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Example sentences for "this operation"

  • As a rule the largest possible flame may be used with advantage in this operation.

  • The figure refers to the close of this operation (Fig.

  • This operation seems to present no difficulties to experienced glass-workers, even with tubes of about one inch in diameter, but to the amateur it is very difficult.

  • In all cases good annealing should follow this operation.

  • This operation should be performed even in cases where only an inch of radius can be retained, as the attachment of the biceps makes a very small stump of fore-arm wonderfully useful.

  • This operation is in the great majority of cases performed for femoral aneurism, and naturally secondary hæmorrhage is a too frequent result.

  • This operation, which has been described by some as impossible, has, I believe, been only once performed on the living body.

  • This operation is now hardly ever performed for aneurism, ligature of the superficial femoral having quite superseded it, and it is very rarely required for wounds, from the manner in which the vessel is protected by its position.

  • This operation is shown on the result sheet.

  • As a result of this operation G's total is brought above the quota, and he is declared elected.

  • No one was elected as a result of this operation, and accordingly the votes of Mr. Shackleton and Lord Hugh Cecil, now lowest on the poll, were transferred in the order named.

  • To the writer he said, "I cannot conscientiously advise this woman to submit to this operation, because I don't know that the glands would advantage her in any way.

  • Whenever you want to hear from me I will write again and tell you what changes have taken place in me as the result of this operation.

  • I foresee that because of the marvelous results obtained by the transplanting of the goat-glands at my hospital there will be a great awakening of interest in this operation on the part of the public and the medical profession.

  • Nature, however, seems to second our efforts here, for we have seen that the stiffer the clay, the greater the contraction, and the more the soil is split up and rendered permeable by this operation.

  • We see the effect of this operation on common highways, where water often stands for many days in puddles, because the surface has been ground so fine, and rendered so compact, by wheels and horses, that the water cannot find passage.

  • The profit to the bank in this operation was to get six per centum interest, and two per cent.

  • This operation to be carried through all its stages, must necessarily consume about three hours of time, during which the House can do no other business.

  • The philosophic Voltaire, a century ago, from his retreat in Ferney, gave a lively description of this operation, by which he was made a winner, without the trouble of playing.

  • This operation we know to be one of the most delicate in modern surgery, and as we are progressing with our physiologic knowledge of the spleen we see nothing to justify the old theory in regard to its relations to agility and coursing.

  • The modern history of this operation is quite interesting, and is very completely reviewed by Hirst and Dorland.

  • This operation is repeated many times daily until a pouch the desired size results, in which criminals contrive to secrete jewels, money, etc.

  • This operation is best carried out immediately before or immediately after the menstrual epoch, and if not successful at the first attempt should be repeated for several months.

  • This operation is generally necessary when the presentation is abnormal and the fetus has advanced too far into the narrow inlet to the uterus to be moved.

  • This operation consists in making an opening in the trachea, or windpipe.

  • This operation may be performed in one of two ways--namely, by the flank or by the vagina--each operation having its special advantages.

  • In this operation, men, women, and children all take part.

  • Some authors are lukewarm in their advocacy of this operation, but we can cite a number of cases in which, after laminectomy, an apparently hopeless paraplegia has been entirely got rid of.

  • This operation, first performed by Albert in 1877, consists in removing the cartilage covering the articular surfaces of bones with the object of producing a firm ankylosis.

  • This operation is best done on a padding machine, a sketch of which is given in Fig.

  • This operation is repeated with each 2 lb.

  • In the case of yarns, this operation is carried out in the steaming cottage, one form of which is shown in Fig.

  • Practised for some years on the Continent, this operation, on account of its gravity, has been avoided by English veterinarians.

  • In this operation a portion of the median nerve is excised on the inside of the elbow-joint just below the internal condyle of the humerus.

  • This operation is performed in the same position as is the higher operation of plantar neurectomy, and may be either internal or external.

  • The whole secret of the success of this operation is in afterwards maintaining a strict asepsis of the wound.

  • If, at any stage of this operation, the gelatine is precipitated, a little more hot water must be added.

  • As each piece of paper takes somewhere about five minutes to sensitize and hang up to dry, it is evident that the larger the piece of paper sensitised the greater will be the saving in time in this operation.

  • This operation is continued till all the prints are toned.

  • This operation is repeated, till all the parts of the design are surrounded by lead, and by it united to one another; the joints being secured by solder, generally applied by gas.

  • This operation he undertook against his will.

  • Each of these slaves, when he has attained to some adroitness in this operation, may, on a fine day, catch in the vicinity of the city as many as five or six hundred beetles.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another point; building stone; further says; this church; this colony; this doctrine; this effect; this first; this general; this here; this light; this method; this moment; this mountain; this office; this planet; this portion; this position; this prince; this quarter; this same; this theory; this thing; this unexpected; this vessel; this woman