What's the difference between clip and flange?

Clip


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To embrace, hence; to encompass.
  • (v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
  • (v. t.) To curtail; to cut short.
  • (v. i.) To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
  • (n.) An embrace.
  • (n.) A cutting; a shearing.
  • (n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
  • (n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
  • (n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
  • (n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak.
  • (n.) A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A neck clipping of the aneurysm and an aneurysmectomy were performed on September 27.
  • (2) Case 1 and 2 were operated on through the ipsilateral pterional approach and the aneurysm was successfully clipped.
  • (3) Baroreflex function was studied in conscious early phase (less than 6 weeks) two-kidney, one-clip hypertensive rats before and 24 hours after surgical reversal of hypertension by removal of the constricting renal artery clip or after pharmacological reduction of blood pressure by an infusion of hydralazine or captopril.
  • (4) In order to study the vascular and adrenal renin angiotensin system in the chronic phase (4 months after clipping) of 'two-kidney, one-clip' hypertension in rats, systolic blood pressure, plasma renin activity, and tissue renin-like activity in both aorta and adrenal have been measured.
  • (5) We have studied the effect of chronic ACE inhibition with enalapril on renal structure and function in rats with the two-kidney one-clip model of renovascular hypertension.
  • (6) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
  • (7) The strong magnetic field of the super-conducting MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus could cause problems in the presence of metallic foreign material, such as the metal clips and loops of intraocular lenses and steel as suturing material.
  • (8) In 12 anaesthetized mongrel dogs, a canine stroke model was produced by occluding the left internal carotid and middle cerebral arteries with aneurysm clips.
  • (9) With these stringent criteria the rejection rate was 71.0% for group A records, 58.5% for group B and 44.5% for group C. The proportions of records with peak quality (no missing leads or clipping, and grade 1 noise, lead drift or beat-to-beat drift) were 4.5% for group A, 5.5% for group B and 23.0% for group C. Suggested revisions in the grading of technical quality of ECGs are presented.
  • (10) An overgrowth of bacteria was observed over the entire surface of the clips.
  • (11) The Lactomer clips showed very little sign of degradation in vitro even after 10 weeks of incubation.
  • (12) In terms of physiology and favourable maternal and foetal outcomes, the best age for childbearing is 20-35, but in my 20s I ran from any man who might clip my wings.
  • (13) In the clip – believed to be the first footage of a Briton fighting for the militants in Iraq rather than Syria – he urges others to take up arms and join the growing ranks of foreign fighters.
  • (14) In this study, Y-27152 was compared with a K+ channel opener lemakalim and a Ca++ channel blocker nifedipine for antihypertensive activity in conscious spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and two-kidney, one-clip renal hypertensive dogs (RHD).
  • (15) 6 weeks after clipping, hemodynamic profiles of these molecules [Heart rate (HR), mean arterial pressure (MAP), filling parameters, peripheral vascular resistances (PR) and cardiac output (CO)] during 90 minutes, were determined in the anesthetized animals.
  • (16) Patients were sterilized by electrocautery, by applying Silastic bands (Falope rings), and by means of Hulka-Clemens clips.
  • (17) The increase in peripheral resistance of the renal area including the clipped and removed arteries was greater than that in peripheral resistance of the superior mesenteric area or hindquarter area.
  • (18) One bleeding of 200 ml from a wounded intercostal vessel ligated with a clip was the sole operative hitch.
  • (19) All patients had at least one laparotomy, at which time a biopsy was obtained, radio-opaque clips were placed to define the extent of the gross tumor, and usually some form of bypass procedure was performed.
  • (20) He cut in and provided a pass for Sneijder, whose shot squirmed wide off Rodríguez; he then clipped a ball in that just evaded Sneijder; and soon after that he appealed for another penalty.

Flange


Definition:

  • (n.) An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.
  • (n.) A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.
  • (v. t.) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
  • (v. i.) To be bent into a flange.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A Velcro band attached to two lateral flanges keeps the catheter in place.
  • (2) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
  • (3) Some of the patients of the latter group used guide flange prostheses during the postoperative period to return the mandible to the centric position.
  • (4) The impression materials were applied to the denture flanges by two different methods.
  • (5) The article generalizes experience in anesthesiological management of 178 elderly and old-aged patients with fractures of the proximal segment of the femur in endoprosthesis with a Mura-Cito prosthesis, 3-flange nail, Shesterni's fixation device, arched nail, etc.
  • (6) (3) A higher risk of proximal occlusion with flanged ventricular catheter.
  • (7) A subaortic annular aneurysm involving three fourths of the annular circumference was repaired with a valved conduit to which a Teflon felt flange was attached.
  • (8) There were statistically significant differences in the flange form measurement distances among the different materials and method of application of the material.
  • (9) With the next 119 sockets, 111 of which were flanged, the eburnated and subchondral bone was preserved and multiple small anchor holes were used.
  • (10) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
  • (11) A three-flanged nail or three screws were used randomly.
  • (12) Localized cytoplasmic expansions are often present near the periphery of these flanges.
  • (13) In many places erythrocytes were virtually absent from the blood laguna, which was filled with the flanges of pillar cells.
  • (14) No components have migrated despite the absence of adjunct fixation mechanisms such as screws and flanges.
  • (15) The design combined the use of a two-part cobalt-chromium lingual plate bolted together by an anterior flange which replaced missing lower anterior teeth.
  • (16) Two bovine enamel blocks were placed in each buccal flange of the dental appliances of five volunteers.
  • (17) The devices chosen for study were the E-A-R expandable foam plug, the Willson Sound Silencer premolded vinyl plug with double flange, the Bilsom Soft polyethylene encapsulated glass fiber plug, and the MSA Ear Defender (V-51R) premolded vinyl plug with single flange.
  • (18) In the group with the microporous Monostrut mitral valve, 19 animals were put to death and examined: (1) The endothelialized covering over the suture ring, thinner when carbon coated, continued over the microporous flange, tapering off in the center of the orifice in all 19 valves on the ventricular side and in 14 of the 19 valves on the atrial side; (2) the center of the orifice and the struts were never completely covered by endothelialized tissue because of high flow; (3) there was an increased incidence of small thrombus formation on the disc-contacting microporous surface of both inflow and outflow struts.
  • (19) The only significant difference between the groups was the angle overheading to the central point of left coronary orifice anastomosed with intermediate tube from the extensive line of the prosthetic flange obtained in the left anterior oblique views on the angiography.
  • (20) To a basic cup designed with pods, four different types of flange designs were added: a cup without a flange, a cup having a flange with 12 scallops, a cup having a flange with three scallops, and a cup having a continuous flange.