(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.
Muckle
Definition:
(a.) Much.
Example Sentences:
(1) Muckle-Wells syndrome is characterized by recurrent episodes of urticaria, fever, polyarthralgia, deafness and secondary amyloid (AA type), familial type with autosome dominant features; few cases have been described.
(2) This patient is likely to represent a variant of the Muckle-Wells syndrome (chronic relapsing urticaria, fever, arthralgia, deafness and renal amyloidosis).
(3) The Muckle and Well's syndrome corresponding to a transmission of the autosomic dominant type, combines bouts of urticaria, episodes of arthralgias to a shrinking of the ear and a sensory deafness.
(4) A case of hereditary AA amyloidosis with Muckle-Wells syndrome is described.
(5) The triad of renal amyloidosis, inner-ear deafness and recurrent urticaria is characteristic of Muckle-Wells syndrome, which has a hereditary basis.
(6) Like a rich country fruit cake, Kidnapped is seasoned throughout with handfuls of dialect words, "ain" (one), "bairn" (child), "blae" (cheerless), "chield" (fellow), "drammach" (raw oatmeal), "fash" (bother), "muckle" (big), "siller" (money), "unco" (extremely) , "wheesht!"
(7) Typical of the syndrome described by Muckle and Wells is a combination of progressive perceptive deafness appearing at various ages in a family, but usually at the same age in the same family, arthralgia, urticarious eruption and renal amyloidosis.
(8) At a consultation with a 31-year-old man, motivated by painful episodes of joint pain that had started considerably earlier, a familial disease entity was discovered that included the three clinical signs of the Muckle and Wells syndrome : urticarial eruption, intermittent pain in the limbs originating in the joints, and bilateral deafness of perception.
(9) It was presumably a complication of long-term immunosuppression and not of the Muckle-Wells syndrome.