused by a weakening of the muscles in the pelvic region. Meditation as Medicine
  • The inherent contradiction can lead to a rupture given changing external circumstances. Critical Social Research
  • The noise ruptured the tranquility of the afternoon.
  • A large pseudocyst that ruptures, becomes infected, or hemorrhages requires drainage of the cyst cavity.
  • Once an eruption is initiated, the seal ruptures, suddenly releasing massive amounts of gas, which have been accumulating within the plumbing system of the volcano.
  • This division between ins and outs had prompted a painful argument over the need to establish a forum for ministers from the ins, without causing a dangerous rupture from the outs.
  • All along the rupture, the seafloor moved vertically about ten metres, which displaced hundreds of kilometres of overlaying water resulting in a massive tsunami.
  • Those with a history of multiple gestations, ruptured membranes, history of cervical cerclage, signs of preterm labor or serious medical problems were excluded.
  • Two patients died later from disseminated aspergillosis on Day 10 and from splenic rupture on Day 57, respectively.
  • We are not far from Carl Andre's floor pieces and his gnomic remark ‘A thing is a hole in a thing it is not,’ which points toward an idea of sculpture as a rupture in the continuum of space.
  • As the side of the wakeboarder's face hits the water, a column of air is forced into the external auditory ear canal and the tympanic membrane ruptures.
  • During the postflight inspection, we found a ruptured main-rotor hose, which made the accumulator lose all its hydraulic fluid, resulting in the system failure.
  • It caused her stomach to rupture and she had to have emergency surgery. The Sun
  • The rupture of the laticifers stops the flow of latex to the margin of the leaf that is subsequently consumed by these beetles.
  • Most bladder ruptures are extraperitoneal with intraperitoneal ruptures resulting from blunt trauma to a distended bladder or iatrogenic causes.
  • These mechanisms were compared with the rupture of excised walls that occurred by formation and breakage of strands between separating wall layers.
  • She fractured her ribs and pelvis, ruptured her spleen and suffered liver damage. Times, Sunday Times
  • Largactil, and a few small shots of arecoline, but I'm frightened to give any more arecoline because there's a hell of an impaction in there and I don't want to rupture the bowel. Every living thing
  • Such a cyst may rupture on the surface, usually as a result of superadded infection, and give rise to a _thyreo-glossal_ or _median fistula of the neck_. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • I had two scans which showed my left implant had ruptured. The Sun
  • By doing so, he positions himself within the borderlands he studies, and as an actor and enunciator of narratives that rupture colonialist forces at work under new guises.
  • A post-mortem examination showed that his death was due to internal injuries and that he had suffered a ruptured spleen. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tests disclosed that he had suffered internal bleeding from a ruptured spleen. Times, Sunday Times
  • PIP implants were withdrawn after being found to rupture and cause inflammation and irritation. Times, Sunday Times
  • The first U.S. mad cow was a downer animal, not able to walk due to a uterine rupture while calving.
  • I had no idea how I was going to make it through the night, but in the early hours of Saturday morning my eardrum ruptured. Archive 2009-02-01
  • Delay in diagnosis increases the risk of rupture, intra-abdominal hemorrhage, blood transfusion, need for operative intervention and death.
  • Most plant cells rupture when jagged ice crystals form inside them, and if enough damage takes place, plants die.
  • The involvement of mucous membranes is much less common with bullous pemphigoid than in pemphigus vulgaris, with blisters that are less easily ruptured.
  • I had two scans which showed my left implant had ruptured. The Sun
  • An interventional radiologist may guide a special wired instrument called a catheter through an artery in the upper part of the child's leg up to the area where the ruptured aneurysm or AVM is located. Hemorrhagic Stroke
  • An abdominocentesis (belly tap) has been a helpful tool to diagnose the presence of abdominal infection (peritonitis) or ruptured bowel. TheHorse.com News
  • Both implants had ruptured, leaving her with silicone floating around her body. The Sun
  • The initial structural analysis suggests a detailed rupture mechanism in the aqueous solution.
