(n.) A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.
(a.) Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The submerged gauze technique was applied to the sampling in three different spots of the river: at the town center, two km water above, and two down-stream from the city.
(2) The method consisted first in preconcentrating the samples collected on immersed gauze pads, secondly in the concentration of the virus samples by the following methods-used either separately or in parallel: the Amberlite method, the yeast cell and the aluminium bydroxide concentration method.
(3) Artificial plaque enmeshed in the gauze was treated four times per day for four days with an enzyme-dependent mineralizing solution, resulting in 20-, 10-, and 200-fold increases in Ca, P, and F, respectively.
(4) We compared Bioclusive transparent polyurethane (TP) dressing with a cotton gauze (CG) dressing on peripheral intravenous (IV) access sites for the incidence of phlebitis, catheter tip colonization, skin colonization, and catheter-related bacteremia.
(5) Among all the performed modalities, a characteristic internal structure of the gauze granuloma was best visualized on MR imaging.
(6) The abdominal safety line, which is a size 1 silk passed through the eyes of the urethral splint (Foley catheter) and rolled up on gauze with some tension on the anterior abdominal wall has been used in three cases.
(7) It was shown that collocyl as well as trypsin modified gauze and kapron accelerated cleansing the wounds of nonviable tissues, decreased their infectivity, reduced intoxication of the organism and improved the course of the wound process.
(8) Post-operative haemorrhage was controlled by nasal packing with a gauze bandage and this was removed between the 2nd and 4th post-operative day.
(9) The sandwich consists of a nylon gauze in between two Nucleopore filters and enables inhibitors in the solution to have effective access to the gap between the tissues.
(10) Extracted periodontally healthy teeth from patients 10 to 15, 16 to 25, and 26 to 40 years old had periodontal ligament remnants removed with dry gauze before being secured in a vertical position during root planing.
(11) A second estimate of the hemostatic competencies of these dogs was made by counting the gauze sponges used in the otoplasties.
(12) His head and torso were tightly bandaged, bloodstained gauze protruding from between the layers.
(13) The toxicity of iodoform is probably unrecognized if the rarity of the observations published and the amount of iodoform gauzes annually sold are compared.
(14) We decided to test Chrysaora hysoscella dermotoxicity on healthy volunteers by cutting a Chrysaora hysoscella tentacle and placing it on a gauze soaked in a solution of 3% NaCl and applying then to the volar side of the right wrist for one minute.
(15) When used under MRDs, the return of the epithelial barrier function is delayed, indicating that these dressings should not be used on dry wounds or under gauze dressings.
(16) Chemosterilization utilizing glutaraldehyde-moistened gauze as a wrap on simulated metal instruments was evaluated.
(17) We would recommend that Aquaphor Gauze be used as a dressing for skin grafts where the risk of infection is not excessive.
(18) The remaining areas of the wounds were covered by antibiotic-impregnated fine-mesh greased gauze.
(19) The enzyme was then purified by chromatography on a palmitoylated gauze column with an overall recovery of 71% and an increase in the specific activity of 11-fold from the supernatant fluid of bacterial cultures.
(20) It is concluded that the new non-woven material has practical and economic advantages over traditional gauze.
Gauzy
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Overlaying the image are a few brusque swipes across the canvas, a gauzy smear of thin white paint, as if something had passed between us and the painting.
(2) A gauzy light filters down through high streaks of cirrus and ranks of towering cumulus look like smoke thrown up over the fells from a giant cannon salvo.
(3) Gauzy images of smiling worshippers embracing at a mosque cut to children passing out sweets to break the Ramadan fast.
(4) The film was commissioned for the charity's 50th anniversary, and it's easy to imagine what they might have been expecting: a gauzy portrait, light on analysis, strong on praise.
(5) Not out of despair and hopelessness, but rather with certainty of Allah’s promise.” At the end, Poulin spoke again, his visage filtered in a gauzy light.
(6) Today, it is one of the most recognizable symbols of the university, the part of campus that those watching Duke basketball are most likely to see in gauzy packages on TV.
(7) Launching her campaign with a very unBloombergian five-borough walking tour and a gauzy YouTube video , shot 1950s-style at the counter of the Moonstruck Diner, the presumptive favorite struck a populist tone.
(8) Yet on Tuesday, the air was a gauzy white, registering as “ very unhealthy ” on the US embassy’s air quality scale – a harsh reminder of the city’s pollution, despite the government’s best efforts to hide it.
(9) There can be few who stop and look at his 1880-81 Little Dancer Aged 14 , the bronze sculpture of the adolescent dancer who wears a gauzy fabric tutu and a satin ribbon tied to the cue of her bronze hair and not feel in the presence of a great and mysterious thing.
(10) Even in the springtime, when the air is far better than in the filthy, choking winters , the haze is visible night and day, shimmering in the headlights of cars and blurring buildings and bridges behind a gauzy grey curtain.
(11) The simple reason is that the distance between the soft, gauzy feel good aura around breast cancer awareness campaigns and actually going through breast cancer is so very great.
(12) But I find when I watch sex scenes in films, it's like ho-hum or it's flapping curtains and gauzy pictures, which is kind of boring.'
(13) The squadron of seven tween (possibly Mean) girls seated directly behind me offered a good barometer of the audience’s emotional temperature – sighing, sniffing, whispering “Oh my God he is sooooo cute!” upon seeing Ansel Elgort and “Even the credits are making me cry!” Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s nothing like the promise of early death to make 500 handkerchiefs appear all at once, and Fault fits snugly into an ancient Hollywood tradition whereby the loveliest actresses of their eras are asked to die gracefully of mysterious, imprecisely diagnosed ailments that leave no mark on their sufferers bar a gauzy, luminescent haze confected by the cinematographer and his lighting men.
(14) Other indie credentials: How To Dress Well features on her track Can I , and Take Me There, from her latest mixtape Boss Up, is a hazy, gauzy treat that features a Balam Acab sample .
(15) The era was portrayed with a slick, gauzy beauty in Tom Ford's film A Single Man , and the TV drama Mad Men has beamed gorgeous images of the period into our homes for four years now.
(16) They've been described as wafty, wavy, floaty, gauzy, wispy, glittering, sparkly, dreamy (and – for the thesaurus buffs – diaphanous, pellucid).
(17) Disdain for homosexuals is buried beneath the usual gauzy rhetoric about love, respect and justice.