(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.
Play
Definition:
(n.) To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
(n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
(n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
(n.) To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.
(n.) To act; to behave; to practice deception.
(n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.
(n.) To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.
(n.) To act on the stage; to personate a character.
(v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.
(v. t.) To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.
(v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.
(v. t.) To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.
(v. t.) To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.
(v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
(v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
(n.) Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
(n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.
(n.) The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.
(n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.
(n.) A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.
(n.) The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.
(n.) Performance on an instrument of music.
(n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.
(n.) Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(2) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
(3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(4) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(5) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(6) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(7) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(8) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(9) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(10) In concert with TF expressed by monocytes and macrophages this endothelial cell procoagulant activity may play a role in the pathogenesis of thrombotic disease.
(11) To determine whether or not the glycan moieties in hTPO play a role in the disease-associated epitopes in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, radiolabeled recombinant hTPO was immunoprecipitated after digestion with N-glycanase.
(12) Immunohistochemical observation of myoepithelial cells with monoclonal antibody from human mammalian cancer suggested that these cells play an important role in the process of glandular ducts formation.
(13) Anti-human factor V IgG decreased this enhanced thrombin formation in the presence of platelets, indicating that factor V from platelets was playing an important role in thrombin formation.
(14) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(15) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(16) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
(17) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
(18) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(19) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(20) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.