() An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.
(n.) A small collar or neckband.
(n.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.
(n.) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.
(n.) The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant.
Example Sentences:
(1) He underwent Rastelli operation at the age of 10 months with the diagnosis of truncus arteriosus (Collet & Edwards Type I).
(2) The 16 people named in the charges are: Patricia Quinn; Sean Quinn Junior; Collete Marie Quinn; Aoife Quinn; Brenda Quinn; Ciara Quinn; Paddy McKillen; Séamus Ross; Brian O'Farrell; John McCabe; Gerard Maguire; Patrick Kearney; Gerard Conlon; Gerard Gannon; Seán Reilly and Joseph O'Reilly.
(3) When two primitive PAs shared a single root, the consequence was either pulmonary trunk hypoplasia, as is seen in tetralogy of Fallot, or type I persistent truncus arteriosus (PTA) as classified by Collet and Edwards.
(4) But at this stage we’re focusing on the immediate humanitarian needs.” The head of Oxfam in Vanuatu, Colin Collet van Rooyen, said the lack of clean water and sanitation were the most pressing needs.
(5) A Collet-Sicard syndrome was observed in a 53-year-old patient with a coiling of the left internal carotid artery just below the skull base.
(6) A 71-year-old man developed unilateral palsies of the 9th through 12th cranial nerves (Collet-Sicard syndrome) due to a fracture of the occipital condyle, which was diagnosed by computed tomography.
(7) In April 1989 Collets, the left-wing bookshop, and Dillons were firebombed for stocking the Rushdie novel.
(8) In any event, Collet's argument misperceives the heuristic mode in which PCA is used in actual studies.
(9) First, since Collet's analysis was based on the correlation matrix only, it cannot disprove assumptions of PCA which do not constrain the correlation (or covariance) matrix.
(10) There were two cases which could not be classified according to the Collet and Edwards classification.
(11) Data were colleted during 2 6-hour naturalistic home observations using a modified time-sampling technique.
(12) Data on perceived community security and reported medical, social and mental coping reactions were colleted, using a simply and directly worded, precoded, stimulus-response instrument developed by the author.
(13) Using the Collet and Edwards classification, type I truncus arteriosus was the most frequent (62.5%).
(14) Her injuries were: a large left facial entrance wound with a single sinus cavity that was converted from destruction of the paranasal sinuses, a right Collet-Sicard syndrome, and a right vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm at the C1 level.
(15) A 41-year-old man experienced intense headache and neck pain, bruits, and a complete unilateral cranial nerve palsy IX-XII (Collet-Sicard syndrome) after a trivial back trauma.
(16) To increase the practicability of Ilisarov's ring fixation apparatus, we introduced the following modifications: Clamping of the fixation wires using a quick collet with a force indicator, which enables reproducibly preuse and rapid clamping.
(17) A single right ventricle with common atrioventricular (AV) valve was associated with (Collet & Edwards type II) truncus arteriosus communis, and appeared to have a single coronary artery with an abnormally high take-off near the origin of the right subclavian artery.
(18) A 67-year-old man developed paralysis of the right ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth cranial nerves (Collet-Sicard syndrome) after sustaining a closed head injury.
(19) The same does not hold true when one is confronted with Collet-Sicard's syndrome or cochleovestibular syndrome accompanied by otoliquorrhea.
(20) Six species of common desert range plants; Achillea sp., Aristida plumosa, Artemisia herba-alba, Haloxylon articulatum, and Heliotropium ramosissimum were colleted from Western Desert in Iraq.
Ferrule
Definition:
(n.) A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.
(n.) A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sutureless concept was proposed in which the proximal and distal ends of a severed vessel are everted over ferrules, and then the everted ends are held together with a low-temperature, biocompatible, heat-shrinkable sleeve.
(2) This study evaluated the fracture resistance of pulpless teeth with various ferrule designs and amounts of coronal tooth structure.
(3) In addition, the authors compared the ossification of the diaphyseal ferrule to that of the "perichondrial ferrule of the layer of ossification", examining histologic sections of embryos in the 25th week of intrauterine life.
(4) In particular, it appears unnecessary to incorporate a ferrule effect as part of a post-and-core foundation.
(5) The authors conducted a histologic study on the modalities of ossification of the "diaphyseal osseous ferrule" in embryos between the sixth and eighth week of intrauterine life: the ossification of this "diaphyseal osseous ferrule" presents some peculiarities compared to that of other areas: it occurs with the modalities of periosteal ossification, exploiting, however, a cartilagenous substrate.