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Mattress
Definition:
(n.) A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.
(n.) A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.
Example Sentences:
(1) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(2) You're more likely to awake refreshed, because inside your mattress there's a special sensor that monitors your sleeping rhythms, determining precisely when to wake you so as not to interrupt an REM cycle.
(3) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
(4) This article presents the author's preferred technique for reconstructing the auricle, simultaneously using Mustarde's mattress sutures, Cochrane's anterior scoring of the antihelix, and the approximating of the concha to the mastoid.
(5) In April this year I purchased a bed and mattress from John Lewis online for £580 but after two days still had no email confirmation.
(6) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
(7) The same strains were isolated from the baby warmer mattress, baby cot, suction machine bottle and wall of the fridge.
(8) Inside, Suge is propped up on a mattress on the floor watching soap operas, an overflowing spittoon at his side.
(9) A one-way analysis of variance indicated that there was no statistically significant difference in the pressure ulcer outcomes of subjects treated on the low-air loss bed (Mediscus) compared to the pressure ulcer outcomes of subjects treated on the foam mattress with loose-fitting top cover (Comfortex).
(10) We discuss in particular the mattress-model approach by Mouritsen and Bloom, who take matching between protein and lipid hydrophobic thicknesses as a determining factor for the phase behavior.
(11) In 25 cases atypical resections of liver tumors have been performed using PGA-mesh to secure mattress sutures.
(12) Photograph: Barry J Holmes for the Guardian After Stockholm, they moved to a tiny house in west London with no living room or kitchen, and shared a mattress on the floor.
(13) The tiny room, furnished with a battered old desk and greasy-looking mattress, resembles a monastic cell.
(14) Infants remained on the oscillating air mattress for at least 7 days or until 34 weeks postmenstrual age.
(15) Identifying mattresses which help to prevent pressure sores can result in substantial long-term savings.
(16) Allergenic proteins were extracted from one silk batch that was imported to be used as filling material for bed mattresses and rugs.
(17) People forget I sleep on a mattress on the floor with my son in a house I share with five other people.
(18) When the bombardment is particularly strong, they sit for hours in the windowless room lit by candles and strewn with mattresses.
(19) Our compilation of near misses on the road may be a little hair-raising but, as a bonus, we offer a lucky cyclist who is hit by a car but lands on a mattress There is no shortage of cute pets this week, with a cat who is into escapology and a dog who loves rolling on the bed when he thinks his owner isn't around .
(20) The authors draw attention to vacuum mattresses which are a modern appliance for the immobilization of casualties and patients.