(n.) A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, carotid sinus massage and, to some extent, isoprenaline administration appear simple bedside tests which may be helpful in identifying the underlying mechanism of sick sinus syndrome.
(2) Two levels of massage were quantified and defined as light massage (LM) and deep massage (DM).
(3) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
(4) Ventricular fibrillation was then induced and, after predetermined downtimes ranging from 5 to 60 minutes, thoracotomy was performed, and open-chest bimanual cardiac massage was started.
(5) The relationship of the electrocardiogram to clinical and pathological results was evaluated and indicates that (1) properly managed resuscitation (manual massage and defibrillation) is not a serious hazard, (2) ether in 100% oxygen is the agent of choice for surface-induced deep hypothermia with prolonged circulatory arrest, and (3) halothane may be used in a procedure combining surface cooling and perfusion rewarming if given in a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
(6) The catheter is extracted during massage of the prostate and finally EPS is aspirated through the internal lumen of the catheter.
(7) Intraocular pressure should be controlled via applanation tonometry, beginning with the fourth day after goniotrepanation, for a period of about three weeks, for early detection of postoperative pressure increases which can occur occasionally, so that they may be treated by digital massage of the bulb.
(8) Rabbit aorta contracting substance (RCS) and prostaglandins were released from guinea-pig isolated perfused lungs by gentle massage and also by infusion of Prosparol.2.
(9) It would appear that if initiation of open chest cardiac massage is delayed for more than 20 min from the onset of cardiac arrest, little or no successful outcome can be expected.
(10) Digital massage often can be used to lower intraocular pressure (IOP) after trabeculectomy or trabeculectomy combined with extracapsular cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation.
(11) We investigated the possibility of significant corneal trauma (as revealed by slit lamp observation of the fluorescein instilled eye), and massage effects following determination of intraocular pressure with the A. O. Non-Contact tonometer (NCT).
(12) They have an exercise yard, computers, televisions, art classes and even massage on request.
(13) Massage of the carotid sinus was performed during sinus rhythm, during transesophageal atrial stimulation and during transcutaneous ventricle stimulation.
(14) To cap all this, it appears that Tesco may have massaged its bottom line by a not inconsequential quarter of a billion pounds.
(15) Connective tissue massage produces relief of pain and increases microcirculation in a number of vascular beds.
(16) (It is very respectful to massage the pig after it is dead.)
(17) Our data did not show intracardiac aspiration to be superior to either external cardiac massage of left lateral decubitus position despite the shorter resuscitation time.
(18) The follow-up of 70 patients with trauma-related locomotor disorders proved that breathing exercises, vibratory massage, chest heparin electrophoresis, drug inhalations early after the injury can be effective in prevention and treatment of pulmonary complications.
(19) He had normal routine testing, holter monitoring, head CT scan, carotid sinus massage, valsalva maneuver etc.
(20) Skin massage elicited a marked proliferative response in skin but was not a promoting stimulus.
Masseuse
Definition:
(n. f.) One who performs massage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scrutiny of the prince’s relationship with the multimillionaire banker came as a legal and publicity battle intensified in the US over claims made last week in a Florida court by Virginia Roberts, a former masseuse employed by Epstein, that she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York over 10 years ago, as well as the Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.
(2) Roberts was working for $9 an hour as a changing room assistant at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago beach club, where her father was a maintenance manager, when she claims she was recruited to work as a masseuse for Epstein.
(3) Sami Spagnuolo, Masseuse and nutritionist, 35 Sami Spagnuolo: 'I don’t dress to show them off, but you don’t get tattoos unless you want them to be a talking point.'
(4) He is under mounting pressure to release a full account of his encounters with Epstein, when he is alleged to have had sexual relations with Roberts, whom Epstein had hired as a masseuse.
(5) Amy Hughes, the first school nurse, was one of a group of nurses who were instrumental in the founding of not only school and district nursing but the Society of Trained Masseuses as well.
(6) His big breakthrough was in persuading Armstrong's masseuse, Emma O'Reilly, to tell what she knew.
(7) The ex-masseuse has been named as the main witness for the defence in a case brought against her lawyers by Epstein.
(8) I had the masseuses take notes for me.” Talese writes elsewhere about his quite repressed upbringing.
(9) The Palace has declined to say, for example, why Andrew was in the company of a 17-year-old masseuse working for Epstein at Maxwell’s home.
(10) Of course, stereotypes come from real life – there are east Asian nannies, Thai mail-order brides, “exotic” sex workers, Filipina or Indonesian maids, martial arts experts, sexy mathematicians, scientists or masseuses, fierce tiger mothers, ball-breaking career women in legal or financial firms, dead cockle-pickers, trafficked underage girls, rude waitresses in Chinatown or bored women behind the takeaway counter in real life.
(11) In full view of a New York magazine writer who’d been sent to profile Talese, a masseuse “took hold of Gay’s penis as calmly as if it had been a pool cue” and playfully threatened to decapitate it .