Sentence examples for normal alignment from inspiring English sources

The joint can wears down from an injury that kills the cells that keep it healthy, or from a loss of the normal alignment -- like a mis-aligned car whose tires wear irregularly.

His chin and jaw were back in their normal alignment.

So, using an Ilizarov frame, a scaffold around the leg that looks a bit like a medieval torture device, his treatment consisted of two main elements — returning the ankle joint to something near its normal alignment and using the body's ability to grow new bone to lengthen the leg to where it had been before the accident.

One serious complication of the fusion cages commercially available in the market is subsidence of the cage with loss of the normal alignment of the spine and recurrent pain.

"Some days, David hits a ground ball to second, and it ends up being a base hit, that on a normal alignment is an out," Francona said of Ortiz.

Some fractures, notably compression fractures of cancellous bone, are inherently stable (remain in normal alignment) and require temporary immobilization by bed rest or a sling only because of pain.

Here we use microscratch testing to demonstrate how a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) forest material can exhibit variable adhesion properties with solid surfaces ranging from negligible adhesion at low loading due to the normal alignment of SWCNTs to maximum adhesion at high loading that exploits the extraordinary sidewall adhesion of SWCNTs.

X-ray showed normal alignment and joint space.

Open image in new window Fig. 3 Normal alignment versus rotary subluxation of the scaphoid.

This new method has proven to be effective in achieving normal alignment after lengthening is completed.

Open image in new window Fig. 6 Normal alignment of facet joints on parasagittal CT image (arrows).