(n.) The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.
(n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.
(n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
(n.) Any sort of dress or garb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
(2) This training program served to further emphasize the importance of using proper aseptic gowning technique.
(3) Experimental subjects desired fewer changes in exam procedures than control subjects, indicating that the gown provided them with an overall more comfortable experience.
(4) There were 102 infants in the gowning group and 100 infants in the nongowning group.
(5) Transmural gown pressures encountered when the surgeon comes into contact with a patient were measured in the operating theater.
(6) Of 110 blood contacts among surgeons, 81 (74%) were potentially preventable by additional barrier precautions, such as face shields and fluid-resistant gowns.
(7) The first lady resented the governor’s prohibition on using his donor lists to market her nutritional supplements, he testified, and she reacted with anger when an adviser told her that she should not accept Williams’ offer to buy her an Oscar de la Renta gown to wear to the governor’s inauguration.
(8) Others were recycled: a panel of embroidery that probably came from a magnificent set of bed curtains was chopped up and stitched on to a priest’s chasuble, made from carefully pieced-together fragments of a woman’s gown of magnificent Italian patterned silk.
(9) We are in our prime, still strong, living full and interesting lives, not stuck at home festering in a candlewick dressing gown (OK, sometimes, but only when it’s cold and dark outside).
(10) That's why we buy into the notion that a £20 Zara necklace worn by the Duchess of Cambridge on a designer gown costing thousands of pounds is evidence that she is like us.
(11) He was a loving and caring young man according to his grandmother,” Johnson said in a Facebook post that showed Robinson smiling in a bright red graduation cap and gown.
(12) Isolation gowns have traditionally been used in health care situations to protect against microbial contamination.
(13) I got a Chewbacca, a Leia-in-the-white-gown and an orange-suited Luke Skywalker.
(14) Who cares who spent what on a pasta bake and whether or not you're allowed to claim for a dressing gown?
(15) Two thirds of the increase (64%) was due to rubber gloves and an additional 25% was due to disposable isolation gowns.
(16) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(17) It is quite satisfactory for preventing operators from soiling their feet and their gowns.
(18) The results of the study demonstrated not only significant reduction in wound infection rates but also major cost savings when a disposable gown and drape system was used in the operating room.
(19) Eight NICU required routine gowning on entry, two restricted sibling visiting and four restricted visiting by relatives and friends.
(20) Other precautions included the use of Charnley gowns with a body exhaust system, special draping of the patient, and preoperative culture of the urine.
Surgeon
Definition:
(n.) One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(3) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
(4) The skill of the surgeon was not a significant factor in maternal deaths.
(5) Four hundred patients with resectable colon and rectal cancers were operated on by 37 surgeons at 31 institutions.
(6) The instrument is a definite aid to the surgeon, and does not penalize the time required for surgery.
(7) By using these larger catheters, the surgeon will not lose the option of using isosmotic preparations.
(8) Surgery of destroyed joints in the hand and wrist in the arthritic patient can be added to the armamentarium of the reconstructive arthritis surgeon.
(9) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
(10) No acute cases of clinical or anicteric hepatitis were in observed in 75% of 161 patients who had been exposed to hepatitis A by an oral surgeon during the contagious period.
(11) General anaesthesia with apneic oxygenation may offer the ENT surgeon increased possibilities of exploration and operation at the level of the larynx and trachea, but owing to its biological consequences, it should be used only with circumspection and its indications should be totally justified, for acts of limited duration.
(12) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.
(13) A control group of 20 patients undergoing the identical cardiac operations (13 coronary artery bypass grafting procedures [CABG], 4 valve replacements [including 1 reoperative procedure], and 3 combined valve replacements and CABG) by the same surgeon within a one-year period was chosen for comparison of chest tube outputs.
(14) This is to help the surgeon to perform very precise surgery that was not possible in the past.
(15) These versions offer different advantages and are selected according to the particular field of application and the refraction of the surgeon.
(16) This demonstrates a considerable range in surgeons' attitudes to day surgery despite its formal endorsement by professional bodies, and identifies what are perceived as the organizational and clinical barriers to its wider introduction.
(17) The concept of increasing bone mass and decreasing expanded soft-tissue mass has application within the judgment of the surgeon coupled with the patient's desires.
(18) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
(19) A 1-month stay in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital, made possible by the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, afforded an invaluable opportunity to be involved in Pediatric Surgery in such a setting.
(20) It is emphasized that surgeons should be more aware of the relationship of the holding power of surgical knots to not only the knot-typing technique but also the kind of suture material used.