(1) She said she has turned to hairdressing to pay the bills, with “appointments for braids and weaves about three times a week”.
(2) The polylactic-polyglycolic acid suture is braided and dyed, and has handling characteristics similar to those of black silk.
(3) These results suggest that the paced depolarization integral obtained with the braided endocardial defibrillation lead could improve the specificity and sensitivity of ventricular fibrillation detection.
(4) A monofilament polyglyconate suture (Maxon) was developed as a longer-lasting suture associated with less potential for infection than braided polyglycolic acid suture (Dexon).
(5) The in vitro breaking force of a braided nylon looped-suture tendon juncture designed to decrease tying time was compared with the breaking force of the modified Kessler and Bunnell techniques.
(6) To evaluate the mechanical properties of absorbable braided poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) fibre implants, 2.0 and 3.2 mm in diameter, maximum load defined as tensile load carrying capacity, elongation and axial rigidity were investigated after immersion in phosphate-buffered distilled water at 37 degrees C and pH 6.1 and after subcutaneous implantation in rabbit.
(7) Among the remaining patients was a divorced mother of four with a failing liver who was engaged to be remarried; a second world war " Rosie Riveter " who had trouble speaking because of a stroke; and Ma'Dear, an ailing matriarch with long, braided hair, renowned for her cooking and the strict but loving way she raised 12 children.
(8) Pore sizes up to 50 times 250 mu2 were achieved by using woven, knitted, and braided polyester tapes.
(9) Significantly fewer bacteria adhered to the monofilament polypropylene than either of the braided polyester sutures.
(10) Tests on samples of braided asbestos cord used in truck exhaust systems revealed a constant presence of chrysotile.
(11) A description is presented of the gross anatomic, histologic, and scanning electron microscopic features of cuspal abrasions, perforations, and tears caused by excessively long ends of braided sutures in bioprosthetic cardiac valves implanted in the mitral position in sheep.
(12) The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) was excised bilaterally in the knee joint of three dogs and was replaced in a conventional manner with a composite polyglycolic acid (PGA) and Dacron braided ligament prosthesis.
(13) Mechanical properties of equine suspensory apparatus preparations and three braided synthetic prostheses were evaluated in vitro.
(14) The future, like the present and the past, belongs to mixed economies in which public and private are braided together in one way or another.
(15) Five dogs (group A) received a right atrial "J" (AJ) and right ventricular (RV) active fixation tripolar lead, each consisting of a platinized platinum pacing tip, anode band, and braided defibrillation electrode.
(16) She is slim with fair skin and long braids, and speaks confidently about her ambition to be a journalist when she finishes school.
(17) It is concluded that the use of braided suture material in an inguinal hernia repair may result in an unacceptable level of sepsis and recurrence.
(18) Heavy braided Polydioxanon (PDS Ethicon) sutures were tested in a routine fashion, as were steel wire and braided polyester.
(19) Most braided sutures also showed less time-dependence in stiffness.
(20) The experiments consisting in replacement of a dissected anterior cruciate ligament of the knee in rabbits with a bundle of parallel carbon fibers and a braided carbon covered with animal collagen lyophilized dura mater have been performed.
Meandering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Meander
Example Sentences:
(1) They harvest shellfish standing in the water or meandering through mangrove forests on the shore.
(2) BMWs, Porsches and Land Cruisers meander through Luanda past beggars missing limbs due to the civil war or polio.
(3) As the contest meandered and the stadium went close to quiet there was a jocular moment when Pardew hopped in irritation at a United challenge and the manager dropped his ever-present notebook on the pitch.
(4) This packing loosens towards the middle of the junction until, at its basal extremity, the septa (ridges in replicas) are widely separated and follow independent meandering courses.
(5) The result is a meandering popularism that ignores questions about where the country might end up and fixates on the most cynical of political games.
(6) • Rorbu for four from £140 a night, svinoya.no Grande Hytteutleige, Geirangerfjord Facebook Twitter Pinterest Waterfalls, vertiginous green slopes and a meandering, idyllic waterway explain why Unesco-protected Geirangerfjord is one of Norway’s premier tourist spots.
(7) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
(8) I wanted to write a book that was big and odd and meandering, and I did and it was.
(9) Subtractive feedback models must continuously adjust the axis of rotation throughout a saccade, and they generate meandering, dysmetric gaze saccades.
(10) He had already come close when, gifted the chance by a weak Julian Speroni punch, he lofted a shot into the unguarded net towards the end of a first 45 minutes that had tended to meander.
(11) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
(12) Some meandering evaginations were also observed as, rarely, were small spherical or bulbous projections.
(13) The similarity in size of the openings of T tubules and caveolae and the meandering path of the tubules are sufficient to account for the paucity of observed openings.
(14) The cytoskeleton, marked by antibodies to desmin and filamin is composed of a mainly longitudinal, meandering and branched system of fibrils that contrasts with the plait-like, interdigitating arrangement of linear fibrils of the contractile apparatus, labeled with antibodies to myosin and tropomyosin.
(15) From here the contest meandered for a while on a Shanghai night becoming ever more sultry.
(16) After a deliberately hazy and meandering first half – one that lulls both reader and characters into a false sense of security – the second part of the novel barely breathes.
(17) London 2012 chairman Lord Coe, who has spent the week defending his organisation against blame for the G4S meltdown, said he believed that while the torch meandered through London it would stoke enthusiasm as it had among the millions who have seen it criss-cross the country over the past 63 days.
(18) Inspired by the idea of a city built around an airport (she grew up in Hounslow, near Heathrow), it leaves behind the constraints of any one genre, meandering through R&B-inflected garage (Beach Mode), instrumental grime (Backhand Winners) and Omar S-style stripped-back melodic techno (Eternal Mode).
(19) The endoplasmic reticulum in such cells is reduced to a few (perhaps only one) meandering, broad cisternae, which delimit broad fields of cytoplasmic matrix occupied almost solely by scattered, single ribosomes.
(20) As the match threatened to meander away from United, Giggs finally introduced Van Persie, for a first appearance due to a knee injury since 19 March, and Welbeck, on 66 minutes.