(n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber.
(n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach.
(n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level.
(n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins.
(n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it.
(n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe an operating table in which the whole patient, apart from the eye undergoing surgery, is enclosed in a caisson within which the barometric pressure can be lowered at any time during surgery.
(2) Pneumatic caisson work in Japan has been in operation since 1924.
(3) On bed rest days 3, 7 and 14 the following rheological and hemodynamic parameters were measured: blood dynamic viscosity, Caisson viscosity, yield limit, red blood cell aggregation, stroke volume, cardiac output, and total peripheral resistance.
(4) Investigations into the etiology of caisson disease of bone have shown evidence for an increase in marrow fat cell size resulting from hyperoxia.
(5) So unmanned caisson work is considered as a better technique for such high pressure work, even though people must enter into hyperbaric working fields for maintenance or repair of unmanned operated machinery and materials.
(6) Compressed air works have been used as the safest construction work for the basic underground or underwater compressed shield or caisson works in Japan; however, the workers who were exposed to the compressed fields must have put themselves at risk of decompression sickness.
(7) Accordingly unmanned caisson work is considered as a better technique for such higher pressurized work, even though workers must enter into hyperbaric working fields for maintenance or repair of unmanned operated machinery and materials.
(8) Nineteen caisson workers had been exposed to metallic mercury vapours while digging tubes underneath the first district of Vienna (exposure between 470 and 2440 min; mean 1621 min).
(9) According to obtain the purpose, the effect of respiratory protection has been investigated and work load under hyperbaric caisson work has also been studied.
(10) The results have confirmed a high informative value of the complex of parameters of rotational viscosimetry: the limit of blood fluidity, apparent blood viscosity, caisson viscosity of the blood, and the coefficient of erythrocyte cohesion (A) and of the parameters of aggregation of the formed elements of the blood, this complex allowing an objective differentiation between microcirculatory peculiarities in patients with initial manifestations of cerebral blood supply insufficiency (IMCBSI) versus patients with ischemic stroke (IS).
(11) Eleven Wistar rats were stimulated daily in a caisson and all stimulations were delivered after 30 min of diving at 3 ATA of air.
(12) A caisson worker with symmetrical bone infarcts in the tibiae demonstrated a malignant transformation of one of the bone infarcts with wide-spread metastases to the lungs and viscera.
(13) Discussed are coal miners' nystagmus, scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps, phossy jaw, hatters' shakes, painters' colic, potters' rot, chauffeurs' knee, glanders, caisson disease, and others.
(14) The caisson, drawn by six black horses, was the same vessel that in 1937 carried the coffin of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first president after the country was founded in 1918.
(15) Four of the patients had caisson disease, three had what is probably an hereditary bone dysplasia, one had sickle cell disease and eight had infarcts of unknown etiology.
(16) Pneumatic caisson work in Japan has come into operation since 1924.
(17) Extensive data concerning the incidence of decompression sickness among workers participating in the deepest caisson operation in Japan to date have been collected and analyzed for the period April through August, 1976.
(18) Progression of dysbaric osteonecrosis of the femoral and humeral heads was evaluated in 15 caisson workers.
(19) The number of exposures of workers was 23,737 in caisson work and 75,244 in shield work.
(20) Routine radiographs on Caisson workers have shown a rare form of osteopathy in the femoral neck due to decompression and which is not associated with symptoms.
Enclosure
Definition:
(n.) Inclosure. See Inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
(2) The La Parguera facility was established in part to contrast the social behavior of free-ranging groups with that in enclosures, as well as to compare the seasonal events linked to reproduction with those at Cayo Santiago.
(3) Inexperienced physicians are often unable to immediately identify these translucencies as air enclosures in the intracranial cavity.
(4) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
(5) On each trial, access to saccharin at normal ambient temperature was followed by injection of drug or saline and placement for 6 hr into a temperature-controlled enclosure.
(6) Quite a lot of things here are variations on the idea of enclosure, putting a roof up, spreading some kind of meniscus over the land.
(7) Expression of the DIT and DIT2 genes is restricted to sporulating cells, with the DIT1 transcripts accumulating at the time of prospore enclosure and just prior to the time of dityrosine biosynthesis.
(8) Our results show that use of ATB ANA microplates in an anaerobic enclosure is a valuable method in clinical practice.
(9) Comparative behavioral samples were obtained on 38 subjects in the existing indoor-outdoor run and in the enclosure.
(10) When observed as yearlings and 2-year-olds, juveniles who had had more protective early mothering showed less interest in the external environment, as measured by the percentage of time they spent looking outside the home enclosure.
(11) Two replicate experimental populations were established from each collection, and each replicate was then released into an enclosure surrounding a natural habitat at a central-latitude locality.
(12) The atmosphere in an enclosure equipped with an automatic life support system was examined during 30-day integrated animal experiments.
(13) The data showed the vertical flow room to exhibit significantly lower (P less than .05) contamination levels than the horizontal flow enclosure.
(14) perfringens strains isolated from feces of test subjects kept in an enclosure for 34 days.
(15) We compared monochromatic ultraviolet radiation of 254 nm with the use of a Charnley-Howorth air enclosure by bacterial air-sampling during 113 total hip arthroplasties.
(16) Using the rebreathing method, CO2 sensitivity of the respiration regulation system was investigated during a year-long enclosure study and head-down tilt tests of varying duration (up to 120 days).
(17) Addition of ATP and GTP to bound vesicles caused limited vesicle fusion, but enclosure of the chromatin was not observed.
(18) In the undrugged state both groups tended to scan the walls of the enclosure with the vibrissae side of the face.
(19) Sonography, computed tomography and scintigraphy were performed, and the prenatally diagnosed process was identified as a cystic growth in the right liver lobe with enclosure of the V. cava inferior.
(20) Males born and housed in a small woodland enclosure in 1979-1980 and well fed with grain did not experience the long period of regressed testes.