(n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
(n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
(n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
(n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
(n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
(n.) A spectacle or show.
(n.) Opinion; decision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(3) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(4) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(5) Good fixation was obtained in 4 cases using Steffee's devices.
(6) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(7) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(8) A device allowing pressure to be applied to a local skin site where the skin blood flow is followed using laser Doppler flowmetry is described.
(9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(10) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(11) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
(12) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.
(13) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(14) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
(15) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
(16) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(17) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(18) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
(19) A training device is used in conjunction with an exercise program to teach muscle control for retention of a mandibular denture.
(20) We also used an optical device to stabilize images of the real world upon the retina.
Stretcher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stretches.
(n.) A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
(n.) A piece of timber used in building.
(n.) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
(n.) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
(n.) A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
(n.) An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
(n.) One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
(n.) An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
(n.) The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lovren was carried off on a stretcher following a tackle by Craig Gardner but has been unable to undergo a scan because of swelling around the knee.
(2) A waiter grabbed a table cloth to use as a stretcher, but a photographer took the boy in his arms to carry him to the ambulance.
(3) The patient is placed in the supine position on a stretcher of adjustable height with his head in a foam rubber conformer.
(4) Shawcross, who will join Fabio Capello's England squad for Wednesday's friendly against Egypt, was shown a straight red card before Ramsey was carried off the pitch on a stretcher and taken to a local hospital, where his double break was set today.
(5) This procedure can be successfully applied to ureteral stones providing appropriate preoperative cystoscopic manipulations and a correct positioning of the patient on the stretcher of the lithotripter.
(6) Green prayer-mats were beds, tables were used as stretchers, while those already treated – blood drenching their shirts – sprawled against the walls at the side.
(7) 7.25pm BST 108 mins: Medel can't even walk off the pitch, sitting up on the stretcher as he's taken off and Jose Rojas comes on.
(8) They will take with them more than 11 tonnes of kit, including torches, axes, rope, search cameras, stretchers and tents.
(9) Photos posted on Sina Weibo showed security forces on rooftops with rifles and a man being carried through the streets on a stretcher.
(10) Already missing Michael Carrick, Ángel Di María and Robin van Persie, Luke Shaw was taken off on a stretcher after James McArthur caught him in the face with a stray elbow.
(11) Television footage showed women on stretchers being rushed into hospital with anxious relatives by their side.
(12) Nepal earthquake: two rescued after five days in Kathmandu building wreckage Read more The dust-covered teenager, who had been trapped in a small gap behind a bike under 6.5ft (two metres) of rubble, was eventually lifted blinking into the sunlight and placed on a stretcher, with a blue brace around his neck and a drip in his arm.
(13) Sturridge, who set up Frank Lampard's equalising goal on his first start for his country to cancel out Shane Long's opener, was hurt in a challenge by Glenn Whelan and having fallen to the ground on the touchline, had to be carried to the dressing room on a stretcher.
(14) In contrast, routine anesthetic reversal allowed operating room extubation, patient self-transfer to the stretcher, and ambulation on the day of surgery in Hospital B where patients had a 1.7 hour recovery room stay and a 9.6 day postoperative stay.
(15) Elderly patients were removed quickly from the stretcher area of the accident and emergency department to the quieter surroundings of the short-stay ward, where their immediate nursing requirements could be readily met.
(16) Recent findings reviewed in this paper suggest that in fact all reptants share the same three inhibitory axons: one is a universal common inhibitor, making synaptic connections within all leg muscles; the other two are specific (single-target) inhibitors of the opener and stretcher muscles, respectively (muscles which share a single excitatory axon as their sole source of activation even though they act on different joints).
(17) We decided to go forward anyway with two others – Catherine Stacpole, whose son was a well-known monk and writer and a man called Francis Whigham, a stockbroker who had done a great deal of work at Lourdes as a stretcher carrier and helper with the disabled.
(18) Augustine Eguavoen was actually stretchered off after this incident, though unsurprisingly he managed to play on after a little "treatment".
(19) It showed courage and determination to make sure we got at least a draw – and we actually went down the other end to try to get a winner, and were thankfully able to do that through a great ball from Glen Johnson and good finish by Mame Diouf.” Bournemouth suffered a significant early blow when their top scorer Callum Wilson was carried off on a stretcher in the 17th minute having sustained what appeared to be a serious knee injury.
(20) As part of the development of a life support stretcher for transportation of critically ill patients, a portable ventilation system was developed.