(n.) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle
(n.) The breastplate taken by itself.
(n.) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results are reported of domiciliary cuirass respirator treatment, using tailor-made shells, in four patients with severe thoracic scoliosis.
(2) A second article will consider the period 1918 to the present day and suggest that negative pressure apparatus-particularly the cuirass respirator-still has its uses.
(3) Of the 8 patients with typical features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 7 had predominant diaphragm weakness and 1 generalized respiratory muscle weakness; 7 received negative pressure ventilation by cuirass which improved both the quality of sleep and exercise tolerance.
(4) Nocturnal cuirass ventilation appears to be an ideal treatment for bilateral diaphragm paralysis.
(5) The methods of support used were intermittent positive pressure ventilation (nine patients), iron lung (three), cuirass (two) and rocking bed (one).
(6) Overnight monitoring of cuirass pressure in one patient showed more even control of peak negative pressure with the Newmarket pump than with the Cape pump.
(7) The pressure within the cuirass is sensed by a pressure transducer, and the output of this is used to control the position of the rotary valve by means of a motor so that the pressure within the cuirass follows a predetermined half sine wave pattern.
(8) Nocturnal desaturation was associated not only with hypopnea and hypoventilation, but with normal chest and abdominal wall movement using cuirass-assisted respirators.
(9) Although the absolute increments were similar, the "tight" cuirass elicited an earlier PRL peak than the "loose" cuirass and the PRL began to decrease while the "tight" cuirass was still functioning.
(10) The therapeutic effects of cuirass ventilation were studied in two patients with bilateral diaphragm paralysis.
(11) Because changing from the upright to the supine position causes a decrease in functional residual capacity (FRC), six of these subjects were placed in an Emerson cuirass, which was evacuated producing a positive transrespiratory pressure so as to restore end-expiratory lung volume to that seen before the position change.
(12) The function of the respiratory muscles may in certain cases be improved by the use of abdominal pneumatic cuirasses, by hyperventilation exercises in an isocapnoeic milieu or in breathing exercises against an additional inspiratory or expiratory resistance.
(13) The mean (SD) number of days spent in hospital over the year was 21.5 (15.1) per patient, with patients consulting their general practitioners less frequently than in the year prior to commencing nocturnal cuirass-assisted ventilation.
(14) We developed a triggered cuirass respirator and showed that it could support the right heart after a lung resection.
(15) We conclude that INPV by cuirass ventilator does not induce adverse hemodynamic effects in patients with COPD who have pulmonary artery hypertension.
(16) Nocturnal NPV in a cuirass ventilator improved baseline ventilation during wakefulness and prevented deterioration of alveolar ventilation during sleep.
(17) 2 of these cases were changed from cuirass type BR to jacket type BR and were getting on satisfactorily.
(18) This 70 year old patient presented with a 24 year history of untreated breast cancer (histology: carcinoma solidum simplex) that had developed to a cancer "en cuirasse" with disturbances in both breast glands, carcinomatous infiltration of the barrel-shaped deformed thorax and superficial bleeding from a large area of ulcerated tissue.
(19) A rotary valve between the pump and the cuirass varies the rate of extraction of air from the cuirass.
(20) The cost of commencing a patient on domiciliary nocturnal cuirass-assisted ventilation is estimated as 2470 pounds, and of maintaining them at home for one year as 3302 pounds.
Tasse
Definition:
(n.) A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin told the Itar-Tass news agency: "I think that she has all the necessary qualities, and we support her candidacy.
(2) The Russian Football Union will hold talks with the national team coach Fabio Capello on ending his contract, the Tass news agency quoted a member of the union’s executive committee as saying on Wednesday.
(3) Loose ends in efforts to untangle the Gordian knot of Syria | Letters Read more Moscow, however, angrily dismissed the reports as false, the TASS news agency reported.
(4) The Russian embassy in Ankara said the country’s envoy was summoned twice on Saturday and Monday to address the incursions, according to the Russian Tass news agency.
(5) Evgeniy Khorishko, at the Russian embassy in Washington, also denied the claims, telling Itar-Tass that "such horror stories smack of cold war times".
(6) In Moscow, a Security Council official told Tass that Patrushev “didn’t apologise to anyone, because there is nothing to apologise for”.
(7) Itar-Tass quotes the press agency of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, which says "journalists, cameramen, and photographers will be prohibited during warfare from taking photo, video, or audio, and furthermore from being in active combat zones or in the territory of immediate military objectives."
(8) Russia's Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as saying: "It's a shame that echoes of the cold war are heard in Russian-American relations from time to time."
(9) He also told Tass that it was impossible to resolve Syria crisis in a constructive way without US involvement.
(10) However, Shamil Tarpishchev, president of the Russian Tennis Federation, told the Russian news agency TASS he expected Sharapova to be available for this summer’s Rio Olympics after describing the positive test as “nonsense”.
(11) In April the Russian Itar-Tass agency reported that the refusal to return the gold would result in non-cooperation between Russian and EU museums.
(12) Jo Pavey: ‘As a clean athlete you wonder how many medals you missed out on’ Read more The acting president of the Russian athletics federation, Vadim Zelichenok, told the Tass news agency that there was no proof of a systemic issue.
(13) But Tass sought immediately to put the incident in perspective by listing several foreign nuclear disasters, including the near meltdown of the American Three Mile Island reactor in 1979.
(14) Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of the Russian space agency, told Itar-Tass news agency that a manned trip to Mars was not being considered for at least 20 years.
(15) Tass quotes the service as saying: If ‘revolutionary chaos’ in Ukraine continues, hundreds of thousands of refugees will flow into bordering Russian regions.
(16) Vladimir Boldyrev, the commander of Russian ground forces, was quoted by Tass as saying Russian troops had "fully liberated Tskhinvali from the Georgian military".
(17) This raised suspicions of a certain bias , he told Tass.
(18) The state news agency, Tass, cited an unnamed source saying that Fifa gave the Russian Football Union a $350,000 (£231,000) bonus for the Russian team’s appearance at the World Cup.
(19) My answer will be merci, Jeremy, but, as President Mitterrand once told the BBC about Disneyland, "ce n'est pas ma tasse de thé".
(20) Many companies showed interest,” said Alexander Galushka, according to a report from the Russian news agency Itar-Tass .