(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.
Stocking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stock
(n.) A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.
(v. t.) To dress in GBs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(2) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(4) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
(5) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(6) Nintendo’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has plummeted 17% in one day, apparently due to investors belatedly discovering that the company doesn’t actually make Pokémon Go , the latest mobile gaming phenomenon.
(7) The PTA take 25% of sales, and most parents donate unsold stock."
(8) Analysis of mice injected with helper-free P90A virus stocks demonstrates that the variants are generated during viral replication in vivo, probably as a consequence of error-prone reverse transcription.
(9) Born in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin, he has also served on the board of the Washington Post, General Electric, Waterford Wedgwood and the New York Stock Exchange.
(10) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(11) Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec, said: “Clearly, there is a much greater chance that the euro hits parity with the US dollar once again, as it first did in 1999.” Stock markets climbed and bond yields fell as the markets digested the full implications of the massive QE project that will involve the ECB buying €60bn (£45bn) of bonds a month until September 2016 or when eurozone inflation nears the central bank’s 2% target.
(12) First, the possibility of "vertical" transmission of the virus was examined, as the Papio stock in Sukhumi was genetically homogeneous.
(13) Results of trials designed to determine forage production at various stocking densities may not reflect the nutritive value of the forage, but instead the severity of parasite exposure.
(14) Shares in energy companies lost ground as the impact of the drop in oil prices rippled through European stock markets.
(15) In the 46 herds in which only the adult stock were slaughtered, 11 herds suffered breakdowns.
(16) "I believe it is important to take stock of how technological advances alter the environment in which we conduct our intelligence mission," he explained.
(17) World stock markets suffered another bout of heavy losses when trading began on Thursday, with the FTSE 100 falling 57 points within the opening minutes to 5879.
(18) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(19) During the last ten years the stock of pigs in the Netherlands has doubled.
(20) Analysis by six enzymes (aspartate aminotransferase; alanine aminotransferase; malate dehydrogenase; glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase; phosphoglucomutase; and glucose-phosphate isomerase) showed that these stocks have identical enzyme profiles and form a distinct zymodeme grouping.