  • She suffered head injuries, a ruptured spleen, punctured lung and a displaced eye socket. The Sun
  • The diplomatic relations between the two countries have been ruptured.
  • Do they ban it because there is a 1 percent chance that the old Caesarean scar will cause the uterus to rupture (which may kill the baby) or because the hospital doesn't even want to risk a chance at another lawsuit?
  • Fuel was streaming from a tank ruptured by gunfire. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • Documents released to the public on Wednesday indicate about 93 percent of silicone breast implants rupture within 10 years.
  • It caused her stomach to rupture and she had to have emergency surgery. The Sun
  • Most episodes are due to urinary tract infections and renal cyst rupture that relate to the underlying anatomical abnormalities.
  • The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state. Planet Sun
  • Only belatedly was it discovered that a drain in a workhouse near the well had been accidentally ruptured by a pickaxe.
  • Marfan's syndrome is a connective tissue disorder that increases the probability of a rupture or dissection occurring at smaller diameters than in a normal patient.
  • This was shown in the earlier analytical ultracentrifugation analyses comparing DNA content from thermally ruptured phage (when all of the DNA comes out) with that from samples treated with LamB with and without PEG.
  • He will have a scan today and could be out for six months if the tendon is ruptured. The Sun
  • The injured or ruptured cells attract neutrophil leukocytes and activate alveolar macrophages, causing inflammation in the lung.
  • Rhys Lloyd missed two field goals, backup linebacker Clint Sintim was carted off with a ruptured Patella tendon and this game, played just three days after one against the Jets, seemed grossly misadvised. Giants Come Back to Win Sloppy Tilt Against Pats
  • As a bloated corpse swells and its distended belly explodes, sending guts flying and Booth retching, Bones does a happy dance: You rarely get to actually see a body rupture from distension. Matt's TV Week in Review
  • But it will rupture a lot of cell membranes, leaving behind all those membranes as a lipid crud. PREY
  • And there was afterwards writ a proper and careful treatise, and did set out that there did be ruptures of the Æther, the which did constitute doorways, as those more fanciful ones did name them; and through these shatterings, which might be likened unto openings -- there being no better word to their naming -- there did come into this Particular Condition Of Life, those Monstrous Forces Of Evil, that did dominate the Night, and which many did hold surely to have been given this improper entrance through the foolish and unwise wisdom of those olden men of learning, that did meddle overfar with matters that did reach in the end beyond their understanding. The Night Land: Chapter 7
  • The flexor perforans tendon showed inflammatory softening, and was very nearly ruptured through at the level of the navicular bone. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • I don't know if my implants have ruptured but my symptoms sound identical to the women whose have. The Sun
  • Stress on the coke drum and the main cause of fatigue rupture creation has been analyzed and it is held that un-connected structure of the skirt and coke drum is the main cause.
  • Biology: The lining of the rectum is very thin and a ready route for disease and easy to rupture during the vigorous thrusting of anal sex — easy to contaminate your blood with fecal matter – the sphincter muscle of the anus can be damaged by too many intrusions making one incontinent – hemorrhoids and anal sex are surely incompatible. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
  • Such a rupture to the eurozone's fourth biggest economy would hobble attempts to rescue the euro. Times, Sunday Times
  • A blood vessel ruptured.
  • In these accidents the air-bag punch-out forces caused a ruptured aorta, rib fractures, severe myocardial contusions, etc.
  • Though she discovered a passion for running in the mountains, the stress aggravated a previous injury, and Ratkovic ruptured her Achilles tendon.
  • Why his masculine whore, now the rotten diseases of the south, the guts griping ruptures: loades a gravell in the back, lethergies, could palsies, rawe eies, durtrotte [n] livers, whissing lungs, bladders full of impostume. The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
  • I've been daft about cricket since I was young, and I was part of a successful squad until I was forced to pack it in at 26 when I tore my cartilage and ruptured my knee ligaments.
