Sentence examples for major limbs from inspiring English sources

Twenty-five trees lost major limbs.

There are very few trees that are not treehouse-appropriate, although cottonwoods can be massive, and their danger is dropping major limbs.

But a few years ago the honey locust began dropping major limbs after wind storms, and with each limb it dropped it seemed to reach higher and higher into the sky.

The death rate following amputations ranged as high as 50 percent, especially when major limbs were involved or when soldiers had to wait more than a few hours to be treated.

In the eighties and nineties, that meant chopping of major limbs of the state -- water, electricity, the airwaves -- and feeding them to corporations.

However, one of the major limbs in insulin signalling is through the activation of PI3K.

The desire to help troops keep their limbs was born partly out of numbers: about 1,500 troops have lost a major limb in Iraq or Afghanistan, the vast majority of those cases involving an arm or a foot.

And while there were 86 service members who lost a major limb in 2009, including 23 with multiple amputations, the number with a major amputation more than doubled in 2010 to 187, of which 72 lost more than one limb.

Major limb amputation is often required by patients with a limited capacity to tolerate post-operative complications.

Such intervention could accomplish a congruent distal radio-ulnar articulation, but would be prone to the risks associated with major limb reconstruction surgery.

In a previous study conducted at a combat support hospital in Iraq, we reported the major lifesaving benefits of emergency tourniquets to stop bleeding in major limb trauma.