(1) In the methylprednisolone group, 14 dogs had no adhesions; one had filmy adhesions; and none had dense patchy or dense diffuse adhesions.
(2) According to the birth rate and the rate of extrauterine gestation, microsurgery gives the best results in the correction of filmy adhesions, fimbrial phimosis and proximal tubal occlusion.
(3) The laparoscopic appearance of scattered yellowish-white nodules, approximately 1-5 mm in size, on the peritoneal surfaces, and filmy adhesions were suggestive of tuberculous peritonitis.
(4) The aim of this study was to develop a porous silastic tube with filmy wall acting as permanent artificial tendon.
(5) The adhesions were mostly filmy after laser treatment, as compared with thick adhesions in the conventional group.
(6) During a second inspection of the abdominal cavity-either by laparotomy (Cesarean section; 4 patients) or by repelviscopy (29 patients)-mainly avascular, filmy adhesions on one or both adnexae were found in 17 cases (52%).
(7) This procedure delineates a dark brown filmy structure in the respiratory parenchyma, which is very loosely attached to the alveoli and appears to be related to lung surfactant.
(8) The second-look evaluation of adhesion formation was not found to be consistent prior to the 7th postoperative day, since many filmy bands present prior to that time were not present later.
(9) In the control group, none were adhesion-free and none had filmy adhesions; three dogs had dense patchy adhesions and 12 had dense diffuse adhesions.
(10) Two patients were observed to have asymptomatic, diffuse, filmy white lesions involving large portions of the oral mucosa.
(11) Filmy adhesions were seen in 3 patients in the CO2 laser group.
(12) Purification of glutaraldehyde is provided by vacuum distillation with a rotational-filmy evaporator, and its concentration is determined using refractometer.
(13) Four patients had filmy adhesions, covering the tube near the incision site.
(14) Polygonal malignant epithelial cells present in sheets with loose or strong cellular cohesiveness and granular, vacuolated or filmy cytoplasm were the characteristic findings of this type of tumor.
(15) Seven of the eight 0.2 mm thick membranes caused filmy pericardial adhesions.
(16) Individual hyperplastic endocrine cells displayed granular, filmy, and ill-defined cytoplasm and round to oval hyperchromatic nuclei showing a finely granular chromatin pattern.
(17) These are inflated double-layer air-tight filmy chamber-like sheathes forming a slip-cover around injured limbs of the victims, or around their cervical vertebrae.
(18) One hundred and twenty-nine cases (95.5%) showed exudative type tuberculous peritonitis with variable amounts of ascites and filmy adhesions.
(19) The aim of the present study was to develop a porous, silastic tube with filmy wall acting as permanent artificial tendon.
(20) They are more effective on thin, filmy tissue than on fibrocartilage or articular surfaces.
Sheer
Definition:
(v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
(v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
(v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
(v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
(adv.) Clean; quite; at once.
(v. t.) To shear.
(v. i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.
(n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
(n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
(n.) A turn or change in a course.
(n.) Shears See Shear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(2) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(3) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(4) Obviously, the sheer number of lasers being used both clinically and experimentally indicates a great potential for further advancement and refinement in technique and surgical outcomes.
(5) I was amazed by the sheer scale of the operation, easily mistaken for a full military assault on a kraken.
(6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(7) The report, extracts of which were published by the investigative news website Exaro , is said to include “devastating detail” of the corporation’s “sheer scale of awareness” of the late star’s activities.
(8) There is a policy review process, a manifesto and the small matter of winning another election between here and catastrophe, but the sheer barbarism of the outlined idea is breathtaking.
(9) Back in the 1970s, a severe economic crisis revealed the sheer unsustainability of government policies.
(10) So we started asking them ridiculous questions about being single," says Lucas, "and the sheer number of misunderstandings about each other's lives felt like comedic material."
(11) He skirted round the issue of historic responsibility for the misery but referred to the sheer scale of the sacrifice, pointing out that, among more than 14,000 parishes in the whole of England and Wales, only about 50 so-called "thankful parishes" saw all their soldiers return.
(12) But all that has changed since I discovered the sheer joy of hunting down items with “reduced” stickers at my local Waitrose.
(13) TUC general secretary Brendan Barber welcomed the letters, which argue against the Conservative party's position that the sheer scale of the UK deficit means public spending must be cut immediately.
(14) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(15) Brown, from Sheerness in Kent, who was to earn £15,000 a year from the role, has apologised for causing offence with the messages she posted between the ages of 14 and 16.
(16) I hope that people feel inspired enough, maybe in the sheer face of loss, to just do what they should be doing in life.
(17) David Winnick, the MP for Walsall North, said: "None of [May's] excuses can explain away the sheer incompetence and shambles that have occurred on her watch."
(18) Through combination with a spherical disc face perpendicular to the axis of rotation, which protrudes only slightly from the hemispherical catheter tip, with a maximum at the center and minimum at the lateral borders, the lathing head has only a slight risk of perforation and no undesired sheering forces (Figures 2a to 2d).
(19) Redwoods are taller, but giant sequoias win for sheer mass: the General Sherman's trunk has a volume of 1,487 cubic metres and is estimated to weigh over 2,000 tonnes.
(20) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.