Upon impact, the spring gets compressed, causing the shaft to retract and absorb some of the shock.
As a result, the spongy clay on which the city is built dries up and compresses, causing it to sink.
When a baby is stuck, the umbilical cord, the only source of fetal blood and oxygen, eventually becomes trapped or compressed, causing the baby to asphyxiate.
The small vessels around the narrow spinal cord might have been compressed, causing the infarction.
He said the artery had been compressed, causing it to split and leading to a "massive bleed" into the brain.
In the first phase of the impact, a rounded crater is formed, and the snow beneath the rock is compressed, causing its density to increase.
The patients in Cohen's study were treated at one of several pain clinics in the United States for sciatica, a condition in which the roots of the sciatic nerve that branches out from the bottom of the spinal column are pinched or compressed, causing severe pain and tingling in the lower back that shoots down the leg.
Pena said in court that Ji's skull was fractured and his brain stem compressed, causing his body to go into shock.
But while women can sometimes develop a similar hernia, they are more likely to have a hidden, internal kind that entraps abdominal fat and compresses nerves, causing intense pain.
This structure is defined by the helical ventricular myocardial band and defines RV function because the wrap-around transverse fibers constrict or compress to cause the bellows motion responsible for 20% of RV output, whereas the oblique fibers determine shortening and lengthening that produces 80% of RV systolic function.
