(n.) A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
(n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.
(v. t.) To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tooth fracture on failure occurred in seven out of ten Flexi-post-retained cores, while only three out of ten of the Para-post-retained cores and none of the Dentatus dowel-retained cores presented this unrepairable type of failure.
(2) Blocks of trials were made to the small dowel and to the large dowel.
(3) These modifications include the intraoperative threading of the standard cylindrical graft dowel (either autologous or heterologous) and the development of two new instruments designed to insert the graft into the intervertebral space.
(4) This suggested the most effective surgical treatment: Vetral clearance of disks, removal of prominences, and fusion of the three levels through the use of four bone dowels.
(5) Forty cast gold dowels and cores were made for four groups of dowel channels that had, respectively, 1 mm, 2 mm, 3 mm, and 1 mm with a 60-degree bevel (collar) of the remaining buccal dentin at the entrance of the canal.
(6) A total of 140 dowel samples were cast in Rexillium III and were divided into seven groups.
(7) In the past, because it has often been ignored that the bonding at the cement-dentin interface is weaker than that between the metal and cement, the true impact of surface configuration and cement thickness on the retention of dowels has never really been observed.
(8) The history of the nonlocking type of intracoronal semiprecision rest has been traced from its origins with Neurohr in 1930, up to its present use as the Thompson dowel rest.
(9) Coping designs for attachment overdentures must provide retention, resistance to rotation, and bulk when joined with the dowel and attachment, without negating the advantage of the reduced crown-root ratio.
(10) In blocked and control trials, the wrist moved with a single acceleration to the target dowel.
(11) The effect of cement type was significant only with tapered dowels.
(12) A silver plated die with a double dowelling technique is used.
(13) Arthrodesis that maintains normal contours of the foot, including its length and height, can be accomplished by the dowel technique described in this article.
(14) The margin of the crown and the dowel construction therefore were not at the same level.
(15) He backed those words with action, handing the 17-year-old Tom Davies and the 18-year-old Kieran Dowell full debuts in midfield and giving the under‑21s captain Jonjoe Kenny his first senior outing from the bench.
(16) 12 mm bone dowels are then driven into the holes, immediately stabilizing the segment.
(17) Immediate preparation of the dowel spaces had no effect on the apical seal.
(18) Targets were three-dimensional translucent dowels placed concentrically at 30 cm from the subject.
(19) The study also includes a comparison of root-resected teeth restored with root screws and composite cores versus those which had been restored with cast gold dowels, showing that both types of reconstruction had the same durability concerning the risk of root fractures or loss of retention.
(20) The use of paper matches is a simple and effective method for holding the dowel pin in the proper relation while the die stone portion of the cast is being poured.
Wrist
Definition:
(n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.
(n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irradiation of the skin overlying the median nerve at the wrist in humans with a low power (1 mW; 632.5 nm) helium-neon laser produced a somatosensory evoked potential obtained at Erb's point.
(2) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
(3) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(4) Surgery of destroyed joints in the hand and wrist in the arthritic patient can be added to the armamentarium of the reconstructive arthritis surgeon.
(5) The heat uptake that resulted from immersing the hand and wrist into a water-filled calorimeter maintained at temperatures between 37-40 degrees C was measured under standard conditions in a group of eight subjects of either sex.
(6) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(7) Tenosynovial biopsy specimens from 177 wrists were obtained from patients at carpal tunnel release, and a control group of 19 specimens was also obtained.
(8) A 31-year-old man was found to have a diffuse infection of the wrist and osteomyelitis of the scaphoid caused by Mycobacterium kansasii.
(9) The index was calculated by dividing the sum of the count rates over both knees and both wrists by the dose of technetium given.
(10) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(11) Roentgenograms of hands, wrists, and forefeet were taken at baseline and after 6 and 12 months, and 32 joints were evaluated according to Larsen.
(12) She got it when Alyssa was born and her daughter’s name is inked in black just above her wrist.
(13) Electromyographic reaction times of the left and the right finger extensor muscles in extension movement of the wrist were examined in 42 patients with Parkinson's disease, and 20 normal subjects.
(14) Hand function after surgery in the follow-up period of three to twenty-one months was very satisfactory with the exception of three cases which presented at a very late stage with secondary involvement of the wrists.
(15) A reliability study was conducted to determine (a) the intrarater and interrater reliability of goniometric measurement of active and passive wrist motions under clinical conditions and (b) the effect of a therapist's specialization on the reliability of measurement.
(16) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
(17) The data required are recumbent length, nude weight, midparent stature, and hand-wrist skeletal age.
(18) Arthrography before isotope synoviorthesis of the fingers and wrists was carried out in 185 patients suffering from inflammatory rheumatic conditions.
(19) Volar subluxation of the tendons of the first dorsal compartment of the wrist occurred in two patients after surgery for treatment of de Quervain's stenosing tenosynovitis.
(20) Distal (5th finger - wrist) and proximal (wrist - elbow) sensory nerve conduction showed an insignificant increase as hyperglycemia was induced.