(n.) A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
(n.) A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
(v. t.) To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(2) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(3) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
(4) Only seven films (or 0.7 percent of the entire cohort) showed nodular or rounded opacities of the type typically seen in uncomplicated silicosis.
(5) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(6) The skull films and CT scans of 1383 patients with acute head injury transferred to a regional neurosurgical unit were reviewed.
(7) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
(8) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
(9) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
(10) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(11) Fog and base levels of E-speed film were greater than those of D-speed film.
(12) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(13) Slides and short films were used in primary and secondary schools.
(14) The method described uses film DOT-I and DOT-II by Dupont, whereby the exposure of the step wedge takes place on a linear accelerator with a photo energy of 10 MeV.
(15) The treatment group received 75 mg of roxatidine acetate hydrochloride at 9 PM and 12 to 13 hours later gastric juice secretion was measured with gastric x-ray films in both groups.
(16) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(17) The surface film transition is especially noted in the pressure-area curve of the surfactant and approximates in two dimensions the broad thermotropic phase transition of the bulk phase surfactant.
(18) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(19) In 67 patinets with abnormal mammograms, breast angiography was performed using a "lo-dose vaccum packed film screen system".
(20) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
Fulguration
Definition:
(n.) The act of lightening.
(n.) The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick.
Example Sentences:
(1) We studied the influence of energy level on the one hand and of the physical properties of the catheter (Ct) on the other hand on the cardiac effects of right endoventricular fulguration in the dog.
(2) Interruption of the His bundle was performed by means of fulguration.
(3) Operative errors such as round ligament fulguration were also more common than expected.
(4) A total of 29 shocks were delivered with an Odam fulgurator, using a distal electrode connected to the positive pole of a selected catheter.
(5) The advantages of this method compared with electrical fulguration are better control of delivered energy and reduction of complications (catheter perforation, thromboembolism).
(6) This report is a review of 49 patients who, after careful selection, were considered ideal candidates for curative fulguration in the period 1959-1982.
(7) One nurse endoscopist, under supervision by a physician mentor, has carried out more than 6,000 sigmoidoscopies in a recent 1-year period and has fulgurated one or more diminutive polyps in almost 500 patients.
(8) One hundred fifty patients were included in a double-blind study to evaluate whether they were more comfortable being sterilized by fulguration or by Falope-Ring banding.
(9) The use of the resectoscope has several advantages in treating the patient with inoperable obstructive carcinoma of the rectum, particularly when compared with fulguration.
(10) To evaluate the effect of fulguration of endometriotic implants in patients with mild endometriosis, we divided 123 patients into two groups: (A) patients whose endometriotic implants were coagulated, and (B) patients whose implants were left intact.
(11) The regenerative response to the fulgurative ulcer within a given species was similar to the early response previously observed by others following administration of known bladder carcinogens.
(12) Two cases are reported of functionally significant bladder neck obstruction following urethral valve fulguration which resulted in inability to void.
(13) Circumcision, electric fulguration and excision of urethral tumor were performed.
(14) To show our first experiments with the treatment of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome through endocavitary fulguration of accessory pathway.
(15) We performed transurethral fulguration of the diverticular mucosa and incision of the diverticular neck in combination with transurethral prostatectomy or bladder neck resection to treat all aspects of diverticula in 9 patients.
(16) Endocardial fulguration per se induced severe but transient (less than 5 minutes) hemodynamic changes and was sometimes complicated by myocardial ischemia and conduction disorders.
(17) Three cases of auricular fulguration are described and used as a basis for a review of physical characteristics and histopathologic consequences of lightning strikes.
(18) This allowed definitive treatment in a single session by local excision and fulguration in 48 patients.
(19) In group A, 42 of 69 (60.8%) patients achieved a pregnancy within eight cycles following laparoscopic fulguration, in comparison with 10 of 54 (18.5%) patients from group B.
(20) A few seconds after fulguration, each VT was terminated and additional radiofrequency currents were given near these sites.