Sentence examples for vulnerable to rupturing from inspiring English sources

The corrosion, which ate nearly all the way through the thick lid of a reactor, left the vessel dangerously vulnerable to rupturing.

And since the incision would make her uterus vulnerable to rupturing, all of Kelly's future pregnancies would be considered high risk and require Caesarean sections.

(8) The long term behavior of E determines whether the cap becomes vulnerable to rupturing or not.

We hypothesize that plaque components are vulnerable to rupture due to plaque progression.

American officials are also concerned that mounting stresses on the reactors' containment structures as they fill up with radioactive water used in emergency cooling make them vulnerable to rupture in an aftershock from the March 11 earthquake.

Among the new threats that were cited in the assessment, dated March 26, are the mounting stresses placed on the containment structures as they fill with radioactive cooling water, making them more vulnerable to rupture in one of the aftershocks rattling the site after the earthquake and tsunami of March 11.

MPCM are commonly mixed with with building materials, and are vulnerable to rupture during mixing or compaction.

Several engorged veins on the pedicle continued into the gastric fornix and appeared vulnerable to rupture with surgical manipulation (Figure 2b).

Macrophage activity in the cap is highly detrimental as they produce matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) which degrade components of the matrix, thinning the cap and leaving it vulnerable to rupture [100]-[102].

Morphologically, advanced plaques are composed of a necrotic core and overlying fibrous cap and those with a relatively large core and thin cap are considered unstable as they are vulnerable to rupture [2]-[4].

In the coronary arteries, numerous reports have observed that high macrophage density is characteristic of lesions vulnerable to rupture [3], [4], [5], [9], [10], [11].