(1) The happy couple were driving back into Washington and, as they hit the Beltway, one of their car tyres sustained a puncture .

(2) Scientists have recently ruled out the possibility that the stylets of certain mites are too short to puncture cells on the front surfaces of some ferns.

(3) A puncture wound

(4) Hold the finger and hand firmly to immobilize the finger as some patients's response is to pull away as you perform the skin puncture .

(5) They say the louts involved even left broken glass strewn on their path to puncture Rosemary's wheelchair tyres.

(6) I'm sure you all remember the Belvedere College massacre over when an angry young student went on the rampage with a plank of wood with a nail in it. 8 people were treated for puncture wounds.

(7) The advantages are obvious: the airless tyre can never suffer a puncture or valve failure and ends the need to check tyre pressures.

(8) However, for him the problems with start soon first a puncture at his left-back tyre followed just after one lap by another one, this time at his left-right tyre.

(9) A police officer who used a knife to puncture the tyres of a car to stop it being driven by a group of drunken revellers has been convicted and warned he may face a jail sentence.

(10) These puncture wounds scar and deform the fruit.

(11) She didn't seem the least bit winded, though Shannon felt as if a knife were stabbing into his lungs, trying to puncture his chest cavity so that all the air would escape and he would suffocate.

(12) I looked over at the u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510vampiresu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb warily and then stood up, rubbing the two puncture wounds on my neck.

(13) Injuries can lead to tetanus if people get puncture wounds.

(14) Apply a comfrey leaf ointment or compress to your cut, but do not use it on puncture wounds because the skin may heal faster than the tissue below.

(15) She didn't want him doing anything to make his puncture wound worse.

(16) Clinically, progressive purpuric skin lesions and diffuse oozing from skin puncture sites are observed, often within hours of birth.

(17) Cosgrove dropped to the floor in front of the elderly man and ripped the fabric, exposing one skinny calf that had two red puncture marks marring the skin.

(18) A 40-year-old man received a puncture wound to his back after he stepped in to help a 19-year-old black woman who was being harassed by a group of youths at a bus stop.

(19) You should protect the vital areas along the mid-line of the torso, where even a shallow wound might puncture heart, lungs, liver, kidney or bowel.

(20) Cover cuts and abrasions with waterproof dressings. Exercise great care with all sharps to prevent puncture wounds, cuts or abrasions.