(n.) A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.
(n.) A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.
(n.) A strap that runs across a horse's breast.
(n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.
Example Sentences:
(1) Often, denim was used in unexpected ways: Louis Vuitton had boiler suits decorated with sparkling mini-mirrors; Craig Green fashioned breastplates from the material, held together with dozens of ties.
(2) The collar is constructed from nylon and polyvinyl chloride tubing, clipped together by nylon junctions, and from chin and breastplate supports of molded nylon rod.
(3) There’s an old, often detestable, tyrannical-academic school, the abomination of desolation in fact, men having, so to speak, a suit of armour, a steel breastplate of prejudices and conventions.” The detestable old tyrants were able to organise appointments to suit their own proteges, he wrote.
(4) "This is cool," she says, admiring a breastplate from ancient Colombia.
(5) But he wanted it only after subjecting the form to its limits, stuffing it with random accreted details - like the man fighting at the barricades, who "had padded his chest with a breastplate of nine sheets of grey packing paper and was armed with a saddler's awl".
(6) We have used this material on 8 occasions after various tumour resections: 3 times after subtotal resection of the sternochrondral breastplate and 5 times after lateral or anterolateral resection removing at least 2 ribs.
(7) The cephalic part is first molded and then integrated solidly into the thoracic part (breastplate and backplate).
(8) My guides, including senior curator and anthropologist Michael Pickering, opened and slid out for me countless humidity-controlled cupboards and deep drawers containing precious items in tissue paper: botanist Joseph Banks's 18th-century florilegium engravings, convict "love pennies" (coins filed flat by convicts about to be transported from England to the colony, inscribed with messages), breastplates given by white settlers to "tamed" Aboriginal people, convict leg irons.
(9) The Squad proudly proclaim their mission as “suicide”, and even though they have a chance to continue their run at the Romans, they lift their breastplates and stab themselves in the heart.
(10) "My partner Jane made the breastplates from papier-mâché and all that."
Cuirass
Definition:
(n.) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle
(n.) The breastplate taken by itself.
(n.) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results are reported of domiciliary cuirass respirator treatment, using tailor-made shells, in four patients with severe thoracic scoliosis.
(2) A second article will consider the period 1918 to the present day and suggest that negative pressure apparatus-particularly the cuirass respirator-still has its uses.
(3) Of the 8 patients with typical features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 7 had predominant diaphragm weakness and 1 generalized respiratory muscle weakness; 7 received negative pressure ventilation by cuirass which improved both the quality of sleep and exercise tolerance.
(4) Nocturnal cuirass ventilation appears to be an ideal treatment for bilateral diaphragm paralysis.
(5) The methods of support used were intermittent positive pressure ventilation (nine patients), iron lung (three), cuirass (two) and rocking bed (one).
(6) Overnight monitoring of cuirass pressure in one patient showed more even control of peak negative pressure with the Newmarket pump than with the Cape pump.
(7) The pressure within the cuirass is sensed by a pressure transducer, and the output of this is used to control the position of the rotary valve by means of a motor so that the pressure within the cuirass follows a predetermined half sine wave pattern.
(8) Nocturnal desaturation was associated not only with hypopnea and hypoventilation, but with normal chest and abdominal wall movement using cuirass-assisted respirators.
(9) Although the absolute increments were similar, the "tight" cuirass elicited an earlier PRL peak than the "loose" cuirass and the PRL began to decrease while the "tight" cuirass was still functioning.
(10) The therapeutic effects of cuirass ventilation were studied in two patients with bilateral diaphragm paralysis.
(11) Because changing from the upright to the supine position causes a decrease in functional residual capacity (FRC), six of these subjects were placed in an Emerson cuirass, which was evacuated producing a positive transrespiratory pressure so as to restore end-expiratory lung volume to that seen before the position change.
(12) The function of the respiratory muscles may in certain cases be improved by the use of abdominal pneumatic cuirasses, by hyperventilation exercises in an isocapnoeic milieu or in breathing exercises against an additional inspiratory or expiratory resistance.
(13) The mean (SD) number of days spent in hospital over the year was 21.5 (15.1) per patient, with patients consulting their general practitioners less frequently than in the year prior to commencing nocturnal cuirass-assisted ventilation.
(14) We developed a triggered cuirass respirator and showed that it could support the right heart after a lung resection.
(15) We conclude that INPV by cuirass ventilator does not induce adverse hemodynamic effects in patients with COPD who have pulmonary artery hypertension.
(16) Nocturnal NPV in a cuirass ventilator improved baseline ventilation during wakefulness and prevented deterioration of alveolar ventilation during sleep.
(17) 2 of these cases were changed from cuirass type BR to jacket type BR and were getting on satisfactorily.
(18) This 70 year old patient presented with a 24 year history of untreated breast cancer (histology: carcinoma solidum simplex) that had developed to a cancer "en cuirasse" with disturbances in both breast glands, carcinomatous infiltration of the barrel-shaped deformed thorax and superficial bleeding from a large area of ulcerated tissue.
(19) A rotary valve between the pump and the cuirass varies the rate of extraction of air from the cuirass.
(20) The cost of commencing a patient on domiciliary nocturnal cuirass-assisted ventilation is estimated as 2470 pounds, and of maintaining them at home for one year as 3302 pounds.