(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.
Polaroid
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) His mother, meanwhile, had to issue Peyton with a series of polaroids of his own clothes showing him which ones went together.
(2) The MAST CLA system assay protocol consists of three steps: overnight incubation of serum, a 4-h incubation with enzyme-labeled antibody, and a 30-min chemiluminescent reaction, which produces a visible image (immunograph) on high-speed Polaroid instant film.
(3) Results agreed well with those obtained using the Polaroid CU5 closeup camera in 20 non-diabetic subjects and 29 diabetic patients (intrapair correlation coefficient = 0.97).
(4) The imaging system consists of a ZnS(Ag) screen, two tapered fibers, an image intensifier, and a Polaroid film.
(5) "I am so proud to announce my new partnership with Polaroid as the creative director and inventor of speciality projects," said the pop star.
(6) An Amray 1400 SEM operating at 10 keV was used to examine the condoms and images were recorded on Polaroid 52 black and while film.
(7) Use of the Polaroid-Land camera for the documentation of laparoscopy findings is discussed.
(8) A gray scale hard copy unit has been adapted to an ultrasound B-scanner equipped with a video gray scale system and a conventional hard copier and a Polaroid camera.
(9) Exposure to x-ray or Polaroid film for up to 30 minutes is sufficient for the detection of 70 femtograms of homologous DNA.
(10) During continuous infusion of Kr-81m, perfusion images can be obtained by simply collecting counts with a gamma camera and recording on Polaroid film.
(11) In that case, in order to distinguish the images of these scintiphotos on this composite photo, a colour polaroid film was used in the double exposure, and here, when each of the two scintiphotos was given its own colour-filter, it was found that the images could be sharply sorted by colour.
(12) The polaroid frames were exposed at 4 second intervals The results of the dynamic brain study were divided into five categories: normal, moderately diminished perfusion of one hemisphere, severe perfusion defect of one hemisphere, focal or multifocal hypervascular areas ("hot areas") and stenosis or occlusion of the carotid artery.
(13) A simple photographic method for detection and measurement of refractive errors in children, using a specially designed camera and electronic flash unit and 'instant' (Polaroid) film, was tested on 64 children, aged 3 to 8 years, and compared with the results from retinoscopy.
(14) Because of fears that Polaroid colour prints produced with a non-mydriatic fundus camera may not detect important sight threatening lesions in diabetes a study was conducted comparing retinal images obtained on Polaroid prints taken in "field" conditions with those on 35 mm transparencies and fluorescein angiograms.
(15) The authors developed a method of field mapping that is a clinically useful, rapid, and inexpensive way to assess changes in retinal anatomy using recently released Polaroid 691 transparency film.
(16) There are no difficulties in performing documentation of fluorescein pictures by slit lamp polaroid photography.
(17) This study compared the detectability of diabetic retinopathy lesions on Polaroid prints and Ektachrome slides obtained with a non-mydriatic camera.
(18) Polaroid prints of phase images for both gated equilibrium studies (using all methods) and first-pass studies (first and last methods only) were shown to observers who were asked to rate the images according to their confidence of an abnormality presenting.
(19) This summation begins with a string of keywords: "trucker hats; undershirts called 'wifebeaters' worn as outerwear; the aesthetic of basement rec-room pornography, flash-lit Polaroids, fake wood panelling; Pabst Blue Ribbon ; 'porno' or 'paedophile' moustaches; aviator glasses; Americana T-shirts for church socials, etc; tube socks; the late albums of Johnny Cash produced by Rick Rubin ; and tattoos."
(20) The new hard copy unit produced a better gray scale image than Polaroid film, with reduction of cost and elimination of the problems inherent in Polaroid film.