Essentially it is made of bones known as vertebrae with a disc for shock absorption between the vertebrae. |
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His death evoked widespread regret and shock amongst his many friends and acquaintances. |
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It didn't kill the wasps, the nest was made of paper so it absorbed the shock and just split open. |
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The acetylides of silver, copper, mercury, and gold are detonated by heat, friction, or shock. |
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The anger still lingered even now, but then the shock had been such that she gave birth before her time. |
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On explosion, the warhead produces a great fragmentation effect and shock wave. |
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Only ears attuned to the metre will hear it, but the shock of recognition is matched by a jarring discord. |
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This suggests that Japan's stagnation will continue absent a drastic shock to the system. |
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Ordinarily you shouldn't open these units as there is the chance of electric shock, as well as the fact this will invalidate your warranty. |
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The TUC launched a campaign on Call Centres and the issue of workers suffering acoustic shock has been highlighted in many Press reports. |
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And from my point of view, he was one of those players who needed a shock to pull his horns in. |
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She wants none of him, and dreams that some day her prince will come, only to get a shock when Perseus appears and proves to be a wally. |
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A variation on the water cannon is a device which allows an electric shock to be directed via the fluid. |
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A consultant has documented 300 cases of acoustic shock and the problem is well known. |
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The jets contain relativistic winds that interact and collide, creating shock waves and emitting high-energy X-rays and gamma rays. |
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Peripheral rewarming can be associated with shock, acidosis and hyperkalemia when cold, acidotic peripheral blood is returned centrally. |
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Angry England fans vented their frustration at their team's shock last-minute defeat by France last night. |
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The company has already paid out 90,000 pounds to one worker suffering from acoustic shock. |
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But it was a huge shock to New Zealanders to see an act of terrorism take place within our coastal waters, and in our terrestrial areas, as well. |
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A failed attempt to abduct a legislator's son came to light yesterday, sending shock waves though the legislature's staff. |
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When King Edward VIII abdicated in December 1936 it was a shock to the nation. |
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And then, the western flank of the Wasatch Mountains rises up, sheer and abrupt, to shock as much snow from the clouds as possible. |
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He saw it, with a shock, much closer than expected, in the air space above the valley floor. |
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This enhances our shock when the abject figure of Winston is finally revealed, stripped of all humanity. |
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Grant did not affect the mock shock of someone who has experienced abject poverty first-hand for the first time on any of her trips. |
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Acoustic shock is a devastating 21st Century industrial injury ruining call centre workers' lives and costing industry millions. |
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Hits several key buttons, not the least of which is that it sends the media into apoplectic shock, which the right wing loves. |
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By the time the song proper kicks back in towards the end, everyone has melted so thoroughly that those upbeat horns and charging drums are actually a shock. |
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If the government hits the debt ceiling and ceases to pay its obligations, a lot of vendors are in for a nasty shock. |
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Yet, relative to the massive amount of attention, shock, and criticism, I can only muster a shrug and a plea to chill out. |
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The mutual moralizing shock that, at one time, each had wandered wantonly down the path of premarital partying without inviting the other, nixes the upcoming nuptials. |
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A group of bolivian miners must have received the shock of their lives when they uncovered a slab with 5,055 gigantic footprints. |
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People with high-arches tend to require greater shock absorption. |
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The sudden shock jogged his memory and everything came flooding back into his mind. |
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It was like an electric shock to a group of editors operating in the bleary haze of jet lag, pasta, and fashion overabundance. |
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However, to understand the more subtle indications we might get a clue from the homeopathic indication for aconite which are symptoms caused by shock. |
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She lost control of her bladder as she crouched in a corner, shaking, and unable to move her body due to the shock. |
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I myself was stung by some wasps and went into mild anaphylactic shock. |
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Journey from El Salvador to a holding cell For Claudia and her family, the cold holding cells were a shock. |
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Once she overcame her shock, Esfandiari realized she was arrested because she was perceived as an agent provocateur. |
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Its molded cushioning cradles my foot for maximum shock absorption. |
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The rape of a 73-year-old bird-watcher in Central Park this week ignited shock around the world. |
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In the past it's been called everything from shell shock to battle fatigue. |
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The crew braces for shock, the boat shudders and a giant plume of boat wash is the only mark left in the faint moonlight as the boat races forward into harm's way. |
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The automaker's stunning rebound into profitability seemed to shock even those who made it happen. |
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His style is acerbic, his humour disquiets, his directness can shock. |
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It was with sheer shock that Alicia reacted to the message Bryan had left in her locker, as her watery eyes flew over the contents of the rest of the note. |
