(p.a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.
(p.a.) Wearing rich caparisons.
Example Sentences:
(1) The air entrainment devices from oxygen masks of four manufacturers (Henleys Medical Supplies Ltd, Vickers Medical, Intersurgical Ltd, C R Bard International Ltd) were studied.
(2) Bard College, New York, offered him and Christie the possibility of teaching there and provided the facilities he needed.
(3) Patients were supported by percutaneous femoral bypass using a BARD CPS machine, and underwent successful PTCA of either two vessels (three patients) or three vessels (two patients); in addition, one patient had dilatation of a stenotic aortic valve.
(4) Systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure, and heart rate (HR) were measured by an automatic recorder (Sentron Bard Biomedical) twice at rest after 5 min in a supine position and after 2 and 5 min in an upright position, 24 h after the last antihypertensive dose.
(5) Unfortunately – like a bad student mis-copying Wikipedia, he mistakenly quoted the wrong Shakespeare: not the Bard, but his modern descendant, Telegraph journalist Nicholas Shakespeare.
(6) One window was repaired using a bioabsorbable polyglycolic acid (PGA) mesh graft, and the other using a nonabsorbable Marlex mesh (polypropylene mesh; PP mesh) (C. R. Bard, Inc., Billerica, MA) graft.
(7) Bard Inc. was assessed as to its clinical usefulness and suitability to regular use with artificial kidney.
(8) Two new catheters with a large distal electrode have been recently introduced for catheter ablation: a low energy 7F bipolar catheter (Bard) with a contoured distal electrode, and a 7F deflectable catheter with a 4-mm tip (Mansfield).
(9) Last summer as part of world Shakespeare season celebrating the Olympics, the Globe invited companies to come and perform every play the Bard wrote in 37 different languages – including Troilus and Cressida in Maori, Two Gentlemen of Verona in Shona (spoken in Zimbabwe and Zambia), and the Henry VI plays divided among the Balkans in Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian.
(10) After heparinization with an activated clotting time of greater than 450 seconds, cardiopulmonary bypass was instituted using the Bard CPS system.
(11) Having evaluated various needles, we found the Bard Biopty instrument more efficient than manual needles and open biopsy techniques, and it provides muscle specimens for pathologic interpretation that are comparable with open surgical procedures.
(12) Privacy is the biggest unanswered question,” says Arthur Holland Michel, director of the Centre for the Study of the Drone at Bard College, in New York.
(13) Results of radiofrequency ablation of the AV junction using a custom-designed catheter with a large, 3-mm-long distal electrode, 2-mm interelectrode spacing, and a shaft with increased torsional rigidity were compared with those using a standard quadripolar electrode catheter (Bard EP).
(14) Six external velour (Bionit C. R. Bard, Inc.; Billerica, MA) and 11 double velour (Microvel Meadox Medicals, Inc.; Oakland, NJ) warp-knit Dacron grafts with lengths of 6 cm and diameters of 8 mm were implanted in the canine upper descending thoracic aorta for 56 days.
(15) They are not so good for the diastolic blood pressure as the Bard-Sentron over-estimates by 33 p. 100.
(16) Shakespeare’s Globe will finally have staged every one of the Bard’s known plays when it puts on King John next year to mark Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary.
(17) Photograph: Alamy 3 Shakespeare Part II Celebrations for the bard's 450th birthday started last year but will culminate on the actual day in 2014, 23 April.
(18) The rise in BARD was accompanied by a significant increase in lymphocyte basal ACA in normotensive subjects, but not hypertensive patients.
(19) Researchers selected three models of syringe pumps for evaluation: the Bard Harvard Mini-Infuser 150XL, the Becton Dickinson 360 Infuser, and the Strato Stratofuse System.
(20) The Bard prostate biopsy gun under ultrasonic guidance provides consistent, high quality prostatic core samples for histopathologic diagnosis.
Caparison
Definition:
(n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative.
(n.) Gay or rich clothing.
(v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse.