(n.) A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.
(n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
(n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
(n.) A contorted expression, as of the face.
(n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
(n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
(n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
(n.) To join in marriage.
(v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
(v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
(v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
(v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
Example Sentences:
(1) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
(2) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
(3) Four of 15 retinas unable to be attached by scleral buckling were reattached after the addition of a single vitreous operation.
(4) The cutaneous receptive field was explored with textile fiber sized probes of diameter 20-50 microns, with buckling loads from 75 to 150 mgf.
(5) The heme group appears to be buckled, reflecting the high content of bile pigment in liver catalase.
(6) Breaks responsible for rhegmatogenous retinal detachments in 78 eyes could not be seen preoperatively owing to opacities in the media, previous buckling or other causes.
(7) If the preoperative view of the retina was good and the extent of PVR did not exceed grade C2, pars plana vitrectomy did not seem to offer obvious advantages over conventional buckling procedures.
(8) Buckling down to China's restrictive rules gave a spurious respectability to such activities without helping Google much since Baidu, its Chinese equivalent, still has 70% of the search market.
(9) A thin (20-gauge) cryoprobe can be used to retreat retinal breaks without disturbing a previous scleral buckle.
(10) This report describes a young high-myopic patient who developed rubeosis iridis with peripheral retinal neovascularization one year after a circular buckling operation.
(11) One hundred thirty-four consecutive eyes with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment involving the macula were evaluated with reference to the effectiveness of systemic steroids in preventing choroidal detachment after scleral buckling surgery and in facilitating both anatomic and functional success.
(12) The outcome for extracapsular cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation in eyes that had previously undergone successful scleral buckling for retinal detachment is favorable.
(13) The last time I visited they were rollerblading and after plenty of assistance managing the straps and buckles on the hefty skates, I took to the floor.
(14) When the wound was peripheral, the retina detached in the cases without buckling and it was necessary to do a secondary scleral buckling procedure.
(15) Binocular single vision was restored after buckle removal and strabismus surgery in three further patients (20%), one requiring a prism in addition.
(16) He said he would not repeat the mistake of Edward Heath who in 1972, "two years into office, was faced with economic problems and over-powerful unions and buckled and gave up".
(17) A radial orientation of the buckle averts this complication.
(18) Conventional scleral buckling surgery with cryotherapy and a silicone episcleral sponge successfully reattached the retina in all three cases.
(19) If there is traction from epiretinal membranes which cannot be relieved by a buckle, then vitrectomy and adjunct procedures are necessary.
(20) Although the use of scleral buckling techniques alone may be sufficient, closed microsurgery may be required to relieve trans-gel or surface retinal traction and to facilitate the identification and permanent closure of retinal breaks.
Bulge
Definition:
(n.) The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
(n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.
(n.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
(v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.
(v. i.) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Where the PGCs bulge out into the coelomic cavity, they stretch the somatic cell covering to a thin, cytoplasmic layer.
(2) On admission she was found to be a well-nourished infant with a head circumference of 56 cm, bulging anterior fontanelle and mental retardation.
(3) An unusual appearance of echoes behind the aorta bulging into the left atrium in diastole on both the M-mode and cross-sectional echo suggested this diagnosis prior to cardiac catheterization.
(4) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(5) Bulge formation, due to the presumed action of an autolysin(s), may be an initial step in the septation sequence when the mucopeptide is modified to allow construction of the septum.
(6) Regional myocardial wall function was improved in the central and peripheral ischemic region as demonstrated by a significantly reduced systolic bulging.
(7) Some birds were subjected to unilateral eyelid-suture, a protocol which usually induces axial lengthening and corneal bulging.
(8) I look out at this brilliant audience here today, bulging with ideas, and I ask you possibly to solve it.
(9) The chief characteristics of stage 18 (approximately 44 postovulatory days) are rapidly growing basal nuclei; appearance of the extraventricular bulge of the cerebellum (flocculus), of the superior cerebellar peduncle, and of follicles in the epiphysis cerebri; and the presence of vomeronasal organ and ganglion, of the bucconasal membrane, and of isolated semicircular ducts.
(10) In 10 dogs with acute posterior wall ischemia the B-C excursion (aneurysmal bulging) increased (P less than 0.01), but the mean systolic posterior wall velocity and posterior wall excursion decreased (P less than 0.01).
(11) If there is no evidence of a canine bulge, and the tooth appears to be tipped medially in the frontal radiograph, with the crown medial to the lateral border of the nasal cavity, a future impaction of the maxillary canine is a significant possibility.
(12) In a 50-year-old patient with complex ventricular arrhythmia (monotopic ventricular extrasystoles in bigeminy and triplet form), coronary angiography with ventriculography revealed an aneurysm of about 2-3 cm diameter that bulged visibly into the right ventricle during the systole.
(13) Fabregas hammers it down the middle, the ball sailing slightly to the left before bulging the net.
(14) Intravenous ISO injection now induced regional dysfunction in the LCX-dependent segment with the occurrence of systolic bulging.
(15) The results indicate that tat interacts with both the bulge and loop regions of TAR.
(16) A 51-year-old female patient, admitted with a chief complaint of dizziness, had bulging of the occipital area, which had started insidiously.
(17) The original "root area" widens with the broadening of the back and can still be demonstrated as an homogeneous "root area" of the "intestinal bulge", after the typical adult situs has developed.
(18) Five of the hairpins have single-base bulges at different positions.
(19) They topped a list of eight "triggers" that could rupture aneurysms – bulges in the walls of blood vessels – in the brain.
(20) Removal of d-alanine from a growing population of cells resulted in cell bulging 25% of the cell length from one cell pole, followed by cell lysis.