(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.
Vestment
Definition:
(n.) A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress
(n.) any priestly garment.
Example Sentences:
(1) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
(2) They adhered to and, when capacitated, penetrated the vestments of the oocyte of an ape--the gibbon, Hylobates lar--both in vivo and in vitro.
(3) This test does not evaluates the sperm transit from the vagina to the site of fertilization nor the sperm passage through the human egg vestments.
(4) Charles's sombre but still-beautiful features, the waterfall of black curls, the exquisite lace at his throat, the satin and velvet of the royal vestments inspired the artists of the day to some memorable work.
(5) Penetration of human sperm through the vestments of human oocytes during the first 3 h after insemination was investigated to determine the time taken for sperm capacitation, which precedes the acrosome reaction and fertilization.
(6) In conclusion, interference of ASA on spontaneous AR rate during "in vitro" capacitation can not be advocated as an explanation of the impairment of the interaction of human sperm with egg or its vestments, which have been reported in several studies.
(7) A photo released by the Castro family showed the 89-year-old former president and Francis looking into each other’s eye as they shook hands, the pope dressed in his white vestments and Castro in an Adidas track jacket.
(8) Wearing vestments of penitential purple, Francis said he had decided to come to the island after learning of a recent incident in which migrants had died while attempting the crossing from north Africa.
(9) Although the vestments and oolemma seem normally receptive to spermatozoa, fusion with the oolemma of the primary oocyte did not elicit exocytosis of cortical granules, and consequently multiple entry of spermatozoa into the ooplasm was common.
(10) The kinematics and consequences of hyperactivated sperm motion are presented, with emphasis on objective characterization of such motion (as a biomarker), along with analysis of the mechanical advantage that such motion may confer on spermatozoa during egg-vestment interaction.
(11) The innermost vestment, the zona pellucida, is a glycoprotein shell, which captures and tethers the sperm before they penetrate it.
(12) Mechanisms of mammalian sperm migration through the female reproductive tract and ovum vestments are described.
(13) However, the resumption of meiosis brings an increase in the penetrability of the granulosa cell vestment as well as the capacity for cortical granule exocytosis and the ability to decondense and transform the fertilizing sperm nucleus.
(14) In an instinctive impulse I parted from my guardian and walked toward a square tank filled with water, and quickly started to strip myself from my poor vestments.
(15) Micro-insemination is indicated in spermatozoa with no or very poor motility, very low density, multiple defects, or inability to penetrate oocyte vestments.
(16) Older people thought that younger people would find it off-putting – but in fact younger people thought it was mysterious and exciting.” Some of the loans come from the Vatican, where Pope Innocent IV commissioned pieces when he noticed what magnificent vestments English bishops were wearing.
(17) All these cytokines are present in significant quantities in the CM and were shown to be expressed in a sequential manner; thus, some are present in the oocyte and its vestment, the corona-cumulus complex (IL-1, IL-6, and CSF-1), whereas TNF appears only at the stage of six to eight-cell embryos.
(18) In the head, the equatorial segment of the acrosome is recessed within a waist in the sperm nucleus in a way that could afford some protection for this fusogenic region, perhaps during penetration of the egg vestments.
(19) Vestments from Reykjavík in Iceland were possibly commissioned as a gift to the church by some fabulously wealthy merchant with a guilty conscience – the thread, glittering as if new, proved to be almost pure gold.
(20) Julian's vile crime-lord mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) arrives seeking vengeance, arrayed in all the lurid vestments of the Real Housewives Of Miami Vice, and berates Julian endlessly on matters of cock size and spinelessness.