(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clamp, allowing the anvil to be angled "sideways" so that it slides by the newly constructed anastomosis and can be withdrawn with ease.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.
Ossicle
Definition:
(n.) A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
(n.) One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The second, the normal tubercle for insertion of the transverse ligament of the atlas, may look like a separate ossicle or a chip fracture.
(2) Each mastoid and epitympanum was extensively involved with chronically inflamed tissue which surrounded the ossicles and chorda tympani nerve.
(3) A case is presented in which an ossicle was evaluated acutely.
(4) A review of arthroscopic, radiographic, and clinical data of all patients undergoing ankle arthroscopy at our center provided the following diagnoses: talar dome osteochondral fractures, loose bodies, accessory ossicles, talar dome cyst with loose bodies, and chronic synovitis.
(5) Tomography of the petrous bones showed, in both cases, an upward tilt of the long axes of the bones including their auditory canals, generalized sclerosis of the petrous pyramids and enlargement of the ossicles.
(6) X-ray powder diagrams of normal ossicles were shown as a granular hydroxyapatite.
(7) There was a profound reduction in the ability of marrow to generate ossicles when transplanted under the kidney capsule as a result of the administration of either 224Ra or 239Pu, with only transient recoveries from the effects of 239Pu at 4 days and at 3 months after injection.
(8) The position, displacement and phase angle of the rotation axis of the ossicles was calculated based on the displacement and phase angle of the umbo, malleus head and lenticular process.
(9) Ossicular mobility was assessed by direct coupling of a piezoelectric ceramic vibrator to the ossicles during middle ear surgery.
(10) Increase in size of the auditory ossicles was stated to occur unevenly, every bone having certain periods of the most intensive growth.
(11) This restricted distribution of tenascin may be important in the morphogenesis of scleral papillae and scleral ossicles.
(12) Particular care should be taken with those who have both atlantoaxial instability and odontoid hypoplasia or accessory ossicles as they are at particular risk of spinal cord damage.
(13) The valve ossicle resembles that of Parechinus in its triangular valve shape and open blade form, contrasting with Echinus in these features.
(14) The ossicles were nearly always present but deformed.
(15) Two cases of ossicles in human menisci are added to the list of 18 previously reported cases.
(16) In the treatment of the various malformations of the external and middle ear (atresia of the bony canal, malformed ossicles, reduced volume of the middle ear in varying degrees, atypical course of the facial nerve), the indirect approach to the middle ear via the antrum appears to be the safest operative procedure for a tympanoplasty in cases of congenital atresia.
(17) The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences in the destruction of ossicles in chronic ear disease caused solely (monoinfection) by one of the most common three bacteria, namely Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Proteus strain.
(18) We present four patients with meniscal ossicles associated with a longitudinal tear of the medial meniscus.
(19) They recorded an auditory gain in more than half the patients (early: PORP 97%, TORP 73%, piston 52%; plasty transplants of ossicles obtained from subjects who died accidentallyĕ For preserfic Council of the Ministry of Health, Czech Socialist Republic, recommended, based on the clinical tests, the manufacture of silastic prostheses of the middle ear.
(20) A hypothesis is developed to the effect that the movement of the ossicles, necessary for lubrification and nutrition of the hyaline cartilage, is maintained by the two middle-ear muscles.