(1) The combination of a myocutaneous flap or free cutaneous tissue transfer with a three-dimensional bendable reconstruction plate either of stainless steel or titanium has provided very satisfactory results in primary restoration of mandibular defects following surgical resections in irradiated patients or in those who require postoperative radiotherapy.
(2) The combination of a myocutaneous flap with a three-dimensional bendable reconstruction plate has provided satisfactory results in restoration of mandibular defects following surgical resections in irradiated patients.
(3) Ease of insertion and exceptional bendability are other features that make this device attractive.
(4) This difference between the two operators is likely to be due to an intrinsic bendability of the caa operator related to thymine tracts located on both sides of the operator.
(5) The major advantages of the new fibroscope are its diameter (4.9 mm), flexibility and bendable tip (260 degrees range).
(6) Mechanically an intramedullary nail cannot be conceived of as a nail but rather as a bendable feather subject to longitudinal tension and, to a lesser degree, to transverse pressure.
(7) By mechanical definition an intramedullary nail is not a nail but rather a bendable feather, subject to longitudinal tension and to a lesser degree to transverse pressure.
(8) We propose that bendability is responsible for the observed rotational nucleosome positioning.
(9) MMTV-LTR DNA sequences show an intrinsic bendability that closely resembles its wrapping around the histone octamer.
(10) Richard Windsor, formerly with Nomura Securities and now an independent technology analyst, commented : "We have been waiting for these for over a year and still there is no sign of [bendable screens].
(11) This device is a semirigid rod that is bendable and provides good support to the erection.
(12) The data suggest that the site-specificity of DNA gyrase may be partly determined by the bendability of the DNA.
(13) The bendability of DNA with different sequences at these bend centres parallels the bending preference of the sequences in nucleosomal DNA.
(14) The 'rules' that are emerging for DNA bendability and, from the results of other workers, on intrinsically bent DNA, are likely to be useful in considering looping and bending of DNA in other processes in which it is thought to be wrapped around a protein core.
(15) Bendable titanium inserts and castable abutments allow the optimum achievement of esthetics, regardless of the angle of implant placement.
(16) The combination of a myocutaneous flap with a three dimensional, bendable reconstruction plate has provided very satisfactory results in restoration of mandibular defects following surgical resections in irradiated patients.
(17) "Like a lot of concept demos at CES, the bendable TV is more a novelty with little practical application," remarked David Katzmaier, who has reviewed TV sets for the website CNet since 2002.
(18) The ability of DNA to form loops is affected by the distance between binding sites; by the DNA sequence, which determines deformability and bendability; and by the presence of other proteins that exert an influence on the conformation of a particular sequence.
(19) The bendability of both devices resembles the twisting of a gooseneck lamp.
(20) Protein p6 does not seem to recognize a specific sequence in the DNA, but rather a structural feature, which could be bendability.
Pliant
Definition:
(v.) Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
(v.) Favorable to pliancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it helped that he faced only one opponent, that a pliant local media portrayed support for Sisi as a patriotic duty, and that the election came amid a continuing crackdown on all forms of opposition.
(2) For these sites thin and pliant fasciocutaneous flaps are ideal tissue transfers, and we favour the radial forearm flap which is raised from the distal volar forearm.
(3) In several instances in which preadenoidectomy mechanical obstruction of the Eustachian tube was not demonstrated, the tube appeared to have been made more pliant by the operation.
(4) "For the most part the rewards for acquiescing to GOC demands are risible: pomp-full dinners and meetings and, for the most pliant, a photo op with one of the Castro brothers.
(5) The chancellor, George Osborne, and health secretary Jeremy Hunt would be very happy to devolve these political hot potatoes to pliant and cash-strapped local bodies.
(6) Putin also said outside forces would use intelligence services, the media and non-governmental organisations to destabilise Russia and make it "pliant in deciding issues in favour of the interests of other governments".
(7) "For 40 years the tobacco companies were able to persuade pliant politicians within their grip to tell the public what they wanted them to tell them, and for 40 years the tragedy continued," Gore told ABC TV's 7.30 program from Los Angeles on Wednesday night.
(8) President Asif Ali Zardari has vowed to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida, but cuts an increasingly forlorn figure because he is seen as too pliant to the US in a country where anti-American sentiment is high.
(9) Like maths and music, languages sink in faster and deeper before concerns about sex and jobs besiege the pliant brain.
(10) If one interrupts that sort of pliant texture operatively-unless their is an urgent indication-unprofitable results must be expected, which correspond to orthopedic experiences.
(11) While the fashion press and the beauty industry remain invested in the idea of young women as pliant, affable and terminally anxious about getting boys to like them, real women and girls are fighting back against a culture that persists in trying to present our desires and rebrand our politics as fluffy and marketable.
(12) Those courts once had a reputation for independence, but that changed under Mubarak, who made changes to personnel and to the rules on the appointment of judges which over time left mainly pliant men on the bench, ready either to take “guidance” on cases or to accommodate what they imagined would be the government’s desires.
(13) Critics have accused Erdogan of seeking to diminish the importance of the Turkish parliament and also seeking to make the independent judiciary far more pliant.
(14) Some fear his next move will be to go after Jega, the electoral chief, and replace him with someone more pliant.
(15) The distal flap is thin and pliant due to the small amount of subcutaneous tissue and the fairly long vascular pedicle.
(16) It is a comfortable-seeming thing, flexible without being adjustable, giving without being pliant.
(17) To keep its grip, the regime uses its network of personal and official ties to Britain’s too pliant monarchy, to gullible congressional politicians, and to business and investment leaders overly impressed by its $1tn (£660bn) in cash reserves and its global investment portfolio.
(18) Tolokonnikova has also continued to appeal against her guilty verdict through the Moscow court system, and is one step away from it reaching the country's pliant supreme court.
(19) For several years the Liberal Democrat side of the government, in which I served as Nick Clegg’s national security adviser, staved off the woefully unevidenced plan (hawked around Westminster by pliant ministers since 2008) for new powers to force internet companies to retain highly personal communications data (aka the “snooper’s charter”).
(20) The British media may be attacked for the weakness of its investigative reporting and the salaciousness and dodgy practices of the tabloids, but I would rather err on the side of a profession that is hard to control than one that is pliant.