(n.) A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
(n.) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(2) Uretero-ileal anastomosis by hammock method done in 10 cases resulted in success in 8 cases, abolishing the afferent nipple.
(3) Four patients exhibited posterior motion of the tricuspid valve in early systole, which reached a maximum in midsystole, and this was followed by an anterior motion, thus producing a hammock-like configuration.
(4) The latter differences seem to be related to the posture of the animals in the hammock.
(5) M-mode echocardiographic criteria for mitral valve prolapse consisted of late systolic posterior motion (greater than or equal to 3 mm) of one or both mitral leaflets or holosystolic hammocking (greater than or equal to 3 mm) of one or both mitral leaflets.
(6) An accessory cusp located between the right and noncoronary cusps, and shaped like a hammock which sling by the fibrous strings originating from the both commissures to the aortic wall.
(7) A cat, restrained in a hammock, stands with its feet on supporting trays each furnished with strain gauges to measure the isometric upthrust.
(8) The authors approve of this last way of dealing with the emptied pelvic cavity because the synthetic material is very well tolerated clinically and the polyglactine 910 mesh is not predisposed to infection when it is used to make a hammock to prevent chronic radiation enteritis by holding the small intestines out of the pelvis.
(9) One-off options, such as La Banda in Seville (dorm bed from €15), or Casa Caracol in Cádiz (from €10 B&B for a hammock), are a treat for laid-back travellers of all generations.
(10) The head was fixed in a stereotaxic device, the T2 spinal process clamped to a metal frame, and the lumbar region suspended by a hammock, with bilateral forelimb contact on the floor of a treadmill.
(11) This sequence of motion gives the impression of a rocking hammock or pendulum.
(12) Its two whitewashed, self-catering bungalows are just steps from the historic cobblestones but far enough away to give a sense of isolation while you lounge around in poolside in hammocks surrounded by manicured tropical gardens.
(13) The reaction times were longer, particularly for the forelimbs, when the cats were tested in the hammock as compared to the conventional procedure.
(14) However, it is the marmoset – furry, curious and humanlike – that triggers the most intense emotional responses, a point acknowledged by Mary (who asked not to be fully identified), the senior research technician in charge of the animals at King's, who devotes her time to the animals' welfare, right down to knitting hammocks for them to sleep in.
(15) Swim, sunbathe or hang out in a hammock between classes and pick a teacher who feels right to you.
(16) Expect to lose a few hours lolling in the hammocks on the verandah, eating fresh mango and melon breakfasts, with friends of the Capela family dropping by for beers in the evening.
(17) First, though, is the inevitable "career highlights" montage: Mark riverdancing in socks at the Super Bowl; Mark motioning frantically to his genitals at Crufts; Mark clopping jubilantly across the churned sod of Ascot, clackers swinging like pork hammocks in a gale.
(18) The animals were either held in a soft bag, loosely attached by cords, or suspended in a hammock; the eyes were either free of blindfolded.
(19) "This whole thing is a pantomime to keep the tourists happy but for people like us it will get worse again soon," said Juana, 58, as she rocked her coughing grandchild in a hammock in the tiny shop where she sells homemade piñatas.
(20) Morphologically 15 diverticula were bulky outpouchings, six were tongue-like, and three hammocking.
Hummock
Definition:
(n.) A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.
(n.) A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.
(n.) Timbered land. See Hammock.
Example Sentences:
(1) He wondered what had happened to the land, its fish-filled inlets, the shrimp-spawning marsh, the oak groves, the hummocks overrun with white egrets, how a place that fed so richly whoever sailed through it could dissolve, history and graveyard and church and road and home.
(2) Reaching an open area of sparse trees beside the track, we set off across a large clearing of soft hummocks.
(3) Highest densities were located on the sloping banks of hummocks, ponds and potholes.