perforation

Example Sentences

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“These can be very dangerous” because of the risk of perforation of the colon or an infection introduced by unclean equipment, she said.

From Seattle Times

That was in the early 1960s, and those Adidas had the same look — leather uppers with three dotted lines of perforations and a flexible rubber sole.

From Los Angeles Times

It now bears the national colors of Ukraine, and a local artist has painted red flowers around each perforation.

From Seattle Times

“Jalis are carved out of marble sheets about two feet deep, and the perforations allowed the air to circulate inside these huge buildings,” she said.

From New York Times

The CT scan showed sections of the large intestine protruding through the hernia, which posed a high risk for bowel twisting, which can lead to perforation and sepsis or tissue deoxygenation and necrosis.

From Scientific American