Sentence examples for small rupture from inspiring English sources

She continued to work but the pain persisted, and she eventually went to the emergency room for an MRI scan, which showed a small rupture of the disk below the fifth lumbar vertebra.

He is expected to miss four to six weeks.... Detroit Pistons forward Tayshaun Prince, who has missed the past three games, was found to have a small rupture of a disk in his lower back and will remain sidelined indefinitely.

In the East Islip accident, investigators found that the crash also caused a small rupture to the gasoline tank itself, but the charred evidence from the truck and the sport utility vehicle suggests that the gasoline that spilled from the unprotected pipes -- known as wet lines -- may have caused the explosion.

This small rupture broke the lava outcrop.

Alternatively, if the fracture energy is different by a larger factor α between adjacent scales, then it is more difficult for a small rupture to cascade-up.

The amount of released moment during the initial small rupture spanning Patch S is, however, larger than that in the typical nS event.

The rupture features of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake derived from back-projection have come from small-scale rupture structures.

A few small ruptures in the seal around North Korea's people illustrate how glacial the pace of change may be.

In the NM-RCZ, disconnected and echelon-distributed small ruptures were found along the recent magmatic vents.

In the east Komezuka area, three small ruptures appeared on the road between Ojodake and Kishimadake volcanoes.

Although the resulting seismogram may have a similarity to the cL events with large α demonstrated in the present study, a large nucleation (or preslip) would be present there and produce the small ruptures as a side-effect.