(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.
Mound
Definition:
(n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
(n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
(v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(2) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
(3) In reduction mammaplasty by the inferior pedicle technique, the dermal-breast pedicle can be manipulated to form a central breast mound and enhance breast projection.
(4) We’re sacrificing our gold medal to help people in need,” said Thomas Glückselig, lugging a mound of bedding.
(5) A tongue-shaped flap of the fat and the anterior sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle, approximately 7 cm in length, is pulled up, gathered, and inserted to reconstruct the breast mound.
(6) With the exception of poor Jose Valverde, the Tigers pitching recovered in Game Two once that Verlander guy was out of the way, and so at least that side of the game seems to be in a better place for Detroit, especially with the Animal, Anibal Sanchez on the mound tonight.
(7) Next to the pupil there was often a perceptible mound, presumably representing the iris sphincter.
(8) Sperm were not transported into the cloacae of artificially inseminated, anesthetized females without prior administration of norepinephrine to their cloacal mounds.
(9) Treated areas become covered with irregular mounds of RPE cells within seven days.
(10) Conservatively, I’d estimate that 90% of my time was spent making my students do colouring in while I sat in an impossibly tiny chair, with my knees around my ears, silently dreading the inedible mound of uncategorised meat that would invariably pass for that day’s lunch.
(11) The tying run is coming to the plate and a new pitcher is coming to the mound... Jon Smalldon (@jonsmalldon) Brandon Crawford!
(12) Reconstruction of the breast after super-radical mastectomy is difficult because not only a breast mound but also the subclavicular and anterior axillary regions must be reconstructed simultaneously.
(13) Individual cysts were found to be lined by a single layer of epithelial cells in most areas, with focal polyps and mounds of cells principally in collecting duct cysts.
(14) Each mound with its own tableau of what once were laughing, dreaming, busy human beings.
(15) Sox on the Beach (@SoxontheBeach) Also, why are the A's fans behind home plate waving towels when THEIR pitcher is in the mound?
(16) In contrast, the flat-mound and translucent-mound mutants, which aggregate normally, produced very few spores.
(17) Scanning electron microscopy revealed small mound-like lesions protruding from an intact endothelium in birds treated with an initiating dose of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (Me2BA) followed by twice weekly injections of the alpha 1-selective adrenergic agonist methoxamine for 20 weeks.
(18) Breast reconstruction has become such a commonplace procedure over the last ten years that we as plastic surgeons are no longer content to simply create a mound.
(19) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
(20) The argon laser caused a gradual mounding up of iris pigment epithelium with each successive energy application before final penetration.