Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no opening; not perforated.
- adjective Not separated by rows of perforations.
- adjective Medicine Lacking a normal opening.
- noun An imperforate stamp.
from The Century Dictionary.
- As applied to the shells of the gastropod Mollusca, having the inner parts of the whorls coalesced into a columella leaving no opening or perforation. In the Echinoidea, or sea-urchins, the mamelons which support the spines are imperforate when not pierced by a central foramen.
- Not perforated; having no perforations, foramina, or pores; atresial; in zoology, specifically, of or pertaining to the Imperforata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not perforated; having no opening or aperture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
perforated . - noun philately A
postage stamp that has not been perforated.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not perforated; having no opening
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Examples
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-- In children the condition known as imperforate anus may sometimes be remedied by exploratory operations in the perineum, guided by the protrusion caused by the distended intestine.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874
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The two general types of coral known as imperforate and perforate.
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Briony had an imperforate anus, a failure of her colon and rectum to meet up with the skin on the outside.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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Provides educational materials on imperforate anus, Hirschsprung's disease and the anorectal continence evaluation program
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Anorectal malformation (imperforate anus), a congenital anomaly where the anorectal region is either abnormally or incompletely developed.
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Briony had an imperforate anus, a failure of her colon and rectum to meet up with the skin on the outside.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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A particular example is of a 15 year old girl in Africa (unable to recall the specific country atm) with an imperforate hymen, who was discovered to be pregnant when she reported with abdominal complaint.
It Does Matter What People Think About How the World Works Sean 2007
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Hirschsprung's disease tracheoesophageal fistula laryngeal web imperforate anus absent uterus
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One of his four sons was born without an anal opening technically an “imperforate anus”.
B2fxxx 2005
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For the operation for imperforate anus vogino, & c.,
Medical Fee Bill Wake County Medical Society 2002
reesetee commented on the word imperforate
In stamp collecting: without perforations or rouletting between the individual stamps in a pane. The earliest stamps were imperforate by design, but after about 1860 most stamps were perforated. Modern imperforates are usually errors or are produced specifically for sale to stamp collectors.
August 25, 2008