(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.
Galea
Definition:
(n.) The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.
(n.) A kind of bandage for the head.
(n.) Headache extending all over the head.
(n.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell.
(n.) The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes a method of providing pedicled soft tissue coverage and support for the contents of the anterior cranial fossa using a temporalis muscle-galea rotation flap.
(2) Deep to the galea, the subaponeurotic connective tissue was bilaminar.
(3) However, the use of onlay grafts coupled with soft-tissue shifts of galea and muscle enable the craniofacial surgeon to achieve superior results over those of surgeons primarily concerned with jaw- or tooth-related movements that do not utilize primary bone grafting as a method of augmentation.
(4) In addition, the use of vascularized tissue such as the galea, temporalis fascia, temporalis muscle, or free vascularized tissue transfer has prevented the complication of infection so frequently seen as a cause for morbidity and mortality in the past.
(5) The flap was raised one month before transposition, and a split thickness skin graft was applied to the inner surface of the galea of the flap.
(6) With regard to seasonal variations in adult galea, the limits of the barrier were similar to those described in other mammals: spermatogonia, preleptotene, and leptotene spermatocytes were surrounded by the tracer in the basal compartment.
(7) We feel that vascularized outer-table calvarial flaps can safely be pedicled using only the temporal aponeurosis, innominate fascia, and periosteum without including the galea or temporal muscle.
(8) These children, aged 2 to 9 years, underwent 31 general anesthesias and complex reconstructive procedures, including latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous pedunculated and free flaps, cranial flaps with galea, cranial bone and skin grafts, and retroauricular temporal skin flaps.
(9) The concept is to remove, in serial stages, segments of skin that measure about 3 cm by 7 to 10 cm from the bald area of an alopecic scalp, and to raise the remaining hairy portion into the previously bald area.The technique consists of undermining the skin in the normal plane of cleavage between the galea and the sub-aponeurotic loose connective tissue after each removal of bald skin and "lifting" of hairy skin into the operative defects as they are obliterated by primary closure.
(10) The inflammatory process caused extensive necrotizing fibrosis (up to 2.5 cm thick) of the entire undersurface of the scalp and involved both the galea aponeurotica and the periosteum.
(11) Special attention was directed to the layer of "loose connective tissue" that lies beneath the entire galea and above the cranial periosteum centrally, and the temporalis fascia laterally.
(12) Rib or iliac crest grafts, acrylic implants, and temporalis muscle-galea flaps are useful in correcting the deformity and restoring appropriate function.
(13) In a retrospective review of 246 skin lipomas from our own files, we found 20 lipomas of the forehead (8 per cent), and among these 12 were located beneath the galea, between the frontal muscle and the periosteum.
(14) The surgical technic was accomplished according to the procedure devised by Dietz and consisted of plastics of the anterior floor of the skull accompanied by galea-periosteal junction taken out from the scalp.
(15) We feel the correct treatment is excision deep to galea, with a one to two cm margin of normal scalp.
(16) Such flaps include the gliding tissue between latissimus dorsi and serratus anterior based on the thoracodorsal artery, the galea flap on the superficial temporal and the forearm septo-fascial flap on the radial.
(17) After studying the integrality of the walls of the orbits with CT, the presence and position of the intraorbital implant must be controlled and the enophthalmos treated by compensating for the residual volume loss of the orbital content (bone or biomaterials) and, sometimes, filling up the upper palpebral space (dermal graft, galea flaps or biomaterials).
(18) It had reached the occiput and led to destruction of the bone surrounding its distal end, so that air could be found directly under the galea.
(19) The cranial base was reconstructed with madreporic coral grafts; then a large extra-dural pediculated galea flap was placed onto the anterior base to line the sub-frontal dura.
(20) In these procedures, one or several burr holes are made in the frontal skull, the dura mater is incised, and either the frontal branch of the STA or the pedicled galea aponeurotica stump is placed on the surface of the frontal cortex.