(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.
Submerge
Definition:
(v. t.) To put under water; to plunge.
(v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
(v. i.) To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included.
Example Sentences:
(1) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
(2) The mycelium of Trichoderma viride grown in the dark under submerged conditions and transferred to membrane filters sporulated only after photoinduction.
(3) The units for submerged horizontal gel electrophoresis are easily made or are inexpensively available commercially.
(4) The submerged gauze technique was applied to the sampling in three different spots of the river: at the town center, two km water above, and two down-stream from the city.
(5) Two series were started with the cylinders being submerged at intervals of 5 and 40 min after the start of polymerisation.
(6) Eight of the nine clinically submerged defects exhibited positive radiographic changes.
(7) As the bath filled up, his siblings were also forced into the tub and Kristy became submerged in the water.
(8) A cultivation system has been developed for Penicillium urticae which yields 'microcycle' conidiation in submerged culture.
(9) The dominant leg was submerged in water at 10 C for 30 minutes.
(10) The first invagination occurs at an early developmental stage when non-differentiated anterior part of the larval body submerges into the external cyst which is formed by the walls of the primary cavity displaced toward the hind end.
(11) The effect of somatostatin-14 (SS-14) on gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated inhibitory neurotransmission in the dorsolateral septal nucleus (DLSN) was investigated using a submerged slice preparation and intracellular recording techniques.
(12) Moreover, the luminal surface of the mucosa is not submerged, but is air-filled, thus obtaining the physiological conditions closer to the one of the trachea in vivo.
(13) The optimal methods were the following: storage of Micromonospora on agarized media under a layer of vaseline oil, storage of Micromonospora in the form of a mature submerged culture on liquid media optimal for its growth and development.
(14) Frozen 4-5-microns sections were submerged and floated carefully during each working step.
(15) Furthermore, since only few of an individual's characteristics are used as classifying attributes, individuals themselves become submerged in the class, and their individuality lost in the scientific laws that arise therefrom.
(16) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
(17) | Howard W French Read more In the South China Sea, China has, by massive dredging operations, turned submerged reefs with names out of the novels of Joseph Conrad – Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef – into artificial islands, and is completing a 3,000m runway on Fiery Cross.
(18) In particular, in submerged culture on a plastic surface they either produced very small aggregates or did not aggregate, one of the phenotypes exhibited by the activated rasD transformants.
(19) Mixed venous PO2 increased during abdomen submergence, and PVCO2, was unaltered throughout.
(20) Here a climate that increases in temperature will mean more extreme and frequent storms, more flooding, rising seas that submerge Pacific islands.