(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.
Restrict
Definition:
(a.) Restricted.
(v. t.) To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
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) These eight large plasmids had indistinguishable EcoRI restriction patterns.
(3) The findings clearly reveal that only the Sertoli-Sertoli junctional site forms a restrictive barrier.
(4) Four other independent LCMV-GP2(275-289) specific H-2Db-restricted CTL clones also expressed V alpha 4 and V beta 10 gene elements.
(5) This analysis demonstrated that more than 75% of cosmids containing a rare restriction site also contained a second rare restriction site, suggesting a high degree of CpG-rich restriction site clustering.
(6) In order to determine the extent of this similarity, I have developed a panel of probes for many of the Pacl restriction fragments and have shown that most of the Pacl and Notl fragments found in MBa are also present in MBb.
(7) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
(8) the class- and specificity-restricted antigen-sensitive units.
(9) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
(10) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(11) Northern hybridization analysis of R. toruloides RNA with a restriction fragment encoding part of the PAL gene indicates that PAL mRNA is 2.5 kilobases in length.
(12) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(13) Unilateral VNAB lesions induced similar alterations but these were restricted to the ipsilateral PVN and median eminence.
(14) In contrast, in primordial follicles, FSH was restricted to the germ cell but was present in both the oocyte cytoplasm and germinal vesicle.
(15) It delimitates the restrictive conditions in which such methods could be used for clinical but not research purposes.
(16) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(17) Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were studied in a large Algerian family which includes 6 haemophiliacs and a previously described case of female haemophilia A.
(18) This suggested that carcinogen-induced error incorporation during DNA synthesis was restricted solely to the treatment of a deoxynucleotide template.
(19) The UNTR rats were subjected to a continuous food restriction to maintain body weights equal to those of the TR rats.
(20) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.