(n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
(n.) Anything which supports or strengthens.
(v. t.) To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The treatment of a Smith type-II fracture is a volar buttress plate unless extended comminution is present.
(2) If coastal ice shelves buttressing the west Antarctic ice sheet continue to disintegrate, the sheet could disgorge into the ocean, raising sea levels by several metres in a century.
(3) This ad hoc response to a moment of crisis was buttressed by successive laws that, in order to exclude a Stuart succession, enmeshed monarchy with the Church of England, thus fanning a religious hostility the rest of Europe was already growing beyond.
(4) The “Korea problem” is also connected to China’s own interests in the South China Sea , where Beijing’s expansionism faces off against the US, whose strategic goal is to buttress the power of smaller states in the region.
(5) The shelf procedure provides a buttress of bone for later reconstructive surgery such as cup or total hip arthroplasty.
(6) After previous methods failed, two patients were successfully treated by using a one-stage procedure which included (1) suture closure of the fistula, (2) buttressing the repair with a viable, pedicled, two-rib intercostal-muscle flap, and (3) performing an extensive thoracoplasty with a continuous drip infusion of neomycin.
(7) When management of a perforated peptic ulcer necessitates simple closure, the omentum may not be of adequate quality to buttress such a closure.
(8) A case is presented of fatal coronary embolism of Teflon felt used to buttress sutures in the placement of a Björk-Shiley aortic valve prosthesis.
(9) That explains why Miliband is so keen to buttress them with evidence of his belief that Labour credibility can be built on a philosophically different approach – and with some of the money saved by the cap.
(10) By detrusorrhaphy the submucosal ureteral tunnel is opened, the ureteral meatus is advanced and anchored onto the trigone, and the detrusor buttress of the ureter is closed (-rrhaphy).
(11) Complete exposure of the injured buttresses will facilitate assessment of the exact fracture pattern.
(12) Reconstruction of the noncoronary sinus was achieved by approximating intimal edge with Teflon felt reinforced buttress suture, then the ascending aorta was replaced by a Dacron prosthetic graft.
(13) In the early 80s when Tony Benn made his bid for the deputy leadership, there was a huge trade union movement and peace movement to buttress him if he won.
(14) In 4 patients, sets of cables had been sutured to the myocardium through an anterior thoracotomy, in some instances using Teflon pledgets as buttresses.
(15) Stage 1 begins with the initiation of a floral buttress on the flank of the apical meristem.
(16) Hollande goes to Berlin on Tuesday with the psychological advantage, buttressed by a strong new mandate that has shifted the terms of European politics.
(17) The tarsometatarsal reorientation arthrodesis addresses the deficient anteromedial buttress which is due to the most often concomittent hypermobile first ray.
(18) The most common complication was a fatigue fracture of the plates which, however, only occurred after biomechanically faulty application, without medial buttress of the bone, and in the absence of a cancellous autograft.
(19) Sometimes in severe cases they may demonstrate instability with conventional methods of treatment; thus for adequate stabilization they may need a palatal splint, direct wiring (internal fixation in the buttresses), intermaxillary fixation and cranial suspension.
(20) As there was the relatively high incidence of anastomotic leak occurring at the coronary artery orifice-graft anastomosis with one lane suture, we have circumferentially buttressed the coronary suture line with several pledget-supported mattress suture--direct two lane coronary orifice suture--for reinforcement.
Counterfort
Definition:
(n.) A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.