(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.
Tights
Definition:
(n. pl.) Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Freshly isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles contain 0.05 mol of tightly bound ADP and 0.03 mol of tightly bound ATP per mol of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3).
(2) The expression of the Pgp isoforms appears to be tightly regulated and, at least in some cells, under complex hormonal control.
(3) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
(4) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
(5) These data indicate that topoisomerase I and RNA polymerase I are tightly complexed both in vivo and in vitro, and suggest a role for DNA topoisomerase I in the transcription of ribosomal genes.
(6) Immunofluorescence and immunoelectronmicroscopy experiments demonstrated that while tight junctions demarcate PAS-O distribution in confluent cultures, apical polarity could be established at low culture densities when cells could not form tight junctions with neighboring cells.
(7) Investigations have been made to determine the identity and binding characteristics of the pterins that are bound tightly to dihydrofolate reductases which are isolated from vertebrate sources by a well established procedure.
(8) At all times, a tight inverse correlation exists between ATP and IMP concentrations.
(9) Recently, a gene for ITD (DYT1) in a non-Jewish kindred was located on chromosome 9q32-34, with tight linkage to the gene encoding gelsolin (GSN).
(10) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
(11) In contrast, interchange of the histones and tightly bound non-histone protein DNA complexes from hormone-withdrawn and estrogen-stimulated chromatins during reconstitution did not affect the level of mRNAOV sequences produced.
(12) Using microelectrodes and various microscopic techniques active Na+ absorption as well as K+ secretion has been localized to the principal cells, while Cl- absorption was found to proceed largely, though not exclusively, through the tight junctions between cells.
(13) The successful establishment of a postcrisis SV-40 T antigen transformed epithelial cell line, 1HAEo-, which retains tight junctions and vectorial ion transport, is described.
(14) The present investigation shows that the intramembranous proteins of tight and gap junctions are mobile structures within the fluid membrane.
(15) In contrast, after incubation with 0.5% DOC, the core microfilaments are no longer tightly bundled yet the lateral arms remain attached with a distinct 33-nm periodicity.
(16) The data collected by several approaches reveal that assembly and maturation of vaccinia involves a tightly coupled sequence of interrelated events including the assembly of the envelope, post-translational cleavage of several virion polypeptides, and induction of the core enzymes.
(17) The tight coupling between neuronal activity and oxidative energy metabolism forms the basis for the use of cytochrome oxidase as an endogenous metabolic marker for neurons.
(18) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(19) Some antibodies and other proteins bind tightly to nitrocellulose and dissociation of these proteins by Tween 20 is barely detectable.
(20) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.