rotator
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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
When he got back to Maryland, Lesch’s father sent him to see an orthopedic surgeon, who found the problem wasn’t in his back or elbow but rather the rotator cuff.
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
Grace has also been to physical therapy for a torn rotator cuff in her shoulder—a much smoother process.
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
