(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.