(n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
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.
Superstructure
Definition:
(n.) Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis
(n.) all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively.
(n.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The interference of the Nt binding with chromatin proteins maintaining the sub- and superstructure will be discussed.
(2) When the stapes superstructure was intact, 52% of the patients with canal-up operations had an air-bone gap of less than 20 dB.
(3) The significance of superstructural deformities on juvenile hallux valgus is discussed.
(4) Their gel electrophoretic mobilities were studied in the presence of the tetracation, spermine, since it was previously suggested, on the basis of theoretical analysis, that spermine can increase DNA bending and thus could be useful in revealing DNA superstructural features.
(5) Cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania are assumed to be so closely related that they from a classification point of view have been grouped together under the superstructure: cluster headache syndrome.
(6) U.S.A. 79, 3423-3427) that poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation of pancreatic nucleosomes causes relaxation of the chromatin superstructure through H1 modification.
(7) Evidence has been presented to prove that cathodoluminescence (CL) studies of chromosomes and spread, Giemsa stained chromatin may lead to early detection of structural changes, such as the superstructure of heterochromatin.
(8) In the stapes the disturbance in lamellar bone formation can lead to extreme thinness, dehiscence, and nonunion of the stapedial superstructure with the footplate.
(9) Chromatin undergoes two successive transitions: the first transition is explained by a lengthening of nucleosomal chains without modification of the orientation of nucleosomes within the superstructure and the second one by the unwinding of the DNA tails and internucleosomal segments.
(10) Four ITP subfractions occurred common in the otosclerotic stapes footplate, the superstructure and the cortical bone.
(11) The technique described in this report offers the advantage of wide exposure, symmetrical approach to the superstructures of the face and orbits, the potential for resection of a large portion of the anterior cranial floor, and substantial reconstruction which is a major factor in avoiding complications.
(12) The increase of CD signal at 280 nm (from 2000 to about 4000 cm2 deg.dmole-1) in the case of sheared chromatin is not related to the loss of superstructure but to the structural changes of DNA inside the nucleosomal core which are always produced by shearing.
(13) However, in cells cotransfected with a complete infectious poliovirus cDNA, the requirement for the stem-loops in this large superstructure was reduced.
(14) The second is the body as superstructure composed of bones, muscles, and vital spots (marma-s), which supports the fluid body.
(15) In this clinical situation, the abutment teeth on either side of a four-tooth gap were not considered strong enough to support a six-unit superstructure.
(16) Asthma bronchiale, as all long-lasting diseases with unpleasant subjective complaints, has a considerable psychic superstructure.
(17) These correspond with the type of reconstruction employed such as an intact ossicular chain, absence of the malleus, absence of the superstructure of the stapes, or both.
(18) Methylation protection experiments suggest a nested head-to-tail superstructure containing two tetraplexes bonded front-to-back via G quartets formed by out-of-register guanines.
(19) However, when the stapes superstructure is intact, the difference in hearing function is not remarkable, and must be weighed against the potential for residual disease or recurrence associated with canal-up procedures.
(20) The chirality of these complexes appears dramatically different for the two LREs, suggesting that their different superstructural features give rise to different interactions with the polyamine.