(n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
(n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
(n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
(n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
(n.) See Chord.
(v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
(v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
(imp. & p. p.) of Core
Example Sentences:
(1) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
(2) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
(3) A complex linkage between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix is illustrated both in the cord forming Sertoli and granulosa cells, and in the adjacent mesenchymal cells.
(4) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(5) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(6) Subdural tumors may be out of the cord (10 tumors), on the posterior roots (28 tumors), or within the cord.
(7) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
(8) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(9) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(10) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.
(11) In umbilical cord blood a higher level of lipoperoxide was observed in patients with toxemia of pregnancy than in normal pregnant women.
(12) The antibody reacted with adult as well as with cord red cells, and its reactivity was strongly diminished by treatment of the cells with neuraminidase and to a lesser degree by treatment with protease.
(13) Magnetic resonance imaging of the spinal cord clearly demonstrated the entire lesion.
(14) 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.
(15) Results of the present study show that epithelial cells of ciliated columnar type covering vocal cords change remarkably to nonciliated squamous cells between prenatal and postnatal stages.
(16) We have also studied the distribution of tenascin mRNA in the developing spinal cord and spinal ganglia.
(17) Serum ferritin was measured in 51 term normal pregnant mothers and the corresponding cord blood samples.
(18) Spinal cord stimulation would suppress at least the dorsal horn neurons which were destroyed by various kinds of diseases.
(19) These findings support the hypothesis that the presence of FSC tissue will have an effect on the persistence of glial scar tissue in a chronic lesion site as well as limit the extent to which a new scar is formed in response to a second injury to the spinal cord.
(20) The first spinal nerve and the spinal accessory nerve (XI) have no sensory projections, but the second spinal nerve has typical projections along the dorsal funiculus of the spinal cord.
Eyelet
Definition:
(n.) A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.
(n.) A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to assure reproducibility of the applicator positioning, the plaque suture eyelets had to be placed on locating pins.
(2) Five GIC's (Intact, Fuji II, Orthocem B, ChemFil II, and Ketac Fil[capsulated]) and one composite resin (Concise) were tested by bonding GAC eyelets, with a curved photo-etched base, to the buccal surface of human premolars.
(3) The active length is not symmetric with respect to the source center because one source end contains an eyelet.
(4) A reference position was established for the tibial eyelet so that, after the Gore-Tex ligament was implanted, the total anterior-posterior laxity of the knee (at 200 newtons of applied tibial force) matched that of the intact knee (that is, before the anterior cruciate ligament had been cut) at 20 degrees of flexion.
(5) The real attraction is the amazing Song of the Sea eyelet rock arch.
(6) The femoral eyelet was screwed into bone and the tibial eyelet was attached to a force-transducer, which was positioned and locked on a tibial slider track to record forces in the ligament as the tibia was externally loaded.
(7) With an applied extension moment of ten newton-meters, section of the anterior cruciate ligament increased hyperextension of the knee by 2.3 degrees; implantation of the Gore-Tex ligament did not restore full extension, even when the ligament was over-tightened by using a distal location for the tibial eyelet.
(8) Mechanical complications occurred: rupture of the head of the screw (1 case), sliding of the rod in the eyelet with loss of correction (2 cases), fractures of the rod (1 case) or screws (5 cases).
(9) This apparent stretch-out of the ligament could be worked out of the knee by manually flexing and extending the knee thirty times between zero and 90 degrees of flexion while a constant 200-newton force was applied to the tibial eyelet.
(10) It has open circular loops with an eyelet at each loop end.
(11) When the eyelet was in the reference position, the ligament forces ranged from three to 319 newtons when the knee was in full extension, they rose dramatically as the knee was hyperextended, and they decreased to zero in most specimens as the knee was flexed more than 15 degrees.
(12) Osaka brand Roggykei and Tokyo-grown FEAR make some of the edgiest pieces around, such as a vest made of vinyl and eyelet lace, oversized metallic leather clutches and wrist bands slathered in studs and zips.
(13) The lens diameter can be reduced to 7 mm by grasping the eyelets at both open loop ends with a specially designed holding forceps.
(14) It has all the advantages of eyelet wiring while simplifying some of the difficulties connected with that technique.
(15) Any specialized guide wire can be converted to an exchange guide wire by the addition of an eyelet on its stiff end to which an extension guide wire may be hooked.
(16) Button wiring has been used as an alternative to eyelet wiring in the Department of Oral and Dental Surgery of Birmingham General Hospital since 1977.
(17) The fibers were then placed horizontally between two steel hooks inserted in eyelets of the tendon clasps.
(18) For each millimeter that the tibial eyelet was moved distally, the total anterior-posterior laxity decreased by the same amount.
(19) The method uses a modified type of ligation chain that enables the oral surgeon to lasso the tooth with ease and affords the orthodontist large, successively placed eyelets to which he can easily tie elastic thread in order to keep continuous heavy force pulling the tooth toward the oral cavity.