What's the difference between flap and tab?

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.

Tab


Definition:

  • (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
  • (n.) A tag. See Tag, 2.
  • (n.) A loop for pulling or lifting something.
  • (n.) A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
  • (n.) A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ADA activity in lymphocytes from peripheral blood was significantly increased after antigenic stimulation by TAB immunization.
  • (2) The emulsifier Tween 80 has been demonstrated to be an AR inducing component of vaccines and drugs (Tab.
  • (3) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
  • (4) German intelligence services had also been keeping tabs on the rightwing radical scene that Zschäpe was a part of, but had lost track of her, along with Mundlos and Böhnhardt when they went underground.
  • (5) There is a reasonably good correlation between FHR deceleration areas and UApH (Tab.
  • (6) Scrolling tabs in the tab bar Tighter integration with Mac Mail allows emailing directly from Safari using the recently sent to contact list 6.34pm BST Craig Federighi demonstrates the "simple and more powerful" design.
  • (7) By ELISA wherein monoclonal antibodies specific for GPIIb (Tab) and specific for GPIIIa (AP3) were used to capture and hold antigens from a platelet lysate prepared under conditions that generate free GPIIb and GPIIIa, anti-Pena reacted with GPIIIa held by AP3 but not with GPIIb held by Tab.
  • (8) Instead hundreds of millions of pounds will be paid out to big energy companies to keep open old power stations that would have been open anyway, and to diesel farmers to use ultra-polluting generators, and it is families and businesses who will pick up the tab through their energy bills.” Dustin Benton, head of energy and resources at the Green Alliance thinktank, said: “Amber Rudd deserves praise for deciding to phase out coal, and it’s now clear that she needs to reform our outdated capacity market.
  • (9) The year season influenced significantly L, log SC, SH, ClL, gamma and MT-NK (Tab.
  • (10) In this latter group, however, those immunized with alcoholized TAB vaccine had higher antibody titres to fimbrial antigen than those immunized with heat-killed phenolized vaccine.
  • (11) Porous surfaced metal tabs were attached to a standard strain gauge.
  • (12) A first approach, based on the pattern of coefficients of correlation between maternal and paternal weight and height, and birth weight (Tab.
  • (13) At present, salmonellosis is quite common in large urban areas and is supported by person-to-person spread; more than 50% of the yearly isolates occurs in childhood Number of cases, their ages, sex distribution, and relative morbidity, have been calculated in Tab.
  • (14) Separation of bone marrow cells from anemic rats injected with TAB vaccine led to four populations corresponding to successive stages of erythroid cell maturation.
  • (15) Means testing it would be administratively more complicated but nevertheless in the present climate I can see no real reason why it remains a universal benefit.” The BBC faced the prospect of having to pick up the tab for free TV licences for over-75s in the 2010 negotiations around its future funding that saw the licence fee frozen until 2017 and the BBC take on a number of other funding responsibilities including the World Service and Welsh language channel, S4C.
  • (16) The average values of the different indicators and their variability are summarized in Tab.
  • (17) The bound enzyme conjugate is quantified by measuring the rate of increase in fluorescence in the reaction zone of the tab, then converting the rate to clinical units by comparison with a stored calibration curve.
  • (18) At saturation, 40,200 AP-3 molecules were bound per platelet, a value similar to that obtained for AP-2 or Tab.
  • (19) A double blind placebo-controlled trial in 30 patients with ICO was carried out to study the pharmacodynamic activity of a flavonoid, Daflon 500 mg (2 tabs daily for 6 weeks), which revealed a decrease in the degree of retention--initially high--of labelled albumin (p = 0.01).
  • (20) Fentanyl was given intravenously in fractional doses, (fig 1), during NLA, and other general anaesthesias, for operation and diagnostic examination ( exeption of cardiosurgery), in children and adolescents from two month-to nineteen years of age, (tab.

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