(v.) Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
(v.) A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
(v.) The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
(v.) A disease in the lips of horses.
(n.) To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
(v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
(v. i.) To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(2) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(3) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
(4) The haemodynamics and affecting factors of the acute random skin flap and the methods for monitoring its viability were studied.
(5) The general tendency of gradual CBF reduction from the pedicle to the distal end of all the flaps was observed.
(6) This report adds another modification of the standard gastrocnemius muscle flap: transtibial transposition of the muscle through the posterior cortex.
(7) The immediate reconstruction either by local flaps or by free grafts.
(8) Linton flap operation was performed in 202 patients with postphlebitic syndrome complicated by evident ulceration 64% of patients were followed up for 1-14 years.
(9) It was treated by the method of free autogenous gingival graft on the labial side and gingivectomy by flap on the palatal side.
(10) Osteocutaneous flaps from the foot are being utilized more for thumb and digit reconstruction.
(11) The difference from the Hughes flap is that the blood supply is maintained through two tubed pedicles of conjunctiva and Muller's muscle, rather than an apron of conjunctiva.
(12) These observations lead to the hypothesis that acidosis quenches fluorescence in distal skin flaps.
(13) The most common complications in breast augmentation surgery with homologous fat grafts obtained from fresh cadavers are presented, showing subsequent surgical procedures to reconstruct the breasts of such patients through use of silicone prostheses and muscle flaps from the latissimus dorsi.
(14) Both acquired defects were covered by two different cross-finger flap techniques, despite extensive scarring of the adjacent finger.
(15) Based on a limited experience we have found that triangular flap ureteroplasty is a worthwhile means of repeat reimplantation of the obstructed ureter and perhaps provides a better alternative than transureteroureterostomy.
(16) Is there not enough material available, can neck-, breast-or forehead flaps cover the defect, although they do not fulfill the demands for a satisfactory restoration of specific function.
(17) We present our initial experience with a new method of increasing the survival of acute skin flaps through stress conditioning using heat shock and recovery.
(18) We conclude that although the tissue expansion technique yields acceptable results, the TRAM flap yields superior aesthetic results in terms of both appearance and consistency.
(19) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
(20) Exteriorization is accomplished by mobilizing 2 lateral skin flaps from the perineum and joining them with the inverted U flap to reach the vagina.
Flay
Definition:
(v. t.) To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former foreign secretary, William Hague, warned earlier this month that central bankers could lose their independence if they ignored public anger over low interest rates, while Michael Gove, the leading pro-leave campaigner and former cabinet minister, compared Carney to the Chinese emperor Ming , whose “person was held to be inviolable and without imperfections” and whose critics were flayed alive.
(2) It was like a triple-bill version of those events that became such a feature of the 2005 campaign, when Tony Blair insisted on following what he called a “masochism strategy.” The leaders of the three main parties had to play the submissive, smiling politely as the flesh was flayed off them.
(3) Federer flays a backhand into the corner but Murray reads it and eventually he's able to send an easy backhand past Federer.
(4) Blair’s decisions will be exhumed, his reputation may well be flayed once more.
(5) Nuclease S1 analysis also revealed a protected fragment whose size was consistent with a transcript initiating in vivo at a consensus "nif" promoter sequence in front of the flaY gene.
(6) And Olivia Lee – who has the presenting style of a bossy girlfriend you'd flay a bag of kittens to be rid of – is not the woman to rebuild them.
(7) He has another flay at goal after gliding in from the right.
(8) We demonstrate here that two flagellar genes, flaE and flaY, whose products function in trans to modulate the level of transcription of other flagellar genes, are themselves temporally controlled.
(9) His skin was flayed by metal-hooked whips and a crown woven with thorns sunk into his scalp.
(10) (ii) hag gene expression was positively regulated by flaA, FLAB, flaC, flaD, flaE, flaG, flaH, flaI, flaK, flaL, flaM, flaN, flaO, flaP, flaQ, flaR, flaV, flaW, flaX, flaY, flaZ, flbA, and flbB genes.hag-lac expression was not observed in strains with these fla mutations.
(11) The land is low-lying, dwarfed by loch and sea, and flayed by wind.
(12) Incredibly, he was honoured by an international press that is now flaying him.
(13) This conclusion is based on two observations: the low level of synthesis of flagellins and chemotaxis proteins in flaY and flaE mutant strains occurred at the correct time in the cell cycle, and complementation with plasmids containing intact flaY and flaE genes resulted in the synthesis of normal levels of flagellins and chemotaxis gene products with the maintenance of temporal cell cycle control.
(14) In the old days, he would have flayed any minister daring to call for Bennite state investment to halt the sorry neglect of manufacturing.
(15) Clinton flayed Trump on his refusal to release his tax returns, on his “long record” of “racist behavior”, on his lack of knowledge about the deal to withdraw US troops from Iraq, on climate change being a Chinese “hoax”, and on and on.
(16) Its coarse, flayed bark made crisp curls and revealed holes and channels deep inside.
(17) He hits a high flay to right that looks like the crowd blows back into play.
(18) Using plasmid complementation, we have mapped the extent of the flaY and flaE genes.
(19) But he also feels a kinship with the tragic Fitzgerald, who set out to write a beautiful, groundbreaking, modernist book and found himself flayed by the critics and hung out to dry.
(20) "He has also compared one of Boris Johnson's staff to a war criminal, called for bankers to be hung, said those who don't vote for him will be 'flayed for all eternity' and likened the mayoral campaign to the second world war, referring to Boris as Hitler," the campaign said.