(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.
Guze
Definition:
(n.) A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.
Example Sentences:
(1) All groups completed a version of the Perley and Guze diagnostic criteria for Briquet's syndrome.
(2) In women, the diagnosis of somatization disorder based on DSM-III criteria was highly concordant with the diagnosis of Briquet's syndrome based on Guze's original criteria.
(3) We also hypothesize that the impressionistic responses are indicative of primitive dissociative processes and hysteria in psychopathic subjects, and that their presence provides construct validity for the work of Guze (1976) and others who suggested an underlying histrionic dimension to psychopathy.
(4) 1973; van Praag 1982a) and completed (Guze and Robins 1970; Miles 1977) suicide.
(5) This conclusion is strongly supported by the demonstration of an increased prevalence of mental disorders in the spouses' first-degree relatives (Slater and Woodside 1951; Guze et al.
(6) The authors have reviewed research conducted since then and discuss it in terms of the Robins & Guze (1970) criteria.
(7) The authors compare the syndrome of hysteria, defined as or indicated by a specified response to a 55-item symptom checklist previously used by Guze and other researchers, with the definition of hysterical personality in the second edition of APA's Diagnostic and statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-II).
(8) Sixty-three non-agitated depressed out-patients were selected according to the Feighner-Robins-Guze criteria for primary depressions for a double-blind, between-patient randomized study for an 8 week duration.
(9) It represents an attempt to describe a syndrome of 'hysteria', the term initially applied to this polysymptomatic disorder by Guze and his colleagues.
(10) When 20 control subjects and 10 hysterical personalities (DSM-II) were given the Perley-Guze test, the results showed a close correlation between positive scores on the symptom checklist and the DMS-II diagnosis.
(11) This paper reviews the evidence that surrounds this controversy and employs the guidelines for validating a diagnosis established by Robins and Guze (1970) as the framework for the review.