What's the difference between chess and retractor?
Chess
Definition:
(n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.
(n.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Siri [the iPhone voice recognition assistant] reminds me of the woman who's told a dog plays chess and is asked, 'Isn't that amazing?'"
(2) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(3) Comparison of the amplitude-time parameters of the VEP and of treir relationship with the cell size and the chess pattern contrast has shown a characteristic feature of ME, i. e. an increased peak latency (PL) of the first negative deviation (H1 peak) of the VEP to reversion of the chess pattern with 90% contrast.
(4) Kasparov achieved international fame in 1985 when he became the world's youngest world chess champion at 22, beating Anatoly Karpov in Moscow.
(5) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(6) Go has trillions of possible moves; according to the British Go Association , at the opening of Chess there are 20 possible moves.
(7) For scientific practice it is necessary to find a way to monitor the internal environment during a chess game (catecholamines, lactate, glucose, fatty acids, cholesterol and others).
(8) The national team’s last success in a major event was as far back as 1997, and years of underperformance have sparked a growing debate on whether the English Chess Federation’s international budget should be skewed so much to the Euroteams and the world Olympiad to the detriment of over-50 senior events, where England is strong, or the European Club Cup, the chess version of the Champions League, in which two of the strongest 4NCL clubs, Guildford and Wood Green, never take part.
(9) Phasic and established visual evoked potentials (VEP) to homogeneous light field and chess patterns were studied in 25 patients (48 eyes) aged 1.5 months to 9 years with different stages of congenital glaucoma and in 114 age-matched healthy children.
(10) We have applied a new method for separating water and fat resonances in proton magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to human studies using a whole-body MR imaging system at 2.0 T. Chemical shift selective (CHESS) MR imaging provides either a water or fat image in a single experimental run within the same time needed for a conventional composite image.
(11) But when you're in the middle of 15 games of chess every day you're gonna," he laughs.
(12) Foxconn is proud of the fact that it provides a swimming pool and other facilities to its staff, as well as organising chess, calligraphy, mountain climbing and fishing.
(13) Kasparov, who is considered by some to have been the best player in chess history, retired from top-level professional play in 2005 to become a political activist.
(14) It has a chess club, cake sales, regular pub quiz nights and an internal puzzle newsletter called Kryptos.
(15) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
(16) Computers have a huge in-built advantage as they can evaluate so many moves so quickly, and when asked how many moves ahead he thought, the pioneering 1920s chess theorist Richard Reti replied he was usually one move behind.
(17) We conclude, consistent with other neuropsychological evidence, that the right hemisphere is critical for chess skill.
(18) Trump stays vague on possible US strike on North Korea: 'It is a chess game' Read more Among such policies, he said, would be a popular replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that would “guarantee” insurance coverage for those with pre-existing medical conditions – a promise seemingly at odds with his party’s current proposal.
(19) They are on the last paragraph, one hears #EUCO October 18, 2012 Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) Everybody in French briefing room is getting ready for #Hollande presser #euco October 18, 2012 My colleague David Batty suggests the EU needs to introduce chess match style time control to make decisions.
(20) He began to take part in the school's Duke of Edinburgh scheme, and joined a number of clubs, such as drama, chemistry and chess as well as the Scouts.
Retractor
Definition:
(n.) A bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw during amputation.
(n.) One who, or that which, retracts.
(n.) In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
(n.) An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation.
(n.) A muscle serving to draw in any organ or part. See Illust. under Phylactolaemata.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tension and intracellular free calcium concentration [( Ca2+]i) were measured simultaneously in single smooth muscle cells isolated from the anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus edulis that were loaded with the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator fura-2.
(2) We present a computer-aided videodensitometric method for the determination of oxygen saturation in red blood cells flowing through capillaries of the hamster cheek pouch retractor muscle.
(3) New structures reported are mesoboscis retractor muscles, the formation of 3 ligament strands from the proboscis retractor muscles, a teloboscis inflator muscle, and conduit through the protrusor muscle sheath.
(4) We developed a new micro-iris retractor to achieve temporary intraoperative pupillary mydriasis in selected eyes undergoing pars plana vitreous surgery.
(5) These experiments demonstrated that accessory abducens is a primary controller of eye retraction through its axons to retractor bulbi.
(6) Inhibitory factor (IF), an extract of the bovine retractor penis muscle, when treated with acid, becomes a vasodilator with properties similar to endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF).
(7) In our opinion, brachial plexus lesions following median sternotomy in cardiac surgery depend on the extent of sternal spread and the height of placement of the retractor in dependence of the rigidity of the rib cage.
(8) Weintraub and Aronson's (1962) formal measures of defensive language were used: nonpersonal references, negators, qualifiers, retractors, explaining expressions of feeling, and evaluators.
(9) Intracellular and extracellular electrodes were used to study spontaneous and impulse-linked release of transmitter at locust retractor unguis nerve-muscle synapses.2.
(10) 5: 423-429, 1973), appears to restrict blood flow by placing unnatural tension on the retractor muscle and by requiring an incision in the tip of the pouch.
(11) During each scratch cycle, the monoarticular knee extensor muscle is active when the limb rubs against the stimulated site, and there is rhythmic alternation between hip protractor and hip retractor muscle activity (Robertson et al., 1985).
(12) The pharyngeal retractor muscle of Helix lucorum is innervated by two symmetrical nerves which contain axons of two types forming myoneural junctions with the muscle cells.
(13) Interneurons are demonstrated in which membrane potential oscillations mirror the leg position or show correlation with the motoneuronal activity of the protractor and retractor coxae muscles during walking.
(14) The basis for this migration is postulated to be the anatomical relationships of the tarsus, postorbicular fascia, and lower eyelid retractors.
(15) Characteristics of the surgical techniques include 1) taking a transsylvian route; 2) retracting the M1 portion of the middle cerebral artery (occasionally the C1 portion of the internal carotid) medially with tapered brain retractors; and 3) approaching the aneurysm through and between perforators arising from the posterior cerebral artery in cases of high-placed basilar bifurcation.
(16) By quantitative sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, paramyosin:myosin heavy chain molecular ratios were calculated for three molluscan muscles:Aequipecten striated adductor, Mercenaria opaque adductor, and Mytilus anterior byssus retractor; and four arthropodan muscles:Limulus telson, Homarus slow claw.
(17) The stress that generated a remaining strain of 1 mm was about 80% of the maximum stress of the fixed flexible arm, and was a suitable indicator of the ability of a retractor under load.
(18) Medial entropion in this setting often coexists with lower eyelid retraction, and if a "spacer" of sclera or ear cartilage is to be inserted into the lower eyelid, it should be carried into the medialmost portion of the eyelid to recess the posterior lamellae, including the medial retractors, and allow the eyelid margin to return to its normal anatomic position.
(19) Effects of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and forskolin on intracellular free calcium concentration [( Ca2+]i) were studied in suspensions of fura-2 loaded smooth-muscle cells from the anterior byssus retractor 'catch' muscle of Mytilus edulis.
(20) The relaxing effect of SKF 38393 on the catch contraction in the anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus and the effect of SKF 38393 on the cyclic AMP (cAMP) levels in the ABRM were investigated.