(n.) A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;
(n.) A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon.
(n.) A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.
(n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.
(n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the effects of using seat boards only and a combination of seat boards and backboards on wheelchair posture.
(2) Immobilization on a flat backboard would place 98% of our study subjects in relative cervical extension.
(3) Cinefluoroscopic measurement of maximum cervical displacement during each procedure was made with the subjects supine and secured by hard collar, backboard, and tape.
(4) In general, the forces to which a backboarded subject is subjected during transport range from 0.32g to 0.83g, vary by direction, and are more predictable for air than for ground transport.
(5) This study demonstrated that seat boards and backboards in wheelchairs improve certain postural deviations of patients with hemiplegia, but that these improvements are not maintained when the boards are removed after 5 to 10 weeks of use.
(6) Forces generated during transport were measured using an instrumented, low mass triaxial accelerometer fixed to a standard backboard.
(7) Protective measures include proper immobilisation of the spine with a semi-rigid collar and tape on a long backboard, or on vacuum mattress, taking great care to avoid deleterious in-line compression forces on the spinal column.
(8) But Jenkins had a clean look, and he leapt, and flung, and the backboard glowed blood-red and the buzzer blared and the ball dropped clean through the net, and there was instant bedlam as Villanova jumped and danced at the staggering wonder of their victory, and Carolina’s players walked off straight away, because what else could they do?
(9) There are no hoops on the court’s backboards, so kids don’t bother playing anymore.
(10) Forty-one patients with hemiplegia secondary to cerebrovascular accidents were assigned sequentially to 1) a group that used seat boards only (SB Group), 2) a group that used both seat boards and backboards (SBB Group), or 3) a group that used no boards (Control Group).
(11) The use of computer assisted teaching in medical school could be a valuable adjunct to the more traditionally employed backboard and slides.
(12) The Magic had a chance to tie it in the final seconds, but Jason Richardson's long 3-pointer attempt bounced off the backboard at the buzzer.
(13) In ten children who were less than seven years old, an unstable injury of the cervical spine was found to have anterior angulation or translation, or both, on initial lateral radiographs that were made with the child supine on a standard flat backboard.
(14) When a young child is positioned on a standard backboard, the neck may be forced into relative kyphosis.
(15) To determine the amount of occipital padding required to achieve neutral position of the cervical spine when a patient is immobilized on a flat backboard.
(16) The use of seat boards and backboards combined was associated with decreased lateral pelvic tilt of 3.1 and 1.6 degrees, increased anterior pelvic tilt of 13.1 and 11.1 degrees, and decreased thoracic kyphosis of 13.0 and 14.2 degrees at entry to and at discharge from the rehabilitation program, respectively, while the boards were in place.
(17) To prevent undesirable cervical flexion in young children during emergency transport and radiography, a standard backboard can be modified to provide safer alignment of the cervical spine.
(18) The most common deficiencies in pediatric equipment included backboards, pediatric drugs, resuscitation masks, and small intravenous catheters.
(19) Both the backboard and the Scoop stretcher offered adequate stabilization for thoracolumbar spine instability.
Basket
Definition:
(n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
(n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
(n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
(n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.
(v. t.) To put into a basket.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Europe, for example, the basket of goods tested has fallen 18% in Greece (Corfu) to £57.50, making prices a third cheaper than Italy (Sorrento) at £87.06, the most expensive of six eurozone destinations surveyed.
(2) The industry wants the health ministry to bring in a new pricing system so that Greece uses a basket of eurozone countries to calculate prices.
(3) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(4) The price of a basket of 20 Unilever products has gone up by an average of 5.7% since the Brexit vote , according to analysis by the Guardian and price comparison site MySupermarket.com published last month.
(5) The dissolution rate of the microcapsules was determined by the rotating-basket and rotating-bottle methods.
(6) And the government doesn't ask 300 million people; it asks only 7,000 families to keep diaries about how much they're spending on a basket of 200 products; the diaries lasted for either two weeks or three months.
(7) These are collected in her pollen baskets which she takes back to the nest to feed the young after fertilising the flowers.
(8) Frahm witnessed how every morning Weiwei puts a flower into the basket of a bicycle just outside his studio, which he will continue until he is free again to ride it out through the gates.
(9) The calcium-binding protein, parvalbumin, is found in each type of basket cell but less than 40% of the basket endings display parvalbumin-immunoreactivity.
(10) Four cases of non-surgical extraction of iatrogenic vascular foreign bodies are reported, in two of which a basket sound was used, and two others a metallic collar.
(11) The puncture set was improved, and a special basket was developed to extract stones that had escaped into the cystic duct.
(12) Toronto Cheapest for salmon Pricey for almost everything else Canada's biggest city came out the surprise loser in our survey, with our basket of goods costing 40% more in Toronto than in Berlin.
(13) Within these fields, the development of perineuronal baskets followed a similar medial to lateral sequence: DA axons first surrounded a few neuronal cell bodies at P3 in the medial part of the intermediate LSN; at P6, Met-IR axons encircled more laterally located perikarya, and only at P9, some neurons located along the ventricle in the lateral DA field became surrounded.
(14) At stake: rice cakes, a gift basket, and a somewhat condescending hockey puck.
(15) The concept implies a dynamic food basket, the quantities of which are calculated in a way that simulates the behavior of the consumer and the best nutrition knowledge.
(16) Calculi were removed from the upper urinary tracts and the distal ureter in single sessions in 2 patients with the aid of prone flexible cystoscopy and a through-and-through stone basket.
(17) In the evening, the police hand out baskets of basic necessities in the Alvorada neighbourhood.
(18) Self-assembly kitchen wall units are being added to the basket to improve coverage of furniture, while basin taps are being removed.
(19) For removal of catheter fragments from vessels of small diameter, such as the subclavian vein, or vessels in which the catheter has to take an acute bend to enter, such as the right or left pulmonary artery, a smaller, more pliable Bean-Smith-Mahorner biliary stone helical basket was adapted by extending the length of wire to 100 cm.
(20) A slimy basket case Climate change and human globalisation assist most travelling species but many journeys are still mysterious.