What's the difference between hosiery and osiery?

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.

Osiery


Definition:

  • (n.) An osier bed.

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