(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.
Plaster
Definition:
(n.) An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.
(n.) A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar.
(n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer.
(v. t.) To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.
(v. t.) To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house.
(v. t.) Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.
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) Plaster of Paris, a biocompatible, degradable ceramic material prepared from CaSO4, may have an osteogenic property and become an alternative implant material for ear surgery.
(3) Conservative treatment (immobilisation in a plaster alone) was compared to percutaneous K-wire fixation.
(4) One must pay attention to the setting expansion of plasters and to the setting contraction of acrylic resins which may be very important if these materials are used without care.
(5) Images of dead ducks in oil sands tailings pond have been plastered on billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis.
(6) If the ambition set out by the world’s heads of state in New York is ever to be achieved, the global tax system needs more than just a sticking plaster.
(7) The soleus muscles were examined immediately after removal of the plaster or after six months of observation.
(8) Prevention of progressive orthopedic deformity through the use of plaster casts may minimize the need for surgical treatment.
(9) Holograms of dental casts may solve storage problems by replacing space consuming plaster models.
(10) In an outspoken intervention that will reignite tensions between church leaders and the government, Sentamu accuses those in power of offering only "warm words" and "sticking plaster" solutions to a problem that is having "devastating" effects on people's lives.
(11) Macroscopic and microscopic examination of plaster models obtained from impressions with alginate mass Kromopan Super and silicone mass Dentaflex Pasta confirmed that leaving of saliva and blood on the surface of impressions causes uneven surface of plaster models.
(12) This report summarizes the experience of treating seven extremity melanoma patients with early immobilization and discharge using plaster casting or splinting following wide local excision and split-thickness skin graft.
(13) But anyone who dreams that Germany’s warmth provides more than a sticking plaster to Europe’s migration crisis should have seen the scene half a mile south of the petrol station on Sunday.
(14) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(15) The average duration of the plaster cast fixing period after resection treatment was 18 days longer than after curettage, but the low rate of recurrence in the first-mentioned case makes up for this disadvantage.
(16) It has been the policy of the accident and emergency department in Leicester to treat all clinically suspected fractures of the carpal scaphoid in plaster for 2 weeks, even after negative radiology.
(17) Andrew Tyrie, the Tory MP who chairs the Treasury select committee, has described the Co-op as an organisation "run by a plastering contractor, a farmer, a telecoms engineer, a computer technician, a nurse, a Methodist minister (Paul Flowers) – and two horticulturalists".
(18) Priority has been given to applying sticking-plasters to libel law when urgent surgery is needed to regulate a tabloid newspaper industry that has been shown to have no regard for privacy or the criminal law.
(19) Traditional elastomeric impression materials, four recently developed "hydrophilic" silicones and a hydrocolloid have been tested for their accuracy of reproduction by use of indirect measurements via plaster dies and for their wettability by means of the sessile drop method.
(20) Report on 35 cases of mallet finger treated conservatively: a circular plaster cast was modeled in hyperextension of the distal interphalangeal joint.