(n.) Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
(n.) The thorax of an insect.
Example Sentences:
Cuirass
Definition:
(n.) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle
(n.) The breastplate taken by itself.
(n.) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results are reported of domiciliary cuirass respirator treatment, using tailor-made shells, in four patients with severe thoracic scoliosis.
(2) A second article will consider the period 1918 to the present day and suggest that negative pressure apparatus-particularly the cuirass respirator-still has its uses.
(3) Of the 8 patients with typical features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 7 had predominant diaphragm weakness and 1 generalized respiratory muscle weakness; 7 received negative pressure ventilation by cuirass which improved both the quality of sleep and exercise tolerance.
(4) Nocturnal cuirass ventilation appears to be an ideal treatment for bilateral diaphragm paralysis.
(5) The methods of support used were intermittent positive pressure ventilation (nine patients), iron lung (three), cuirass (two) and rocking bed (one).
(6) Overnight monitoring of cuirass pressure in one patient showed more even control of peak negative pressure with the Newmarket pump than with the Cape pump.
(7) The pressure within the cuirass is sensed by a pressure transducer, and the output of this is used to control the position of the rotary valve by means of a motor so that the pressure within the cuirass follows a predetermined half sine wave pattern.
(8) Nocturnal desaturation was associated not only with hypopnea and hypoventilation, but with normal chest and abdominal wall movement using cuirass-assisted respirators.
(9) Although the absolute increments were similar, the "tight" cuirass elicited an earlier PRL peak than the "loose" cuirass and the PRL began to decrease while the "tight" cuirass was still functioning.
(10) The therapeutic effects of cuirass ventilation were studied in two patients with bilateral diaphragm paralysis.
(11) Because changing from the upright to the supine position causes a decrease in functional residual capacity (FRC), six of these subjects were placed in an Emerson cuirass, which was evacuated producing a positive transrespiratory pressure so as to restore end-expiratory lung volume to that seen before the position change.
(12) The function of the respiratory muscles may in certain cases be improved by the use of abdominal pneumatic cuirasses, by hyperventilation exercises in an isocapnoeic milieu or in breathing exercises against an additional inspiratory or expiratory resistance.
(13) The mean (SD) number of days spent in hospital over the year was 21.5 (15.1) per patient, with patients consulting their general practitioners less frequently than in the year prior to commencing nocturnal cuirass-assisted ventilation.
(14) We developed a triggered cuirass respirator and showed that it could support the right heart after a lung resection.
(15) We conclude that INPV by cuirass ventilator does not induce adverse hemodynamic effects in patients with COPD who have pulmonary artery hypertension.
(16) Nocturnal NPV in a cuirass ventilator improved baseline ventilation during wakefulness and prevented deterioration of alveolar ventilation during sleep.
(17) 2 of these cases were changed from cuirass type BR to jacket type BR and were getting on satisfactorily.
(18) This 70 year old patient presented with a 24 year history of untreated breast cancer (histology: carcinoma solidum simplex) that had developed to a cancer "en cuirasse" with disturbances in both breast glands, carcinomatous infiltration of the barrel-shaped deformed thorax and superficial bleeding from a large area of ulcerated tissue.
(19) A rotary valve between the pump and the cuirass varies the rate of extraction of air from the cuirass.
(20) The cost of commencing a patient on domiciliary nocturnal cuirass-assisted ventilation is estimated as 2470 pounds, and of maintaining them at home for one year as 3302 pounds.