(n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
(n.) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
(n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.
(n.) One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
(n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
(n.) A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
(n.) A mollusk. See Clam.
(v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
(v. t.) To cover, as vegetables, with earth.
(n.) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
(v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
Example Sentences:
(1) The percentage of eggs clamped at values more negative than -65 mV, which responded at insemination by developing an If, decreased and dropped to 0 at -80 mV.
(2) In voltage-clamp experiments the ion current flowing through the channels was homogeneous indicating a defined conformation and a uniform size.
(3) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
(4) With a series of 117 aortic valve replacements, the authors have examined the results in relation to the method of protecting the myocardium while the aorta is clamped off.
(5) We have previously shown that, with moderate hydration (2.5 L) of the recipient, together with rapid infusion of 250 ml of mannitol 20% just before clamp removal, the incidence of ARF decreased to below 10%.
(6) Detailed voltage-clamp measurements revealed that ABA-activated ion currents could be reversed by depolarizations more positive than -10 mV.
(7) Multiple blood samples were obtained over one dosing interval following oral CyA administration in eight liver transplant patients before and after T-tube clamping.
(8) Furthermore, blood pressure, free fatty acid concentration, liver enzymes, and urate concentrations were significantly correlated with glucose infusion rate at the clamp test.
(9) Using the rate coefficient values found by SCoPfit, we simulated a voltage-clamp experiment with both models running under their Na(+)-Na+ exchange mode, and we computed the transient currents generated following voltage steps in both depolarizing and hyperpolarizing directions from a basic potential of -40 mV.
(10) The effects of alanine, glucose and tolbutamide on insulin-secreting cells (RINm5F) have been investigated using patch-clamp and single cell intracellular Ca2+ measurements.
(11) In the whole-cell current-clamp method, the cell membrane was depolarized by endothelin and then repolarized by nicorandil.
(12) The effect of physiologic elevations of plasma hydroxybutyrate induced by the infusion of sodium D,L-beta-hydroxybutyrate (15 mumol X kg-1 X min-1) on carbohydrate metabolism was examined with the euglycemic insulin clamp technique in nine healthy volunteers.
(13) The initial defect can be directly measured by glucose clamp and other sophisticated techniques; the clinical syndrome may be derived from a network of related variables known to be associated with reduced insulin action.
(14) We have investigated insulin responsiveness in relation to insulin sensitivity during sequential hyperglycemic clamping in low insulin responders (LIR), high insulin responders (HIR) and in women with a history of gestational diabetes (GD).
(15) In anesthetized cats, the enhancement of sympathetic activity and increase of the blood pressure in exclusion of afferents (section of vagosympathetic trunks and clamping of common carotid arteries) as well as the disappearance of the activity in enhanced afferentation, were shown to be transient and to disappear within a few minutes-scores of minutes in spite of the going on deafferentation or enhancement of afferentation.
(16) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
(17) In a direct test of the hypothesis that the M2 coat protein of influenza A can function as a proton translocator, we incorporated a synthetic peptide containing its putative transmembrane domain into voltage-clamped planar lipid bilayers.
(18) The aortic cross-clamp time ranged from 51 minutes to 94 minutes (mean 71 minutes).
(19) The main objective of these experiments was to develop and characterize a new experimental model of venous thrombosis, and determine whether a combination of vascular wall damage (crushing with hemostat clamps) and prolonged stasis produced more reproducible clots than prolonged stasis per se.
(20) After properly fixing the vas deferens with a ring clamp, the surgeon pierces the scrotal skin, vas sheath, and vas deferens in the midline with a curved dissecting clamp held at a 45 degree angle from horizontal.
Clomp
Definition:
(n.) See Clamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Uh, it's winter," she replied, then clomped off in the midday heat.
(2) You watch the so-called future of boxing as he clomps around to ranchera in Seahawk green shoes and Under Armour everything in Shane Mosley's gym, surrounded by posters of Shane's great fights, and you see bright-green heavy feet thudding around and try to convince yourself that you're watching Julio Cesar Chavez and Oscar De La Hoya rolled into one.
(3) I'm not sure I particularly buy the quick-fix methods of TV trainers like Cesar Millan or Victoria Stilwell, in the same way I don't believe Supernanny Jo Frost reverses 10 years of child behaviour by clomping about in a pencil skirt dispensing gold stars, but there's always something soothing about watching other dog owners.
(4) On it clomps, chainmail leggings round its ankles, firing catapults of flaming exposition at every surface as viewers scatter like screaming ants.
(5) The bothy is also close to the South West Coast Path, and the cliff walks, rarely interrupted by footsteps other than my own clomping (aided by a trusty walking stick), are predictably stunning.
(6) During the first half of the last century, people escaped industrial Britain to their own cabin or chalet, sheltering from the wind and sun and clomping about in a little wooden oasis for two weeks of the summer.