Last summer, White tore the plantar fascia, or connective tissue, that ran beneath her right foot, and could not compete at her accustomed level.

Blair tore connective tissue in her right calf muscle during practice last week and was forced to drop out of a tuneup race at Inzell, Germany.

He investigated these beachings and argues that the powerful sonar pulses resonated with airspaces in the whales, tearing tissue around the ears and brain.

MARK McGWIRE will have to stay off his right foot for two weeks after tearing connective tissue, a team doctor said yesterday.

The hit tore tissue in the jaw, and he missed a week with an infection.

The explosion "almost completely destroyed her right arm, breaking it in three places and tearing tissue from the back side of it."

He tore tendons and tissue in his lower spine.

Trauma: trauma from the delivery may tear tissue and vessels leading to significant postpartum bleeding.

Signs that an elder is being assaulted include increased vaginal tearing, bleeding, bruising, infection, pelvic injury, soft tissue or bone injury.

He missed 13 consecutive games early in the season because of a sore right knee and 23 straight later on after tearing tissue below his left knee.