(a.) Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
(a.) Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution.
(n.) An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.
(2) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(3) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(4) In practice they are so elastic that they have been used to deny pasta to besieged Gazans.
(5) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
(6) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(7) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(8) A model for left ventricular diastolic mechanics is formulated that takes into account noneligible wall thickness, incompressibility, finite deformation, nonlinear elastic effects, and the known fiber architecture of the ventricular wall.
(9) The elastic wall parameters were calculated from these measurements.
(10) The results of autokeratoplasty have been better if the Healon viscous-elastic bioprotector has been employed.
(11) We advance a structural model to account for the rapid elastic element seen in mechanical transient experiments on vertebrate skeletal muscle (A.F.
(12) The most reproducible instrument was the combination of Regisil, an elastic impression material, and a Rinn XCP bite block.
(13) The variations of the elastic properties and the density around the circumference of both the immature osteopetrotic femur and the unaffected femur were found to be similar to those previously measured on normal adult bovine femora.
(14) The median time to intubation with the gum elastic bougie while simulating an 'epiglottis only' view was only 10 s longer than the time taken during conventional intubation with an optimum view.
(15) The working women lost their elasticity more rapidly than the nuns, and the male blue collar workers lost their elasticity more rapidly than the male white collar workers.
(16) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
(17) The evidence suggests that propranolol may produce a change in either the elastic or autoregulatory modalities of sinus smooth muscle.
(18) This report described the in vitro analysis of the series elasticity of ventricular myocardium isolated from five fetal lambs and six adult sheep.
(19) Since the three drugs had comparable mechanical and geometrical effects, the study provided evidence that, in men with essential hypertension, the smooth muscle tone of the brachial artery was significantly more sensitive to calcium inhibition than to autonomic blockade, causing a more important decrease in elastic modulus.
(20) Matrix vesicles in the elastic cartilage of epiglottis were negative for acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase, and ATPase.
Nonelastic
Definition:
(a.) Not having elasticity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experiments were conducted for comparative analysis of the use of elastic (Spandex) and nonelastic (Eticon) threads for the formation of anastomoses in vascular surgery.
(2) Thrombosis occurred at the site of anastomosis only in 6.8% of cases in which elastic threads were applied in contrast to 30% of cases in which nonelastic threads were used.
(3) Valid measurements of nonelastic WOB can be made at the bedside in realtime using the Hewlett-Packard 8815A without the addition of custom-built circuitry or hardware.
(4) The effectiveness of the legging is enhanced by its nonelasticity, as has been long proven by the Unna boot, and its ability to maintain an unreduced compression level throughout its lifetime, regardless of edema changes.
(5) Nonelastic resistance and respiratory rate were not significantly different during the three periods.
(6) The cows had a greater change in maximum transpulmonary pressure (delta PLmax) and an increased nonelastic work of breathing (Wb).
(7) During dyspnea there was an increase in the total respiratory work (both elastic and nonelastic work) and this fell during relief with oxygen.
(8) MAC and HC were measured within the first 24 hours of birth using a nonelastic tape measure.
(9) The authors compared real-time, breath-by-breath work of breathing (WOB) measurements made with a Hewlett-Packard 8815A respiratory integrator with nonelastic WOB values obtained by planimetry of pressure-volume tracings.
(10) Each of the above antibodies gave a tissue distribution identical to that of anti-MAGP antibodies, and thus MP340 and MP78 also were identified with the 12-nm microfibrils of nonelastic tissues.
(11) Moreover the playground surfaces are frequently nonelastic and the first-aid kits insufficient.
(12) The reduction in respiratory work was primarily due to decreased nonelastic work associated with a decrease in resistance.
(13) In this method the antero-posterior portion of the tricuspid annulus is sutured to a semi-circular nonelastic strip of teflon by double needle sutures.
(14) Blood gases, pH, respiratory rate, tidal and minute volume, cardiac output, nonelastic resistance, and dynamic compliance were not significantly different from baseline values.
(15) A nonelastic strip was put around the canine ascending aorta through a metal tube and tightened to produce a stenotic lesion.
(16) Uterine height was measured with a nonelastic measuring tape, from the symphysis pubis to the fundus uteri.
(17) The changes in the aortic rheogram are recorded after elevation or diminition of arterial blood pressure (medicamentous and mechanical), replacement of a part of the abdominal aorta with nonelastic prothesis and application of a model heart-aorta-vascular bed, in which the "systolic volume" is changeable as well as the "peripheral vascular resistance".
(18) All of the nonelastic components are removed with a hot alkali solution.
(19) Its fiber bundles, which are for the most part nonelastic, usually make a contribution to segmental movement, although the extent of their involvement depends upon how far that movement has progressed.
(20) In the second case, on the one hand, the nonelastic anastomosis between two elastic tubes creates conditions for thrombus formation, and on the other, the tension occurring periodically in this zone causes damage to the tissues and prevents rapid formation of the neointima.