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rotator

[roh-tey-ter, roh-tey-] / ˈroʊ teɪ tər, roʊˈteɪ- /


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He was also suffering, he said, from herniated discs and torn rotator cuffs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

Researchers are now trying to understand how this galaxy became what scientists call a "slow rotator" so quickly.

From Science Daily May 7, 2026

“He had the ability if he was developed and stayed healthy. I think he probably overthrew and tore his rotator cuff and nobody knew it.”

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2026

“I think people can understand a torn rotator cuff,” Grace says, “but they can’t necessarily understand pelvic hematoma until they’ve had one.”

From Slate Oct. 6, 2025

These injuries and complaints range from blisters to severe tendonitis, bursitis, slipped vertebrae, rotator cuff dysfunction, and stress fractures, particularly fractures of the ribs.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

"The pentiptycene rotators utilized in this work have several pocket sites," commented Jin.

From Science Daily Sep. 29, 2023

NSF expects the pilot to affect 50 to 60 rotators over the next year.

From Science Magazine Nov. 8, 2016

These rapid rotators spin so fast that their shapes are “flattened” into what we call oblate spheroids.

From Textbooks Oct. 13, 2016

Do not forget, you captains of men, when you grease and trim your pumps and compressors and rotators, that the human machine needs some tending also.

From Danger! and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The proximal fragment is kept tilted forward, rotated laterally, and abducted by the ilio-psoas muscle and the lateral rotators inserted in the region of the great trochanter.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles




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