Sentences with phrase «small fractures»

Simple battery is often charged when a victim suffers minor and limited injuries such as scrapes, bruises, small fractures, and lacerations.

Small fractures in the frame of a bike may even lead to structural failure and catastrophic motorcycle accidents.

The canine teeth (fangs) of cats commonly have very small fractures of the tips of these teeth, which are easily overlooked.

This can lead to degeneration, small fractures, cartilage damage, and other problems.

Ignition coils are coated with a varnish - like insulation that becomes brittle over time after being stretched then contracted repeatedly The insulation develops small fractures that open when heated and close...

At the end of oil and gas drilling, water that was used to create small fractures in deep rock to retrieve the fuel is injected back into the ground.

I suffered one small fracture in my upper left temple, another one on my left jaw, and the third one on my left collarbone.

A stress fracture of the fibula is a small fracture or hairline crack in the bone.

Otherwise, it may just be a small fracture which is too small to wire.

Sutopo added that the drone's photos also revealed a small fracture in the southeastern part of the crater.

This happened when I lost balance while going over a rapid, resulting in the back of my paddle hitting my mouth and breaking the lower half of my right front tooth and leaving a smaller fracture in the left front tooth.

The biggest remaining question seems to be whether the circulating water will quickly remove the heat from a small volume of rock surrounding the larger fractures or whether it will flow through many smaller fractures and efficiently remove the heat from a large volume of rock over a much longer period.

Not exact matches

Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner said the new arrangement would leave the Canadian regulatory framework even more «fractured» and accused Ottawa of amending its original agreement to accommodate smaller provinces without informing him.

This Calgary - based small - cap provides fracturing and other well - stimulation services to Canadian oil and gas producers.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

Thanks in no small part to the Internet, there is no longer one «right» way to accomplish this goal — people's attention is fractured in a million different directions and to get the right message in front of the right person at the right time, you have to try to anticipate where they might be at any given time.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

For the small number of fractures that required surgical correction, we could have saved the cost of a dozen or so brief hospital stays.

Compound fractures and shattered ribs are small discomforts in the credo of Kansas City Linebacker Sherrill Headrick, a man of joyous recklessness and a high pain threshold

The advantages include smaller incisions, no fracture risk, and less post-op pain.

Now it seems that this small problem is actually a hairline fracture, and Jack is going to be out for six to eight weeks, and so missing our start to the season as well as the two upcoming England international matches as well.

Micro-fracture is a surgical technique done through a camera (arthroscope) in which small holes («fractures») are created at the ends of the bones which have these cartilage defects.

A seemingly small injury, such as a hairline fracture, may feel like more of an annoyance to the athlete, but overusing the leg by continuing to participate in the sport may result in the fracture getting bigger and the bone weakening.

If a bone in the forearm or wrist is fractured, use a folded newspaper or magazine padded with a towel or small pillow to create a splint that immobilizes and protects the broken bone.

While the LRA have been responsible for 2,400 attacks and 3,400 abductions, at the moment, the LRA are reportedly smaller and more fractured now than in 15 years.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

The Indpendence Party is a notoriously fractured organization with local organizations run independently (small i) of the state organization.

A new study has found that a small number of gas wells are releasing significant quantities of methane into the air even before they are hydraulically fractured, or fracked.

Once the spine was properly aligned and Askin had made the 10 - centimeter - long incision to expose the fractures, the team found that even the smallest surgical screws were too large to use on Jaxon's tiny vertebrae.

She rummaged through a toolbox until she found a small tube of accelerseal, bit off the cap and squeezed a generous amount onto the wing's fracture, holding the two pieces together.

«It had previously been believed that hydraulic fracturing couldn't trigger larger earthquakes because the fluid volumes were so small compared to that of a disposal well,» Atkinson explained.

While these percentages sound small, Atkinson pointed out that thousands of hydraulic fracturing wells are being drilled every year in the WCSB, increasing the likelihood of earthquake activity.

To control the earthquake risk, drillers would have tried to keep the size of the fractures small and to maintain steady water flow rates.

While hydraulic fracturing works by making thousands of extremely small «microearthquakes,» they are rarely felt and are too small to cause structural damage.

Such a small rise in bone mass is probably not enough to protect against fractures.

So far, such systems have only repaired fractures so small that opposite sides of the wound nearly touch.

But a small group of experts now says that the fracture patterns on the bones, found during highway construction near San Diego, California, must have been left by humans pounding them with stones found nearby.

Small crystals of some materials become stronger because they simply reach the point where they can not translocate or fracture in the same way as larger crystals when pressure is applied to them.

Some researchers suggest the aquifers have enough capacity to store a century's worth of emissions from America's coal - fired plants, but others worry the gas can leak back into the air through fractures too small to detect.

And unlike annealed glass, which can shatter into jagged shards when broken, tempered glass fractures into small, relatively harmless pieces.

In the latest research the researchers used data from previous fracking operations to measure the distance between the furthest detected microseismic event — a small earthquake caused by hydraulic fracturing of the rock or fault reactivation — and the injection point in the fracking borehole.

These stresses can lead to fracturing, allowing magma to escape to the surface in small eruptions.

From North Dakota to Ohio to Pennsylvania, hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, has transformed small towns into energy powerhouses.

Young athletes showing signs of notable or severe low back pain should be checked for spondylolysis, also known as a pars interarticularis stress fracture or the breaking of a small connecting bone in the lower back that could cause a spinal bone to disconnect and slip forward.

The moon's south pole has strange, warm fractures, and plumes of liquid water from a subsurface ocean many believed was impossible in such a small, cold world.

«While hydraulic fracturing consumes only a small fraction of the water used in other extraction methods, our analysis highlights the fact that it can still pose serious risks to local water supplies, especially in drought - prone regions such as the Barnett formation in Texas, where exploration and development is rapidly intensifying,» Kondash said.

To treat a complicated, non-healing bone defect, surgeons often use an implant with living cells to promote bone repair, but the implanted cells have a small chance of surviving because they are not prepared for a lack of oxygen and nutrients at the fracture site.

However, to date, the majority of published data on molar enamel thickness of Pliocene and early Pleistocene hominins derive from naturally fractured random surfaces of a small number of specimens.

The small size lets silicon charge quickly and thoroughly — an improvement over earlier silicon electrodes — but only partly alleviates the fracturing problem.

This includes small cracks in the kneecap called stress fractures, tendonitis, torn ligaments, cysts, and arthritis.