(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.
Swish
Definition:
(v. t.) To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.
(v. t.) To flog; to lash.
(v. i.) To dash; to swash.
(n.) A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.
(n.) Light driven spray.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
(2) Two kidneys (Group 3), deemed unsuitable for transplantation, were perfused for 24 hours with perfusate swished with unwashed sterile gloves.
(3) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
(4) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(5) The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.
(6) Photograph: Alamy Around the harbour, there are developments such as the new Cristiano Ronaldo CR7 hotel (the Portuguese footballer is the world’s most famous Madeiran), his revamped CR7 museum , and a swish new design centre .
(7) We have studied whether mouth-swishing with sucralfate, a well-known gastric mucosal protective agent, may be used as prophylaxis against chemotherapy-induced stomatitis.
(8) In a swish office block on one side of a sweeping square, a youthful, multinational organising committee staff that will soon number 1,200 busy themselves with the minutiae of hosting a sporting event of this magnitude.
(9) One patient with idiopathic carotid artery stenosis presented with a complaint of a continuous swishing noise in the ear and had a STA-MCA bypass followed by carotid artery ligation.
(10) And then came Daniel Kawczynski , MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, with swish of cape and puff of smoke.
(11) This year, money has been spent and spirits were high at kick-off, yet a disjointed performance against Crystal Palace headed towards another situation where the new season curtain didn’t so much swish open as collapse unceremoniously as the game slunk into stoppage time all square.
(12) Cyclosporine levels present in specimens of oral mucosa at the end of therapy four hours after the patients swished were similar to the levels previously reported in psoriatic lesions after treatment with systemic cyclosporine (14 mg per kilogram of body weight per day).
(13) There are others: a swish terminal at London St Pancras; regular two-hour trips to Brussels and Paris on Eurostar; faster commuter times for people in Kent; and a riposte to those who say our railways are stuck in the Victorian era.
(14) He was 36 yards out but his hard, flat shot fizzed past a poorly positioned wall, seeming to swish slightly, almost imperceptibly right then left then right again, like the tailfin of a dolphin.
(15) Then – in one 343km leap – I was in Bayonne, a shuttered, half-timbered, riverfront town within easy hitching distance along the coast of the swish resorts of Biarritz and St-Jean-de-Luz.
(16) This time, the senior point guard made an underhanded flip to Jenkins, who spotted up a pace or two behind the arc and swished it with Carolina’s Isaiah Hicks running at him.
(17) To swish around ridiculously and spout badly-formed nonsense at every turn.
(18) declared this updated Fanny, swishing her riding crop.
(19) It was an elegant swish of his left boot to send the ball into the roof of the net.
(20) That one elegant swish of his right boot meant so much for Chelsea.