(n.) An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.
(n.) Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.
(n.) the incus. See Incus.
(v. t.) To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor.
Example Sentences:
(1) An alternative method of securing the bowel around the anvil is described.
(2) After disconnecting the anvil from the cartridge, the anvil center rod can be grasped with a right-angle clamp, allowing the anvil to be angled "sideways" so that it slides by the newly constructed anastomosis and can be withdrawn with ease.
(3) Isaiah 41:7 even manages to (sort of) cover two Premiership clubs: "The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer spurs on him who strikes the anvil."
(4) However, the reaction exposes a uniquely moulded organization of subacrosomal material ("pseudoperforatorium"), shaped like an anvil over the rostral rim of the flattened nucleus and encased by the remaining inner acrosomal membrane.
(5) A technique is described that obviates the difficulty in sliding the proximal colon over the intraluminal stapling anvil.
(6) Poly(L-lysine) bound to phosphatidylglycerol or phosphatidic acid bilayers was submitted to hydrostatic pressure in a diamond anvil cell to investigate whether the lipidic surfaces can protect the polypeptide against pressure-induced conformational transformations.
(7) The fact that the anvil and anvil stem of a new circular stapling device (Premium EEA) can be detached from the frame of the instrument allows the anvil stem to be brought out through the proximal linear stapled colon.
(8) New operating proctoscopes have been designed that facilitate the passage of a stapling head without its anvil in rectal procedures which call for this technique to be used.
(9) The calibre of player vying to accompany Pogba in the centre remains open to debate, as question marks of varying weights hang like cartoon anvils over Morgan Schneiderlin, Daley Blind, Marouane Fellaini, Ander Herrera and Michael Carrick, and, as Mourinho did not quite say this month , only a fool, or perhaps a recently deposed England manager, would attempt to foist a dwindling Wayne Rooney on United’s midfield.
(10) Uneven strain distribution due to lack of support of cut vertical trabeculae at the anvil-specimen interface is believed to be causing the underestimation of Young's modulus measured by the extensometer technique.
(11) Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy performed with a high pressure diamond anvil cell was used to study hydrogen bonding between anhydrous phosphatidylcholines and cholesterol at the molar ratio 4:1.
(12) "You'd almost see sparks and hear anvils clanging."
(13) The market-dominating BBC triumvirate of Casualty, Holby City and Doctors are now complemented by period variants Call The Midwife and The Indian Doctor, forged on the same nostalgic anvil as ITV's 60s-set The Royal (which ran for 87 episodes).
(14) Rachel Cusk may have written "childbirth and motherhood are the anvil upon which sexual inequality was forged" but using personal experience is still controversial.
(15) The circular end-to-end stapler, with the anvil removed, is then passed through an enterotomy in the rectal remnant.
(16) The author calls for an education system relevant to and tested upon the anvil of patient care.
(17) Refugees were being made to decide between the “anvil of [Syrian president Bashar al] Assad and the hammer of Daesh”.
(18) Intraluminal circular stapling in gastrointestinal surgery requires a purse string suture which secures the bowel around the anvil of the head of the stapling gun before firing.
(19) An oscillating knife, housed in the hollow shaft of the hook, is driven against the anvil to cut the membrane.
(20) The anvil has a rounded surface enclosed by cylindrical walls, while the pressure pestle functions as a piston within the cylindrical walls.
Incus
Definition:
(n.) An anvil.
(n.) One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear.
(n.) The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the Rotifera.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observed pattern of development in nonirradiated specimens was the following: hypertrophy of the rostral process and endochondral-type ossification, fibrous atrophy in the midsection, and mineralization of the malleus and incus.
(2) The suitability for grafting of homograft incus, cartilage and fascia we believe to have been demonstrated.
(3) The reshaped incus is repositioned between the malleus handle and oval window when the stapes is fixed and there also exists a lateral ossicular chain defect.
(4) The short process prosthesis is used with an intact stapes, whereas the notched incus with long process carries the sound pressure directly to the stapedial footplate.
(5) In the polyethylene tube group, 1 ear showed the growth of new bone into the lumen of the tube and 1 showed minor resorption of the long process of the incus.
(6) Since 1981, we have used the stapes allograft, singly or in combination with homograft incus, in 20 cases of tympanoplasty and in 7 cases of fixed stapes.
(7) To achieve better hearing after incus replacement surgery, the ossicle-cup prosthesis is introduced.
(8) Incus, incus-stapes, and total ossicular replacement prosthesis results were similar, but partial ossicular replacement prosthesis results were poorer.
(9) Measurements of tympanic membrane surface area; depth of the tympanic membrane cone; the lengths of the malleus and incus long processes; and stapes footplate, annular space, and oval window areas were obtained using video micrographs and computer digitization techniques.
(10) The stapes was extracted from the vestibulum the same day and was fixed to the incus with fibrin sealant in an anatomical position.
(11) For each of four implant designs (incus, incus-stapes, PORP, and TORP), the head is constructed from hydroxylapatite and the shaft from Plasti-Pore.
(12) Mitochondrial volume density (% cytoplasm) was lower in dog than in mouse cells or cells of the incus.
(13) We report on a 5-year experience with 44 patients (1980-1985) with incus interposition using a modelled or sculptured incus, either autograft or homograft, to correct ossicular discontinuity when a functional malleus and stapes are present.
(14) A stapes prosthesis is placed on the long process of the incus.
(15) The results of this assembly, judging by different methods of analysis, are the same as in 45 ears having approximately the same pathologic condition treated by an autograft or allograft incus as the columella between the footplate and eardrum.
(16) A case of a Gorlin-Goltz-syndrome with anomalies of the stapes and incus of one ear is described for the first time.
(17) A theory is suggested in which an elongated capsule allows incus motion without energy transmission to the stapes.
(18) To measure these effects in the area of the oval window, in isolated temporal bones the stapes was removed and substituted by a piece of plastipore, attached to the incus.
(19) Hearing success was defined as a postoperative puretone average air-bone gap of < or = 15 dB for incus prostheses and partial ossicular replacement prostheses (PORPs) or < or = 25 dB for incus-stapes prostheses and total ossicular reconstruction prostheses (TORPs).
(20) The long-term results of this assembly, judging by different methods of analysis, are still somewhat better than those of 98 ears with approximately the same pathologic condition treated by an allograft incus as the columella between the footplate and fascia.