(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.
Pectoral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.
(a.) Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy.
(a.) Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper.
(n.) A covering or protecting for the breast.
(n.) A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.
(n.) A clasp or a cross worn on the breast.
(n.) A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
(2) the medial pectoral and the thoracodorsal nerves, and a shorter time span for nerve regeneration.
(3) Multiple transforming growth factors (TGFs) capable of conferring the neoplastic phenotype on NRK-49F cells without the addition of any other exogenous growth factor in the soft agar assay, were purified from two human solid malignant neoplasms: a squamous lung carcinoma and a pectoral rhabdomyosarcoma.
(4) The ventral subclavius, which was observed for the first time, was discovered to issue, together with the pectoral and the accessory phrenic nerves, from the superior and middle trunks of the brachial plexus.
(5) It is characterized by a nonprogressive bilateral facial paralysis, the inability of the eyes to abduct beyond the midline, orofacial anomalies, limb deficiencies, and an absence or hypoplasia of the pectoral muscles.
(6) It was established that the vein was most often compressed by a long stump of the small pectoral muscle.
(7) With the exception of pectoral muscle weight, dystrophic hybrids exhibited symptoms of dystrophy: high serum CK and high muscle AChE and low LDH levels.
(8) Other important factors include implant position (improved visualization with implant beneath pectoral muscle) and type of mammography performed (slightly more tissue seen with displacement technique).
(9) In 5 of these cases there was also involvement of the underlying pectoral muscles, raising the possibility that some of these may have been of pectoral musculoaponeurotic origin.
(10) The development of the vasculature of the pectoral fin in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, was studied by the dye-injection method.
(11) In 38 patients undergoing femoral artery profundaplasty and in 18 having simple mastectomy with pectoral node biopsy, a 6.2 per cent solution of sodium sulphan blue was injected peripherally to outline the lymph nodes in the groin or axilla.
(12) In 1841 A. POLAND described a rare complex of malformations in the male, characterized a unilateral pectoral muscle defect combined with ipsilateral symbrachydaktyly.
(13) The pulse generator was placed in a subcutaneous pocket in the left pectoral area.
(14) The interaction (SKF x Age) was significant (p < .05) for pectoral and biceps delta ODs.
(15) In order to study the arrangement of the myosin and non-myosin components, A segments which are aggregations of thick filaments held together at the M line were prepared from glycerinated chicken pectoral and rabbit psoas muscles and examined by electron microscopy.
(16) Major pectoral muscle could be used as local flap to obliterate empyema cavity associated with tracheal fistula.
(17) Image standardization based on fat and pectoral muscle signals was necessary for intercase comparisons.
(18) The results of this study therefore indicate that lymphatic cancer cell emboli in the pectoral fascia and muscle are an important risk factor for patients who undergo a modified radical mastectomy.
(19) Feather follicle movement control was studied on feathers of the pectoral tract in the anaesthetized chicken.
(20) As proponents of lesser procedures have called into question the necessity of removing the pectoral muscles in surgery for cancer of the breast, there has been a need to establish accurately the relationship of the lymphatics to the pectoral muscles and their fascia.