(n.) A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
(n.) The hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rostral brainstem of the harbor seal Phoca vitulina was cooled and heated 33-41 degrees C while oxygen consumption and rectal, hypothalamic, flipper and dorsal skin temperatures were measured.
(2) Her younger brother had died at the age of 3 months with severe thrombocytopenia and heavily malformed, flipper-like upper extremities.
(3) Variability in daily flipper rate increased as symptom level increased.
(4) Appendages, and to a lesser extent the skin on the torso, cooled appreciably at lower air temperatures, and the flippers were kept just above freezing in subzero air.
(5) Structural differences found in the manus of fur seals and sea lions include: (1) reduction in size of the ulnar side of the carpus and a radial shift in the length-order of the digits, (2) development of musculature in the antebrachial fascia which attaches to the caudal margin of the flipper, (3) orientation of the radial side of the manus dorsal and radial to the rest of the hand, (4) increased range of possible midcarpal movement and in deviational mobility at the first and fifth digits, (5) attachment of forearm musculature onto radial digits and (6) well-developed hypothenar muscles and absence of thenar muscles.
(6) The kinematics and morphology of this hind flipper motion indicated that phocid seals do not swim in the carangiform mode as categorized by Lighthill (1969), but in a distinct mode that mimics swimming by thunniform propulsors.
(7) Arteriovenous anastomoses are important in the regulation of body temperature in seals; when these animals are on land, AVAs function to dissipate body heat, and vascular thermoregulation occurs in the flippers but notover the general body surface.
(8) The subjects wore anaglyph glasses and viewed a nonvariable square-X-circle anaglyph target alternately through a 16 delta base-out and 4 delta base-in prism flipper.
(9) At thermoneutral (+8 to +16 degrees C) and cold (-18 to -22 degrees C) ambient conditions, the effects of hypothalamic heating and cooling on the surface temperature of one flipper (skin blood flow), oxygen consumption (metabolic heat production) and esophageal (core) temperature were observed in the conscious animals.- Heating the rostral brain stem induced heat defence responses: Heat production was reduced in the cold and skin vasodilatation was evoked at thermoneutral ambient conditions.
(10) In the northern fur seal most AVAs (76%) occurred in the superficial region of the dermis; the density of AVAs in flipper skin was significantly higher than in body skin, and the density in the hind flipper was significantly greater than in the foreflipper.
(11) I'm not convinced I'm much help, clumsily treading water in my flippers, but Moi takes charge and soon we have a few dozen fish, which he chops up for us to eat raw.
(12) One group of gene mutations (Ames dwarf, dwarf, flipper-arm, pygmy) specifically depress spermatogenesis and testicular steroidogenesis.
(13) This feature is of great importance for oxygen unloading in the flippers and the tail, where the temperature is lower than the trunk of the whale.
(14) On the surface, I was successful, but I also longed for the recognition of fellow black people, including my few black male peers for whom I was seemingly nonexistent: all of them, including my brothers, were busy chasing the hair-flippers.
(15) Missing teeth were commonplace; there were gaps, spaces and "flipper dentures."
(16) Black wetsuits and flippers have replaced their trademark white cotton robes, although they still protect their heads with a traditional scarf decorated with lucky symbols.
(17) But the two middle-aged women regularly swap their floral blouses for wetsuits, fill their lungs with air and spend long periods under water, aided by nothing more than a facemask and a pair of flippers.
(18) Three cases of congenital ectrodactyly of the flipper in the manatee are described, including one case of bilaterally-symmetrical cleft hand.
(19) The hind flippers acted as hydrofoils, and the efficiency, thrust power and coefficient of thrust were calculated from unsteady wing theory.
(20) This weight gives it a gravitas, and as it waddles and flaps its flippers as you stroke it, the whole thing vibrates.
Spatula
Definition:
(n.) An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(2) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
(3) Both the modified Ayre spatula and the cytobrush were found to be inadequate in a significant number of patients with known cytological atypia.
(4) Since the collected epithelium cells adhere to the pipettes, these cells were transferred onto a polycarbonate filter by using a micro spatula.
(5) The performance of a new ectocervical brush sampler--the Cervex--was compared with the Ayre spatula in 280 paired cervical smears.
(6) With this approach, retraction of the orbital contents decreases the amount of retraction of the brain to such an extent that a brain spatula is not necessary for access to the anterior communicating artery complex.
(7) The incidence of smears with endocervical cells, however, was significantly greater using the Aylesbury (33.4%) than the Ayre (20.4%) spatulas, despite there being no difference in the incidence of smears with epithelial abnormalities.
(8) The inefficiency of the Ayres Spatula in detecting abnormality in cervical cytology has been demonstrated recently in a number of trials.
(9) 5 Flip with a spatula and cook the other side for a few minutes until golden.
(10) After closing the scleral flap with eight interrupted sutures and the conjunctival flap with a running suture, a 1-mm spatula was inserted beneath the scleral flap, and the trabeculum was punctured.
(11) The efficacy of a new sampling technique performed for early detection of cervical carcinoma is compared with Pap smears with the swab-and-wooden spatula technique in 312 women.
(12) The nationwide screening program for cervical carcinoma in The Netherlands was unique in that all women between the age of 35 and 55 years were individually invited to undergo a cervical spatula smear.
(13) Fifty-nine patients had a cervical scrape with a wood spatula first and a plastic spatula second: 60 were scraped in the inverse order.
(14) The cytologically positive cases found in 25,300 cervical smears of spatula samples and 6,168 smears prepared by combined spatula-Cytobrush sampling were analyzed.
(15) In 130 high-risk patients for cervical pathology paired smears were obtained with a wooden spatula and a Cytobrush.
(16) The Multispatula, which is adjustable to the specific shape of each individual cervix, was compared with the Ayre spatula in 236 patients.
(17) A cyclodialysis spatula specifically designed for glaucoma surgery is presented which facilitates the performance of the cyclodialysis procedure alone or in combination with cataract extraction and decreases the chance of inadvertent damage to the eye.
(18) The single case of filamentous bacteria suggests that a spatula may yield better organism retrieval from ulcers caused by filamentous organisms.
(19) They are also known for space-saving devices such as utensils which pack neatly on top of each other in a stand, spatulas, palette knifes and ladles that use a weighted handle to avoid being placed on the countertop, thus saving cleaning.
(20) There are three typical types of manicure: the regular polish; the gel or acrylic spatula-shaped talons beloved of the tabloid Wag; and the super-cool, bejewelled nail art more commonly seen in either east London or Japan.