Quotes About Fracture

Fracture of the patella may be produced by muscular action or by direct violence. When produced by muscular action, it occurs thus: a person in danger of falling forwards attempts to recover himself by throwing the body backwards, and the violent action of the quadriceps extensor upon the patella snaps the bone transversely across.

Rejecting Madrid? It's true that during the process, I decided to stay on the fringes. It was a time when I needed to think things through.

it is quite possible to break a bow by 'shooting' it without an arrow.

The quantity of energy required to break a given cross-section of a material defines its 'toughness', which is nowadays more often called its 'fracture energy' or 'work of fracture'.

Geometrical irregularities, such as holes and cracks and sharp corners, which had previously been ignored, may raise the local stress ? often only over a very small area ? very dramatically indeed.

He is not concerned with arguments to establish a position, as in much traditional philosophy. Rather, he is teaching a skill that is critical and destabilizing, seeking to fracture the artificial unities we construct with our minds, so that we can see differences.

Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.

De ahí nacen las grietas, como un cristal que se resquebraja y sigue en pie. No se envejece día tras día, se envejece de golpe, de un modo amargo. Una descarga que nos fulmina, nos ensucia... Nos tiñe el rostro de amargura.

staircase in less than a heartbeat, but already Grace had landed at the bottom of the stairs, her head on the last step and her body on the floor. A bone protruded from her right forearm, and her left leg lay at an odd angle to her body.

Era mai possibile che l'incidente dell'altra notte avesse provocato una simile frattura nella mia esistenza, e che ormai ci fossero un prima e un dopo? Ho

Nos faltaba el empujón. Los poquitos grados de fuerza para que se terminara de romper todo lo que estaba fisurado.

You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.