(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.
Tuff
Definition:
(n.) Same as Tufa.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Bandelier national monument , tucked deep inside Frijoles Canyon, ancient Puebloan people used hand tools to shape natural caves in the tuff into shelters known as cavates.
(2) Isotopic determinations on a tuff below the fossiliferous horizon gives dates of 4.96 my and 5.25 my.
(3) While talking an assailant into surrendering may not always be an option, the fact that Tuff successfully did so is a testament to the fact that violence does not always have to be the first answer and that tragic situations can be resolved without the use of force.
(4) Antoinette Tuff, a school clerk at the Ronald E McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Georgia, saw 20-year-old Brandon Michael Hill enter the school with an assault rifle and several other weapons.
(5) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian We had a really nice house and fields of tomatoes [in Mexico] but it was so unsafe Luis Galvan Galvan’s Daca permission expires next year.
(6) I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.” Wheego A US company that was spun out of Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles, a manufacturer of recreational electric vehicles such as golf carts.
(7) The white cliffs, hoodoos and slot canyon are all made of of volcanic tuff that erupted around a million years ago.
(8) The hominid tracks in Tuff 7 at Site G in the Garusi River Valley demonstrate bipedality at a mid-Pliocene datum.
(9) Bimesaraic arteriography may show typical images where extravasation of contrast medium is associated with vascular tuft or "tuff".
(10) Over time, this ash layer solidified into a soft, easily eroded, whitish rock called tuff.
(11) Around 30m years ago, rhinos, camels, giant ground sloths and saber-toothed cats roamed a lush grassland before being buried by a series of volcanic eruptions, which preserved their bones in colourful layers of tuff.
(12) Instead of resorting to violence, the school implemented its evacuation procedures and Tuff engaged Hill in a conversation .
(13) Antoinette Tuff showed us it can be done another way, and we need to follow her lead.
(14) Ultrastructurally 4 basic types of inclusion bodies in Schwann cells could be demonstrated (pleo-morphic "zebra body"-like inclusions, double-lamellated inclusions, "tuff-stone"-like inclusions, granular osmiophilic inclusions).
(15) Epidemiological and environmental surveys in the Cappadocian region of Turkey have linked the high incidence of pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma in the occupants of some villages with the zeolite fibres released from the locally occurring volcanic tuff.
(16) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian In the midst of a prolonged drought, vegetable and fruit growers are angry that rivers are allowed to carry more of their water out to sea to help preserve an endangered fish, the delta smelt, while water for irrigation is in effect rationed.
(17) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian If Galvan is afraid of being forced out of the country, Jenny Beard is fearful of staying.
(18) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Luis Galvan gets why a lot of people in Porterville voted for Trump even if he thinks they are mistaken.
(19) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Beard complained and the co-worker was reprimanded.
(20) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Maddox and Galvan live in Porterville, a small, conservative city nestled under the Sierra Nevada mountains, far from the prosperity and glamour of California’s coast.