(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.
Rigging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rig
(n.) DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails.
Example Sentences:
(1) A single repeatedly reactive cDNA clone was identified, by screening with CSF antibody, sequenced, and found to be the human homologue of the rat insulinoma gene, rig.
(2) The UK, France and Germany have been accused of hypocrisy for lobbying behind the scenes to keep outmoded car tests for carbon emissions, but later publicly calling for a European investigation into Volkswagen’s rigging of car air pollution tests .
(3) After four hours Dughan sent out a team, joined them when the rig did not respond.
(4) Of course the elections will not be rigged,” he told reporters recently.
(5) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
(6) It is one of six banks involved in talks with the Financial Conduct Authority over alleged rigging in currency markets and Ross McEwan, marking a year as RBS boss, also pointed to a string of other risks in a third quarter trading update.
(7) The Republican nominee also complained about what he saw as a rigged debate and insisted that he had actually bested Hillary Clinton on Monday night .
(8) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
(9) It cannot be established whether or not seasickness contributed to the cause of death in the case of the Ocean Ranger victims, but it did occur in 75% or more of TEMPSC occupants in the other four rig disasters.
(10) At 2 years 95% of the resectable, 36% of the traditional nonresectable, and 53% of RIGS nonresectable patients survived.
(11) Between them the British and the Dutch have more than two-thirds of the offshore rigs.
(12) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(13) Walker said he spent five to six a days a week chairing Barclays, after being recruited to chair the bank in the wake of the 2012 Libor-rigging scandal.
(14) According to unedited training videos seen by Sky News captured from an Isis trainer by the remnants of the Free Syrian Army, an research and development team may have produced fully working remote-controlled cars to act as mobile bombs, which they have fitted with mannequins rigged to give off heat to suggest they are human and so to evade bomb-scanning machines.
(15) The emissions-rigging scandal, which is being talked about as a corporate failure on the scale of Enron or WorldCom, extends beyond the CEO.
(16) Republicans were supposed to learn from Mitt Romney but I don’t think they did.” Allegations of rigging were widespread, even though a vote has not yet been cast, but few were willing to predict what kind of backlash there would be.
(17) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
(18) The debate about the future ownership of Royal Bank of Scotland was kickstarted on Wednesday just hours before the bank was slapped with a fine for rigging Libor.
(19) German prosecutors have launched an investigation into the former chief executive of Volkswagen as a result of the diesel emissions-rigging scandal .
(20) Extra supplies are also looming from the US, where stockpiles are growing as extra drilling rigs are put into operation.