(n.) A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
(n.) A long-haired pet dog.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was also a short video featuring the pop moppet gyrating to Fitzpleasure, a track by experimental indie band Alt-J .
Poppet
Definition:
(n.) See Puppet.
(n.) One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
(n.) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
Example Sentences:
(1) Excessive poppet wear has also been noted in the aortic position; poppet embolization has occurred on 2 occasions, and a third patient was found, at the time of reoperation for periprosthetic leak, to have opppet wear sufficient to permit embolization.
(2) All four poppets were densely coated with biological debris and microthrombi.
(3) The projected probability of poppet escape using all 11 patients is 12.2% at 5 years; the 70% confidence bands of projected probability of poppet escape separate from those of the risk of re-replacement at 61 months.
(4) Fame Academy – the Blue Peter-like BBC attempt to ape Cowell's more Magpie-esque shows – built Sneddon up because, unlike those ITV poppets, he wrote his own songs.
(5) Several unique features of escaped mitral poppet are discussed.
(6) Embolization of a prosthetic valve poppet, a rare complication following valve replacement, has been, until recently, generally fatal.
(7) The first generation of aortic ball-valve prostheses, used until 1965, was associated with poppet damage owing to fatty infiltration of the silicone rubber ball, a phenomenon termed ball variance.
(8) To facilitate the insertion of prosthetic valves, holders are available which keep the poppet out of the area of suture insertion or keep the open ends of the struts occluded.
(9) The incidence of disabling thromboembolism (42%) and poppet failure (21%) is high with these early models.
(10) Although hemolytic anemia of significant degree was not observed in any of the 16 patients who died late, the occurrence of renal hemosiderosis in 13 of the 16 patients indicates that the poppet disc prosthesis is considerably traumatic to erythrocytes.
(11) Norway Aligned to the Viking Empire bloc Alexander Rybak's song Fairytale is the bookies' favourite partly because Alexander is such a poppet and also because his song is as nelly as the proverbial elephant.
(12) We believe this to be the second reported case of survival following successful reoperation for embolization of a prosthetic poppet.
(13) Ball variance was discovered at necropsy in two patients and clinically in one in whom the poppet was replaced.
(14) Similar measurements were obtained for two unused silicone rubber poppets.
(15) M-mode echocardiography showed dense, linear echoes from the prosthetic valve between the interventricular septum and the mitral valve, along with loss of normal poppet motion within the aortic root.
(16) Interference to poppet movement is attributable to the prosthesis's being too large for the ascending aorta or left ventricular cavity in which it resided.
(17) Eleven patients (5 since the date of follow-up inquiry) have suffered poppet escape, 9 of whom died.
(18) Examination of pressure tracings and cineangiographic films suggested only minor interference with valve poppet movement induced by the catheter transversing the valve.
(19) In contrast, thrombi were observed on a prosthesis in 14 of the 16 patients who died late (4 to 47 months [average 21] postoperatively), but in none did the thrombi appear of sufficient size to alter poppet function.
(20) However, the presystolic murmur was associated with early closure movement of the presthetic poppet.