Flail
31Flail (disambiguation) — A flail is an agricultural implement for threshing.Several tools operate similarly to the agricultural implement and are also called flails: * Flail (weapon) * Mine flail, a vehicle mounted device for removing land mines * The cutting part in… …
32Flail limb — A Flail limb, or flail arm , is a medical term which refers to an extremity in which the primary nerve has been severed, resulting in complete lack of mobility and sensation. Although blood typically continues to flow through the limb, it is… …
33flail about — verb To wave ones arms (or upper body) about violently, rather like a flail. Barry continued to shout obscenities and to flail about in a strait jacket, finally succumbing to the effects of intravenously administered tranquilizers …
34Flail chest — When enough ribs are broken (usually from a crush injury) to compromise the rigidity of the chest wall. On inspiration, the chest wall moves inward instead of outward and the opposite on expiration. * * * fracture of two or more ribs in two or… …
35flail\ &\ bail — when, to get out of doing something you ve foolishly committed to and upon reflection decide you really don t want to do, you come up with a crazy scam with which to get yourself out of it! I had to pull a flail & bail to get out of meeting my… …
36flail\ &\ bail — when, to get out of doing something you ve foolishly committed to and upon reflection decide you really don t want to do, you come up with a crazy scam with which to get yourself out of it! I had to pull a flail & bail to get out of meeting my… …
37flail around — see flail 1) …
38flail around/about — flounder; struggle. → flail …
39flail chest — fracture of two or more ribs in two or more places, resulting from trauma. It produces an unstable ‘flail’ segment and is often associated with underlying lung trauma or pneumothorax. It leads to asphyxia unless corrected promptly …
40flail — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. thrash, flog (see punishment). II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. thrash, beat, swing; see beat 2 , swing 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. strike, thrash, flog. see beat IV (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb …
