(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.
Trailer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, trails.
(n.) A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 3' end of the cell cycle regulated mRNA terminates immediately following the region of hyphenated dyad symmetry typical of most histone mRNAs, whereas the constitutively expressed mRNA has a 1798 nt non-translated trailer that contains the same region of hyphenated dyad symmetry but is polyadenylated.
(2) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(3) In a trailer shown Sunday for an upcoming documentary on state-run Rossiya-1 television called “Homeward bound”, Putin openly discusses Moscow’s controversial grabbing of Crimea a year ago.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Terms and Conditions May Apply – trailer It’s pretty simple, really.
(5) Girls star Lena Dunham confirms sixth season will be show's last Read more It’s worth noting that Hannah, Marnie, Shoshanna and Jessa have aged considerably more slowly than those of us in the real world, with the trailer for Girls’ forthcoming series placing Marnie at 25.
(6) According to Indian media reports, he told the attackers to tell journalists that the "attack was a trailer and the entire movie was yet to come".
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obama’s thank-you notes 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke Bare talent 2) Thank You Notes with President Obama Love, Potus 3) Irish fans serenade nun on train with ‘Our Father’ chant Lauding a sister 4) Disappointed guinea pig Pet lip 5) 10 Confusing Famous Movie Endings Finally explained All’s well that ends well 6) Pete’s Dragon - Official US Trailer Breathing new life into a classic 7) Brexit’s Farage Flotilla: The Movie Water carry on 8) Patience - 4k timelapse movie Beauty speeded up
(8) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(9) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
(10) But initial fan reaction to the first teaser trailers was harsh.
(11) On the day of transport, samples were collected at 0700 hours at location 1, immediately before and after transport in a trailer, after unloading at location 2, and at 1900 hours at location 2.
(12) But here's the kicker: the trailer actually has very little to do with the content of the game.
(13) Click here to watch the trailer Pfister, a long-term collaborator of Christopher Nolan , looks to have implanted some of Nolan's ideas into Transcendence.
(14) Not relegate them to background characters in the service of a white cis-male fictional protagonist.” Both groups have drawn their conclusions from the film’s trailer.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch the trailer for Tomorrowland May brings us Tomorrowland, the latest movie from Brad Bird of The Incredibles and Ratatouille fame.
(16) He added that a film's success was 97% down to a good film, 2% to publicity material such as a trailer and 1% publicity in the press.
(17) In early November, I was contacted by my good friend Jamie Stone, who said he wanted to go and offered his truck and trailer to haul supplies.
(18) The H2B protein coding region of HHC289 is flanked at the 3' end by a 1798-nt nontranslated trailer that contains a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry and a poly(A) addition sequence, followed by a poly(A) tail.
(19) This morning's trailer for Nick Clegg's "new progressives" speech tonight managed to irritate Labour bloggers as it was probably intended to do.
(20) Between June and October 1987, a total of 8,573 people underwent a cholesterol screening held in a movable trailer.