Sentence examples for Perforate from inspiring English sources

Most of the soft tissue is then external to an axial calcareous skeleton, but in rapidly growing corals the skeleton is perforate, and soft tissue lies both inside and outside it.

The lateral pockets of the pharyngeal cavity, called the pharyngeal pouches, perforate the mesodermal layer, reach the ectoderm, and break through to form pharyngeal, or gill, clefts.

The dead fragments of intestinal tissue may erode blood vessels, causing hemorrhage, or they may perforate the intestinal wall, allowing the intestine's contents to enter the peritoneal cavity (peritonitis).

The first reliably life-saving invention for mothers was called a crochet, or, in another variation, a cranioclast: a sharp-pointed instrument, often with clawlike hooks, which birth attendants used in desperate situations to perforate and crush a fetus's skull, extract the fetus, and save the mother's life.

In the meantime, there was injustice and stupidity to perforate, cruelty to expose, the absurd and gorgeous carnival of the world to watch going by. "What is this sickly sentimentality?" he'd say to me, "this weakening at the knees?

Would cosmic rays "perforate the body with such wounds as sterilized needles would leave," as an article in Popular Science put it at the time?

The trisynaptic circuit forwards information from the entorhinal cortex to the dentate gyrus via the perforant path, which perforates through the subiculum.

(Lewis and Lewis 1983, 4) Well, some cheese is singly perforated, some cheese is doubly-perforated, yet other cheese is n-perforated where n equals the number of holes in the cheese.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 9.12pm BST21:12 10 min: Another scare for Germany, whose high line is perforated when Slimani races on to another through ball, having given Jerome Boateng the slip.

LIKE a kettle near boiling point, the countryside outside Iceland's capital is perforated with vents and geysers letting off steam from the volcanic cauldron simmering just below the island's surface.

But the miners perforated that protective layer with 15,000 injection wells, causing massive contamination.Today, Diamo must work night and day, pumping clean water into the ground through a line of wells to form a hydrological barrier that uses water pressure to keep the worst poisons penned in.