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rotator

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


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

From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026

But in 1981, a rotator cuff injury was a death sentence for a pitcher.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 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

After high school, I signed a minor-league contract but tore my rotator cuff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

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

The muscles most frequently at fault are the sterno-mastoid and trapezius of one side, and the posterior rotators of the opposite side.

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

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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