(n.) A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.
(n.) A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to assure reproducibility of the applicator positioning, the plaque suture eyelets had to be placed on locating pins.
(2) Five GIC's (Intact, Fuji II, Orthocem B, ChemFil II, and Ketac Fil[capsulated]) and one composite resin (Concise) were tested by bonding GAC eyelets, with a curved photo-etched base, to the buccal surface of human premolars.
(3) The active length is not symmetric with respect to the source center because one source end contains an eyelet.
(4) A reference position was established for the tibial eyelet so that, after the Gore-Tex ligament was implanted, the total anterior-posterior laxity of the knee (at 200 newtons of applied tibial force) matched that of the intact knee (that is, before the anterior cruciate ligament had been cut) at 20 degrees of flexion.
(5) The real attraction is the amazing Song of the Sea eyelet rock arch.
(6) The femoral eyelet was screwed into bone and the tibial eyelet was attached to a force-transducer, which was positioned and locked on a tibial slider track to record forces in the ligament as the tibia was externally loaded.
(7) With an applied extension moment of ten newton-meters, section of the anterior cruciate ligament increased hyperextension of the knee by 2.3 degrees; implantation of the Gore-Tex ligament did not restore full extension, even when the ligament was over-tightened by using a distal location for the tibial eyelet.
(8) Mechanical complications occurred: rupture of the head of the screw (1 case), sliding of the rod in the eyelet with loss of correction (2 cases), fractures of the rod (1 case) or screws (5 cases).
(9) This apparent stretch-out of the ligament could be worked out of the knee by manually flexing and extending the knee thirty times between zero and 90 degrees of flexion while a constant 200-newton force was applied to the tibial eyelet.
(10) It has open circular loops with an eyelet at each loop end.
(11) When the eyelet was in the reference position, the ligament forces ranged from three to 319 newtons when the knee was in full extension, they rose dramatically as the knee was hyperextended, and they decreased to zero in most specimens as the knee was flexed more than 15 degrees.
(12) Osaka brand Roggykei and Tokyo-grown FEAR make some of the edgiest pieces around, such as a vest made of vinyl and eyelet lace, oversized metallic leather clutches and wrist bands slathered in studs and zips.
(13) The lens diameter can be reduced to 7 mm by grasping the eyelets at both open loop ends with a specially designed holding forceps.
(14) It has all the advantages of eyelet wiring while simplifying some of the difficulties connected with that technique.
(15) Any specialized guide wire can be converted to an exchange guide wire by the addition of an eyelet on its stiff end to which an extension guide wire may be hooked.
(16) Button wiring has been used as an alternative to eyelet wiring in the Department of Oral and Dental Surgery of Birmingham General Hospital since 1977.
(17) The fibers were then placed horizontally between two steel hooks inserted in eyelets of the tendon clasps.
(18) For each millimeter that the tibial eyelet was moved distally, the total anterior-posterior laxity decreased by the same amount.
(19) The method uses a modified type of ligation chain that enables the oral surgeon to lasso the tooth with ease and affords the orthodontist large, successively placed eyelets to which he can easily tie elastic thread in order to keep continuous heavy force pulling the tooth toward the oral cavity.
Fastener
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
(2) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
(3) Total radioactivity, including the volatile part of the solvents were registered by autoradiography of dried, evaporated tape-fastened sections.
(4) In order to more effectively separate the walls, a protector was applied consisting of a soft polyethylene tube, whose ends were fastened to the cervix uteri and remained there for 3-4 weeks.
(5) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
(6) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
(7) It is made light-impermeable through the use of nylon hook-and-loop fasteners.
(8) Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, I just didn’t understand why trade was so prominent this race David Lawrence, vice-president, AlphaUSA “Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, something that is so key to the economy [as trade], I just didn’t understand why it was so prominent this race, and not some other issue,” said David Lawrence, vice-president of AlphaUSA, a fastener manufacturer based in suburban Detroit.
(9) Sheets of oil paper fastened vertically to two wires at a height of 60 cm above the ground at a distance of 20 cm one from another (barriers) and sheets in the form of "flags" (Dergachova and others, 1973) were used simultaneously.
(10) One group was exposed to the regular hospital program and the other group had, in addition: a mock-up demonstration for the mothers on the correct method of fastening the baby into the car seat and the car seat into the automobile seat; written handouts of how to use a car seat with an infant; a physician's order for the mock-up demonstration; and a physician's order to be discharged in a car seat.
(11) Erection, increase in circumference as well as rigidity, can be measured with a simple device consisting of a calibrated felt band with a sliding collar fastened to 1 end.
(12) A supporting harness is attached to the mask by use of three flat straps connected by Dot fasteners.
(13) Prevention includes feeding with human milk in prematures with slow increase of partial and total volumes, early initial fastening in cases of asphyxia and careful and close surveillance of high-risk newborns.
(14) Based on its membrane topology, it has been suggested that MotB might be a linker that fastens the torque-generating machinery to the cell wall.
(15) Spontaneous "overnight" deflation of inflatable prostheses is rather uncommon, but we have had a 5.7% incidence of it in a 24-month period in which we used implants with a suturable tab and fastened them to the subjacent fascia.
(16) In case of a transverse position of the fetal head, a special fastener on the forceps makes it possible to use an excentric handle on the traction hook of the Kielland forceps and thus render possible rotation of the fetal head from the transverse position.
(17) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(18) Over a 0.009 inch flexible tip steel wire a diamond-coated brass burr fastened to a flexible drive shaft that rotates and tracks was advanced.
(19) Granulation tissue grows through the prosthesis which is fastened well to the connective-tissue cuff forming around it.
(20) The extension of the tracheostoma is achieved by means of an parallel incision which widens the trachea with the acid of 2 tough threads on each side, which are fastened to the clavicle.