(n.) That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
(n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.
(n.) The state of being braced or tight; tension.
(n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
(n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.
(n.) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
(n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
(n.) A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.
(n.) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
(n.) Harness; warlike preparation.
(n.) Armor for the arm; vantbrace.
(n.) The mouth of a shaft.
(v. t.) To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
(v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.
(v. t.) To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
(v. t.) To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.
(v. t.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
(v. i.) To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(2) We assessed the relative restraints that are provided by fourteen currently available functional knee-braces, using six limbs in cadavera.
(3) During the last 21 months, 12 additional children have been managed with a more stringent protocol combining neck immobilization in a rigid cervical brace for 3 months and restriction of both contact and noncontact sports, together with a major emphasis on patient compliance.
(4) The classic scoliosis was resistant to brace treatment; bracing failed in 70% of patients, necessitating spinal fusion.
(5) Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation (CDI) has been gaining popularity in scoliosis surgery because of their improved rigidity which can obviate the need for a brace in most cases.
(6) The brace extended from the proximal radius and ulna to the level of the radial styloid and allowed a full range of movement at the radiocarpal joint.
(7) The purpose of this project was to determine if commercially available braces could be shown to produce objective evidence of medial stabilization of the knee.
(8) The schemes will be scrutinised for evidence that the government has accepted criticism that it is not acting fast or hard enough to reverse the continuing slump in the economy, with ministers braced for further bad news on jobs and investment over the summer.
(9) Effective bracing of the severely spastic wrist and hand may not be possible.
(10) All patients were placed in Minerva braces postoperatively.
(11) Contact between the owner of the Times and the Sun and Ofcom in the run-up to Christmas left insiders at News Corp's Wapping headquarters braced for a referral.
(12) It is concluded that treatment with a patellar brace with a lateral pad is not likely to succeed in the majority of patients with retropatellar pain syndrome.
(13) Costa got his second while David Silva and substitute Álvaro Morata also got braces and Vitolo opened his international account as the former world champions ran riot.
(14) Rattled investors brace for big week as Federal Reserve considers rate increase Read more The Dow Jones industrial average fell 114 points, or 0.7%, to 16,528.
(15) Anti-globalisation activists and international bankers are bracing themselves for a week of street action and possible confrontation planned to coincide with the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague.
(16) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
(17) This retrospective study of lateral electrical surface stimulation (LESS) treatment for patients with progressive idiopathic scoliosis was performed to document patient compliance in the standard electrical stimulation program and to gain objective data to perform a relative comparison of electrical stimulation and bracing compliance.
(18) The brace has been used for 22 years and found practical and reliable.
(19) Shortening in severe comminution was the main complication and was not controlled by supplementary cast-bracing.
(20) Defensive players who wore prophylactic knee braces had statistically fewer knee injuries than players who served as controls.
Triangular
Definition:
(a.) Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
(a.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(2) Based on a limited experience we have found that triangular flap ureteroplasty is a worthwhile means of repeat reimplantation of the obstructed ureter and perhaps provides a better alternative than transureteroureterostomy.
(3) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
(4) Accurate rotational osteotomy is especially difficult in a triangular bone such as the tibia.
(5) Findings at surgery included chondromalacia of the ulnar head (19), tears of the triangular fibrocartilage complex (11), and excessive mobility of the ulnar head (10).
(6) Standardized steps or criteria for designing a triangular flap do not always fit for all types of cleft lip repair.
(7) The characteristic triangular face, stubby nose, peripheral pulmonic stenosis, a history of prolonged neonatal jaundice and evidence of hepatic parenchymal disease were present as well as bilateral small kidneys and delayed puberty.
(8) Each contained four triangular boluses of different widths and of a specific iodine concentration.
(9) Dilated, triangular cisterns are often seen at the points of interconnections between longitudinal and transverse elements.
(10) We have investigated whether a correlation exists between the quality of graft epithelialisation and three types of suture: triangular sutures, continuous and interrupted sutures.
(11) This paper describes the external ear anomalies found in this syndrome: short wide pinnae, often cupped and asymmetrical; distinctive triangular concha; discontinuity between the antihelix and antitragus; and 'snipped-off' portions of the helical folds.
(12) The first type included large multipolar neurons with triangular or polygonal perikarya and typically 3-5 dendrites emerging from the poles of each cell.
(13) Transverse loading tests demonstrated that the triangular fibrocartilage is less stiff in neutral forearm rotation.
(14) Silver-Russell's syndrome is a condition characterized by pre- and postnatal growth retardation, a triangular face, clinodactyly of the 5th finger, café au lait patches and hemihypertrophy.
(15) Analytic, functional and traumatological study of the medial compartment of the wrist, showing the role of cohesion of the triangular ligament and its radialis and ulnaris fibrous expensions.
(16) England had started with some well-executed set piece moves, a triangular formation in midfield initially foxing Australia, but it was the Wallabies’ ability to react in open play that marked them out: Foley’s first try, after Israel Folau, otherwise subdued on the night, ran through Robshaw, came after he noticed Ben Youngs had drifted too wide and cut inside the scrum-half and Joe Launchbury before wrongfooting Brown.
(17) Similar to previous cases in the literature this girl presented with proportionate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, normocephaly, triangular face with bulbous nose, long eyelashes, short upper lip, small vermilion border of upper lip, dorsally rotated ears, deep nuchal hair line, hirsutism, and clinodactyly of little fingers.
(18) While the arteries show a long stretched spinle or lancet like form they change over blunt, oval, triangular or rhomboid forms into polygonal cells with spiked border lines at the venules.
(19) The histological examination and microangiogram after combined coaxial exposure of CO2 and Nd: YAG lasers revealed triangular avascular or oligovascular zones in the edematous tissue, in which the surviving vessels were narrowed.
(20) It is concluded that the physical performance of sedentary people, athletes and patients with impaired cardio-pulmonary function can be more precisely qualified in quantitative terms by means of computer assisted rectangular-triangular ergospirometry.