(n.) A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
(n.) Same as Mantling.
(n.) The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.
(n.) Any free, outer membrane.
(n.) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
(n.) A mantel. See Mantel.
(n.) The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
(n.) A penstock for a water wheel.
(v. t.) To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.
(v. i.) To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
(v. i.) To spread out; -- said of wings.
(v. i.) To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
(v. i.) To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report describes a detailed analysis of the dosimetry of the mantle technique for the therapy of Hodgkin's disease when a 4 MV linear accelerator (Varian) is utilized.
(2) In the mantle of the female sea mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis seasonal variations in the adenylate cyclase activity correlate with gonadal development.
(3) A 21-year old man died of an extensive anteroseptal myocardial infarction 16 months after receiving megavoltage radiotherapy to a mantle field for Hodgkin's disease stage PS IA confined to the midcervical lymph nodes on the left side of the neck.
(4) The outer aspect of the mantle zone constituted the PNS-CNS borderline.
(5) Fetuses that received 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, or 1.0 Gy were examined 24 h after irradiation for changes in the cells of the cerebral mantle of the developing brain.
(6) Forty-nine patients were managed according to the pre-1969 policy consisting of mantle radiotherapy (XRT) only without laparotomy staging and without subdiaphragmatic treatment.
(7) The glial mantle is thicker in the sulci than on the gyri.
(8) The sensory cells of the mantle tentacles are found to be ciliated, primary receptors with subepithelial nuclei.
(9) Only one of these cases was found among the 44 patients who received a dose to the spinal cord of over 5 000 rad via fields of less than 16 cm in length; 7 cases were patients with Hodgkin's disease who were given up to 3 700 rad via mantle fields.
(10) A semi-intact preparation was used to study the effects of classical conditioning on the type of siphon response elicited by a conditioned stimulus to the mantle of Aplysia.
(11) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
(12) Osteoclasts were not observed; occasional osteoblasts, blue mantles and otosclerotic foci were seen.
(13) The third major isoform, which was enriched in the mantle and branchial sac of adults and localized primarily in the tails of tadpoles, is a muscle actin.
(14) Spontaneous pneumothorax was observed only in patients who had received mantle or mini-mantle radiation therapy (RT).
(15) Shortly after mantle field radiation therapy she developed a mass in the anterior mediastinum.
(16) A literature review aimed at completeness, a study of the hitherto largest case material (24 cases), and a comparative analysis of the bleeding and normal gastric arteries gave the following results: (1) the walls of the pathologic arteries are of normal structure; (2) as submucous arteries, they are of normal diameter; (3) they are attached to the mucosa by virtue of Wanke's musculoelastic mantle; (4) at the level of the muscularis mucosae, they are definitely oversized; (5) in the area of the linkage of the artery to the mucosa, a vulnerable mucosal spot is created; (6) the artery is accompanied by a vein of similar caliber; and (7) perforation of the vein takes place before that of the artery.
(17) However, these specimens have also shown incipient cracks in the acrylic cement that emanate from and connect defects in the cement mantle and at the metal-cement interface.
(18) Aggressive intrapartum management is indicated in most of these cases regardless of cortical mantle thickness.
(19) The results of the various histochemical reactions on mucosubstances indicate that in the middle fold of the mantle edge two types of mucus cells exist, one producing sulphomucins and the other neutral mucosubstances.
(20) Her original concept was that he might shed the kingly mantle, be just a poor player strutting, but he couldn’t get out fast enough from his prosthetic withered arm.
Ream
Definition:
(n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
(v. i.) To cream; to mantle.
(v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.
(n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
(v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The commonly used line-to-line reaming technique was compared to an underreaming technique using both four-fifths and one-third porous-coated anatomic medullary locking (AML) implants.
(2) The disturbance without reaming was limited to the inner layer of the cortex and involved only one-third of the cortical cross-section.
(3) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
(4) In 10 dogs, closed intramedullary nailing with reaming was performed while compartment pressures were measured.
(5) Errors in surgical judgment were attributed to inadequate preoperative analysis of the pattern of the fracture; undetected intraoperative comminution during reaming or insertion of the nail, or both; or postoperative failure to recognize an increase in comminution and instability of the fracture.
(6) Instead, they continue to pursue austerity policies, which reams of historical data suggest harms economic recovery and does little to create jobs.
(7) Forty comminuted or unstable fractures of the femoral shaft were treated by closed intramedullary reaming and locked nailing.
(8) The process of reaming causes circulatory disturbances in the inner two-thirds of the diaphyseal cortex.
(9) The femoral nailing procedure with reaming in multiple trauma patients involves a potential risk to the lung.
(10) Care must be taken at surgery to ream sufficiently and obtain proper cup fit and position.
(11) The bone remodeling consisted of endosteal surface bone resorption and periosteal surface bone deposition, most likely due to a loss of structural support from the reamed medullary canal.
(12) The line-to-line reamed group showed significantly greater motion than both underreamed groups for all micromotion parameters.
(13) Two gross surgical implantation techniques, one involving reaming out the intramural portion of the uterine tube and the other dissecting it out via a transfundal incision, are compared with microsurgical uterotubal anastomosis.
(14) While it’s suffered setbacks, Uber has a huge competitive advantage in the market: it owns reams of smart data on traffic flows that will be critical to developing the technology.
(15) Mechanical tests showed that the greatest stability was achieved when the prosthetic cup was completely intruded, when all articular cartilage was removed and the socket was reamed, and when anchoring holes for cement were devised.
(16) Restricted reaming, brushing and lavage to remove debris, use of high-viscosity cement, and pressurization of the cement are of paramount importance.
(17) We conclude that bone healing is delayed by medullary reaming, whereas the pattern of healing is similar in bones with and without reaming.
(18) I assimilate reams of paper and electronic notes, scores of blood tests, x-rays and scans, and the current physiological status of the patients.
(19) Nailing was performed either primarily or secondarily and reaming was performed in most cases.
(20) Intramedullary reaming caused marked reductions in systemic and pulmonary artery blood pressure.