  • In the spore, passage to opposite poles of the two centromeres of this newly created dicentric chromosome again produced a chromatid bridge that was again ruptured. Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge
  • The afflux of blood to the uterus during the rupture of the ovisac, cannot be shown to be useful by any effort of teleological physiologists. The Education of American Girls
  • The worst-case scenario is that blood vessels supplying the kidney are ruptured. Times, Sunday Times
  • The streets were flooded after water pipes ruptured.
  • Over time implants rupture or deflate, requiring additional surgeries.
  • But at some point I ruptured the tendon in my finger either busting through a table or climbing up a net. The Sun
  • A thin line of smoke started to spiral up from the ruptured engine as Ian scrambled round the back of the car, catching his trouser leg on the crumpled rear bumper.
  • I would note that this specific theme is generally a matter which we have been discussing recently, and it is a very necessary subject to address indeed for wherever there are elements which would adopt principles which put them in diametric opposition, be it to the one or the other form of the Roman liturgy, to the Magisterium, to the Holy Father, or to the Church generally, or which would adopt a spirit of rupture and discontinuity over one of continuity and reform in continuity, this is assuredly not the right path and needs to be corrected. The Tablet, the LMS, the Usus Antiquior and the Foreword of Archbishop Vincent Nichols
  • A burst tire is believed to have ruptured a fuel tank, causing the fiery crash.
  • Either they burst (rupture), or they clot (thrombose). PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Recognition that the spleen had ruptured was delayed because of the patient's stable clinical condition and lack of coexisting symptoms of infectious mononucleosis.
  • In the spore, passage to opposite poles of the two centromeres of this newly created dicentric chromosome again produced a chromatid bridge that was again ruptured. Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge
  • These plaques can rupture, releasing substances that cause blood flowing in the coronary artery to clot.
  • They are set free by the rupture of the ascus, and germinate by putting out through their walls one or more filaments which branch and form the thallus of a new individual. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
  • Until rupture occurs, most abdominal aortic aneurysms are asymptomatic.
  • She suffered head injuries, a ruptured spleen, punctured lung and a displaced eye socket. The Sun
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage from a ruptured intracranial aneurysm is a catastrophic event usually treated by craniotomy with clipping of the aneurysm.
  • Although bursitis and tendinitis often improve with home treatment, a ruptured Achilles tendon usually requires surgical repair.
  • Fuel was streaming from a tank ruptured by gunfire. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • Geophysicists talk about lubricating fault to prevent extreme rupture (very controversial); perhaps economists need to find a way to lubricate the economy so that bubbles will break earlier, thus causing less destruction. Matthew Yglesias » 20/20 Vision is Accurate
  • The blast caused a seismic rupture that split off a sizable part of Canada and created what we now know as Vancouver Island.
  • The other two out of ten strokes follow bleeding caused by a rupture of a cerebral blood vessel. Times, Sunday Times
  • His stomach might rupture from all the acid.
  • The inherent contradiction can lead to a rupture given changing external circumstances. Critical Social Research
  • I nearly gave myself a rupture lifting that pile of books.
  • At very high concentrations of poly-L-lysine and a large number of attached cells, the membranes rupture due to the adhesion-induced tension.
  • PIP implants were withdrawn after being found to rupture and cause inflammation and irritation. Times, Sunday Times
  • _Outward luxation of the patella_ is occasioned by a lax condition of the internal femeropatellar ligament or a rupture of the same so that the patella slips over the outer femoral trochlear rim and permits of an abnormal flexion of the stifle joint. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • Owing to severity of the structural injury to the brain or the possible rupture of blood vessels and blood extravasation, the reaction may often be followed by encephalitis or cerebritis, and will then have to be treated accordingly. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Objective : To discuss the clinic characteristic of the dormant sclera rupture.
  • The sheer magnitude of the force behind Joren's leg was enough rupture the man's innards and send him flying off into a tree.
  • It is "a fact that forcible expiratory efforts in violent coughing or vomiting, and especially in sneezing, sometimes give rise to ruptures of the little (external) vessels" of the eye. 17 With respect to the internal vessels, Dr. Gunning has lately recorded a case of exophthalmos in consequence of whooping-cough, which in his opinion depended on the rupture of the deeper vessels; and another analogous case has been recorded. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
  • Gas build-up in front of a possible blockage within the bowel, concertina bowel (string foreign body) or ground glass appearance on x-ray indicating ruptured bowel are among the signs that can give the vet clues.
