(n.) A little towel, or small cloth, esp. one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table.
(n.) A handkerchief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other reactions include consort dermatitis and reactions to toothpastes, gum and perfumes in paper products, sanitary napkins, ostomy pastes, and detergents.
(2) The case of a young suckling is reported in whom widespread candidosis of the napkin area was followed by the clinical signs of both erythema multiforme and dermatitis seborrhoides infantum.
(3) I imagine that those who think protesting during the National Anthem is un-American think that the Boston Tea Party was a literal tea party with tiny cakes and monogrammed napkins.
(4) The effect of tampon usage on the vaginal microflora of 35 healthy women was determined following their random allocation to either tampon or napkin use for three consecutive menstrual cycles.
(5) Eczema and wheezing occurred to a similar extent in the two groups during the first year of life, although napkin rash, diarrhoea, and oral thrush were commoner in the intervention group, especially during the first three months.
(6) The so-called "napkin psoriasis" is the usual early expression of the disease in infants.
(7) The efficiency of napkin and protection shield is limited.
(8) As we puff our napkins I ask him what effect she had on other diners when she ate here.
(9) She reaches for a green paper napkin on the table in front of us and I realise that she is crying.
(10) There they will be, shivering on the windy platforms of Leuchars-for-St-Andrews, standing forlornly below the train indicator at Euston, holding paper napkins filled with dripping pizzas in Leeds.
(11) Dusting powders are also used on contraceptive diaphragms, sanitary napkins and in toiletries.
(12) Camilla, meanwhile, went for a spiky number that looked a little like a napkin folded into a swan.
(13) Overall, 49% of cases and 39% of controls reported exposure to talc, via direct application to the perineum or to undergarments, sanitary napkins, or diaphragms, which yielded a 1.5 odds ratio (OR) for ovarian cancer (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.0-2.1).
(14) That curve was famously scribbled by Laffer on a napkin over cocktails with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in 1974, and helped underpin Reagan’s so-called trickle-down economics – as well as launching Laffer’s career as one of the most influential economists in Republican circles.
(15) An open, non-comparative, multi-centre study was carried out in general practice to assess the effectiveness, acceptability and tolerability of a 1% clotrimazole plus 1% hydrocortisone cream in the treatment of 112 infants with napkin dermatitis.
(16) Twenty-five infants and children with Candida infections in the perianal, genital and inguinal areas and on the skin normally covered by the napkin or diaper, confirmed by culture tests and microscopy, were treated with a new combined foam preparation containing the active substances nystatin, chlorhexidine and prednisolone.
(17) Contented, I sat for quite a while mapping my talk on paper napkins, and then strolled the small park with the city’s oldest water tower rising from its centre.
(18) Candida albicans has been recovered from the skin of 33 infants out of 53 patients affected with all types of napkin eruption (62 p. 100) and from faecal specimens of 43 patients (81 p. 100).
(19) Photograph: Hayes Davidson The scheme replaces a project known as the Pinnacle , a tower designed by American firm KPF in the form of a rolled-up napkin, which would have spiralled up to a slender point in the City’s planned “cluster”.
(20) Three groups of two subjects each were instructed in three feeding skills: chewing with mouth closed, appropriate utensil use, and appropriate napkin use.
Rectangular
Definition:
(a.) Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees.
Example Sentences:
(1) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(2) For a long rectangular field, the agreement between measured and calculated attenuation coefficients is better than 1.5% for all energies.
(3) Similar aftereffects were obtained whether the area of the test stimulus was fixed or varied randomly from trial to trial, and whether the test stimulus was rectangular or elliptical.
(4) Computer-assisted reconstruction of the axon showed that in layer IV the axons occupied a rectangular area about 300 X 500 microns, elongated anteroposteriorly in area 17 and mediolaterally in area 18.
(5) In pentobarbital-anesthetized rats, hyperventilatory responses to rectangular mild hypercapnic normoxic gas mixtures inhalation were analysed.
(6) To estimate mechanical characteristics of such membranes, it is necessary to carry out the noncontact pressure test and membranous contact test, in addition to the usual monotonic tensile test, by using a rectangular specimen cut from the membranes.
(7) The membrane potential in single nodes of Ranvier was changed in rectangular pulse steps while the membrane currents, associated with the potential steps, were measured.
(8) At low pH, it is theorized that the trapezoidal profile of the dimer is shifted to a more rectangular configuration such that flat ribbons are formed by the lateral association of dimers.
(9) Depending on the size of the kindred, the pedigree automatically obtains a rectangular or circular appearance.
(10) The distribution of oviposition times in CL showed a great deal of variation among the populations and departed significantly (P less than 0.05) from the uniform rectangular distribution, in all but three populations.
(11) Each muscle strip was stimulated with trains of electrical rectangular pulses (10 Hz, 50-70 V, 0.5 ms).
(12) The subgel Lc(c') phases of both homologs show significant two-dimensional long range order and can be described by rectangular lattices.
(13) These concepts allow data measured for square or circular fields to be extended to calculate, for example, the percentage depth doses or output factors of rectangular or irregular fields.
(14) Fast twitch fibres of rat and rabbit show rectangular patterns of intramembrane particles in freeze-fracture preparations of the sarcolemma.
(15) It is concluded that the physical performance of sedentary people, athletes and patients with impaired cardio-pulmonary function can be more precisely qualified in quantitative terms by means of computer assisted rectangular-triangular ergospirometry.
(16) Then, in the R-phase, a large (20-50 mV) rectangular wave of depolarization arose with superimposed high-frequency oscillations.
(17) This logistic relationship is more general than the rectangular hyperbola or linear methods, provides excellent goodness of fit, and can be used as a "global" method for the entire calibration curve, rather than as a "local" method for small segments of the curve.
(18) Hill's rectangular hyperbola fitted the force-velocity data if the load during shortening was less than 70% of Fo.
(19) The effects of rectangular linearly rising (ramp) current pulses were also studied.
(20) By comparison of the scattering curves with triaxial geometric bodies which are equivalent in scattering, the tetrameric enzyme is described as a rectangular prism, with overall dimensions of A = 131.0 A, B = 131.0 A, and C = 65.0 A, and the octameric form as that of a cube with A = B = C = 120.0 A.