(n.) In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.
(n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.
(v. t.) To inclose in corsets.
Example Sentences:
(1) After standardizing for the other variables there was a statistically significant excess of varicose veins in women wearing corsets and roll-ons compared with those wearing less-constrictive garments.
(2) Contrary to the doctor's instructions all patients examined only wore the corset during certain periods of time according to a time schedule fixed with the parents only, therefore lacking any official authorization.
(3) The lumbosacral corset, Jewett extension brace, and plastic thoracolumbosacral orthosis (TLSO) were then placed and repeat roentgenograms were done to see if effective immobilization could be obtained.
(4) Fans of pale pink corset dresses that are wildly inappropriate for anywhere but the red carpet will have to remain ignorant.
(5) Passive correction by such methods as non-mobile corrective corsets or plaster jackets are contra-indicated.
(6) Therefore compressive vertebral fracture of the youngster should be reduced and fixed by a corset.
(7) Age, height, weight, body mass index, retirement or physical strenuousness of work showed no statistically significant correlation with the subjective relief gained from the corset.
(8) Corsets and crinolines, boxers and bras … the history of underwear is also an intimate history of changing attitudes to gender, sex, hygiene and morality.
(9) Therapy of spondylodiscitis using a light cast corset is described and it's advantages over other methods are shown.
(10) Although most pulmonary function tests were improved when the patients were supine the trends when sitting were for improvement when wearing a corset.
(11) Subjective help obtained from the corset was reported as excellent or good in 37% of the returned questionnaires.
(12) The Queen no longer exercises her right to have this bounty hauled on to her dinner table or cut up to make corsets, but the CSIP fills in, building on work done at the Natural History Museum since 1913 when formal records of strandings began.
(13) As many as 89 per cent of the patients reported that they used the corset because it supported their back or because it not only gave such support, but also relief from the pain.
(14) It is staggeringly intricate in construction, with two internal corsets; a baby blue silk bow has been stitched by hand, for luck, into the lining.
(15) She dressed in a black Zac Posen gown, sported a a figure-hugging Donna Karan dress as she sat in her $180,000 Porsche 911 GTS RS and in a revealing black corset by Agent Provocateur.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A museum worker adjusts a contemporary corset by House of Harlot.
(17) Therefore it seems necessary to treat fractures of the vertebral spine with immediate reposition (ventraler Durchhang) and following immobilisation with a plastic corset Lightcast, Hexcelite).
(18) The rigid TLSO and Raney jackets were most restrictive when compared with the Camp corset and the elastic corset.
(19) The response to a corset was slow, but the long-tern effects were at least as good as those of the other treatments.
(20) The indication for proceeding to corset therapy was either due to Scheuermann's disease or scoliotic disease.