(n.) A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.
(n.) A boxing glove.
(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a glove.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(2) a) To determine the frequency of perforations in latex surgical gloves before, during, and after surgical and dental procedures; b) to evaluate the topographical distribution of perforations in latex surgical gloves after surgical and dental procedures; and c) to validate methods of testing for latex surgical glove patency.
(3) Analytical recovery from cotton gloves, solutions of foliar dislodgeable residues, and air-sampling filters was essentially complete.
(4) The exposures to the finger positions then were repeated with the monitor inside a 0.5 mm lead-equivalent glove.
(5) Despite the high rates of dermatoses found in a study of 686 female workers in a canning factory in March 1990, use of protective gloves was extremely low, even though there was evidence that they prevented acute paronychia and intertrigo.
(6) Burqas, hijabs, gloves are not mentioned in the Qur'an either.
(7) It was hypothesized that the noted inhibition was a result of contamination with latex gloves.
(8) Results of the determinations indicated that protective leather gloves contained considerable content of chromium, and chromium-free machine oils and lubricants were polluted with chromium's minute quantities as the oils and lubrications were being used.
(9) We found that thin gloves manufactured from polyethylene or polyvinyl chloride are ineffective barriers while gloves of thin latex are superior but not without failure.
(10) Glove manufacturers were queried to ascertain the occurrence of Lowinox 44S36 and butylhydroxyanisole in different brands of latex and vinyl examination gloves.
(11) In total, 275 pairs of gloves were collected from 100 consecutive operations.
(12) The procedures at a high risk of glove punctures were hip operations (57 per cent) and internal fixation (54 per cent).
(13) The perforation rates for the outer and inner layers were 35.3 and 8.8% respectively, indicating that a second set of gloves substantially improves the likelihood of maintaining an intact barrier between medical staff and patient.
(14) A 30-year-old surgeon developed reactions to latex gloves.
(15) Two kidneys (Group 3), deemed unsuitable for transplantation, were perfused for 24 hours with perfusate swished with unwashed sterile gloves.
(16) The experimental model used may permit rapid investigation of other glove systems as barriers to the transfer of infectious agents through gloves by needlestick.
(17) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
(18) The air of the wards and operating theatre as well as the hands and gloves of surgeons and assistant nurses apparently did not play any role as a source of S. aureus infection.
(19) Droplets of each admixture were placed on stainless steel, laboratory coat cloth, pieces of latex examination glove, bench-top absorbent padding, and other materials on which antineoplastics might spill or leak.
(20) Dermatologists are now wearing gloves for most procedures.
Stretcher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stretches.
(n.) A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
(n.) A piece of timber used in building.
(n.) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
(n.) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
(n.) A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
(n.) An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
(n.) One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
(n.) An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
(n.) The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lovren was carried off on a stretcher following a tackle by Craig Gardner but has been unable to undergo a scan because of swelling around the knee.
(2) A waiter grabbed a table cloth to use as a stretcher, but a photographer took the boy in his arms to carry him to the ambulance.
(3) The patient is placed in the supine position on a stretcher of adjustable height with his head in a foam rubber conformer.
(4) Shawcross, who will join Fabio Capello's England squad for Wednesday's friendly against Egypt, was shown a straight red card before Ramsey was carried off the pitch on a stretcher and taken to a local hospital, where his double break was set today.
(5) This procedure can be successfully applied to ureteral stones providing appropriate preoperative cystoscopic manipulations and a correct positioning of the patient on the stretcher of the lithotripter.
(6) Green prayer-mats were beds, tables were used as stretchers, while those already treated – blood drenching their shirts – sprawled against the walls at the side.
(7) 7.25pm BST 108 mins: Medel can't even walk off the pitch, sitting up on the stretcher as he's taken off and Jose Rojas comes on.
(8) They will take with them more than 11 tonnes of kit, including torches, axes, rope, search cameras, stretchers and tents.
(9) Photos posted on Sina Weibo showed security forces on rooftops with rifles and a man being carried through the streets on a stretcher.
(10) Already missing Michael Carrick, Ángel Di María and Robin van Persie, Luke Shaw was taken off on a stretcher after James McArthur caught him in the face with a stray elbow.
(11) Television footage showed women on stretchers being rushed into hospital with anxious relatives by their side.
(12) Nepal earthquake: two rescued after five days in Kathmandu building wreckage Read more The dust-covered teenager, who had been trapped in a small gap behind a bike under 6.5ft (two metres) of rubble, was eventually lifted blinking into the sunlight and placed on a stretcher, with a blue brace around his neck and a drip in his arm.
(13) Sturridge, who set up Frank Lampard's equalising goal on his first start for his country to cancel out Shane Long's opener, was hurt in a challenge by Glenn Whelan and having fallen to the ground on the touchline, had to be carried to the dressing room on a stretcher.
(14) In contrast, routine anesthetic reversal allowed operating room extubation, patient self-transfer to the stretcher, and ambulation on the day of surgery in Hospital B where patients had a 1.7 hour recovery room stay and a 9.6 day postoperative stay.
(15) Elderly patients were removed quickly from the stretcher area of the accident and emergency department to the quieter surroundings of the short-stay ward, where their immediate nursing requirements could be readily met.
(16) Recent findings reviewed in this paper suggest that in fact all reptants share the same three inhibitory axons: one is a universal common inhibitor, making synaptic connections within all leg muscles; the other two are specific (single-target) inhibitors of the opener and stretcher muscles, respectively (muscles which share a single excitatory axon as their sole source of activation even though they act on different joints).
(17) We decided to go forward anyway with two others – Catherine Stacpole, whose son was a well-known monk and writer and a man called Francis Whigham, a stockbroker who had done a great deal of work at Lourdes as a stretcher carrier and helper with the disabled.
(18) Augustine Eguavoen was actually stretchered off after this incident, though unsurprisingly he managed to play on after a little "treatment".
(19) It showed courage and determination to make sure we got at least a draw – and we actually went down the other end to try to get a winner, and were thankfully able to do that through a great ball from Glen Johnson and good finish by Mame Diouf.” Bournemouth suffered a significant early blow when their top scorer Callum Wilson was carried off on a stretcher in the 17th minute having sustained what appeared to be a serious knee injury.
(20) As part of the development of a life support stretcher for transportation of critically ill patients, a portable ventilation system was developed.