(n.) An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.
(n.) A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.
(v. t.) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
(v. i.) To be bent into a flange.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Velcro band attached to two lateral flanges keeps the catheter in place.
(2) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
(3) Some of the patients of the latter group used guide flange prostheses during the postoperative period to return the mandible to the centric position.
(4) The impression materials were applied to the denture flanges by two different methods.
(5) The article generalizes experience in anesthesiological management of 178 elderly and old-aged patients with fractures of the proximal segment of the femur in endoprosthesis with a Mura-Cito prosthesis, 3-flange nail, Shesterni's fixation device, arched nail, etc.
(6) (3) A higher risk of proximal occlusion with flanged ventricular catheter.
(7) A subaortic annular aneurysm involving three fourths of the annular circumference was repaired with a valved conduit to which a Teflon felt flange was attached.
(8) There were statistically significant differences in the flange form measurement distances among the different materials and method of application of the material.
(9) With the next 119 sockets, 111 of which were flanged, the eburnated and subchondral bone was preserved and multiple small anchor holes were used.
(10) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
(11) A three-flanged nail or three screws were used randomly.
(12) Localized cytoplasmic expansions are often present near the periphery of these flanges.
(13) In many places erythrocytes were virtually absent from the blood laguna, which was filled with the flanges of pillar cells.
(14) No components have migrated despite the absence of adjunct fixation mechanisms such as screws and flanges.
(15) The design combined the use of a two-part cobalt-chromium lingual plate bolted together by an anterior flange which replaced missing lower anterior teeth.
(16) Two bovine enamel blocks were placed in each buccal flange of the dental appliances of five volunteers.
(17) The devices chosen for study were the E-A-R expandable foam plug, the Willson Sound Silencer premolded vinyl plug with double flange, the Bilsom Soft polyethylene encapsulated glass fiber plug, and the MSA Ear Defender (V-51R) premolded vinyl plug with single flange.
(18) In the group with the microporous Monostrut mitral valve, 19 animals were put to death and examined: (1) The endothelialized covering over the suture ring, thinner when carbon coated, continued over the microporous flange, tapering off in the center of the orifice in all 19 valves on the ventricular side and in 14 of the 19 valves on the atrial side; (2) the center of the orifice and the struts were never completely covered by endothelialized tissue because of high flow; (3) there was an increased incidence of small thrombus formation on the disc-contacting microporous surface of both inflow and outflow struts.
(19) The only significant difference between the groups was the angle overheading to the central point of left coronary orifice anastomosed with intermediate tube from the extensive line of the prosthetic flange obtained in the left anterior oblique views on the angiography.
(20) To a basic cup designed with pods, four different types of flange designs were added: a cup without a flange, a cup having a flange with 12 scallops, a cup having a flange with three scallops, and a cup having a continuous flange.
Rim
Definition:
(n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
(n.) The lower part of the abdomen.
(v. t.) To furnish with a rim; to border.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
(2) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(3) Both adiphenine.HCl and proadifen.HCl form more stable complexes, suggesting that hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl oxygen by the hydroxyl-group on the rim of the CD ring could be an important contributor to the complexation.
(4) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
(5) But officials warned the rains may not reach the heart of the Rim fire.
(6) RIM has always struggled to explain to the authorities that, unlike most other companies, it technically cannot access or read the majority of the messages sent by users over its network.
(7) Early complications included disc entrapment against the ventricular wall in three cases, wedging of chorda between disc and valve rim in two and posterior perforation of the left ventricle in three patients.
(8) On CT scans the tumor thrombus usually appeared as an endoluminal filling defect surrounded by a rim of contrast material.
(9) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
(10) This permitted employment of cast combined crowns with wide perigingival metal rims to support the clasp dentures to make them look better when supplying 73 patients with partial removable dentures.
(11) Two patients had a second arthroscopy, and no evidence of instability of the peripheral rim was found.
(12) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
(13) Healing of rim widths to 5 mm can be obtained with these methods.
(14) In young people the basic histological pattern of clusters, composed of cores of chief cells with surrounding rims of sustentacular cells, has commonly superimposed on it prominence of the dark variant of chief cells.
(15) A hypointense vascular rim was noted on MR in seven of 13 extracanalicular acoustic tumors and in three of seven meningiomas.
(16) It was suggested that the differences in rim area were already present prior to the manifestation of the VFD.
(17) "I'm interested to see what RIM's new OS has in store, and hope I'll be able to sample some of its features on the 9900.
(18) MRI delineated discrete lesions, typical of cavernous angiomas, with a mixed hyperintense, reticulated, central core surrounded by a hypointense rim.
(19) When pointing to its importance in retention, it applies to the rim margins, its relation to the support and its role in the valve closure of the upper total prosthesis.
(20) Enhanced sonograms were classified into five patterns according to the relative changes of the echo levels between the tumor and the nontumorous parenchyma of the liver as a result of enhancement: hyperechoic change, isoechoic change, hypoechoic change with hyperechoic rim (rim sign), marginal spotty hyperechoic change, and internal spotty hyperechoic change.