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Margaret, in the blasted shock of sudden loss, sold most of her possessions and moved to Florida. |
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Just when I thought there was nothing conservatives could say or do that would shock me, they proved me astoundingly wrong. |
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Often, the birds are simply in shock after such a jarring accident. |
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As soon as Lana flipped on the switch, letting the weak light of a flickering lamp in the corner just barely illuminate the small room, Olivia let out a small gasp of shock. |
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In our shock at the way things have turned out, we wonder if there is anyone left in charge who's not a charlatan or a fool. |
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When this outflow of material eventually impacts the surrounding gas, the shock waves that are created compress and heat the gas. |
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Hydronuclear tests study nuclear materials under the conditions of explosive shock compression. |
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Sunward of the magnetopause is the bow shock, the area where the solar wind slows abruptly. |
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A bluefaced shock troop leader staggered over to see what it might command. |
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Other specialized cores reduce the shock from arresting a fall when used as a part of a personal or group safety system. |
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In addition, ropes should avoid sudden load, as a shock load can destroy a rope easily. |
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The rope should be replaced immediately if any evidences of shock load have been found. |
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On the other hand, men born in cold countries are, indeed, ready to meet the shock of arms with great courage and without timidity. |
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For example, Clostridium tetani releases a toxin that paralyzes muscles, and staphylococcus releases toxins that produce shock and sepsis. |
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When Tsar Samuil saw the broken remains of his once formidable army, he died of shock. |
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As remains true on the modern battlefield, hemorrhaging and shock were the number one killers. |
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Flat and hemorrhagic types of smallpox are treated with the same therapies used to treat shock, such as fluid resuscitation. |
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Allergic reactions and more severe adverse effects such as toxic shock syndrome have been reported. |
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A sober and reasonable person would not have foreseen that an apparently healthy person of 15 years would suffer shock as a result of it. |
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This hard, brittle compound dominates the mechanical properties of white cast irons, rendering them hard, but unresistant to shock. |
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An abnormal redox state can develop in a variety of deleterious situations, such as hypoxia, shock, and sepsis. |
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Supersonic explosions created by high explosives are known as detonations and travel via supersonic shock waves. |
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Ned Ludd, however, was completely fictional and used as a way to shock the government. |
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When the Nixon shock happened in August 1971, BOJ should have appreciated the currency in order to avoid inflation. |
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The voltage of the shock may have effects ranging from discomfort to death. |
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Many of these electric fences act as monitored security alarm systems in addition to causing an uncomfortable shock. |
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Recent innovations include electrical fence monitoring for intruder detection as opposed to providing an electric shock to discourage entry. |
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The collar emits a warning noise near the wire, but if this is ignored, produces a mild shock. |
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Removing those defects by polishing makes the axe much stronger, and able to withstand impact and shock loads from use. |
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The identity of the secretive street artist has been outed by a Sunday newspaper and, shock horror, he's middle class. |
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Citizens were watching in shock from above on the subway station. |
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The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. |
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Now the 1997 model year brings a slew of new and redesigned models that tackle sticker shock head-on. |
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A weakened Superman tanked an explosion 50 times larger than the Kepler's Supernova and the electromagnetic shock wave hit him. |
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She let some of the tension out of her body, starting to feel a bit tremblesome, the shock of the attack, the weight of her weapons. |
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The most severe shock lasted for 70 seconds, and combined oscillatory, trepidatory, and rotatory movement. |
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One constant, however, is that the flow, just downstream of the incident shock, at a triple point, must be supersonic. |
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We had a rag at Monico's. We had a rag at the Troc. And the one we had at the Berkeley gave the customers quite a shock. |
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The deep-heel cupping, arch support, and shock absorbancy supports the foot while providing generous comfort. |
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The Global Shock Absorber Industry Report 2014 is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the global shock absorber industry. |
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This is the finding of Kwik-Fit, which reckons that worn shock absorbers could be the culprit in many cases. |
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If you unground the extension cord it will cause a shock hazard in that drill. |
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For the patient with unifocal colonization, he was admitted to SICU for septic shock secondary to acute cholangitis. |
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At supersonic speeds, adverse interactions between shock waves and boundary layers can increase drag and cause engine unstart. |
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However, those accustomed to adulate the quirky fieldworker with the bike are in for a shock. |
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The shock of my friend's decapitation affected me viscerally, and I became paralyzed with dread. |
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With anaphylactic shock, we see a lot of reaction to insect bites and food, including peanuts and egg. |
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Once the two-year-old was raced to hospital when he went into anaphylactic shock after a drop touched his finger. |