  • There have been five pipeline ruptures in the last 10 years in Manitoba.
  • Ribs broken and ruptured spleen. Right arm, compound spiral fractures or radius and ulna.
  • Otherwise from the quantity of matter, it is generally supposed to come from the bladder, or prostate gland; and the urine, which escapes from the ruptured urethra, mines its way amongst the muscles and membranes, and the patient dies tabid, owing to the want of an external orifice to discharge the matter. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • I was rushed to hospital with a suspected ruptured spleen. The Sun
  • Fatality rates of one type of stroke -- aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, in which blood from a ruptured artery fills the space around the brain -- decreased 17% over the past three decades, even though the average age of the patients rose, according to a meta-analysis in The Lancet Neurology. Trauma Centers Are Trek for Millions of Children
  • He suffered a double leg break, cruciate ligament damage and a total rupture of the ankle.
  • Our patient had paroxysmal coughing as a result of bronchitis and sustained rib fractures that resulted in flail chest and rupture of the diaphragm, which required surgical intervention.
  • Stress on the coke drum and the main cause of fatigue rupture creation has been analyzed and it is held that un-connected structure of the skirt and coke drum is the main cause.
  • Implant failures are characterized by their degree of severity: silicone bleed, leak, and frank rupture.
  • The approved treatment for rupture, to which the sailor was painfully liable, was to hang the patient up by the heels until the prolapsus was reduced. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • There was rupture at the site of the anterior fontanel with extrusion of intracranial contents.
  • Helmont saw the cosmos as a living, spiritual organism with no rupture between heaven and earth.
  • I would argue that what links these modern elegies is the focus on a relationship ruptured prior to death.
  • It may be these catastrophic ruptures in unscarred uteri that cause the misguided fear of cesarean scars rupturing.
  • If the spleen is enlarged, your child may be prohibited from playing contact sports because of the risk of rupture and hemorrhage.
  • There are now serious worries that these cut-price implants will rupture. The Sun
  • Key Words: biceps ? tendon ? avulsion? rupture? elbow.
  • “One of the most psychologically devastating aspects of family abduction is the sudden, unexpected rupture,” Liss Haviv, the executive director of Take Root, an organization composed of formerly abducted children, explained to me recently. The Snatchback
  • In the commons, Pitt asserted that the rupture of the negociations was wholly due to the directory, who demanded, not as an ultimatum, but as a preliminary, to retain all territories of which the war had given them possession; and respecting which they had thought proper to pass a decree, annexing them unalienably to the republic. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
  • Retinal reposition depend on position, length and operation time of scleral rupture.
  • In the present study, no significant sarcolemmal rupture was noted in EMP-sham animals.
  • Most preterm births follow spontaneous, unexplained preterm labor, or spontaneous preterm prelabour rupture of the amniotic membranes.
  • While rupture of the membranes is carried out under strict asepsis, we do not transfer these women to the delivery room, but perform this simple act in the labor room while the patient is on a bedpan.
  • Her lungs had been crushed, her left clavicle and ribs were fractured, vital organs had ruptured.
  • The casing will survive a fair amount of pressure, but overeagerness may result in misshapen or even ruptured links. Stefan Beck: What Deaner Was Talkin' About: Sausage King, R.I.P.
  • A recent study indicates that Cytotec labor inductions in women who have had a previous cesarean carry a 28-fold increase in the risk of uterine rupture.
  • The literalization of the City of God on earth, manifest in the following century by El Escorial in Spain, was endemic to temporal concerns after overseas voyages had ruptured and doubled the known world. 299 159 Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • A large pseudocyst that ruptures, becomes infected, or hemorrhages requires drainage of the cyst cavity.
  • A pipe ruptured, leaking water all over the house.
  • Cast iron manhole cover anti impact resistance, easy rupture.
  • Irvin ruptured his Achilles' tendon in pregame warm-ups on Sunday.
