(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.
Muff
Definition:
(n.) A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
(n.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.
(n.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
(n.) A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.
(n.) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
(n.) The whitethroat.
(v. t.) To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
(2) Less conventional still is Muff Cafe, a custom-motorbike-workshop-cum-really-rather-good-organic-restaurant in Hackney Wick that a friend recommends on condition that "you don't fill it with Guardian readers".
(3) The novelist and critic Tom Bissell has described the protagonist's Jewish lawyer in 2002's Vice City as "an anti-Semitic parody of an anti-Semitic parody", while in the new game one of the main character's daughters has a tattoo that reads "skank", and one mission involves you helping a paparazzo capture a starlet's "low-hanging muff".
(4) Jay Prosch almost muffs a punt and then Auburn goes 3 and out, including an inexplicable wildcat play on 2nd down.
(5) the throat plate could be surrounded with muff a 4-5 mm in height which would provide a greater soldering area and thus increase the strength of the connection.
(6) Chris Davis almost muffs the punt return for Auburn, that's not as dirty as it sounds.
(7) The muffs and most earplugs produced similar attenuation levels at high frequencies, although the muffs produced less attenuation at low frequencies.
(8) Ten different common muff-type ear defenders were tested by 50 potential users for comfort and ease of use.
(9) Everyone believed they knew the script to come but Germany muff ed their lines.
(10) The author suggests a tube formed from the omentum and enveloping a drainage rubber tube like a muff.
(11) During its early stages of development the fungus is always surrounded by a thick bacterial muff.
(12) End-to-side microvascular anastomosis is performed by applying four crossed-fixing sutures and by mantling a hemostatic sponge muff (eg, Spongostan) impregnated with fibrinogen-thrombin glue.
(13) The subject-fit condition resulted in significantly lower protection levels, from 4 to 14 dB, at 1000 Hz and below for a premolded polymer earplug, a user-molded foam earplug, and a double protector consisting of a muff over the foam plug.
(14) After original bassist Kim Deal left the group six days into the recording of the new material, the band hired Kim Shattuck of the Muffs to replace her temporarily .
(15) Plastic ear plugs were preferred by 44%, vinyl foam ear plugs by 26%, fibreglass down by 18%, and ear muffs by 11% of the workers.
(16) By means of morphometrical grid amount of cells in the periarterial lymphoid muffs (PLM) and in marginal zones (MZ) of the spleen have been counted.
(17) A total of 10 cases are presented, of patients with tarso-metatarsal luetic osteoarthropathy, characterized by a mosaic of destructive lesions (osteoporosis, osteonecrosis, osteolysis, bone goma, spontaneous amputations of bone segments), coexisting with bone-constructive lesions (osteophitosis, compact layer condensation, osteosclerosis, peridiaphisal-epiphiseal muff), with periostal and articular reactions.
(18) So they carried on, with friends filling in: Kim Shattuck of LA pop-punk band the Muffs is currently playing bass.
(19) Movement activity caused up to a 6-dB significant reduction in frequency-specific attenuation over time for the premolded plug, muff, and muff-plug combination.
(20) 4.03am GMT Florida State 13-21 Auburn, 3:40, 3rd quarter And Auburn almost muffs the punt return again!