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If the annular muscles are contracted, the body cross-section is reduced, and the corresponding segment stretches, since its volume must remain constant due to the incompressible behaviour of the coelom's liquid contents ; this is the usual mode of operation of the hydrostatic skeleton as also employed by other worms.
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* Blade deformation and fragmentation: If subjected to abrupt loading or excessive heating of the converter, pump and / or turbine blades may be deformed, separated from their hubs and / or annular rings, or may break up into fragments.
If and muscles
If the papillary muscles are not functioning properly, the mitral valve may leak during contraction of the left ventricle.
If the muscles contract more than normal, for example in cold weather, the blood vessels also contract so that less blood passes through them, and also reduces the loss of body heat.
If a person loses part or all of the ability to control the muscles involved, breathing becomes difficult or impossible.
If the intensity of the exercise exceeds the rate with which the cardiovascular system can supply muscles with oxygen, it results in buildup of lactate and quickly makes it impossible to continue the exercise.
If the bladder contracts strongly and without warning, the muscles surrounding the urethra may not be able to keep urine from passing.
If the tendons, the muscles, or the nerves supplying these muscles, are not working as they should be, wrist drop may occur.
If you use your high elbows as a hinge for the inward sweep of your hands and forearms, you'll create the leverage you need to use your abdominal muscles to bring your hips forward.
If the gain of the VOR is wrong ( different from 1 )— for example, if eye muscles are weak, or if a person puts on a new pair of eyeglasses — then head movement results in image motion on the retina, resulting in blurred vision.
If there is massive or prolonged input to a C fiber, there is a progressive build up in the spinal cord dorsal horn ; this phenomenon is similar to tetanus in muscles but is called wind-up.
If the process of movement were to continue constantly, all muscles would constantly be contracted.
If the hyoid is being held in place ( by the infrahyoid muscles ), it will tend to depress the mandible ( open the mouth ).
If the cause seems to be in the muscles, it might be classified as a muscular dystrophy, even though most forms of hypotonia are not seriously dystrophic.
If a stroke damages the upper motor neurons controlling muscles of the upper limb, weakness and paralysis, followed by spasticity occurs in a somewhat predictable pattern.
If the NLI is such that it affects some of the ventilatory muscles, more emphasis will then be placed on the muscles with intact function.
If pressure is applied to the muscles of the right lower abdomen ( or iliac fossa ) near a very irritated appendix, then the muscle fibers in that area will be stretched and will hurt.
If the mimetic muscles do not contract anymore, facial nerve surgery is indicated, for example smile surgery.
If symptoms of pain arise, it is important to rest the shoulder muscles and tendons.
If the tendons and ligaments are too weak to support the pressure, the muscles can cause a complete tendon blow ( pop ).
If the broken hand is used, it can cause further damage to the muscles, blood vessels, tendons, ligaments and nerves.
If the bass is higher than this, discomfort in the muscles of the neck may be experienced after playing long passages in the first position.
If an animal were scaled up by a considerable amount, its relative muscular strength would be severely reduced, since the cross section of its muscles would increase by the square of the scaling factor while its mass would increase by the cube of the scaling factor.
If these muscles, which act opposite to each other are fired at the same time, at a high intensity, a tear can result.
If and are
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??
If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.
If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
If Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.
If they are right, they will prevail of and by themselves.
Without preliminaries, Esther asked him, `` If you are a world citizen, will you take Garry Davis' place in his tent while he goes to the hospital ''??
If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.
If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.
If we break the minister to our bit, we are buying back our own sins.
If the record buyer's tastes are somewhat eclectic or even the slightest bit esoteric, he will find them satisfied on educational records.
If Daddy's books are out of bounds his own picture books are not.
If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.
If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??
If the Communists are sincere in wanting a united, neutral and disarmed Germany, it might well be advantageous for the German people in this nuclear age.
If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.
If any are left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically prohibiting the feeding of them too.
If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia.
If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.
If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.
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