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Up to seven people in the UK die every year from anaphylactic shock after eating nuts or other food to which they are allergic. |
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Cameron Wahid, seven, who had a dairy allergy, went into anaphylactic shock after eating in a restaurant on a family half-term trip to Italy. |
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Exposure to peanuts can cause anaphylactic shock in those who have the allergy, which in severe cases can be fatal. |
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His mate drove him to hospital, where doctors diagnosed an anaphylactic shock and said he had narrowly escaped death. |
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I decided to run back toward the town and underneath the castle went into anaphylactic shock. |
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The hornets' toxic stings can lead to anaphylactic shock and renal failure. |
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The German won gold in Pumas, but then laced up Adidas for the medals ceremony, to the shock of the two Dassler brothers. |
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I read about what happened with a feeling of shock and repulsion. |
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Then, with a shock like a thousand goods trains crashing into a thousand pairs of buffers, the lips of rock closed. |
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Estradiol, on the other hand, has been found to improve cardiovascular and hepatic function following cardiocirculatory shock. |
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They applied a conductant to his scalp in preparation for the electric shock treatment. |
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No one, of course, has seen her, and Ned and Beetie are about to experience the hammocking, cradlesome shock that is the beginning of despair. |
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Having grown up in rural Arkansas, I experienced tremendous culture shock on moving to Harlem. |
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Eventually, Randy moved through the shock and began to see that anger was eating him alive and poisoning his life. |
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In experimental surgery, a cool laser produces shock waves that fragmentize part of the cornea. |
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After a brief moment of hesitation, either from fear or shock, he gave my fuckumentary the green light. |
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This may come as a shock to you, Johns, but I didn't ghost your son. He seemed set on killin' himself. |
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For many, the experience of Internet shock sites began with goatse, a notoriously repulsive image that is considered the king of shock sites. |
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The frog is the foundation of the plow bottom, it takes the shock loads resulting from hitting rocks, and therefore, should be tough and strong. |
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The washed P2 fraction was subjected to hypoosmotic shock and lysis before centrifugation again. |
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It is inconceptible how any such man, that hath stood the shock of an eternal duration without corruption, should after be corrupted. |
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This desertion proved the final shock and he finally collapsed into a fever, only coming to for a few moments during which he gave confession. |
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Losing the war and the thirteen colonies was a shock to the British system. |
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It was there that the kyai finally pulled down the cloth, slowly, bracing himself for the shock. |
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Another change was the introduction of the stirrup, which increased the effectiveness of cavalry as shock troops. |
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His overweening pride received another shock through his new friends the legitimates. |
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At the front of the engine, a simple translating axisymmetric shock cone inlet slows the air to subsonic speeds using two shock reflections. |
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The news of the outbreak of the Second World War therefore came as a shock. |
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Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. |
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An earthen bank could be piled behind a castle's curtain wall to absorb some of the shock of impact. |
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Woolf's fiction is also studied for its insight into shell shock, war, class and modern British society. |
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Many had seen the Fifth, composed when he was seventy, as a valedictory work, and the turbulent, troubled Sixth came as a shock. |
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After the initial shock of discovering my scheduling megadisaster, I forced myself to take a deep breath. |
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Emin 'wrote' about the incident in her 2005 book Strangeland, describing her shock at reading The Guardian writeup the following day. |
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In 1920, the United States, fielding a team with many players new to the sport of rugby, upset France in a shock win, eight points to zero. |
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In the end England survived a shock result occurring after winning by 6 points. |
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On 2 December 2016, just five days after winning the World Driver's Championship, Rosberg announced his shock retirement from the sport. |
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This randomness in the behaviour of the microworld came as a shock because, until this point, science was resolutely deterministic. |
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The images of crowds of militant miners attempting to prevent other miners from working proved a shock even to some supporters of the strikes. |
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The risk of backdraught is higher when the locomotive enters a tunnel because of the pressure shock. |
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He spoke of the horrors of the Congo, from the moral and physical shock of which he said he had never recovered. |
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But, a shock to all, Tonga outclassed the Italians and eliminated them from participating any further in the competition. |
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He became an apprentice TV repairman until an electric shock persuaded him to move on to a series of other jobs. |
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Soon the rat learns to jump into the nonelectrified box whenever the red light comes on, even before any electric shock is received. |
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The nonexistence of Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy came as something of a shock. |
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However, this has been established as a physiological phenomenon that dried skin that receives a shock would tear off. |
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To the Welsh people, who had long ceased to believe that they had it in them, it was a profound shock. |
