(v. t.) To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.
(v. t.) To buffet.
(v. i.) To fight; to scuffle; to box.
(n.) A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.
(n.) The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.
(n.) Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(2) To provide a seal with low pressure-high volume cuffed tubes, cuff sizes of 20.5 mm and 27.5 mm are recommended for female and male patients, respectively.
(3) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
(4) Catheter survival for the double-cuff Tenckhoff was significantly better (P .005) than the single-cuff or Lifecath.
(5) This study was designed to investigate the incidence, intensity, and duration of postoperative airway symptoms with special emphasis on cuff construction (low-pressure-high-volume cuff (LPC) vs high-pressure-low-volume cuff (HPC)).
(6) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
(7) Pre-operative ultrasonography of the shoulder is regarded as a highly accurate diagnostic tool for rotator cuff tears.
(8) They stress that beside the demonstration of rotator cuff injuries the examination of the surrounding muscles and the labrum glenoidale should not be forgotten either.
(9) Pressure in the medium-volume, low-pressure cuff was controlled and kept below 2.5 kPa (25 cmH2O) during anaesthesia.
(10) The possible diffusion barrier caused by the pericapillary cuff together with the pattern of vascularization may be an important event in ulcer formation and impaired ulcer healing.
(11) The type of manometer, cuff size, and cuff placement are also important factors in obtaining accurate blood pressure readings.
(12) Sixty-three out of 238 patients (26 per cent) presented with the following complications: 29 lesions of the brachial plexus, 21 of the axillary nerve and 28 ruptures of the rotator cuff tendon.
(13) Dedicate it to the off-the-cuff remark – the gaffe, even – which averts a war.
(14) Its high predictive value makes ultrasonography the method of choice in diagnosing rotator cuff tears.
(15) During the gradual change in cuff pressure, the amplitude of consecutive arterial volume pulsations associated with pulse pressure shows change characteristically due to the nonlinearity of arterial pressure-volume(P-V) relation.
(16) With age there is a progressive deterioration in the capsulo-tendinous cuff of the shoulder: When rotator cuff lesions are limited (in general to the supra-spinatus), the cuff remains continent and functional, thereby ensuring good centering of the humeral head.
(17) On the other hand, T2-weighted images with the surface coil demonstrated high signal intensity lesions in cuffs in all 27 patients who were diagnosed to have tears by arthrography or MR arthrography.
(18) We had to reject about one-third of the subjects recruited as hypertensive on the basis of at least three cuff readings, when we found their intra-arterial pressures were normal away from hospital.
(19) For this study, the detector consisted of two acoustic transducers mounted at right angles to each other that were packaged in a perivascular cuff configuration.
(20) In lightly anesthetized sheep, an endotracheal tube with two cuffs placed 14.5-16.5 cm apart was placed to create a chamber into which dimethyl ether was introduced and from which VDMME into the mucosa was determined with a sensitive pneumotachograph.
Handcuff
Definition:
(n.) A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) To apply handcuffs to; to manacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) History will judge you and you must at last answer your own conscience.” About 40 of the demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits, more than half of whom also donned black hoods over their faces, and one held up his wrists in handcuffs.
(2) · Golden Handcuffs [which is to be published in November] is about two graduates, Abby and Mike, who find themselves working with, for and against each other in a large City firm during their first year out of university.
(3) The handcuffs were taken off a few hours before he died the following day.
(4) The prime minister is clearly not keen to go to an election on his climate credentials, and now he’s just digging himself in deeper.” The acting Greens leader, Scott Ludlam, told reporters in Perth that Abbott was trying to “handcuff” Australia to the coal and gas industry.
(5) Photograph: Courtesy of the family It’s been over a month since Fátima Avelica watched Ice agents, wearing uniforms stamped “POLICE”, handcuff and arrest her father, and the pain of that moment still lingers.
(6) Breivik told the court he planned to handcuff her, before "decapitating" her using a bayonet on his rifle and then filming the execution on an iPhone.
(7) They may be asked to undertake "golden handcuffs" agreements to stick with a challenge to the end or pay a fee of up to £500 for every six months of legal advice they have received.
(8) Mayor Betsy Hodges made the request following a day of demonstrations by activists who say that Clark, 24, was unarmed and in handcuffs when a police officer shot him in the head.
(9) Many used the hashtag to share their disgust about Ahmed’s treatment: Christopher Emdin (@chrisemdin) We cannot say we want more STEM graduates and then simultaneously arrest STEM enthusiasts #IAmAhmed #IStandWithAhmed September 16, 2015 Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) The look on this kid's face while he's wearing a NASA shirt and handcuffs should haunt all of us.
(10) He handcuffs me and then helps me into the van where I join several other arrestees from the protest.
(11) Hopefully we should get a chance to speak to her soon.” Prison guards said earlier that the four backpackers had not returned to the jail after the hearing, and did not have to wear handcuffs.
(12) At a pre-trial hearing they said an independent witness reported seeing Harwood knee a man in the kidney as he lay on the ground in handcuffs.
(13) The family has been told that officers used CS gas and pepper spray, and hit Bayoh with batons, as they restrained him with handcuffs and leg restraints on the pavement where he then lost consciousness, dying before he arrived at hospital.
(14) Moments after the committee chairman, John Whittingdale MP, suspended the meeting, a man wearing a checked shirt was seen outside the meeting room at the House of Commons in handcuffs.
(15) However, in the virtual world, e-readers have digital handcuffs to stop you from giving, lending or selling a book, as well as licences forbidding that.
(16) "This includes loss of liberty for 11 years 43 days and all the other hardships which arose from it including damage to my reputation through being branded a murderer and effects on my family life including divorce, separation from my son throughout most of his childhood, being in custody during the deaths of my daughter and my father and having to attend their funerals in handcuffs and effects on my relationships with other family members."
(17) He had used a level of force that was "unnecessary and disproportionate to the circumstances" and caused further distress to Farmer by detaining him in handcuffs despite it being obvious he had the wrong man, it added.
(18) A performance of a song inspired by the protests, Watani Ana , (“I am my homeland” in Arabic) had Assad forces knocking down the door of Jandali’s parents’ home in Homs: “Handcuff my father, break my mother’s teeth and beat them both.
(19) Microsoft and Apple systems implement digital handcuffs – features specifically designed to restrict users.
(20) "The choice on the ballot paper is effectively between a box for yes and a box for handcuffs."