  • The pus may escape or drain through a ruptured or incised tympanic membrane, the eardrum.
  • The reality that despite outward differences humanity is largely the same was brought home by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, nursing a ruptured/herniated intervertebral disk and therefore unable to attend, who commented humorously by video from South Africa that he could not imagine his friend and fellow Nobelist The Dalai Lama being told in heaven, "you are a wonderful man, but because you are not a Christian .... Sunil Chacko: Vancouver, Multicultural Gateway To The World
  • His appendix ruptured and he had to be rushed to hospital.
  • Empirical antibiotic treatment is often indicated for preterm infants who seem well but who have specific risk factors for systemic infection, such as prolonged rupture of amniotic membranes.
  • Pneumoceles may occur suddenly, presumably by a trap-valve mechanism or by rupture of a large mucocele.
  • He also said that he had found no internal rupture of any significance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Water seeped from ruptured pipes and corrugated iron dangled from the roofs of the damaged shops.
  • Methods 22 cases of ruptured inferior lacrimal canaliculus were operated with silica gel collapsible bulb skillfully as holdfast.
  • Rupture at the navel is called umbilical hernia; that in the groin either inguinal or femoral, according to slight differences in site. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)
  • V. Proof that entrance of a newly ruptured end of a chromosome into a telophase nucleus can initiate activations of previously silent genomic elements Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge
  • A direct blow to the pterion, or even an indirect blow to another part of the skull, may cause a fracture to this weak area, with an associated rupture of the underlying vessel. The Guardian World News
  • Women who had previously experienced caesarean section had a marginally smaller blood loss and a lower death rate from ruptured uterus.
  • Moecher and Steltenpohl document an example of an exhumed deep crustal fault, provide evidence for precise determination of the depth for earthquake rupture, and explore potential mechanisms for how deep crustal coseismic rupture occurs. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • Pregnant women at term with rupture of membranes before labour are subjected to routine induction of labour.
  • Objective! To assess the effect of low dose vasopressin and nitroglycerin in treatment of esophageal gastrom varicosis rupture hemorrhage.
  • Ductile materials undergo considerable plastic tensile or shearing deformation before rupture.
  • The investigation concluded that there were two major explosions, the first when the pipeline ruptured and exploded and the second when the gas was ignited after a delay of 24 seconds.
  • Huge oil tanks were ruptured by the force of the waves and they spewed their contents into the streets and into a fresh water lake used by Barrow for water ’.
  • One of the first, strongest members of a school as unaccredited as the culture under study, Chang still welcomes his work's infinite ruptures: new facts, new interpretations, new bass lines of theory and samplings of empirical signs.
  • Acute myelopathy in patients with cancer may also be caused by irradiation, paraneoplastic necrotizing myelitis, ruptured intervertebral disc and meningeal carcinomatosis with spinal cord involvement.
  • There are lines of continuity, but there are also significant ruptures, scissions and re-orientations.
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  • While a normal whitehead would rupture and go away, milia have developed a thin cover of skin cells that causes them to harden and turn into cysts.
  • But PIP implants seemed to have a higher propensity to rupture. Times, Sunday Times
  • You're going to give yourself a rupture if you lift that.
  • His rupture with the Labour Party is clearly painful, his whole adult life having been devoted to it.
  • Kelly saw him claw at his ears when both tympanic membranes ruptured, not a second apart. WITHOUT REMORSE
  • The other two out of ten strokes follow bleeding caused by a rupture of a cerebral blood vessel. Times, Sunday Times
  • At Rifle, the activity of the "drys" almost provoked open rupture. Aspen Times - Top Stories
  • The fact is that to concede a right of this nature would have ruptured Marx's vision of a communist harmony.
  • He died of a ruptured aneurysm after surgery for a knee complaint. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the same time, there was an outsize burp as water rushed into the ruptured buoyancy tank. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • Profuse oral bleeding can result from trauma, aneurysm rupture, or tonsillectomy and needs prompt care.
  • In Chernobyl the explosion was caused by excessive pressure buildup hydrogen explosion and rupture of all containments propelling molten core material into the environment (a "dirty bomb").