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Despite the acclaim and shock the book received, MacCarthy received some criticism for revealing Gill's incest in his daughter's lifetime. |
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However, two late goals for Tottenham ended County's hopes of pulling off a shock result. |
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He scored in a friendly against Italy in Brescia on 4 June 1988, the only goal in a shock win. |
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Films have also been made about the subject, often dealing with issues of culture shock experienced by expatriates. |
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Fourteen people were treated for light injuries or shock, with no fatalities or major injuries. |
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The snapping shrimp of the genus Alpheus snap their claws to create a shock wave that stuns prey. |
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According to Savitt there are many such small concerns who are out on their feet, and still in a state of shock. |
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Until the oil shock, the price had also remained fairly stable versus other currencies and commodities. |
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As a countermeasure, shock mounts can be installed to absorb resonant frequencies and thus dissipate the absorbed energy. |
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The shock wave began piling up the western ranges, and then the main ranges, around 120 million years ago. |
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To facilitate quick movement, a rabbit's hind feet have a thick padding of fur to dampen the shock of rapid hopping. |
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Aron Burley, 24, was eating at the venue in Brindleyplace on August 8 when he claims to have made the shock discovery. |
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The shock at de Kooning's Abstract Expressionism was more a reaction to the work's form. |
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It also withstands the effects of physical impact, vibration, water hammer, thermal variation and pressure shock. |
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Acoustic shock waves are launched in a steady-state glow discharge, pulsed discharge, and afterglow plasmas. |
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It has been the arrival of contact centres which has led to the syndrome known as acoustic shock receiving attention, for example. |
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The condition known as acoustic shock causes muffled hearing, dizziness and ringing in the ears. |
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A Croatian motorbiker got a shock when his wedding tackle was hit by lightning as he stopped on the side of the road to relieve himself. |
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Former work colleagues of Mr Wem, who was originally from Highfield Road, told the Gazette of their shock at hearing the news. |
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It will be a big culture shock, especially as the city of X'ian won't have the same ex-pat community or westernisation as Beijing or Hong Kong. |
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The drug targets the vasoactive hormone adrenomedullin as one of the key mediators during sepsis and septic shock. |
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Here is a blackberry bramble, a shock of wineberry plants, a bed of strawberries. |
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Veteran striker Paul Furlong could make a shock return for Luton from aknee injury. |
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High fluid intake, alkalinization and a low-purine diet were prescribed, and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy was performed. |
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The halftime show, especially, is a cacophonous display of shock and awe. |
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Some organizations will experience XML shock as they retool information systems departments and computer infrastructures. |
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The 10 parasites sicken millions of people every year causing epilepsy, anaphylactic shock, amoebic dysentery and other illnesses. |
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It was a shock that he did what he did, but attending YOTs has helped him realise the consequences of his actions. |
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And it would be a real shock to the system if you came across the fearsome-looking angler fish. |
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A DANGEROUS electricity socket at a North Wales warehouse could have given anyone using a water jetter an electric shock,magistrates were told. |
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Cut to a close-up of Hank on the toilet, his face frozen in shock. |
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They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together. |
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However, some animals learn to avoid the shock, either by running under the fence quickly between pulses, or by pushing other individuals through the fence. |
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According to Anna Freud and Edward Glover, London civilians surprisingly did not suffer from widespread shell shock, unlike the soldiers in the Dunkirk evacuation. |
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Both prototype physical structures demonstrated resiliency to shock and acceleration in recent air gun tests conducted at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. |
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I sit shaking in fear and shock from the horrible jumpscare. |
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The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur. |
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I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock. |
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The abbreviate form has never been able to recover that shock. |
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While the earthdin is but a seismal shock of a rheumatic condition in the diversified stratas seeking new positions to reach their centre of gravity. |
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A person or animal touching both the wire and the earth during a pulse will complete an electrical circuit and will conduct the pulse, causing an electric shock. |
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Armando Dias, for example, died in November 1913 whilst still very young, a victim of an electric shock when entering the textile industry where he worked. |
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A chemical explosive is a compound or mixture which, upon the application of heat or shock, decomposes or rearranges with extreme rapidity, yielding much gas and heat. |
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Such accidents were usually initiated by firedamp ignitions, the shock wave of which raised coal dust from the floor of the mine galleries to make an explosive mixture. |
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In this new world, ruled by charlatans and dominated by demireps, Talleyrand may have found much to shock his sense of decorum, but little to outrage his moral standards. |
