The scars left by its healing are firm and corrugated, but are apt to break down.
If the ointment is applied too thickly it may cause granulation tissue to break down, and for this reason it should be spread in a thin layer upon the granulating surface or its edges.
The foot is forcibly moved in all directions so as to stretch the shortened ligaments and to break down adhesions, it is then rotated into an extreme varus position, and fixed in plaster-of-Paris or to a Dupuytren's splint.
The more slowly growing forms, if removed before ulceration has taken place, show little tendency to recur, but those which grow rapidly and break down, not only recur locally, but are liable to give rise to metastases.
It tends to break down early, forming a superficial ulcer.
The ulcer may heal, but tends to break down again.
To accomplish this, I was most unfortunately compelled to break down three of the large walls of the more recent house.
This débris consists of ashes mixed with bones and small shells, and on account of its dampness and toughness is just as difficult tobreak down as damp limestone rock.
Anyway," he said impatiently, "let me come and see you don't break down.
They stood looking at each other, their hands hard gripped; all the emotion of last night welling up within them, so that to speak would have been to break down.
For a moment he thought she was going to break down, refuse to leave him.
It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh.
Thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
When you come to vital issues, it'll break down--it always has.
They say that if he don't break down he'll win by 'alf a mile; it all depends on his leg.
If her health were to break down to-morrow she would have to go to the workhouse.
As long as nothing unusual is asked of such a mechanism it works admirably, but as soon as the unusual arises it tends to break down completely.
The second effect has been to break down family, local, and national ties, and emancipate the individual man.
Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
Does the boy blunder, blurt out this, blab that, Break down in the other, as beginners will?
And afterward, to make amends, What if all three of us contribute each A line to that prelusive fragment,--help The embarrassed bard who broke out to break down Dumfoundered at such unforeseen success?
In the Second Degree, the laws of the molecules, a finer organization, break down, and anything can happen in chemistry.
Gresth Gkae felt certain if he could once crack this nut, break down Earth, he would have the system.
The lack of volume makes it break down, if you establish it, and makes it impossible to establish in the first place without the energy of matter.
We keep each other going, and you may absolutely feel of me that I shan't break down.
But where we break down is that she doesn't believe in them.
Additional units must be installed for use in case of repairs or break down of some of the other units.
Care should be taken to insert in the circuit of each testing transformer a fuse, not in excess of the transformer capacity, which will blow, in case of a break down in the apparatus under test.
In case of a break down of any one of the engines or generators, and also when it becomes necessary to clean them without interrupting the service.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "break down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
