What's the difference between lath and luth?

Lath


Definition:

  • (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.

Luth


Definition:

  • (n.) The leatherback.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Four hundred and twenty faecal specimens from patients with acute gastroenteritis and apparently healthy persons who reported at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) between October, 1988 and May, 1989 were investigated for faecal carriage of Listeria monocytogenes and other related species.
  • (2) The common primary causes of deaths in eclampsia in the LUTH during the period under study were renal failure (14.5%), cerebrovascular haemorrhage (12.7%), cardio-pulmonary failure (12.7%), disordered intravascular coagulation syndrome (DIC) (10.9%), and cardiac failure (8%).
  • (3) Comparison of the data from the recent decade to that of the previous decade (1966-1976), shows that the number of eclamptic patients treated in the LUTH, over the recent decade (1977-1986) more than doubled the number of eclamptics treated in the previous decade (1967-1976) (572 as compared with 273 for the previous decade).
  • (4) Three patients admitted to the Accident and Emergency Unit of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) after eating a cassava based meal 'Gari' died shortly after admission.
  • (5) A retrospective study of the primary causes of maternal deaths in the eclamptics treated in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) over a 20-year period, from 1st January 1967 through 31st December 1986, was carried out.
  • (6) Branhamella catarrhalis and other commensal Neisseria species were isolated from 200 out of 500 sputum samples from patients with lower respiratory tract (LRT) infections at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
  • (7) Over a 10-year period, between 1st January 1977 and 31st December 1986, a total of 572 eclamptic patients were treated in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
  • (8) The Post Mortem Rate (PMR) in the dead eclamptics in the LUTH was 60%.
  • (9) From 1973 to 1986, 30 cases of sacrococcygeal teratomas were seen at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
  • (10) Of 2,780 specimens of midstream urine (MSU) collected from patients of Medical out-patient Unit of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), and examined between March 1989 and February 1990, 780 (28.1%) had bacterial colony counts greater than 100,000 per ml.

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