  • It also provides some important theoretics and methods of the polymer fatigue progress, such as damnify mechanics and rupture mechanics.
  • At higher T, it takes less time for thermal fluctuations to induce rupture under an applied bias force.
  • Yeast dough here is bread dough before it is baked. It can stretch a dog's stomach and cause severe pain or even rupture the dog's abdomen and intestines.
  • And once you've pigged, or maintenance pigged, the pipeline, then you run a smart pig through there, and a smart pig measures the wall thickness of the pipe so that you can find little weaknesses before they rupture.
  • Comfort a rupture of afterward, teacher Xiao borrows quondam hike, time faced to hike, also close the dormitory door.
  • Terrorist attacks led to the rupture of relations between the two countries.
  • It would seem that these contemporaries of the fun society paint its dark side and all its ruptures so appealingly that they talk to the metaphysically homeless from the soul.
  • The rupture occurred, in the first instance, at a meiotic anaphase in each parent, and the ruptured end then underwent the succession of mitotic anaphase breaks associated with the chromatid type of breakage-fusion-bridge cycle during the development of the male and female gametophytes -- the pollen grain and the embryo sac. Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge
  • The protrusion of an organ or other bodily structure through the wall that normally contains it; a rupture.
  • We have no evidence of a link to cancer or an increased risk of rupture. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many mechanisms of atraumatic splenic rupture have been postulated.
  • Episodes of giving way are consistent with some degree of knee instability and may indicate patellar subluxation or ligamentous rupture.
  • He died of a ruptured aneurysm after surgery for a knee complaint. Times, Sunday Times
  • I can safely recommend the Cluthe Truss as the only safe alleviator of the terrible sufferings of those unfortunate sufferers from rupture. Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured
  • The tendon, whose protective sheath ruptured Sept.26, runs around the back of his ankle.
  • The San Andreas last ruptured in 1906, and in doing so all but destroyed the city of San Francisco - the last time that a great American city was wrecked by a caprice of nature.
  • In physics, something plastic is capable of undergoing continuous deformation without rupture or relaxation; in biology it denotes the ability to form new tissue.
  • Subsequently, the muscle is also more vulnerable to rupture during an eccentric contraction.
  • Alluding to the many times during that 1992 campaign that she was called a Rorschach test for the American people, Clinton maintained that neither the devotion nor the virulent rage she inspired was about her, but rather was about the still recent rupture in the American social fabric that she represented: “I had been turned into a symbol for women of my generation.” Big Girls Don’t Cry
  • An inflamed appendix could rupture before we would know what was going on, causing significant complication. Times, Sunday Times
  • Potential exists for abdominal obstruction and, depending on the type, spontaneous rupture of the packets. 4 Female body packers may transport the packets vaginally. 4 The syndrome of "bodystuffing" has arisen when individuals secretly ingest the illegal drugs they are carrying in an effort to escape police detection. 8 These are loosely wrapped packages such as cellophane, glassine, paper or foil, and usually release their contents into the GI tract. 8 Cocaine Toxicity
  • Pore fluid pressure can do favor to rocks rupture, while tectonic movement is the main factor that induces the rupture of source rock and the episodic fluid migration.
  • Delay in diagnosis increases the risk of rupture, intra-abdominal hemorrhage, blood transfusion, need for operative intervention and death.
  • Obviously some of these men might have died anyway from a sudden rupture, but a clear distinction needs to be made between dying naturally and at the instigation of doctors.
  • PIP implants were withdrawn after being found to rupture and cause inflammation and irritation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pseudocysts may be complicated by infection, haemorrhage, rupture, and by compression of adjacent organs.
  • They can also rupture, triggering a sudden, complete blockage of blood flow. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although the actor played down his condition at the time, claiming he had ruptured disc, he has now confessed he had a torn dura mater, a membrane which protects the spinal chord.
  • Last May, he died suddenly from an aortic rupture at the age of 44, leaving a wife and young children.
  • The auto accident occurred in 1986 and left her in a coma for three days with a ruptured aorta and damaged liver.

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