(n.) The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
(n.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
(n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
(v. t.) To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
(v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
(v. t.) To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
(n.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).
(interj.) Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
(n.) Alt. of Hipps
Example Sentences:
(1) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(2) However, low dose heparin prophylasix is relatively ineffective in patients having hip surgery, and has not been evaluated in patients having other types of orthopaidic surgery.
(3) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
(4) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
(5) The incidence of femur fracture in non-cemented hip arthroplasty has been reported to be between 4.1% and 27.8%.
(6) There was a larger difference in incidence between countries than between sexes, which suggests important genetic or environmental factors in the causation of hip fracture.
(7) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
(8) The author describes the utilization review process, utilization patterns, and service cost of the Mental Health Service of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP).
(9) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(10) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
(11) US clearly images the cartilaginous femoral head and enables accurate assessment of hip size, shape, and symmetry.
(12) Five cases of bilateral abduction contracture of the shoulder in adults including the first case of bilateral abduction contractures of shoulder and hip plus bilateral flexion contracture of elbow and extension contracture of a knee are reported.
(13) Four cases of a ganglion of the hip joint are reported.
(14) A case of a failed total hip replacement consisting of a Vitallium hip socket and a stainless steel femoral head prosthesis is presented.
(15) The authors decided to keep in this series only hips presenting with a very considerable upward displacement of the femoral head of type IV in Crowe, Maini and Ranawat's classification.
(16) The dimensions of the acetabular wall were thinner in the hips that had the thirty-two-millimeter component than in those that had the twenty-two-millimeter component (p less than 0.05).
(17) The thigh and hip manifestations can obscure the primary intra-abdominal process either due to the obvious emphysema or to the obtunded abdominal signs secondary to associated neuropathy.
(18) Trends in sex specific mortality from six conditions (hip fracture, septicemia, pneumonia, cancer, heart disease, and stroke) were examined for the period 1968 to 1980 to determine if recent increases in life expectancy at advanced ages were associated with significant shifts in the pattern of cause specific mortality at those ages.
(19) In patients with spastic paraplegia presenting with recurrent dislocation of the hip, operative treatment combining a soft tissue repair and a bone block to augment the acetabulum is recommended.
(20) From 1960 through 1975, 337 patients with surgically treated acute fracture of the hip received subcutaneously administered heparin to prevent thromboembolic disease according to various regimens.
Sip
Definition:
(v. t.) To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.
(v. t.) To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
(v. t.) To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
(v. i.) To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.
(n.) The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
(n.) A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.
(v. i.) See Seep.
Example Sentences:
(1) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(2) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
(3) The questionnaires (Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales [AIMS], Functional Status Index [FSI], Health Assessment Questionnaire [HAQ], Index of Well Being [IWB], and Sickness Impact Profile [SIP]) were administered to 38 patients with end-stage arthritis at three points in time: two weeks before hip or knee arthroplasty, and at three-month and 12- to 15-month follow-up.
(4) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(5) Statistical analysis of SIP concentrations showed that horses on the Feed 1 regime had significantly lower SIP concentrations than horses on the other feed regimes.
(6) Based upon its reliability, validity, breadth of assessment, and ease of administration, the SIP appears to be well suited for the assessment of patients suffering from chronic pain and evaluating the efficacy of multidisciplinary pain units.
(7) As the sun rises over the precipitous streets of SanFrancisco's North Beach, just before 7am, there is a truly wonderful scene: corporation men spray the sidewalk while a gathering of bearded folk sip espressos at Caffe Trieste on the corner of Vallejo and Grant streets.
(8) Psychosocial functioning measured by SIP related specifically to mental health and arthritic pain.
(9) The GHRI may be preferred where brief, self-administered forms are required; the QWB has advantages when health assessments are used to calculate cost-effectiveness; and the SIP is a versatile, easy to understand measure dealing with a wide range of specific dysfunctions.
(10) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
(11) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
(12) "Our boy Mesut made it," said Duran Uzunur, 69, sipping his way through a thick Turkish coffee in a cafe frequented by retired gastarbeiters .
(13) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(14) But the insolvency profession trade body, R3, blamed the Insolvency Service for not providing clear guidelines on how to complete the SIP 16 forms and said the changes could drive up costs.
(15) Cameron took his jacket off and sipped from the half pint glasses of water – gin?
(16) Significant correlations (p less than 0.01) were found between pain during walking and the psychosocial questions in the SIP, between the BOA score and questions in the SIP concerning the physical performance, and between self-selected walking speed and the physical questions.
(17) In a laboratory setting, social drinking couples synchronized a greater proportion of their sips of alcoholic beverages than did alcoholic husbands and their wives.
(18) Subjects' health status was measured with the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP), a behaviorally based measure of sickness-related dysfunction.
(19) We compared the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP), its major subscales, and a short index derived from the SIP (a slight modification of an index proposed by Roland) with regard to reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change.
(20) This will be proof for many that Nick Clegg is indeed a latte-sipping, windsurfing, arugula [rocket]-munching Euro-snob.