(n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
(n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
(v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
(v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary.
(2) Member, Canton and Riverside Division, Cardiff, St. John Ambulance.
(3) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(4) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(5) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
(6) Crude and relative survival rates were analyzed using data from 4,199 incident breast cancers in females and 39 breast cancers in males registered between 1974 and 1988 in the Cancer Registry of the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
(7) The follow-up sample consisted of 841 men in the Canton of Zurich who had been selected from a complete survey of men born in 1952.
(8) Separation forces were tested with an Instron machine (Instron Corp., Canton, Mass.).
(9) In the Canton of Graubunden, 33% of the 13-15 year old pupils and 34% of those aged 17-19 from a total of 166 smoked regularly or occasionally; none of the younger, but 8% of the older pupils had already tried drugs once.
(10) The authors study the various aspects of the 484 attempts of suicide examined over the year 1974 at the Psychiatric Policlinic of the Geneva Cantonal Hospital.
(11) Angry demonstrations over the government’s refusal to relieve Kobani , the Syrian canton under siege from the brutal group calling itself Islamic State (Isis), led to a spate of deaths.
(12) In the first survey, based on representative population samples, blood lead level was measured in the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg.
(13) Four spines were mounted in an Instron machine (Instron Engineering Corp., Canton, MA).
(14) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
(15) At a lower level, France has the level of "canton."
(16) All renal allotransplants performed at the Cantonal Hospital, Zurich, in 1975 and 1976 were analysed with respect to pre-transplant blood transfusions, excluding secondary transplants, patients on dialysis outside of Switzerland, combined renal and pancreatic transplants, and women with previous pregnancies but without transfusions.
(17) Between 1978 and 1984, the University Hospital of Geneva (Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire) received 46 head injured patients who "talked and died" after their brain insult.
(18) (And even in Switzerland the tax policies vary canton by canton, and are regularly put to the vote.)
(19) The purpose of the present epidemiological study is to investigate and describe panic disorder and sporadic panic attacks among a cohort of young adults, aged 28 years, from the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
(20) Velásquez, 23, had been terrified by stories linking Zika to birth defects , so on Christmas Day she drove 25 miles south from the semi-rural canton of Aguilares to the nearest public hospital in the capital, San Salvador.
Inset
Definition:
(v. t.) To infix.
(n.) That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.
(n.) One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Third, excess skin and subcutaneous tissue is excised inferomedially and laterally and the nipple is inset into proper locations.
(2) Immediately post elevation and inset, the expanded flaps were still significantly larger than the control flaps by a mean 29.8% (p less than 0.01) but had lost 56% of the original area gained.
(3) The design of the flap allows primary closure of the donor site and tension-free flap inset with a robust flap blood supply.
(4) The author concludes that patellar resurfacing improves the quality of the result and that there are few drawbacks to the use of an inset patellar button.
(5) Adequate flap-to-base area ratio and length-to-width ratio, tension-free insetting of the flap, and noncompression dressing are essential for the flap's survival.
(6) Pedicle flaps can be transected 9 to 12 days after inset, thus shortening the immobilization period.
(7) Their chevron shapes are inset with cowls and scoops, giving them the air of a certain kind of painted, post-industrial abstract relief I haven't seen in years.
(8) We propose an initial excision with flap inset and a second procedure for debulking and contouring the alar groove to complete reconstruction of the aesthetic unit.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An area US officials say was an Isis vehicle staging center near Abu Kamal, Syria, is seen before (inset) and after it was struck by air strikes.
(10) Our use of an aluminum suspension basket to prevent flap tension and motion has facilitated inset of the flap resulting in healing per primum in 31 consecutive patients.
(11) A method for preoperatively estimating the flap volume, operative details, and a technique for insetting the flap are reviewed.
(12) The length of exposed radial artery pedicle was calculated to permit full range of motion of the involved digits before flap division and inset.
(13) A modification of the Abbe flap procedure is presented in which muscle-to-muscle union of the orbicularis muscle is obtained prior to inset of the flap.
(14) Two representative cases and a detailed description of flap harvesting, insetting, and donor-site closure are presented.
(15) To alleviate this risk, a new technique of balloon catheter insetion is suggested whereby a 10 inch length of prosthetic material is sewn into the artery.
(16) When choosing vascular anastomotic sites, free-flap transfer permits a greater latitude in flap orientation, tailoring, and inset than is possible when using fixed pedicled rotation flaps.
(17) After 10 days, the pedicles were ligated, so that flap survival depended totally on the new vascular supply from the inset area of the flap.
(18) Although there is a 63 per cent increase through expansion of a given flap with a particular expander, this results in only a 30 per cent increase after elevation and inset.
(19) An experiment with an animal model was designed to investigate whether an arterialized and innervated muscle flap has an optimal tension when being inset.
(20) I’m loathe to say the best, for fear of sounding like one of those people who are paid vast amounts of money to come in and fill up half an inset day with disarmingly facile platitudes.