With several water tanks and shelters to their credit, Sana Caves were constructed on the three slopes of an elevated plateau sloping down to the waters of River Rupen on the western face of the elevation.
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The western plateau slopes gently southward and merges imperceptibly into an area known as the Haud, a broad, undulating terrain that constitutes some of the best grazing lands for Somali nomads, despite the lack of appreciable rainfall more than half the year.
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This shear force develops because the canine tibial plateau the weight-bearing aspect of the joint is sloped caudally ( downwards towards the back of the joint ) and there is an acute angle between the tibial plateau slope and the patellar ligament.
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In the TTO procedure, the tibia has three osteotomies ( cuts into the bone with a bone saw ) performed upon it with the aim of realigning the tibial plateau slope so that it ultimately becomes aligned at right angles to the patellar ligament instead of sloping backwards.
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The Gilf Kebir-that large plateau resting in the Libyan Desert, the size of Switzerland, as Madox liked to say-was our heart, its escarpments precipitous to the east and west, the plateau sloping gradually to the north . It rose out of the desert 400 miles west of the Nile.
