(n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
(n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dan Biers, the first secretary at the US embassy, said it was disappointed by the verdict.
(2) A modern version of Bier's original method is described, conveniently called an intercuff block (ICB), which reintroduces the possibility of effective flushing, offers better operating conditions and engenders new ideas for further study.
(3) The addition of 2 mg of Atracurium to the Bier's Block improved the ease of reduction (P less than 0.025) and the quality of analgesia (P less than 0.05) (Mann-Whitney U test).
(4) Perhaps this latter group should be done under Bier block intravenous anesthesia, if they can be identified beforehand.
(5) Barley, bier and draff therefore contain a beta-glucan-like factor which stimulates lactogenic hormone secretion.
(6) These microorganisms were identified following the Otto Bier and Bailey & Scott's techniques (3, 1).
(7) The mini-dose Bier block, a technique of intravenous (IV) regional anesthesia that uses low-dose lidocaine and provides safe and effective anesthesia for outpatient closed reductions of upper extremity fractures and dislocations, is presented.
(8) We describe the purification of a single-strand nuclease from Aspergillus oryzae using the first commercial prototype of an instrument (RF3TM) designed by Milan Bier et al.
(9) These studies suggest that the glycocalyx develops late in cercarial development (late in Stage 6 or in Stage 7 of Cheng and Bier), is made by the cercariae themselves, and is not a product of either the sporocyst wall cells or snail hepatopancreas.
(10) The retrograde intravenous pressure infusion into an arterially occluded segment of an extremity (Bier's technique) is the most effective method to achieve maximal tissue concentrations of a drug.
(11) The effect of 30-min tourniquet ischaemia (Bier's block) on the antidromic homolateral left median nerve sensory potential (SP) and on the bilateral sympathetic skin response (SSR) was studied in 6 healthy volunteers.
(12) Bier's method of regional anaesthesia has been proposed to deposit various drugs intravenously distal to an arterial block in legs with severe arterial insufficiency.
(13) Milan Bier's contributions to preparative electrophoresis and, in particular, his work in "recycling", have had an enormous impact on the development of scaling strategies for continuous flow electrophoresis.
(14) A double-blind comparison of bupivacaine and lignocaine for intravenous regional analgesia (Bier's block) was carried out in seventy-two patients presenting for upper limb surgery.
(15) The authors conclude that the addition of Atracurium to a Bier's Block is useful in selected patients with a wrist fracture.
(16) Ocado sold a 12-pack of Beck’s Bier as “was £12.19 now £9” for almost a month but it had only sold at the higher price of £12.19 for three days, 18 days before the offer started.
(17) Ten additional experiments were carried out using a Bier blockade tourniquet (5 cm wide).
(18) No serious complications have been documented in the literature relating to prilocaine in IVRA and we have conducted a survey within the U.K. which indicates that about 45,000 Bier's blocks have been carried out with prilocaine without convulsion, arrhythmia or fatality.
(19) An intravenous regional sympathetic block was produced in the upper limb using a Bier's technique and guanethidine.
(20) The cost of Bier block anesthesia administered in the emergency room (ER) was significantly less than that of a general anesthetic in the operating room.
Coffin
Definition:
(n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
(n.) A basket.
(n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
(n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
(n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
(v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
(2) His website sells direct to the public, with prices starting from £245 for a plain cardboard coffin, as well as offering a comparison service.
(3) Harry also spoke about walking behind his mother’s coffin as a 12-year-old and said no child “should be asked to do that under any circumstances”.
(4) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
(5) Many families choose to decorate the coffin, either in the days leading up to the funeral or as part of the ceremony.
(6) At the end of the ceremony, Havel's coffin was to be carried through the cathedral's Golden Gate to Strasnice crematorium for a private family funeral.
(7) About 60 coffins were expected, although the number was not immediately confirmed.
(8) The attack in Peshawar is yet another nail in Pakistan’s coffin, cynical residents and pundits alike will tell you today.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest People carry the coffin of Giulio Regeni during his funeral in Fiumicello, northern Italy, on 12 February.
(10) Another man, placed in what he called "the electric coffin" – in which a detainee is forced to lie inside a wooden box, across two metal plates through which they pass a current.
(11) "Each decade," he continued, "we shiftily declare we have buried class; each decade the coffin stays empty."
(12) The board’s chief executive, Peter Deague, told Guardian Australia that meant they could cater to anyone who weighed up to 250kg, as a coffin for a person of that size usually weighed about 100kg.
(13) The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over "phony" arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.
(14) He was still able to have a good conversation with me.” The PSNI is also investigating the firing of shots by the New IRA over the coffin of a veteran west Belfast republican on Sunday night.
(15) But it's the images of women and their children marching through the night that stick most in the mind: infants toting cardboard coffins, mothers chanting hate.
(16) The final nail in social security's coffin came with the demise of the Department of Social Security in 2001 and its replacement by the Department for Work and Pensions.
(17) In some establishments, mournful dirges played while coffins were carried through the crowds of drinkers; in others, the walls were hung with black crepe.
(18) If you want a coffin, alternatives to the regular chipboard, veneered box are now mainstream and in all good undertakers’ catalogues.
(19) This study ought to be the final nail in the coffin of techno-libertarianism.
(20) There is no formation of callus at the site of the fracture, but only a firm formation of fibrous tissue which does not bother the horse unless the fragments are too much dislocated giving rise to a greater destruction of the coffin joint.