(n.) Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asymmetries occur less often whilst using the low-cervical-pull according to Sander, due to the reduced friction between the two plastic parts of this headgear system.
(2) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(3) Questionnaires designed to assess attitudes and use of headgear were completed by 537 Division I collegiate wrestlers.
(4) This is brought about by the corresponding mechanics of the activator-headgear combination.
(5) These results demonstrated that open bite complicated by a Class II vertical growth pattern can be treated during the mixed dentition with favorable results by a combination of a removable functional appliance and high-pull headgear.
(6) While no change in SNA occurred with Andresen therapy, Begg and headgear therapies produced a permanent reduction in the variable.
(7) The bite-jumping-appliance BJA is a special functional appliance which affects the upper jaw comparably to activator headgear combinations (SNA angle).
(8) Cervical headgear, Class II, or vertical elastics were used when indicated.
(9) All wearers of headgear and their families should be educated in the proper use of these devices and about the potential for severe facial injuries.
(10) The headgear force can either be distributed directly on the teeth to be moved, on hooks which are soldered on the archwire, on chin caps or mandibular troughs resp.
(11) Two types of cervical headgear were presented, the cervical traction with caudal tip and with cranial tip of the long outer bow.
(12) The pterygoid plates of the sphenoid bone, the zygomatic arches, the junction of the maxilla with the lacrimal bone and the ethmoid, and the maxillary teeth were affected by both types of headgear.
(13) The bilateral ear protection device, referred to as "headgear", is fitted to all patients in the burn center who require intubation for an inhalation injury; it is worn continuously until extubation.
(14) The facebow, which is of necessity removable, can be displaced from its intra-oral attachments (whilst still connected to the headgear by the elastics) and may result in personal injury.
(15) Girls were more cooperative in wearing headgear, which was related to their more general attitude of cooperation.
(16) A small reduction was also produced in SNB by Begg and headgear therapies.
(17) The effect of lever arms in the headgear assembly on the load delivered to the teeth warrants further study.
(18) Six subjects would rotate their heads laterally (from side-to-side) for 30 min with each of the headgear loading combinations.
(19) The study comprises an analysis of the effect of treatment with a modified activator combined with a high-pull headgear during a standardized observation period of the initial 6 months of treatment.
(20) Four subjects were monitored in the sleep lab with both our headgear and standard polysomnography.
Lifting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lift
(a.) Used in, or for, or by, lifting.
Example Sentences:
(1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
(2) Ligaments played a very minor role in the lifts studied.
(3) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
(4) The expression of genes for adenine phosphoribosyltransferase and of deo operon is regulated by rho dependent attenuators with attenuation being lifted incomplete medium.
(5) For example, Asda lifted the price of frozen pizza from £1.50 to £2 as a “two for £3” offer appeared – and dropped the price again when the offer concluded.
(6) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
(7) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(8) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
(9) The government has won a High Court order to prevent the partial lifting of a secrecy order affecting the proposed inquest into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
(10) The US and its allies are balking at Iranian demands for all UN sanctions to be lifted at the start of a deal.
(11) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
(12) That is the bottom line.” Others described the need for a policy of containing Iran, especially with the lifting of economic sanctions.
(13) The Lib Dems have campaigned for a "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m, to pay for the poorest workers to be lifted out of the tax system.
(14) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.
(15) For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
(16) The home fans were lifted by the sight of Billy Bonds, a legend in these parts, being presented with a lifetime achievement award before the kick-off and the former West Ham captain and manager probably would have enjoyed playing in Allardyce's combative midfield.
(17) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
(18) It seems to adequately provide the additional needed lift when nipple descent has been no more than 1.5 to 2 cm below the inframammary crease.
(19) "And let's be frank, we're not actually helping anyone by leaving the economic coast clear for others to provide the inward investment that often comes in from elsewhere and may represent tied aid or investment that won't help lift the poorest into employment," she said.
(20) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.