(n.) A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.
(n.) Anything resembling a gusset in a garment
(n.) A small piece of chain mail at the openings of the joints beneath the arms.
(n.) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
(n.) An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
Example Sentences:
(1) A transannular gusset was utilized in 74% of patients in the last 5 years of the study.
(2) The dural grafts were used as an aortic root gusset in 38 patients (35.5%) undergoing aortic valve replacement, for enlargement of the pulmonary artery or right ventricular outflow tract or both in 38 patients (35.5%), and for repair of coarctation of the aorta in 10 patients (9.4%).
(3) This reshaping was done by inserting multiple gussets into one end of the aortic prosthesis so that the flanged end fit precisely to the transverse aortic arch.
(4) This is best done by the insertion of a gusset of dura or other material to lengthen the concave side of the curve.
(5) The aortic incision was repaired with an inverted Y-shaped Dacron gusset.
(6) Discrete obstruction, present in 11, was treated by insertion of a prosthetic gusset placed across the area of narrowing and extending into the noncoronary sinus of Valsalva.
(7) A Dacron gusset was sutured to restore aortic continuity.
(8) "We're constantly bombarded by singers thrusting their gussets in our face, and then there's someone who is doing it in a most meaningful, exquisitely expressive way.
(9) A wide paneled gusset and four-way stretch Warpstreme™ fabric make these pants commute, travel and sweat ready.
(10) From 1979 to 1983, 38 patients had dura mater aortic root gussets placed during aortic valve replacement at the Southampton General Hospital.
(11) The advantages of this approach compared with a conventionally placed heterograft conduit or an outflow tract gusset are discussed.
(12) Two-dimensional echocardiography was used to measure pulmonary artery diameter and assess symmetry after two types of systemic-pulmonary artery shunts: modified right Blalock-Taussig shunt (14 patients) and central shunt (from underside of aortic arch gusset to pulmonary artery confluence) (14 patients).
(13) The present operative method involved the use of an oval pericardial gusset extending from the left auricular appendage into the split anomalous vein so as to obtain a wide anastomotic orifice.
(14) Tailoring of the annulus was performed in 39 cases and a gusset in the non-coronary sinus was used to maintain the shape of the aortic root in 67 patients.
Taper
Definition:
(n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
(n.) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
(a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
(v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
(v. t.) To make or cause to taper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(2) The cases of S-type were changed to those of ST-type, which emphasized the Tapering type factors.
(3) The former possess a variety of spines, axonlike processes and sometimes an unmyelinated axon, and are presumably interneurons, while type IIB cells show a thick tapering axon that is probably myelinated.
(4) He presents measures for the management of withdrawal symptoms and relapse, focusing on the use of a slow taper over 3 to 6 months.
(5) In the experiments which covered exposure time from 4.5 to 17.0 s, we found that it started slowly, the reflectance increased rapidly once the surface temperature of the lesion reached approximately 90 degrees C. After this rapid rise, the reflectance began to taper off until no change in reflectance was recorded.
(6) During the 3-month tapering-off period eight initially improved patients (36%) in the cyclosporin group worsened, as did six (55%) in the placebo group.
(7) Special complications included postoperative renal deterioration, especially after tapering of megaureters.
(8) Yes, at the 2010 Conservative conference the party announced a similar cliff-edge at the higher rate tax threshold as a way of effectively means-testing child benefit payments, but that was eventually removed and replaced with a less egregious taper at the 2012 budget.
(9) Myocardial fibers were elongated and thinner (tapered) in the tips of papillary muscles.
(10) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(11) Bad pun aside, investors are concerned that the company's high growth-rates are tapering.
(12) In addition, after incubation in ATP, they are intermingled with, and converge onto the surfaces of, thick, tapered filaments, which we have tentatively identified as of myosin-like nature.
(13) The spheroids grew exponentially with a volume-doubling time of approximately 24 h up to a diameter of approximately 580 microns and then the growth rate tapered off, more for spheroids grown at the low than at the high oxygen tension.
(14) The tapered tubes and constricted tubes are of special importance.
(15) It involves the deep white matter symmetrically, tapering off toward the cortex.
(16) Those on antihypertensive medication prior to enrollment without documented diastolic hypertension had their medication tapered and discontinued, and then met BP criteria (33% of cohort).
(17) It has not yet been possible to enumerate these tapered rods by culture methods, but as judged by visual appearances in the histological sections, they seemed to outnumber all other bacteria in the cecum and the colon by a factor of as much as 1000.
(18) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
(19) The imaging system consists of a ZnS(Ag) screen, two tapered fibers, an image intensifier, and a Polaroid film.
(20) The micropyle canal measures 8 microns at the opening and tapers to 3.6 microns as it penetrates the membrane.