Sentence examples for prevent lengthening from inspiring English sources

Open-wedge osteotomies should be avoided in the thoracic spine to prevent lengthening of the thecal sac and neurological risk.

Specifically, active MTrPs prevent full lengthening and weakening of the muscle.

A maximum of three polyps per patient were included to prevent substantial lengthening of the optical colonoscopy procedure.

It is not yet clear which of the SLX4-associated nucleases are required to prevent telomere lengthening.

Interventions commenced at this earlier asymptomatic stage may offer an opportunity to prevent PTD or lengthen gestation sufficiently to reduce adverse perinatal outcome.

Furthermore, SLX4 prevents telomere lengthening and fragility in a manner that appears to be independent of telomere association.

A unilateral external fixator (Dyna-EXTOR, BK meditech, Seoul, Korea) was fixed at the medial aspect of the metatarsus, as parallel to the plantar surface as possible in the sagittal plane, and as parallel to the second metatarsal axis in the transversal plane to prevent malalignment during metatarsal lengthening.

It suggested that eating significantly less salt would modestly lower blood pressure; it said nothing about whether this would reduce hypertension, prevent heart disease or lengthen life.

The complicated geometry meant that a pair of rods had different effective lengths, giving a longer stroke on the articulated side; consequently the cylinder liners on that side had to be lengthened to prevent the lower piston ring from running out of the cylinder skirt.

Yet this will do little to encourage investors to buy their bonds.Regulators may want to prevent another financial crisis by lengthening bank funding.

Cephalopods do not have longitudinal muscle fibres; however, layers of collagen fibres on the outer and inner surfaces of the muscle prevent the animal from lengthening when the muscles contract.