(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.
Whalebone
Definition:
(n.) A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its remains were recently put on display in the Museum of Docklands, although its jawbones stood as a roadside arch in Dagenham, still remembered in the name of Whalebone Lane.
(2) The tandemly organized common cetacean component, which comprises a large portion of all cetacean--both odontocete (toothed whale) and mysticete (whalebone whale)--genomes has a repeat length of 1,760 bp and the three clones analysed showed a high degree of conformity.
(3) Throughout the centuries, tongue scrapers have been constructed of thin, flexible strips of wood, various meals, ivory, mother-of-pearl, whalebone, celluloid, tortoiseshell, and plastic.
(4) Little has changed in the streets around Royal Crescent since; a whalebone arch still stands, framing the cold grey North Sea (though the current one is the third to have been erected since the original in 1853).
(5) The hypoglossal nucleus of whalebone whales is composed of four major subdivisions, forming four parallel columns, here called the dorsomedial, the dorsolateral, the ventromedial and the ventrolateral XII columns.
(6) If you thought you could get away with a quick sketch of that Victorian whalebone corset or the butt-lifting boxers, think again: the museum has introduced a ban on drawing too.
(7) In the toothed whale Phocaena communis the differentiation of the hypoglossal nucleus is less clearcut than in whalebone whales, but a similar structural priniciple is recognizable.
(8) At the 50th anniversary of the couple's accession to the ducal title, Debo swanned into the marquee in a costume created for a Victorian duchess at a 19th-century Chatsworth thrash: she found its whaleboning very supportive.
(9) This method uses whalebone instead of extracted teeth.
(10) The ventromedial XII column extends throughout the hypoglossal nucleus, forming in whalebone whales the rostral as well as the caudal end of the nucleus.
(11) Underwear goes on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum Read more From whalebone to wire, state-of-the-art spandex to austerity-era paper, boobs and bums have been progressively enlarged, shaped, squeezed and hoisted by ever more elaborate materials and mechanisms.
(12) In the mysticetes (whalebone whales) the repeat length of the satellite is 1,760 bp.
(13) Comparative study of diplogonadal diphillobothriids from different species of whalebone whales and from man (Japan) and analysis of literary data has made it possible to establish their identity.
(14) Only the species Diplogonoporus balaenopterae (Lönnberg, 1892 capable of infecting whalebone whales, dogs and man can be regarded as really existing.