(v. t.) To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.
(v. t.) To embrace sexually.
(n.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(3) Ninety-five per cent were suffering from chiasmal compression pre-operatively.
(4) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
(5) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
(6) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(7) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(8) A total of 199 compressions were performed without complications.
(9) In contrast, boundary layer diffusion is operative in the release from the matrixes prepared by compression of physical mixtures.
(10) This was worsened by the right side compression of trachea end part, due to the abnormal left pulmonary artery as demonstrated by pulmonary angiography.
(11) The evolution of tissue damage in compressive spinal cord injuries in rats was studied using an immunohistochemical technique and by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis.
(12) Surrounding parenchyma may be partially compressed.
(13) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(14) In the remaining 4 patients MRI provided support for the diagnosis of MS by demonstrating the cervical spinal cord plaques while excluding other potential causes of myelopathy, such as spinal cord compression and intramedullary tumor.
(15) Manual compression of the bladder elicited urine leakage from the urethra, and the urethral closure pressure was markedly low.
(16) It is very important to look out for neurogenic disorders as well as early signs of vascular compression in order to prevent ischaemic injuries.
(17) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
(19) Type II had the anastomosis too high on the gastric pouch, type III was due to an obstructing marginal ulcer, and type IV had a pouchlike deformity develop in the upper jejunum at the anastomosis that gradually compressed the outflow tract.
(20) To induce thrombosis we damaged the vessel wall over a short segment by compression and exposed the damaged media to the blood stream.
Pouch
Definition:
(n.) A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
(n.) That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
(n.) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
(n.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
(n.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.
(n.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
(n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
(v. t.) To put or take into a pouch.
(v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls.
(v. t.) To pout.
(v. t.) To pocket; to put up with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five patients have been examined by defecography before and four after closure of a loop ileostomy performed to cover healing of the pouch and ileoanal anastomoses.
(2) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
(3) In group III, multiple confluent ulcers were produced in the cheek pouch on one side, with a single ulcer in the contralateral cheek pouch; no drug was applied, and the tissues were prepared for histology.
(4) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
(5) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(6) Cheek pouches were removed from BIO 87.20 male hamsters 4 weeks, 8 months or 18 months of age.
(7) Acid and pepsin output from the denervated pouch in response to pentagastrin and food decreased significantly (P less than 0.001) after parenteral feeding and returned to control levels after the dogs resumed a normal diet.
(8) Type II had the anastomosis too high on the gastric pouch, type III was due to an obstructing marginal ulcer, and type IV had a pouchlike deformity develop in the upper jejunum at the anastomosis that gradually compressed the outflow tract.
(9) A series of 60 children whose urine was stored in pouches formed in whole or in part from bowel were reviewed to establish the effect on growth in height and weight.
(10) Injection of ovalbumin into subcutaneous air pouches prepared on the backs of rats previously sensitised to the antigen resulted in the induction of a small and transient accumulation of inflammatory fluid with a predominantly polymorph cell infiltrate.
(11) sp., from Chalcophaps i. indica, has three or four testes, and a cirrus pouch 93 to 108 mum long, 28 to 45 mum wide, and its egg capsules are 10 to 12 mum long, seven to nine mum wide, each containing four to six eggs.
(12) Theoretically, the low-pressure system afforded by the Kock pouch may be superior in long-term safety to that provided by reservoirs made from other bowel segments.
(13) Osteo-inductive activity of each protein fraction was determined by implantation in the quadriceps muscle pouch of mice.
(14) A study of 78 cases of gastrectomy in which two reconstruction procedures Roux-en-Y + pouch and interposition + pouch were compared and which is still in progress, yielded the following results: 1.
(15) Two of three noninoculated pouch mates acquired infections during the study based on examinations of feces and tissue sections of all eight opossums.
(16) In conclusion, functional results were satisfactory and quality of life was excellent after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis; neither deteriorated as patients aged over an 8-year period after operation.
(17) We present a computer-aided videodensitometric method for the determination of oxygen saturation in red blood cells flowing through capillaries of the hamster cheek pouch retractor muscle.
(18) The pouch was then removed and ex vivo measurements were repeated.
(19) As part of our investigation of the behaviour of suture materials, 3-0 sutures of polydioxanone and Maxon were enclosed in nylon pouches, a technique developed for in vivo experiments to prevent cellular interaction with implanted devices.
(20) Subcutaneous injection of sterile air in rodents results in the formation of an air pouch with a lining morphologically similar to synovium (Edwards et al., 1981).