What's the difference between flap and fuss?

Flap


Definition:

  • (n.) To beat with a flap; to strike.
  • (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.

Fuss


Definition:

  • (n.) A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.
  • (n.) One who is unduly anxious about trifles.
  • (v. i.) To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But insiders say the industry has been watering down the proposals, and no amount of fussing over the detail is going to get round the central point.
  • (2) But minutes after the final whistle, 76% of respondents to a Corriere della Sport online poll were blaming Lippi and in the post-match press conference the man himself was quick to take the blame, appearing to be anxiously awaiting the moment he can disappear quietly from the scene to be replaced by the Fiorentina manager, Cesare Prandelli, a switch decided with little fuss and no media debate just before the World Cup.
  • (3) The decade of the Delors presidency from 1985 saw further steps towards integration taken with relatively little fuss.
  • (4) Mel The squirrel in series two, with the balls [incidental footage of a squirrel caused a fuss on social media in 2011].
  • (5) But the Depp dog furore is a perfect example of the different approach Joyce will take to leading the Nationals – the rural-based minor party in the governing Coalition that has in recent years had a series of gentlemanly leaders who, wherever possible, have settled differences with their Coalition parties quietly, created public fusses only rarely, and international incidents never.
  • (6) It is now on sale in the store after publisher Europa Editions kicked up a fuss.
  • (7) If a contractor was involved in an incident which caused a fuss, they were whisked out of the country by their company.
  • (8) I don't see what all the fuss is about Germany v England.
  • (9) Such was its challenge that, when it was found in the library of a school run by the Inner London Education Authority in 1986, the fuss exploded and the book was subsequently cited as one of the spurs to the controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act of 1988.
  • (10) He has long been called a "rock star president" and there was lots of fuss in Thailand preceding US president Barack Obama's first visit to Bangkok on Sunday.
  • (11) Outside, there’s no sign of life except one bearded oaf on a chopper and a kid at the back door, holding a picture of Hot Fuss-era Brandon Flowers , praying for a brief encounter.
  • (12) Stepping back from the fuss, it is worth thinking about whether the project's aims make sense.
  • (13) Her parents, a midwife and a retired fireman, said they were proud of their supremely focussed, "no fuss" daughter.
  • (14) He attracts controversy in February while denying Jermain Defoe elbowed Nicolás Otamendi, saying foreign players “make a big fuss of it.
  • (15) The fuss over who should pay for this scheme has, rather sadly in my view, overshadowed its goals.
  • (16) Perhaps air pollution hasn’t been solved because no one makes a fuss: scarier than the smog in Delhi , Kolkata and London is the stoicism of residents for whom bad air has become part of daily life.
  • (17) To this end it is they, not politicians, who need to be making a fuss about full-face veils and the need to phase them out.
  • (18) Some case notes make harrowing reading: cells occupied by disabled prisoners with no wall bars and inmates having to drag themselves across the floor and falling frequently; PAS "having to make a fuss" to get inmates supplied with basic needs, such as walking sticks, which are then taken away when a prisoner moves prison; and an incontinent prisoner with mental health problems sleeping naked on a urine-soaked mattress.
  • (19) Why quite such a fuss when nothing much actually happened?
  • (20) The infant's state was recorded on a check-list every 10 sec using the following categories for sleep and wakefulness: Quiet Sleep A, Quiet Sleep B, Active Sleep Without REM, Active Sleep With REM, Active Sleep With Dense REM, Drowsy, Alert Inactivity, WAKING Activity, Fussing, Crying, and Indefinite State.