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Cavalry, which had traditionally used shock tactics to overawe the infantry, largely abandoned them and relied on pistol attacks by successive ranks of attackers. |
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The culture shock was quite strong, especially due to the fact that Europeans were not able to understand the Japanese writing system nor accustomed to using chopsticks. |
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Many geologists and seismologists believe that the main shock in the 1992 sequence may be a forerunner of a much more powerful earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. |
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They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour. |
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The Aztecs had underestimated the shock value of the Spanish caballeros because all they had seen was the horses traveling on the wet paved streets of Tenochtitlan. |
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They were unfamiliar with the use of troops mounted on horses as shock troops, and were taken aback when mounted Spanish soldiers continually charged at them. |
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Though the shock at the slaughter was enormous, the Romans immediately began a slow, systematic process of preparing for the reconquest of the country. |
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The shock of the United Kingdom's defeat in Asia in 1942 and the threat of Japanese invasion caused Australia to turn to the United States as a new ally and protector. |
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At transonic speeds, near the speed of sound, it helps to sweep the wing backward or forwards to reduce drag from supersonic shock waves as they begin to form. |
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The canine parvovirus, which causes death by dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, and endotoxic shock or sepsis, is largely survivable in wolves, but can be lethal to pups. |
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Russia's defeat was met with shock in the West and across the Far East. |
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These individuals can be induced to spawn by thermal shock treatment. |
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At the point where its shock has been the most violent the sea is driven back, and suddenly recoiling with redoubled force, causes the inundation. |
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The thermal shock cracked the rock, enabling it to be removed. |
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The explosion under the target's keel would create a detonation shock wave, which could cause a ship's hull to rupture under the concussive water pressure. |
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Spouses may have trouble adjusting due to culture shock, loss of their usual social network, interruptions to their own career, and helping children cope with a new school. |
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This came as much of a shock to his colleagues as to the audience. |
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At low incident-shock strength, nonchoked flow results, and the wave system consists of a reflected shock and a transmitted shock followed by a contact surface. |
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Immunomodulatory pretreatment with Kalanchoe pinnata extract and its quercitrin flavonoid effectively protects mice against fatal anaphylactic shock. |
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King Edward's presence was a profound shock to the Scottish political community and by late 1295 King John had renounced his fealty and entered into a treaty with France. |
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The shock of the frigid sea made my nerves wild as a Tuckernuck steer. |
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I have not yet got over the shock of seeing our names coupled. |
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To their critics, the YBAs, with their emphasis on sex, sensationalism and shock tactics, were doing little more than copying the tactics of the ad agencies. |
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Unknown to the family, Jordan Norrie, who was just two at the time, had developed a peanut allergy which can lead to the potentially fatal anaphylactic shock. |
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The school staff, trained to use a defibrillator just one week earlier, averted tragedy when they restarted the young athlete's heart with a single shock. |
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Music teacher Andrew Turner, 38, went into sudden anaphylactic shock after he ate the bread with soup while at a friend's house in the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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The FLEX kit began as a protective cover with integrated ribs cells to provide shock absorbancy to protect the iPad in rugged settings such as schools. |
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Kennedy's assassination in November 1963 caused a profound shock and sadness expressed by many politicians, religious leaders, and luminaries of literature and the arts. |
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The shock of the water, of course, woke him, and he swam for quite a time. |
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The shock of this revolution in 1804, certainly introduces an essential political argument into the end of the slave trade, which happened only three years later. |
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It is delivered safely with minimal or no side effects and we can combine it with acoustic shock or sound wave to remove the dead fat cells even faster. |
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This low and inaccurate value then gets cited in news articles which state that Singapore has the world's lowest fertility, or at least use the figure for its shock value. |
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Unusually for Dickens, as a consequence of his shock, he stopped working, and he and Kate stayed at a little farm on Hampstead Heath for a fortnight. |
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He died on 16 July 1953 at Mount Alvernia Nursing Home in Guildford, Surrey, from burns and shock following a fall he had while placing a log into a fireplace at King's Land. |
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This came as a shock to the English, particularly schoolchildren, who, Ripley said, raised funds of their own accord to provide the poet with a suitable memorial. |
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Additionally, even edible mushrooms may produce allergic reactions in susceptible individuals, from a mild asthmatic response to severe anaphylactic shock. |
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The reaction of the European colons, a mixture of shock and fear, was to demand further draconian measures and to suspend any suggestion of new reforms. |
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Thish of TWS was really a shock to me, and I'm not pulling any punches! |
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Cultural shock and the lack of understanding a new language make the initial stage of moving to a different country be difficult but they are eventually bettered. |
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The slickered figure lifted a hand and pushed back his hood to reveal a shock of whiteblond hair above a weatherbeaten face that might once have been pale. |
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