Under fluoroscopic control, two K-wires are inserted for an oblique down-sloping wedge with the wedge base length at the lateral cortex corresponding to the preoperative planning.
If you must collapse from a cramp: 1 for a back cramp, lay face up, 2) for an abdominal cramp,lay face down and 3 for an oblique cramp, lay down on the side that has the cramp.
Though Mr. Lloyd's comments, few and oblique, played down the occasion for the concert — the number, the milestone — this was a performance with a sense of its own worth: the last 15 minutes or so felt like one extended finale.
The design for his Fairfield Road housing in London is a simple block that is split in two — one clad in brass, the other in bronze — and twisted on the site to create oblique views down the street.
At the same time, as much New York art grew overtly polemical, he kept his work conceptually oblique, emotionally damped-down, aimed to get under your skin rather in your face.
At the end of each study, coned-down oblique X-ray images of the sensor sites were taken to measure the actual distance between the tips of the glucose sensors.
The screenplay slims down the novel's tendency to oblique talkiness; it cuts down on use of the phrase "I love you"; and interestingly it does not hint at Carol's rather Hellenic suggestion in the original that gay love is a higher form than straight, a more balanced relationship.
Therefore lying down obliquely may be regarded as a simple clinical sign ("oblique sign"), which may prompt further formal assessment.
Brett Gardner is a homegrown player whose importance in the grand scheme of things has been underscored by how much the Yankees have missed him since he went down with an oblique strain.
I have not corroborated this assertion -- to be perfectly honest, I'm not altogether sure what it means -- but it is one of the many tantalizing non sequiturs uttered in the course of "Langrishe, Go Down," a teasing, oblique curiosity of a movie that opens today at Film Forum.
Reactor shut-down is obtained by oblique CRs and, during accidental conditions, by an emergency shut-down system (JDJ) injecting a highly concentrated boron solution (boron clouds) in the moderator tank.
