(n.) A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used.
(v. t.) To cover or line with laths.
Example Sentences:
(1) One had been attached to the first cutting lathe that Optimal had acquired.
(2) Through combination with a spherical disc face perpendicular to the axis of rotation, which protrudes only slightly from the hemispherical catheter tip, with a maximum at the center and minimum at the lateral borders, the lathing head has only a slight risk of perforation and no undesired sheering forces (Figures 2a to 2d).
(3) Machinable ceramics that can be cut and even lathed have recently been developed in industry.
(4) We studied the anterior surfaces of 30 soft contact lenses (10 lathe cut [polished]; 10 spin cast [unpolished], and 10 cast molded [unpolished]) of the same polymer and water content.
(5) The results indicate that when dental amalgam alloy is added to the glass ionomer, lathe-cut particles are to be preferred but only in an amount up to 20% by weight.
(6) Changes in corneal curvature and subjective refraction were found to occur in some wearers of N & N lathe-cut soft contact lenses.
(7) Peripheral swelling was less than central for both lathe cut- and spun cast-type lenses.
(8) For clinical application the initial intumescence should be taken into consideration, as well as the donor tissue thickening during its freezing for working on a lathe.
(9) Data is presented in respect of 256 restorations of Occlusin and 69 restorations of a conventional lathe cut amalgam.
(10) The lenses studied were lathe-cut polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), injection-molded non-UV PMMA, injection-molded UV PMMA, and cast-molded UV PMMA.
(11) Measurement of the corrosion rates of three distinctive amalgam alloys (lathe-cut, spherical and dispersed-phase) when immersed in three different electrolytes, including saliva, is reported.
(12) The results indicated that early microleakage from alloys of lathe-cut particles was lower than that from alloys of spherical particles in both low-copper and high-copper amalgam restorations.
(13) Precise lathing of epikeratoplasty lenticules is difficult to achieve with the cryolathe due to unpredictable expansion of the lathing tools and the corneal tissue during the freezing process.
(14) Like, ‘Don’t send us a CD master of the loudest techno music and expect that to be cuttable on a lacquer.’ (The high and low frequencies associated with this type of music can overheat the cutting lathe and cause the mastering machinery to shut down; pushing the process to its limits is the origin of some records being called “hot cuts”.)
(15) Often overlooked is the dental laboratory of which particular interest focuses on the lathes used in preparing prosthetic appliances, castings, orthodontic appliances, and surgical stents.
(16) A method was developed for lathing corneal tissue without freezing.
(17) This paper describes in detail the geometry of the first lathe-cut hydrophilic lens approved by the Federal Drug Administration, the fitting methods utilizing trial lenses, and the results of 100 patients successfully fitted.
(18) We adapted a lathe to the production of keratolenses.
(19) USA 69, 3643-3647) and the HLP-1 protein (Lathe, R. et al.
(20) Three out of 10 eyes (30%) in which injection molded anterior chamber lenses from McGhan were used developed cystoid macular edema, compared to a much lower incidence with the use of lathe-cut anterior chamber lenses from Rayner.
Latticework
Definition:
(n.) Same as Lattice, n., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is in the stadium design itself: one of the most striking things about the Bird's Nest is the way the latticework makes the arena open to the exterior.
(2) They first formed a latticework of patches and bands in a ventral region of the caudoputamen.
(3) A latticework of cytoskeletal microtubules that forms during cellularization appears to be a key component in localizing the ftz mRNA.
(4) These studies also demonstrated micro-channels within the Bucrylate embolus and the presence of what appears to be normal red blood cells within the latticework of the embolus.
(5) Under the current design, the Freedom Tower will be occupied only up to 70 floors, after which the building turns into an empty latticework, topped by the spire.
(6) Ventricular myocytes contain longitudinally and transversely oriented tubules which represent invaginations of the plasma membranes and form orderly latticeworks.
(7) The material seems to be appropriate for this use, is completely absorbed, and acts as a latticework for the deposition of granulation tissue.
(8) The proteins contributed to a latticework stabilized by covalent bonds that was important in determining the porosity of the outer cell wall layers.
(9) When the cytoskeletons of these axons were compared by electron microscopy, the neurofilaments of the cuneate fibers were seen to be more abundant and formed a latticework, more compactly organized than the neurofilaments of the dorsal corticospinal axons.
(10) Without external pressure, such as trade and cultural sanctions on Israel, there is nothing to prevent the latticework that is Palestine from being eaten away to the point where it is as no longer viable as a state.
(11) Passive stiffness was increased except when fibrosis and thinning of the interventricular septum occurred, in which case it decreased; and 4) fibrillar collagens involved in remodeling included the formation of either collagen strands and fibers in a greater number of previously collagen-free intermuscular spaces in pressure-overload hypertrophy, or a dense crisscrossing latticework of fibers that encircled muscle fibers after isoproterenol.
(12) Fibronectin staining was dense in the vicinity of basement membranes merging to form fine interconnecting latticework-like structures elsewhere in the lamina propria.
(13) A latticework was formed by elongated endothelial cells (rod cells) with side processes and the spongy reticular tissue.
(14) Thus, the differences seen in the organization of the neurofilament latticework and the phosphorylation of NF-H between axons found in these two tracts both appeared to be correlated with cell type, and were independent of length or caliber of the axons.
(15) The microtubule latticework and the sperm aster disappeared towards the end of first interphase with only a small bipolar structure remaining until first mitosis.
(16) Stretched like a taut fishing net across the facade, this concrete shroud echoes the mashrabiya latticework screens used in much of the architecture of north Africa to keep buildings cool – an appropriate touch, given Mucem will explore the culture of this land just across the water.
(17) The vicryl mesh served as a latticework for formation of a neodural membrane.
(18) The third layer, a latticework of fine filaments containing few organelles, has an erratic boundary that occasionally extends into layer 4.
(19) On the postsynaptic side cytoplasmic dense material formed a regularly arranged latticework on the membrane, 'subjunctional dense lattice'.
(20) A delicate latticework of S-100 protein immunopositive glial cells was demonstrated extending in the longitudinal muscle layer, myenteric or Auerbach's plexus, circular muscle layer including the deep muscular plexus, submucous layer including the submucous or Meissner's plexus, lamina muscularis mucosae and lamina propria mucosae.