(n.) A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the bag does not abrade or desiccate the bowel, potentially reducing serosal injury and adhesion formation.
(2) Finely diffused and abraded amalgam must not be ignored as a source of absorbable mercury.
(3) In some cases the deposits appear to be caused by pulsing the electrode with current, while in other cases the deposits are corroded or abraded from the electrode or are otherwise not associated with the neuroprosthetic functioning of the implant.
(4) Less than 10 TCID50 (50% tissue culture infectious doses) of virus was required to produce large lesions (greater than 5 mm diameter) which developed during a period of 10 to 14 d prior to onset of healing which was complete by 28 to 30 d. A serum neutralising antibody response was also detected and protection against challenge by application of virulent virus to abraded skin was demonstrated in that challenge lesions developed and healed more quickly (14 d against 30 d).
(5) Two simple mechanized procedures have been developed for gently abrading the plant surface in order to efficiently extract glandular enzymes in high purity.
(6) Narrowing of the previously abraded coronary arteries was similar for the diltiazem-treated (median 7.1%, ranges 2.6-29.0%) and the control group (median 10.0%, ranges 2.3-24.1%).
(7) It was formed by electrolytic etching directly after the bonding surface of metal retainer was abraded, preparation of the axial grooves in the edentulous proximal surfaces of abutments, drying with compressed air and drying agent after enamel was acid etched and washed, bonding area was about 49 mm2 in each retainer and without using opaque agent between bonding agent and resin.
(8) Histological examination showed that the diamond fraise left a smooth abraded surface and the wire brush left an uneven surface.
(9) Abraded grooves have been observed on the anterior teeth of all the adults in a small population of prehistoric California Indians.
(10) The difference in infection frequency between quarters with smooth IMD and quarters with abraded IMD was significant (P less than 0.05).
(11) PSL showed no irritancy to both the intact and abraded guinea pig skin at 50% concentration.
(12) Several weeks later, allograft epidermis was abraded and replaced with the keratinocyte cultures.
(13) We used the balloon catheter technique to abrade a defined portion of the lining of the aorta in rats.
(14) Among models in infected quarters, percentage of lumen was lowest and stroma highest in quarters fitted with abraded devices.
(15) These abraded surfaces were compared with SEM micrographs of in-vivo composites surface after 4 years of service.
(16) Microscopically, silicone particles in synovium and lymph node were identical to particles abraded from a new prosthesis.
(17) Sixteen cured samples of each were initially finished with 600-grit paper and then abraded by medium-grit wheels for 30,000 cycles.
(18) High-speed rotational atherectomy uses a diamond-coated, elliptical burr to abrade occlusive atherosclerosis, especially noncompliant calcified plaque.
(19) An air-powder abrasive device abrades cementum rapidly and should be used carefully below cementoenamel junction.
(20) The prominences made of sealants, in particular, were abraded rapidly, one-fifth of retention being left after 3000 removals.
Emery
Definition:
(n.) Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not for Spain but I played a couple of games there with Unai Emery at Valencia.
(2) The original Virginia family with X-linked muscular dystrophy with early contractures and cardiomyopathy (Emery-Dreifuss type) has been reinvestigated 25 years later.
(3) Unstained fibers were observed in mitochondrial myopathies, in Becker, Emery-Dreifuss, limb-girdle, facio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophies, muscle infarction, polymyositis, motor neuron diseases and neuropathies.
(4) The instruments that were used to measure the study variables were the General Cognitive Error Questionnaire (Lefebvre, 1981) and the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979).
(5) Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is particularly worthy of recognition because of the preventable occurrence of sudden death in young patients with an otherwise excellent prognosis.
(6) The clinical features to establish the diagnosis of X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EMD) were recently redefined at the European EMD workshop in Baarn 1991.
(7) A modification is given of the original density function formula of EMERY and MORTON for estimating heterozygosity in X-linked Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
(8) Kearns, 26, performs his eccentric show in a monk's tonsure wig and Dick Emery-style protruding false teeth.
(9) We have searched for linkage between polymorphic loci defined by DNA markers on the X chromosome and X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD).
(10) "I think that the best team did win," said the Sevilla coach, Unai Emery.
(11) Completed specimens emery polished were stored in lactic acid at 37 degrees C for 3 months, and sand-blasted were for 6 months.
(12) The Sevilla coach, Unai Emery, has not beaten Barcelona in 19 matches but has the new signings Yevhen Konoplyanka and Ciro Immobile, although Adil Rami is a doubt due to illness.
(13) We report that an increased chloride efflux with respect to controls is present not only in fibroblasts from DMD, but also from two other X-linked muscular dystrophies, Becker and Emery-Dreifuss, as well as in clones from DMD carrier females.
(14) Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is an X-linked recessive condition characterized by mild muscular weakness predominantly in a humero-peroneal distribution with variable facial involvement.
(15) Linkage studies have narrowed the interval to which the Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) gene maps, raising prospects for isolating this locus.
(16) We present five patients, three of whom suffered from a rigid spine syndrome and two from Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.
(17) Lung weight: body weight ratios (LW:BW) were calculated, and morphometry was determined by the radial alveolar count (RAC) (Emery and Mithal, 1960).
(18) "You'd rather we didn't... You are awful... but I like you," he answers in his best Dick Emery voice.
(19) Unai Emery has informed Sevilla of his wish to leave the club amid interest from Paris Saint-Germain , with the La Liga club confirming they have lined up the Argentinian Jorge Sampaoli as his replacement.
(20) Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a syndrome with five salient features: early and unusual contractures; humeroperoneal muscle wasting; the slow progression of weakness, beginning in childhood; cardiac conduction defects; and X-linked inheritance.