(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.
Pressure
Definition:
(n.) The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
(n.) A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
(n.) Affliction; distress; grievance.
(n.) Urgency; as, the pressure of business.
(n.) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
(n.) The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) There was a weak relation between AER and both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
(3) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(4) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(5) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(6) It is concluded that acute renal denervation augments the pressure diuresis that follows carotid occlusion.
(7) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(8) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(9) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(10) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
(11) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
(12) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(13) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(14) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(15) Diltiazem monotherapy effectively lowered blood pressure in 60% of patients at 8 weeks.
(16) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(17) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(18) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(19) Nicardipine lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure to normal, plasma aldosterone was reduced and serum potassium levels were increased.
(20) Subjects then rested supine until 10.00 h when blood was again taken, and blood pressure recorded.