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Bandage


Definition:

  • (n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.
  • (n.) Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.
  • (v. t.) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (2) We have found the early placement of a therapeutic bandage contact lens permits extended administration of 5-FU during this period, minimizing discomfort and inflammation as well as enhancing bleb survival.
  • (3) Treating the catheters with an organo-silane preparation, protecting the catheters against dislodgement, and use of a belly bandage to minimize damage to the external parts of the catheter may have prolonged catheter life in this experiment.
  • (4) For each patient we have used a light bandage (x) with stretching to 30 and 50% of its length, and a heavy bandage (x) with stretching of 20 and 40%.
  • (5) Eucerin cream, Gauztex bandages, and DuoDerm pads were used to lubricate and stabilize anesthetic armamentarium.
  • (6) The available material, including bandages, elastic stockings, the technique, indications, complications, and especially allergic skin reactions are discussed.
  • (7) Wright eventually returned, head bandaged, but could not head the ball with any safety and played on the right wing.
  • (8) It is therefore recommended that a dust extraction unit be used when cutting all types of bandage.
  • (9) Although bandaging appeared somewhat less satisfactory with respect to the resulting stability of the ankle, the differences were not statistically significant.
  • (10) The authors described their own suggestions of advantages of the hydrogel bandages in ENT practice.
  • (11) We report on a patient who developed necrotizing contact dermatitis after a single topical application of tincture of benzoin and a pressure bandage following enucleation of an eye.
  • (12) A bare-chested man lay face down on the grass, his head being bandaged by Red Cross medics.
  • (13) All the patients were operated repeatedly at two stages: radical necrosequestrotomy, epidermatoplasty and tendoplasty were performed at stage I and bone autografting with immobilization with an plaster bandage were performed at stage II.
  • (14) Post-operative haemorrhage was controlled by nasal packing with a gauze bandage and this was removed between the 2nd and 4th post-operative day.
  • (15) He declined to say how much he paid for the 1,500-pound(680-kilogram) chunk of art, saying only: “Less than I will sell it for.” Bandaged Heart, an image of a heart-shaped balloon covered in Band-Aids, has a pre-sale estimate of $400,000 to $600,000.
  • (16) The Esmarch-bandage tourniquet was shown to be capable of producing pressures in excess of 1000 millimeters of mercury immediately beneath the tourniquet.
  • (17) A neuro-ophthalmologic examination, including fluorescein angiography and colour discrimination tests, was made of 15 workers (age range 30--65 years, mean 45.8 years) exposed to n-hexane (range of exposure 5--21 years) during vegetable oil extracting and adhesive bandage manufacturing.
  • (18) In football, it is wounded centre-back Terry Butcher, his bloodied, bandaged head and claret-and-white shirt in an England World Cup qualifier against Sweden in Stockholm in 1989.
  • (19) The bite site was covered with a loose bandage instead of a pressure-immobilisation bandage.
  • (20) Bandaged Heart, which was spray-painted on the side of a Brooklyn warehouse, was removed by a team of specialists shortly after it was completed during Banksy’s self-proclaimed New York City residency in the fall, said Stephan Keszler, the owner of Keszler Gallery in Manhattan and Southampton who purchased the work.

Bracer


Definition:

  • (n.) That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
  • (n.) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.
  • (n.) A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.

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