Punctures

But what punctures is this: the frilly pink headband that adorns the baby’s head, the garish accessory that asserts the mother’s possessive devotion to her daughter’s femininity; the detail that says, loudly, childishly: this is my baby girl; I made her; she is mine. ❋ Unknown (2007)

During her week's stay at the NIH, she was subjected to a catalogue of medical experiments: lumbar punctures, magnetic resonance scans, blood samples, brain wave measurements, among other procedures. ❋ Robin McKie (2010)

Zac punctures the myth that people have to rack up big student debt and Charlie makes the case that President Obama is in the pocket of Wall Street. ❋ Don McNay (2010)

The old rule says that farce only works when it punctures bourgeois respectability. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The hull is more or less intact, barring a few punctures, and the interior has been left as it was on the day she was lost. ❋ David A. McIntee (2011)

You can go about anywhere, with shallow draft, but being careful of punctures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Follow-up studies on bone marrow, lumbar punctures and scans will be repeated at intervals during treatment and for a specific period following treatment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He says the agency later this year will publish details such as post-surgery respiratory failures, accidental punctures and surgery deaths from certain complications. ❋ Thomas M. Burton (2011)

Then a nerdy balding guy, in the role of AT&T, punctures the praise and—in an apparent reference to AT&T's mobile streaming-music service—begins singing the synth-rock song "The Final Countdown" while ridiculously pretending to play one of those keyboards that hang around your neck. ❋ Unknown (2011)

State regulators track 49 potentially preventable conditions, defined as problems unlikely to be related to a patient's original admission, including bedsores, infections, strokes, injuries from falls, kidney failure, and accidental punctures or cuts during medical procedures. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I packed the punctures with antibiotic ointment and wound gauze around his leg. ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

Simon Jenkins Imperial echoes have led us to a ruinous decade of wars, 28 December punctures some of the hubris of the UK's foreign policy. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The book version, which was released this week by Chronicle Books, calmly punctures the inflated sense of importance with which many New York icons are held. ❋ Aaron Rutkoff (2011)

Shown here, Ms. Breton showed how to wrap a torso to stop bleeding due to punctures or other wounds. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Instead the bacteria pose a risk when the spores come into contact with punctures or wounds that are not kept clean or include damaged tissues such as from burns, frostbite, or gangrene. ❋ Unknown (2010)