(n.) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.
(n.) Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.
(n.) A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Escherichia coli, Citrobacter freundii and Klebsiella pneumoniae grew after the experimental contamination for many weeks on the rubber hose until the test was finally stopped, in the other pipes and hoses (glass, high-grade steel, PVC, PE, PA, PTFE and silicone) E. coli could be found for maximal 7 weeks, Citrobacter freundii for 1 week and Klebsiella pneumoniae for maximal 3 weeks.
(2) Long breathing hoses should not be used in smaller aircraft since small cabin volume will result in rapid decompression rates and high mask pressure.
(3) The reaction of an unspecific microorganism flora and of Legionella pneumophila in pipes and hoses has been described in the two previous communications.
(4) They – we – had come by bus, plane, train, car and hitch-hiker's thumb to demonstrate to ourselves and a watching world that there was a better, more righteous America than the Birmingham of Bull Connor who had set the dogs and fire hoses on black children.
(5) A spokesman for Pyne then began hosing down the idea by saying it was “not on the current agenda”.
(6) When firefighters arrived to put out the blaze, someone cut through the hose with a knife.
(7) Fracketeering: how capitalism is power-hosing the last drops of value out of us all Read more The source said: “It is incredibly frustrating for the government.
(8) Earlier attempts to cool the reactor by hosing water from fire engines and helicopters left pools of contaminated water and flooded basements, hampering the containment operation and efforts to restart the cooling pumps.
(9) A low dose warfarin prophylaxis combined with anti-embolic hose, elevation of the legs and early ambulation was employed in 415 total hip replacements.
(10) In a 12-year-old boy, air accidentally introduced subconjunctivally from the pointed tip of an air compressor hose, moved to an intracranial position over the sella turcica as demonstrated by x-ray films.
(11) The catheter was inserted and secured into the trachea of 250- to 500-g Sprague-Dawley rats with the adaptor hose of the respirator fitted onto the 15-mm connector following tracheostomy.
(12) The tests were designed to evaluate the performance of monitors as installed on anaesthesia systems under a variety of failure conditions, including endotracheal tube disconnection with and without occlusion of the opening, kinks in the inspiratory and fresh gas hoses, disconnection of the fresh gas hose, leaks in the breathing circuit, excessive high or low pressure in the scavenging circuit, continuing high breathing circuit pressure, and kinks in the circuit pressure sensing hose.
(13) We modified a Bain circuit by placing the circuit into the Y piece of a standard carbon dioxide absorber circle, connecting the fresh gas hose on the anesthetic machine to the Bain's fresh gas inlet, and occluding the circle's fresh gas inlet.
(14) Squirrel monkeys were periodically exposed to brief electric tail shocks in a test environment containing a rubber hose, response lever, and a water spout.
(15) Recommendations to the company included: 1) installation of a warning system or lock-out device on the mixing machine to prevent the opening of the MBOCA hose prior to the release of pressure; and 2) annual medical surveillance of this individual for bladder cancer with urinalysis and urine cytology.
(16) The agent's fragility in water led hospital staff in Syria to uses hoses to drench rooms where they received victims after chemical attacks.
(17) The efficacy of the "hose" as a method of oxygen supplementation in children at low and high risk for developing postoperative hypoxaemia was also compared with the face mask.
(18) Suzanne Moore relaxing in her yurt A friend had said I could recreate the experience of Glastonbury by putting on my garden hose, rolling in mud and listening to bad music.
(19) Earlier attempts to cool the reactor by hosing water from fire engines and helicopters have left pools of contaminated water and flooded basements, hampering the containment operation and efforts to restart the cooling pumps.
(20) While relatives hosed down her yard, inches of mud still coated the floors of her home.
Hosiery
Definition:
(n.) The business of a hosier.
(n.) Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose.
Example Sentences:
(1) With a computerized optical pedobarograph, three footsteps on each side were recorded under three conditions: 1) barefoot, 2) wearing the patients' own hosiery, and 3) wearing experimental patented padded hosiery.
(2) He was married with children, he'd been sacked from his job as a hosiery mechanic and like all sacked people, he was refused dole.
(3) Complaint patients felt better while wearing the compression hosiery.
(4) The patients' own hosiery did not have a significant effect on plantar pressure, but the experimental hosiery reduced both peak forefoot pressure and the area under the time-pressure curve (P less than .001) by a mean of 26 and 29%, respectively.
(5) Preventive care begins with good hygiene and continues with selection of suitable hosiery and shoes.
(6) The quality of the hosiery was almost as disappointing as the standard of debate.
(7) Tests were conducted using a standard leg form in common use within the hosiery industry, fitted with specially developed sensors.
(8) Using the optical pedobarograph we have studied 10 patients who regularly wore experimental padded hosiery for 6 months.
(9) Always provide post-treatment compression with cotton balls, tape, and compression hosiery.
(10) At his behest, Third Man staff dress exclusively in yellow, black and a dash of white: men wear sharp suits and skinny ties, with three thin lines scratched, as if by an animal's claw, through the centre; the women's dresses are prim and Mondrian-inspired, with a frisson added by low-denier hosiery.
(11) Graduated compression hosiery is used with a range of conditions caused by insufficient venous return.
(12) My mother worked at the Pretty Polly hosiery factory her whole life and I followed her at the age of 16 after leaving school in 1984 during the miners strike .
(13) Functional testing of compression hosiery should form part of future British Standards specifications.
(14) An American hosiery manufacturer has developed socks designed to reduce stress on athletes' feet, and we report a preliminary evaluation of this technique in the reduction of elevated plantar pressure in 27 neuropathic diabetic patients.
(15) This study assessed the compliance useage and impact by monitoring of graded compression hosiery in chronic venous disease.
(16) Patients operated on for ilio-femoral DVT were with few exceptions totally independent of any form of adjunctive hosiery which was in sharp contrast to the conservatively managed group.
(17) Venous function was investigated in 29 women during late pregnancy before and after short term treatment with graduated compression hosiery.
(18) The long-term sequelae of wearing or not wearing the hosiery are yet to be determined, but PPG assessment is normalized with the hosiery in place.
(19) Clients are more likely to wear compression hosiery and look after it properly if they understand how it works.
(20) The patients were instructed to wear fitted, graded compression hosiery after hospital discharge; compliance was 37% at one year.