(n.) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
(n.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.
(n.) Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
(n.) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
(n.) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
(n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
(n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
(n.) Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(3) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(4) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(5) Based on these observations, the authors think it prudent to remove such dressings before performing leukocyte imaging.
(6) Then there were the mini-dress-wearing Barclaycard girls whose job was “to help educate and change people’s minds”.
(7) Peroneal nerve palsy may be avoided by careful surgical technique and postoperative dressings.
(8) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
(9) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
(10) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(11) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(12) Ease of use has meant that a greater number of patients with superficial burns can be treated as outpatients and many are able to do their own daily dressing change, so fewer attendances at the clinic are needed.
(13) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(14) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
(15) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
(16) A family who live next door to the Bredon Croft address said Masood used to turn up in Islamic dress and take their neighbours’ children to a mosque, though they did not know which one.
(17) Clare, 17, says her dress was well within guidelines for the event's dress code - it was "fingertip length".
(18) In the HCD group, 66 (86.8%) pressure sores improved compared with 36 (69.2%) pressure sores in the wet-to-dry dressings group.
(19) What was very worrying was at half‑time when you go in the dressing room, I could sense there was no response.
(20) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
Gravy
Definition:
(n.) The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
(n.) Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four episodes each of myasthenia gravis and pemphigus occurred in our patients; both were reported rarely in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(2) The potency of atracurium was determined in five patients with moderate to severe generalized myasthenia gravis undergoing thymectomy.
(3) Four samples of thymoma obtained from patients affected by myasthenia gravis have been immunohistologically analysed on cryostat sections using a panel of antisera and monoclonal antibodies specific for antigens which define different stages of intrathymic lymphocyte differentiation and antigens specific for different types of thymic epithelial cells (cortical, medullary).
(4) While studying the latter, we raised a T-cell line from the thymus of a myasthenia gravis patient against recombinant alpha subunit of the human acetylcholine receptor, the target of this autoimmune disease.
(5) ALG therapy is effective in the suppression of cellular immune mechanism, therefore it can be assumed that it exerts its effect in myasthenia gravis by inhibiting thymus hormone stimulation.
(6) Treatment modalities in myasthenia gravis consist of surgery, chemotherapy and plasmapheresis.
(7) We used a "sandwich"-type immunoenzymometric assay (IEMA) and a radioimmunoassay (RIA) to measure antibody against the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in serum from individuals with myasthenia gravis, with markedly different results for certain specimens, as measured by the two techniques.
(8) The discoveries that in Graves' disease and myasthenia gravis there are IgG antibodies directed against receptors sites are examples of such developments, while "ikiopathic" thrombocytopenic purpura is now accepted as immunological owing to its behaviour during pregnancy.
(9) The literature on the possible risk of myasthenia gravis complicating pregnancy and delivery is sparse and partly contradictory but some of the reports on the number of perinatal and neonatal deaths are alarming.
(10) We measured the antibody response to 12 pneumococcal polysaccharide antigens in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) receiving a variety of therapies in order to determine whether the T-cell-independent IgG response to these antigens was augmented by plasmapheresis.
(11) A 34-year-old woman with long-standing multiple sclerosis had a 2-year history and physical signs of myasthenia gravis.
(12) Symptoms suggesting possible myasthenia gravis are seen in speech therapy and cleft palate clinics, and often labeled "palatal insufficiency" without a more specific diagnosis.
(13) The myasthenia gravis improved substantially after thymectomy.
(14) Fluctuations in idiotypic and anti-idiotypic Ab levels over time in two myasthenia gravis patients were found to vary either inversely with one another or in relation to one another.
(15) Sufficient antigenic homology exists between receptors of different species that electric organ receptors are capable of inducing in mammals experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis.
(16) The myasthenia gravis was controlled with pyridostigmine.
(17) These monoclonal antibodies recognized idiotopes present on immunoglobulins in 14-60% of patients presenting myasthenia gravis, indicating substantial idiotype sharing.
(18) Relatively mild and slowly progressive illness, dispersion of patients over at least eight provinces and states in three countries, and a previously unsuspected vehicle had contributed to prolonged misdiagnoses, including myasthenia gravis (six patients), psychiatric disorders (four), stroke (three), and others.
(19) Some of the ones they've sent to the European parliament, one of them got sent to prison , others had to send back a lot of money because they all believed what they were saying about the Brussels gravy train and rather unwisely tried to take advantage of it.
(20) Neuromuscular presynaptic impairment may account for the worsening of myasthenia gravis by thyrotoxicosis.