(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.
Resile
Definition:
(v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) An anatomical basis for the well known difference between the fibrous and the resilent stricture is demonstrated, and the role of smooth muscle in the development and behaviour of strictures is discussed.
(2) The government does not resile from the accusation that it seeks to withdraw state funding from the university sector.
(3) It festered after Blair resiled from an understanding that he would step down during a second term.
(4) There was a linear relation between film thickness and tensile strength, toughness, elastic resilence and elongation at fracture.
(5) But, and it is a big but, the ESRI concludes that this relies on fellow Europeans buying the goods and services Ireland has to offer from its resilent export sector.
(6) And so, while I do not resile from anything I said, I certainly reject criticism for words that I didn't use.
(7) When contacted by Helm, Kaminski blustered and changed his story, but in subsequent interviews with Martin Bright of the Jewish Chronicle , Kaminski has not resiled from his belief that he was right to protest the Polish government's apology for the Jedwabne massacres of Jews at the hands of Poles.
(8) You might not like me for that, but I will not resile from that.
(9) While insistent they will not resile from the so-called "plan A" both on and off the record, the new imperative is to find ways of using existing capital spending commitment to encourage the private sector to part with their capital and increase the amount of capital in the economy.
(10) I have said in the longer term, and I don’t resile [from the view], that like many many other programs governments will have to address, and societies will have to address, the cost of programs,” he said.
(11) But Johnson does not resile from his basic belief that the Middle East needs to foster less sectarian leadership, a criticism that he applies to Iranians as much as Saudis.
(12) But he added: “Equally the Northern Territory government does not resile from its tough approach to those who don’t want to respect other people’s property or safety.” Giles said he had asked the NT police commissioner to consider if the highlighted incidents were “in accordance” with the power of custodial officers, and indicated it would be expected any breach of the law would be “pursued rigorously”.
(13) One report suggests former party president Simon Hughes's office has received 4,000 emails telling him his party cannot resile on electoral reform.
(14) In an interview with the Nine Network broadcast on Tuesday evening, Gillard did not resile from the June 2010 leadership coup “even with the benefit of hindsight” – even though most senior Labor figures now do, regarding the strike against Rudd as a fundamental mistake.
(15) But the strategy, if that is the word, is bound to fail, because President Obama cannot resile on the key reform of his administration and, at some point, the Tea Party has to swerve or risk the anger of the majority of the American people and so jeopardise the Republican party's chances at the next presidential election.
(16) Nor did she resile from her personal commitment to withdraw from the European convention on human rights, a battle she will now have to fight in the Tory manifesto process.
(17) Referring to a Scotland Yard statement on Monday that resiled from its earlier description of Nick’s allegations as “true”, Proctor told the Guardian: “Yesterday’s confused public relations statement by Scotland Yard marks the beginning of what I believe is their exit strategy from Operation Midland.
(18) Cameron's spokesman said: "The prime minister does not resile from what he said in the House of Commons at the time of the strategic defence review.
(19) "When I have found out from Theresa what these examples are that have upset her, I will probably find she agrees with me – it is these daft misinterpretations of the act which are giving the whole thing a bad reputation, when we should be a force in favour of human rights and individual liberty in the modern world, not in any way resiling from it," he said.
(20) Breaking his silence in a statement at the Treasury, the chancellor said he “did not resile” from the dire predictions made during the referendum campaign that Brexit could plunge Britain into recession and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.