(n.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
(n.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
(n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
(n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence.
(n.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following signs in the preoperative radiographs were predictive of unfavorable outcome: small head fragment, comminution of the calcar femorale, and varus angulation of the head.
(2) To insert the new stem we had to reconstruct the proximal femur and the calcar region by autogenous cortico-cancellous bone grafts in seven cases.
(3) At present, we insist on the unexpected relationship between diabetes mellitus and undernutrition either in some major infantile forms (described in India and Nigeria) with calcareous pancreatitis, or some less severe forms observed in Africa.
(4) Middle-aged patients and men were more prone to develop resorption of the calcar.
(5) Serial sections of 90 Sprague-Dawley rat brains with the pineal in situ were scanned to determine the occurrence and regional distribution of calcareous concretions within the pineal gland and its surrounding leptomeningeal tissue.
(6) The collar of the BBM transfers stress to the calcar.
(7) The girdle epidermis of adult Mopalia muscosa secretes several types of structures, including calcareous spicules and innervated hairs.
(8) In order to define the anatomy of the calcar femorale, a radiologic and surgical study was done on ten paired cadaver femurs.
(9) Thirty-four (42 per cent) had more than three millimeters of resorption of the calcar or superomedial cyst formation.
(10) A massive decrease in stress in the region of the calcar femorale was found when the implants were in place, and it was concluded that this decrease could contribute substantially to the calcar femorale resorption sometimes observed in patients after total hip replacement.
(11) Ratios of the stem, stem tip, greater trochanter, lesser trochanter and calcar, and normal femur to the reference sacroiliac joint were obtained, as well as tip-to-stem, and stem-to-normal femur in unilateral arthroplasties.
(12) The plate tensile strain increased by 360% while the compressive calcar strain decreased 85%.
(13) Sufficient cementation of the medullary canal significantly reduced the incidence of calcar resorption, as did neutral and valgus positioning of the femoral component.
(14) Comparison of our data with those of others indicated that the incidence of loosening, calcar resorption, and cortical hypertrophy was usually lower than with similarly designed conventional high-modulus Charnley stems.
(15) X-ray diffraction showed that calcite (CaCO3) was the major crystalline constituent of the calcareous deposits.
(16) In the region of the calcar femorale, crossing trabeculae, similar to the appearance of an enchondroma or bone infarct, have been described in osteoporosis and osteoarthritis and probably represent unmasking of normally present reinforcing trabeculae.
(17) The splitting of several calcareous nodules on a valve made it more pliable.
(18) The 4 modes of failure characterizing stem-type component progressive loosening mechanisms consisted of stem pistoning within the acrylic (3.3%), cement-embedded stem pistoning with the femur (5.1%), medial midstem pivot (2.5%), calcar pivot (0.7%) and bending (fatigue) cantilever (3.3%).
(19) Calcareous corpuscles are smaller and more numerous in the scolex and neck than in the cyst wall.
(20) If this intermenstrual bleeding appears at a certain time after the insertion of the intrauterine device, either there is a calcareous deposit, or the device has shifted, or there is an infection.
Furnace
Definition:
(n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.
(n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
(n.) To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analytically, the major products formed initially from pTFE at 700 degrees C under either condition (flame or cup furnace) are similar but they disappear rapidly in the presence of continuous heat.
(2) The unions said the government can bypass EU state-aid rules by updating Port Talbot’s blast furnaces and claiming it is investment into research and development, skills, and lowering carbon emissions.
(3) The concentration of gold in whole blood was determined using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
(4) Three-dimensional wavelength-absorbance-furnace temperature spectra can be obtained by using ramped heating steps to provide a rough separation of elements in a mixture.
(5) This technique chemically removes organic material from thin sections of tissues with reactive, excited oxygen instead of heat as used in a furnace.
(6) However, where sample size is not a limitation, wet ash digestion prior to determination in the furnace is probably the preferred procedure.
(7) Any hint of Charlotte as a sexual being is tossed on to the historical furnace.
(8) I describe a micro-scale method for determining lead in whole blood by utilizing a graphite furnace.
(9) The value of a procedure for polishing porcelain restorations that would avoid the necessity of glazing in a furnace following minor chairside adjustments is discussed.
(10) Variations in skeletal lead content suggested that the white owners of the Catoctin iron furnace shared little of their food and beverage with their black, male, industrial slaves, but that some of these workers' women had access to the owners' food sources--probably via domestic duty assignments.
(11) The aerosol, with or without water in the furnace, consists of a mixture of copper(I) oxide and copper(II) hydroxide.
(12) In the Netherlands both Portland cement and blast furnace cement (slags from blast furnaces with about 30% Portland cement) are used for concrete.
(13) For some metals the analysis can be directly achieved by means of atomisation of the biological liquid in a flame or in a graphite furnace; for other metals it is necessary a treatment of the sample to separate the metal from the rest of the matrix, which can be: calcination, microcalcination, mining.
(14) When the cup furnace is removed 1 min after pTFE is added (a procedure temporally similar to the use of the flame) the toxicity of the products is again low.
(15) We believe that the introduction of high-performance background correction such as Smith-Hieftje, delayed atomization techniques, and aerosol deposition have taken graphite furnace AAS into its third phase.
(16) Zinc was analyzed by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry, and the other elements by graphite furnace atomic absorption.
(17) Apple has entered into a joint venture in the US with GT Advanced to build plants and furnaces able to produce sapphire in industrial quantities for a “critical component” that it said in trade documents would be shipped abroad for assembly.
(18) The specimen is placed in furnace of microscope, and rised temperature by W heater.
(19) Detector response and conductivity phenomena are discussed in terms of gas-phase furnace chemistry reactions, post-furnace reaction or abstraction processes, and solution-phase ionization and neutralization processes occurring in the conductivity cell.
(20) The best way of sterilization is to make a gypsum model from the hydrocolloid impression and place it in the furnace for 30 min in 60 degrees C.