(v. t.) To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
(v. t.) To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
(v. t.) To surround and cling to; to entwine about.
(n.) An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.
(n.) A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) This permitted employment of cast combined crowns with wide perigingival metal rims to support the clasp dentures to make them look better when supplying 73 patients with partial removable dentures.
(2) The RPI clasp assembly generated the most uniform stresses.
(3) The author uses his experience as a certified dental technician to discuss arch and tooth preparation, clasping, and proper impression technique.
(4) Tightening of clasps already in contact with a tooth frequently produces adverse changes.
(5) Fabrication of a provisional restoration to fit the existing clasp assembly requires special consideration.
(6) Differences between frameworks, number of clasps, and depth of undercuts were all significant.
(7) It was concluded that the gingivally approaching clasp is potentially damaging.
(8) He was pictured standing silently with his hands clasped and holding his order of service as others around him sang God Save the Queen, and was later forced to confirm that he would sing the anthem at future events.
(9) The abutment tooth is then prepared, providing adequate clearance between the clasp assembly and the tooth preparation.
(10) The following therapeutic proposal was adapted: On the maxilla, a three-step procedure: first step: building of metal copings on 13, 16 and 26 and metal-ceramic crowns on 11 and 21, second step: building of telescop crowns on 16 and 26 and clasps on 13, 11 and 21, third step: casting of the removable partial denture framework and soldering to the telescop crowns and clasps.
(11) A certain degree of deterioration of occlusion, articulation, stability and clasp retention of the dentures fitted did occur, however.
(12) In a 16-year-old girl, congenital extensor deficiency of the hand with absence of true clasping of the thumb was transmitted by an autosomal dominant mechanism of inheritance.
(13) Loads applied to the denture saddle were transmitted through the occlusal rest and also the clasp components causing movement of both denture saddle and the abutment tooth.
(14) The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in the material and the variation among individual technicians in the retentive force of both clasps.
(15) In the case of soldering electrically wrought wire clasps to metal structures such as rests and connectors, there is no fear of of overheating a wide area of wires.
(16) The patient tries to smile, but her fingers are clasped together while her nails claw at the flesh on the back of her hands, and the tears continue to pour down.
(17) Blindfolded subjects clasped the opposite surfaces of an object with the same frontal profile as the visual figure between thumb and forefinger and moved the latter together from end to end across the object.
(18) They really ought to have done more, bearing in mind Pantilimon had needed three attempts to clasp a low cross from Chelsea's first attack of any real threat, 21 minutes into the game.
(19) After testimony finished for the day he stood for the jury’s exit, his hands clasped, staring down at the desk in front of him.
(20) clasps give only small vibration when the path of removal is adjusted.
Infold
Definition:
(v. t.) To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve.
(v. t.) To clasp with the arms; to embrace.
Example Sentences:
(1) The wall of the yolk sac thickens as a result of this infolding and the densely packed capillaries.
(2) These alterations include fenestration, widened intercellular junctions, increase in pinocytotic vesicles, and infolding of the luminal surface.
(3) Later, the astroglial processes of regenerated glia limitans showed very infolded surfaces and numerous filaments inside of them.
(4) The surface of the zona was quite irregular and contained numerous infoldings, channels and crypts.
(5) Patches of displaced basal lamina material appeared within the RPE basal infoldings.
(6) The second tumour occurred in a 36-year-old woman, followed a benign course and showed papillary infoldings lined by multilayered neoplastic cells.
(7) Marked infolding of both the granulosa and theca tissue in some follicles suggested early luteinization.
(8) In the former cells, active mitochondria were generally found near microvilli at the apical ends and in the areas of the basal infoldings whereas those in a central position were more frequently unreactive.
(9) The cell outline shows remarkable complexity by extensive infoldings and interdigitations of lateral and basal plasma membranes.
(10) Expression of L1 was restricted to neural cells until approximately postnatal day 5, when L1 started to be detectable on crypt but not on villus cells, predominantly on the basolateral membrane infoldings.
(11) The processes in both eyes of the epinephrine-treated monkeys exhibited one of two pictures: dilated stromal capillaries with numerous fenestrations; normal stroma, PE basement membrane and PE; numerous well-developed NPE basolateral infoldings and enlarged mitochondria; dilated stromal capillaries with ruptured fenestrations; ballooned protein-filled stroma; degenerated NPE.
(12) Moreover, the basement membrane of the seminiferous tubule showed wavy lamellae and infolding to the seminiferous epithelium.
(13) Secretory ameloblasts synthesize the organic matrix of enamel and secrete it at two distinct "putative secretory sites" characterized by membrane infoldings (Nanci and Warshawsky, 1984a).
(14) The distance between the apposed rectus muscles is then progressively decreased by repeated infolding of the polyamide mesh with running longitudinal sutures on the mesh itself.
(15) In the anterior and middle part, the NPE cells have only a few membrane infoldings and few mitochondria in the cytoplasm, but abundant surfaces of rough endoplasmic reticulum, numerous ribosomes and Golgi material, indicating protein synthesis.
(16) Increase of vesicles in both the endothelial cells and the basal infoldings of pigment cells were features.
(17) Cell outlines were smooth, with no basal infoldings of the plasma membrane or apical microvilli.
(18) The ultrastructure of the Sertoli cell studied in sexually active control animals during May-June and experimental animals sexually activated by light in winter, presents the commonly described ramified aspect with an infolded nucleus, well developed Golgi complexes, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, numerous microfilaments, few liposomes and lysosomal formations; In the regressed testes of hibernating animals or blinded spring animals, the Sertoli cells are more round shaped with a significant increase in number and size of liposomes, lysosomes and various necrotic bodies.
(19) Electron microscopy of surviving retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells indicated a loss of apical microvilli and basal infoldings.
(20) The latter, like the stacked membrane infoldings of rectal papillae, exhibit intercellular columns and numerous intramembranous P face particles; these are undoubtedly involved in ion transport.