(n.) A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.
(v. t.) To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to crupper a horse.
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Cupper
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(n.) One who performs the operation of cupping.
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(1) Cuppers and Thomas, in 1975, imagined that in the presence of unilateral ptosis with paresis of the rectus superior muscle only, on this side, it was advisible to place a thread on the rectus superior adelphi muscle, in order to expect an improvement, even a recovery from ptosis, by provoking an elevation impulse of the levator muscle and of the rectus superior muscle on the eye with ptosis.
(2) In-vitro exposure of dental amalgams to a magnetic field (1.15 mT; 50 Hz) increased the mobility of cupper and especially mercurity in the superficial layers of the amalgam after 24 h exposure, and gave rise to slight morphological changes within the amalgam.
(3) To avoid some complications of Cupper's original technic, they use a personal procedure: the muscle slapping, which seems to give good results.
(4) From that group we’ve got grand slam winners [Jamie Murray also won the mixed doubles at Wimbledon], Olympic gold, Commonwealth gold with Colin, four Davis Cuppers and one Fed Cup player.” Baltacha’s death last month, from cancer , still hurts Murray.