(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.
Unbuckle
Definition:
(v. t.) To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) go-kart around an oval track either buckled or unbuckled in the first of two phases of 15 driving trials.
(2) Tests are conducted with the foot of a subject in a shoe, with and without the ankle taped, and in a buckled and unbuckled (ski) boot that can effectively constrain ankle rotation.
(3) The results indicate that when flow material ski boots are to be used by skiers who are not in the habit of unbuckling for short intervals, buckle tension should not be too high.
(4) A letter in the fire "unbuckles, turning from black to even white in the heat and delivering itself into our outstretched hand".
(5) Buckled eyes were significantly less rigid than unbuckled eyes, and eyes with higher buckles were significantly less rigid than those with shallower buckles.
(6) But in the three or four seconds between when the pilots would have realised the mistake and the destruction of their ship, there may not even have been time to unbuckle from their seats.
(7) The city also said that NTSB investigators found she had not buckled her seatbelt for the landing, based on interviews with survivors and an inspection that found her seatbelt attached and unbuckled.
(8) It’s like being strangled.” Siebold was either thrown out of his seat as the plane fell apart, or managed to unbuckle himself.
(9) Greater volumes of vitreous substitutes, gases, or antibiotics may be injected into buckled eyes compared with unbuckled eyes before excessive intraocular pressures are reached.
(10) America’s dad raped me.” “The guy from the Jell-O pudding ads drugged my drink.” “The last thing I remember was Captain Corny Sweater unbuckling his belt.” If you have trouble understanding why so many rape victims don’t report their attacks, say any of those sentences out loud.
(11) Although there was no significant difference between the two groups in number of injuries, the unbuckled passengers were consistently more seriously injured.
(12) Unbuckling resulted in an immediate fall in radioactivity, the disappearance curve then becoming identical to that of the bare foot.