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Stroke in sentence

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And that was a stroke of absolute genius, because what they did was they harnessed the power of the contract, private power, to deliver public goods.
Lion bones and tiger bones look exactly the same, and so in a stroke, the lion bone industry is going to wipe out all the tigers.
When their kids were five and two, Carol had a stroke and a brain tumor and died suddenly.
And in the U.K., neural stem cells to treat stroke are being investigated in a phase one trial.
What if you could make the genetic changes to eliminate diabetes or Alzheimer's or reduce the risk of cancer or eliminate stroke?
Imagine I were to stroke your child's arm with this feather, and their brain [was] telling them that they were feeling this hot torch.
Or maybe we can leverage today's gaming technology, like the Microsoft Kinect, hack that to enable diagnostics, for example, in diagnosing stroke, using simple motion detection, using $100 devices.
If you haven't lost a limb but had a stroke, you can wear these augmented limbs.
I'm put on full life support, and I have a massive stroke, and my brain drops into a coma.
That is the consequence of more than a third of the right side of my brain being destroyed by the stroke.
This is so specific that, for example, if you look at the part that is covered in red in the upper part of the brain stem, if you damage that as a result of a stroke, for example, what you get is coma or vegetative state, which is a state, of course, in which your mind disappears, your consciousness disappears.
So just the same way that we were able to jump over the damaged circuitry in the retina to get to the retina's output cells, we can jump over the damaged circuitry in the cochlea to get the auditory nerve, or jump over damaged areas in the cortex, in the motor cortex, to bridge the gap produced by a stroke.
I hadn't swum for 31 years, not a stroke.
And now I'm not swimming with a nice long stroke, I'm sort of crabbing it this way.
My mom's an artist, and as a child, I'd often see her bring things to life with the stroke of a brush.
What you can see here are two of the stroke recoverers on the left and right, and one of the volunteer helpers in the center.
Each stroke recoverer, there are about 36 in the room with volunteers as well, there's one-to-one helpers.
David's stroke meant that it affected the right side of his body, and he drew with his left hand, as many did.
60 percent of our asthma, stroke patients receive incomplete or inappropriate care.
Schlaug found that his stroke victims who were aphasic, could not form sentences of three- or four-word sentences, but they could still sing the lyrics to a song, whether it was "Happy Birthday To You" or their favorite song by the Eagles or the Rolling Stones.
And as they slide their hand down the lever, they can push with a smaller effective lever length, but push through a bigger angle every stroke, which makes a faster rotational speed, and gives you an effective high gear.
Again, the key innovation of this technology is that when he wants to go fast, he just grabs the levers near the pivots and goes through a big angle every stroke, and as the going gets tougher, he just slides his hands up the levers, creates more torque, and kind of bench-presses his way out of trouble through the rough terrain.
They also understand that an erotic space isn't about, you begin to stroke the other.
He got a stroke, and he was really, really sick, so he really couldn't tell me what to do next.
We developed this system for use in stroke rehabilitation, but I think there are a lot of applications, like maybe dance training or all sorts of sports training as well.
And one in particular that you probably wouldn't know about, stroke, which has been, along with heart disease, one of the biggest killers in this country, is a disease in which now we know that if you can get people into the emergency room within three hours of the onset, some 30 percent of them will be able to leave the hospital without any disability whatsoever.
Since the age of five, I started to learn how to draw every single stroke for each character in the correct sequence.
But at the end, 10 days later after he was born, we discovered that he had a stroke.
As you might know, a stroke is a brain injury.
A perinatal stroke could be something that can happen during the nine months of pregnancy or just suddenly after the birth, and in his case, as you can see, the right part of his brain has gone.
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