(n.) A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.
(n.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.
Example Sentences:
(1) These characteristics were correlated with graft fabrication variables: mandrel rpm, horizontal speed of the spray nozzle, gas and polymer solution flow rates.
(2) Subsequently, the mandrel can be removed, living the drain in situ for aspiration.
(3) In this study, Pellethane 2363-80A tubing containing conductor coils or mandrels of various metals or controls were implanted in rabbits.
(4) Four brass mandrels with a total of 46 test diameters ranging from 3.5 to 60.0 mm were used in this study.
(5) The prefabricated attachment system presented uses a matching component cast directly against the precast metal rest-mandrel.
(6) For urethrocystoscopy it represents a safe introductory rod (mandrel) introduced under visual control.
(7) It consists of an electric motor with a mandrel bearing a carborundum sectioning disk centered within a Plexiglas enclosure.
(8) The Omniflow biosynthetic prosthesis is made by a polyester net set on a silicon mandrel and planted on the sheep's back in order to from a tube of collagen that is fixed by glutaraldehyde at the moment of removing.
(9) With the larger mandrel, stroke work consistently exceeded normal canine stroke work at physiologic filling pressures.
(10) The authors describe a rare complication following total gastrectomy or reconstruction using a Roux-en-Y loop: the presence of a metal mandrel used to insert the nasogastric tube in the end tract was discovered during esophagojejunal anastomosis.
(11) The method is based on the spray application of a fine mixture of polymer solution and nitrogen gas bubbles onto a lathe-mounted mandrel.
(12) Antibody binding to the serotype-specific class 2 protein was dependent on renaturation of the antigen by a dipolar ionic detergent (R. E. Mandrell and W. D. Zollinger, J. Immunol.
(13) The catheters were introduced, either on the day preceding the operation or at the end of it, above or below T6-T7, after localization of the peridural space by the hanging drop technique or by loss of resistance to a liquid mandrel; 5 mg of preservative-free morphine diluted in 3 ml isotonic saline were injected.
(14) The mandrel cross section required to produce a predetermined amount of deformation (2 mm arc height for a 5 cm chord) was defined as the yield diameter for that particular wire.
(15) Signs and symptoms of gonorrhea began with the appearance of variants making 4,700-dalton LOS that are immunochemically similar to glycosphingolipids of human hematopoietic cells (Mandrell, R.E., J.M.
(16) In one group of dogs (n = 7) the skeletal muscle ventricles were constructed around a 17 ml Teflon mandrel, and in the other group (n = 5) a 45 ml mandrel was used.
(17) This idea comes from the experience made in using glutaraldehyde as biologic fixative employed for the first time in the fixation of the cardiac valves by Carpentier in 1976 and in using nets of synthetic material set on a mandrel in man by Sparks in 1986, to form a tube of collagen to be used as a vascular prosthesis.
(18) An alternative method for defining the range of orthodontic wires proposed by Waters (1981) is to wrap wire sections around mandrels of varying diameters and measure the deformation imparted after unwrapping.
(19) It involves spraying a polymer solution (generated by mixing polymer solution and nitrogen gas in a spray nozzle) onto the surface of a flowing nonsolvent liquid (water): polymer fibers form during precipitation of the spray drops as they travel on the water surface, until picked up by a partially submerged rotating mandrel.
(20) Several polymer coats are applied in a semiautomated process, at the end of which the polymer coating is dried and the tube is slipped off the mandrel.
Tool
Definition:
(n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.
(n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.
(n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service.
(n.) A weapon.
(n.) A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.
(v. t.) To shape, form, or finish with a tool.
(v. t.) To drive, as a coach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(2) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
(3) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
(4) These studies demonstrate the potential of ICAM-1 transfectants as tools for analysis of the role of ICAM-1 in lymphoid adhesion.
(5) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
(6) The basic principle of the resonant tool, its adaptation for surgery, the experimental results of its use in animals, and clinical experience are reported.
(7) Colloidal gold immuno-electron microscopy is a powerful tool for defining antigenicity at the subcellular level.
(8) A diversity of serogroups and toxigenicity was a general finding, however, strains found in the proximal gut were also cultured from the rectum, indicating that faecal specimens would be a valid tool in investigating the role of these organisms in SIDS cases compared with healthy controls.
(9) SR 42128 is a potent and long-acting tool for studying the role of the renin angiotensin system in primates and humans.
(10) In this study we propose a method for the analysis of the relationship between heart rate changes and respiration as a possible diagnostic tool for cardiac autonomic damage.
(11) However LHRH agonists alone or in combination with ovarian steroids are of potential value as a research tool.
(12) These findings demonstrate that heteroantisera can provide an additional important tool for dissecting the heterogeneity of T-cell leukemias and for relating them to more differentiated normal T cells.
(13) This model provides a standard nonoperative approach for the induction of intestinal ischemia in dogs and could be a valuable tool in the study of intestinal ischemia.
(14) Before we embark on the next steps of the global technological revolution, we must ensure that the most basic of online tools are accessible to all.
(15) This ion-selective microelectrode may show promise as a useful tool for the determination of intracellular bile salt activity.
(16) Axotomy should be a useful tool for determining which other neurotransmitter receptors are produced by facial motoneurons and efferent neurons in other cranial nerve nuclei.
(17) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
(18) This study also demonstrates that pulsed-field gel electrophoresis is a powerful new tool for the analysis of human chromosomal translocations.
(19) In order to maximize the utility of these tools a high degree of reliability is essential.
(20) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.