Sentence examples for deformity from inspiring English sources

When Simi begins to palpate Mary's joints, she finds her stride, spilling out technical terms as she goes: symmetrical deformity; ulnar deviation at the MCP joint; rheumatoid nodules, widespread over all joints; Z-thumb deformity; fixed flexion deformity on all fingers; swan neck deformity… The list seems endless, and Karan is impressed, needing to prompt Simi only once or twice.

Patients who are untreated sometimes develop no symptoms, and sometimes spontaneously recover; but they can also suffer liver deformity, heart damage, paralysis and insanity.

LYMPHATIC filariasis (LF) is a disease that causes the limb deformity known as elephantiasis.

Problems in gene development lead to high rates of death and deformity in cloned animals, for reasons that scientists scarcely understand and have little means of preventing.

His vanity and fierce competitiveness are seen as compensation for his embarrassment at his physical deformity.

NO VIPER, toad or hedgehog; no unformed bear-whelp, or lump of foul deformity.

Mr Byers inherited little from his predecessor other than a muddled ten-year plan that he was latterly doing his best to junk.The Brown handMr Byers was also a victim of that other deformity that lies close to the centre of New Labour, the half-creative, half-destructive relationship between Mr Blair and the chancellor, Gordon Brown.

The scene in which the girl's deformity dissolves as she dances with her lover was especially touching.Just as memorable were the psychiatric patients in Andrei Konchalovsky's "Dom Durakov"—(The House of Fools)—which won the jury's second big prize.

(Pat Quinn, the governor of Illinois, says one insurer rescinded a teenager's coverage because the family failed to disclose she had braces, which the insurer decided constituted a "congenital deformity").

The description of the problem cases of "disease and deformity" caused by the "inefficiency and carelessness of nurses and nursemaids", bold-faced girls in employment agencies with the cheek to question prospective employers about hours and perks—is more convincing than the solution: homes where ladies would be cared for by apprentice maids.

Once the principles of military surgery were relearned and applied to modern warfare, instances of death, deformity, and loss of limb were reduced to levels previously unattainable.