(n.) A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
(n.) A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle.
(v. t.) To dress with gaiters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements were made over the gaiter skin, the healed ulcer and the upper arm.
(2) Abnormalities in venous anatomy and function have been shown, in conjunction with evidence of reduced oxygen diffusion, through the gaiter skin before overt skin changes develop.
(3) Calf pump function was assessed by foot volumetry and the 'gaiter' skin nutritive circulation by measuring the transcutaneous oxygen tension (PtcO2).
(4) Transcutaneous oxygen measurements of the gaiter skin were performed continuously throughout the experiment.
(5) All three groups had an increase in visible capillary loops and a reduction in blood flux in the gaiter region when the leg was placed in the dependent position.
(6) These findings show that significant skin hypoxia occurs on the gaiter area of limbs with severe venous disease and support the concept of an oxygen diffusion block.
(7) Eleven patients with lipodermatosclerosis (LDS) and 14 patients without venous or arterial disease underwent measurement of xenon-133 (133Xe) half-clearance times from the gaiter region of the leg.
(8) Fifty subjects (14 normal controls, 21 with superficial venous insufficiency (SVI), and 15 with deep venous insufficiency (DVI] have been studied in the supine and dependent positions in a constant environment using video capillary microscopy, laser Doppler flowmetry and transcutaneous oxygen measurements to the gaiter skin.
(9) We examined the levels of oxygen on the skin of the gaiter areas of limbs with venous disease using a Roche Transcutaneous pO2 Monitor to determine whether hypoxia contributes to the skin changes and ulceration associated with severe venous disease.
(10) His credit appeared on episodes of the ecclesiastical sitcom All Gas and Gaiters, the legal satire Misleading Cases, Spike Milligan's The World of Beachcomber and As Good Cooks Go, an ill-fated vehicle for the comedian Tessie O'Shea.
Warmer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, warms.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(2) Blood samples taken from children at certain ages and during the warmer months contained more lead than samples obtained during the cooler months.
(3) The warmer half-spindle was longer than the cooler.
(4) The same strains were isolated from the baby warmer mattress, baby cot, suction machine bottle and wall of the fridge.
(5) A total of 42% of the clinical isolates and 15% of the environmental isolates were enterotoxigenic (by the suckling mouse assay); these levels were significantly lower than those found in warmer environments.
(6) Less confidence can be placed in proxy-based reconstructions of surface temperatures for AD 900 to 1600, although the available proxy evidence does indicate that many locations were warmer during the past 25 years than during any other 25-year period since 900."
(7) In warmer water (18 degrees C), the parasites reproduced intensively only on the scaly form of fish, whereas no parasites were found on the scaleless form some days after infection.
(8) El Niño is declared when temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean are 0.8C above average, and brings a dry winter and spring to southern Australia and a warmer than average spring and summer to the eastern states.
(9) Sadly, this warmer weather has left many fashion retailers with a substantial stock overhang, raising the question of earlier and deeper discounts as we get closer to Christmas.
(10) The median innervated fingertips were warmer than those innervated by the ulnar nerves.
(11) This is considerably warmer than the mid-September average of around 17C (62.6F), the Met Office said.
(12) The statistical evaluation results that all children were dressed nearly in the like wise in spite of a considerable difference of the temperature in both crèches; only the covering of the arms was significant less in the warmer new-builded crèch.
(13) Obama received a rapturous welcome when he visited in 2010, though concrete results of the warmer relationship have been less obvious .
(14) We utilized arterial and venous catheters to create a circulatory fistula through the heating mechanism of a modified commercially available counter-current fluid warmer to achieve simple, rapid extracorporeal rewarming.
(15) But my standard of living is certainly less than when I worked, and I don't see it getting better, so I'm thinking of emigrating to somewhere cheaper and warmer.
(16) Boiling the hand warmers redissolves the sodium acetate in the water in the water released from the crystals, recreating the supersaturated solution, so you are ready for another chilly evening walk.
(17) Certainly Alan has far warmer feelings towards the Kop hero than whoever it was that compared him to Leicestershire's premier plodding lad rockers.
(18) But because meltwater can percolate down to lubricate the undersides of glaciers, and because warmer oceans can lift the ends of glaciers up off the sea floor and remove a natural brake, the ice itself can end up getting dumped into the sea, unmelted.
(19) Higher temperatures in the anaesthetic room, prewarming of infusion fluids and employment of infusion warmers should be employed with all anaesthetics.
(20) Tests run at 37 C were 28% less abrasive than those at room temperature, suggesting a softening of bristles because of the warmer temperature.