Abruptly the woman straightened, her pain gone, her hands and feet un- kinking.

Blockage or kinking of the catheter.

Inadequate ureteral length may also be encountered, leading to ureteral kinking and subsequent obstruction.

Phenotypic analysis The most striking phenotype was the "kinking" of tails seen in lines Mut-1 and Mut-3 (Table 1).

When it comes to bending pipe, a bending spring is essential; it supports the pipe wall as you make the bend, preventing kinking.

This extreme kinking forces the baseless portion of DNA into APE1's active site.

The doctors wrote that the problem may have occurred because the uterus was not anchored securely enough, leading to "probable tension, torsion, or kinking" of blood vessels.

They suggest that by understanding normal DNA bending they may devise novel strategies to foil viruses before the deadly kinking and splicing occurs.

Breeding towards proper head structure is necessary to prevent kinking of the tear ducts, resulting in tear run down the front of the face, or muzzle creases that can result in dermatitis on the face.

Her body was the colour of butter, hard and immensely powerful, but what startled and intrigued Tungata was that her pubic hair was as straight as that upon her head, without any kinking or curling.

Investigators monitored participants and conducted imaging studies at one, six, and 12 months looking for complications such as movement or kinking of the endograft, leaks in the seal between the endograft and the aorta, and aortic ruptures.

This type of cable is very hard-wearing, resistant to oil and moisture, and resists the kinking that can result in internal conductors unlaying and twisting, which is a common problem with the SJTW cable often used in household-grade extension cords.

The earliest reel-to-reel systems used metal wire as a medium (see wire recording), which is robust, but suffered from a number of problems - poor fidelity, required a strong current to imprint the signal onto the wire, editing inconvenience (needing physical cuts to effect an edit), and potential kinking or even tangling of the recording wire.

Kinking hair (also known as "Acquired progressive kinking") is a condition primarily reposted in postpubescent males with androgenetic alopecia, presenting with gradual curling and darkening of the frontal, temporal, auricular, and vertex hairs which, under the microscope, show kinks and twists with or without longitudinal grooving.

After 10 years, we are still working out the kinks.

At least, until all the kinks were finally worked out.

They hope to open more soon, after getting the kinks out of the new model.

The best time to start is after you've worked all the kinks out of your plan.

There is simply more time to work out the kinks.

And there are certain kinks still to be worked out.

It would help to get a few kinks out first.

And who knew how the kinks happened; they just did.

Of course, there were some kinks left to be worked out.

Just think, when we do it next year, all the kinks will be worked out!

There were, of course, still a few kinks to work out.

I've got a few kinks right now, but I know a lot of people.

"We have given them time to try to work out the kinks."

Still, there are more than a few kinks to be worked out.

A few kinks in the law remain to be worked out.

If we worked out the kinks, would it be all right?

In fact, by that point, most of the kinks have already been worked out.

"Today is a step along the way to working out the kinks."

It took a while to work out the kinks, he said.

Not that my own particular kinks would be for everyone of course.

We've all got our kinks, at the end of the day.

All you've got to do is find a person's kinks, whatever they might be.

The system appears to have some big kinks in it.

Better yet, maybe I should drive it for a day or two to really work the kinks out.

If left alone, they argue, the free market will work out the kinks.

You could never tell what kink a grown-up would take.

If they are metal, be careful not to kink them.

The spring will support the pipe and keep it from kinking.

She went on staring at the tassel, kinking it up.

But who knew what kink her bed habits had triggered in Marty?

But the job is arduous and the brushes tend to kink quickly.

During that time, 31 patients complained of problems caused by kinking in their blood tubing.

If air and pressure are allowed to accumulate in the cavity, they kink the large veins around your heart.

Long pipes must be protected against kinking between the fixed points using pipe guides.

Since sweat, chlorine and humidity can make straightened hair kink up again, the style is better for fall than summer.

This helps to avoid the kinking up problem.

The beams might kink, cut through the vacuum pipe, and cause an explosion."

It does not kink, twist or get tangled.

A good hose won't kink, disintegrate or fight back.

Translated, that means stay left over crest - effectively, a small jump - after which the road will kink back and forth for 120 meters.

In most cases the tubes can be reused, so if they are metal, be careful not to kink them.

Those cables cannot be bent sharply, as the shield will kink, causing losses in the cable.

A cage would catch and become a fatal trap if the vessel's fabric worked enough to kink the shaft.

To prevent kinking it is usually coiled.

Somehow, she had come to believe that hair that kinks - hair like hers - was undesirable.

This prevents the line from kinking.

A concrete beam runs along one edge of each half and tapers as it reaches the midpoint, so that the center suddenly kinks.

The hemolysis is caused by kinking in the blood tubing sets used with the Meridian.

Multi-strand, flexible, steel cable is particularly suited to winching because it does not kink so easily.

He worked a foot into the long loop and slowly added weight, saw the knot jam and kink the rope.