Twisting of the testicles, called torsion, can damage them and lead to antisperm antibody production. From Wordnik.com. [A Baby at Last!] Reference
Possibilities include testicular torsion, which is incredibly painful and must be dealt with immediately. From Wordnik.com. [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference
This would allow a maker to correct torsion in the shaft. From Wordnik.com. [The million dollar question: what is a machacador? « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference
On the contrary, the torsion balance seems very much alive. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887] Reference
That coupled with tension in my legs have caused sacral torsion. From Wordnik.com. [Read It!] Reference
I could have dispensed with much of her torsion with great equanimity. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
No sooner do the geese become asphyxiated by torsion of their cervical. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841] Reference
Spiral torsion of the axis would likewise bring about analogous results. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Its free motion differs entirely from that given it by torsion or stress. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
The apparatus of M. Baille consists of an annealed silver torsion wire of. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
Spiral torsion, 319 plants subject to, 325 of leaf, 326 of receptacle, 324. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Two torsion hair hygrometers of Russeltvedt's construction, Nos. 12 and 14. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim] Reference
Heat, ligation, pressure and torsion are the different methods recommended. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Hanging by his wrists, Eladamri twisted slowly with the torsion of the rope. From Wordnik.com. [Nemesis]
The method of checking bleeding from blood-vessels by torsion was known to him. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
There was a torsion in its body that made it look like a giant dervish to them. From Wordnik.com. ['Home'] Reference
Ligation and torsion of the cut end of large blood-vessels should be practised. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
That set off the basset hound with gastric torsion, and the stray shepherd cross. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake House]
It might be supposed that the torsion of the wire would appreciably affect the result. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884] Reference
The nature of reparatory inflammation in arteries after ligatures, acupressure, and torsion. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964] Reference
The torque subjects the tool to torsion and simultaneously tries to drag along the workpiece. From Wordnik.com. [4. Clamping possibilities for workpieces and tools] Reference
A larger vessel may be taken up with the artery forceps and ligatured, or the hæmorrhage stopped by torsion. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
For determining the relative humidity of the air the expedition had two of Russeltvedt's torsion hygrometers. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim] Reference
Take me for a ride in your 3.2 liter Ferrari with torsion bar suspension and those ported venturi carburetors!. From Wordnik.com. [Car-Car] Reference
It suggests that torsion waves and consciousness are essentially identical manifestations of intelligent energy. From Wordnik.com. [9/11 WAS A PLANETARY CALL TO UNITE OR PERISH] Reference
For instance, quantum torsion antennas can be built from silver and cobalt steel arrays, if the geometry is correct. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Heat also has a disturbing effect, and makes itself felt in the torsion of the fiber and the cage surrounding the lever. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
On the other hand, the law of torsion could hardly be quite so simple, at all events, to the second order of approximations. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
Cavendish also used a sensitive torsion balance (the Cavendish balance) to measure the value of the gravitational constant, G. From Wordnik.com. [Cavendish, Henry] Reference
In 1957, Chrysler introduced torsion bar suspension on its vehicles, making them the most roadable American cars of their era. From Wordnik.com. [Sheldon Filger: Chrysler Is Kaput] Reference
It is applied in those varieties of the torsion balance in which there are two parallel beams, connected by either four or six wires. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887] Reference
Since channel steel has a relatively low section modulus of torsion, the frame was rein forced by a latticework construction (Fig. 26). From Wordnik.com. [1. Preface] Reference
In order to guarantee that the grinding disks are parallel at each stage of the grinding process, the housing must be resistant to torsion. From Wordnik.com. [1. Preface] Reference
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