(n.) Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
Example Sentences:
(1) An 8-French right Judkins guiding catheter with a single side hole (USCI), a 3.0 mm balloon dilatation catheter (ACS), and a 0.018 high torque floppy guide wire (ACS) were used.
(2) Repair of the floppy mitral valve did not eradicate all abnormalities; however, it did significantly improve the chest pain, weakness, dyspnea, and arrhythmias in all six patients.
(3) The other four patients had asymmetric keratoconus and floppy eyelid syndrome.
(4) Mitral regurgitation due to 'floppy' valves is frequently associated with areas of medical necrosis in the ascending aorta.
(5) The mitral valve excised at operation from three of the patients had morphologic characteristics of a floppy mitral valve, which was judged to be responsible for the echocardiographic findings.
(6) The majority was said to be found pale or blue, floppy and mostly unreactive.
(7) It is registered on floppy disk and suitable for use in MS-DOS on IBM personal computer, Olivetti or compatible.
(8) The signals of fetal movement obtained by actocardiograph were stored in a floppy disc every 250 ms for 5 minutes through an AD-converter, and were analyzed every 5 minutes with the computer to reveal 3-dimensional (3-D) histograms.
(9) Conditions associated with anatomically abnormal valves include rheumatic, floppy, Ebstein's anomaly, carcinoid, infective endocarditis, papillary muscle dysfunction, and other rarer causes such as radiation, hypereosinophilic syndrome, and endomyocardial fibrosis.
(10) Case 4, a 10-year-old girl had opisthotonus and floppiness since 4 months of age.
(11) In the group with floppy mitral valve, males were more prevalent than females (51:33).
(12) Left ventricular ejection fractions of 31 patients determined from first-pass or single-pass radionuclide angiography from the anterior position using a microcomputer system and floppy disc were compared to angiographic catheterization data obtained from the right anterior oblique position.
(13) SPOCC can be run on any dual floppy or hard disk personal computer that uses MS-DOS or PC-DOS 2.0 or greater.
(14) Data is stored as an ASCII file on floppy disks, and protocol reports are printed.
(15) Between October 1965 and April 1975, mitral valve replacement was preformed in 66 patients with myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve ("floppy valve syndrome").
(16) A 2-month-old boy with delayed growth and development, brachycephaly, large anterior fontanelle, low-set folded ears, micrognathia, aortic coarctation, floppy abdominal muscles, and pes varus, was found to have a 46,XY,del(16)(q2100q2300) de novo karyotype.
(17) Energy transfer between fluorescein and Texas Red was observed in the "floppy" alpha beta heterodimer band, but not in the "compact" alpha beta heterodimer band.
(18) The "data acquisition module" (DAM) assists in bone length measurement from contact prints of hand radiographs and stores the 19 measurements on a floppy disk.
(19) The explanted valves were affected by: chronic rheumatic disease (1179, 91.5%), floppy mitral valve (84, 6.5%), bacterial endocarditis (19, 1.5%), and post-ischemic mitral incompetence (6, 0.5%).
(20) Although proteoglycan infiltration may not be a specific marker for floppy valve disease, its presence is associated with decreased molecular organisation of collagen in the chordae.
Stiffy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) You mean, you couldn’t be seen at the Royal Academy in a nice frock and a stiffy?
(2) Assessments were made of duration of morning stiffiness, grip strength, articular index, joint size, and degree of pain.
(3) The affected cows were reluctant to walk, moved stiffy and in severe cases became recumbent.