(n.) The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.
(n.) The material with which anything is padded.
(n.) Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.
(n.) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe an enzymatic fluorometric method for determining glucose concentrations in blood samples by analysis on a semi-solid surface (silicone-rubber pads).
(2) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
(3) The remaining fat pad was used for calculations of cell numbers in the fat cell and connective tissue cell compartment.
(4) A peculiar emphasis is given to the microarchitecture and functional significance of longitudinal muscle columns as a prevalent structural component of branch pads.
(5) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
(6) Lymphocytes obtained from lymph nodes draining foot pads infected with R. conorii or R. akari demonstrated cross-reactivity similar to that found with immune spleen cells.
(7) It is suggested that this is due to the fact that the small animals have discrete, elevated volar pads.
(8) We present our results with 8 free transfers of the toe pulp and demonstrate the successful restoration of a well-padded and sensitive fingertip.
(9) Some foot-pad dermatitis was still observed in poults fed levels of methionine more than adequate to meet the requirements for optimum growth and feed efficiency.
(10) Minor amounts were deposited in liver, kidneys and epididymal fat pads.
(11) Moontain Hostel is a new pad for skiers on a budget, with dorm beds from just €20 and private rooms from €60.
(12) Human chorionic somatomammotropin extracted and purified from placenta at term was proved to have a lipolytic action in the epididymal fat pad of rats.
(13) Many pharmacy departments in Michigan hospitals can substantially improve their adherence to ASHP and OSHA recommendations related to PADs.
(14) A foot-pad oedema model was used to investigate the presence of free radicals using a chemiluminescence method.
(15) Therefore, the plantar forces acting under the metatarsal heads of the 1st, 2nd and 5th rays and under the pads of the 1st and 2nd toes were measured during walking, so that with the aid of anthropometric information pertaining to the forefoot, reaction forces in the flexor tendons and in the joints could be estimated.
(16) Infections of mice with Mycobacterium leprae in one rear foot pad immunized them against a second infection in the other rear foot pad.
(17) Incorporation of glucose into fat pad glycogen and CO2 was decreased.
(18) In vitro attempts to demonstrate local activated macrophages in the foot pads of M. leprae infected mice failed, but, because of the technical problems encountered, do not preclude their presence.
(19) We performed comprehensive electrophysiologic studies and skeletal muscle histologic analysis in six patients with unilateral PAD and five control subjects matched for age and activity level.
(20) The fat pads were stimulated with continuous-pulse trains for 15 seconds via a hand-held bipolar electrode using constant current (10-15 mA), constant pulse width (0.02-0.05 msec), and at 6.6, 10, 20, 25, and 30 Hz.
Quilted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Quilt
Example Sentences:
(1) Southampton are in their not-particularly-popular all-red number, while Liverpool sport their not-particularly-popular purple-white-and-black quilted shirt.
(2) The territories of the motoneurones are arranged in a quilt-like pattern closely resembling that already found for the receptive fields of sensory cells on the skin.
(3) Here we describe a variation of Gerlach's quilting technique to overcome the problem and this modification has proven to be both simple and effective.
(4) In the first six cases, split-thickness skin was quilted onto the muscle.
(5) 18 secondary perforations were seen with the quilt-plasties.
(6) In most cases, asthma occurred in winter, due to seasonal use of bed quilts or clothes filled with silk.
(7) ITN has called for a single contract to cover all of England rather than a "patchwork quilt" of regions.
(8) The influence of structure (pressed sheets or loosely quilted materials) and exposition (single, piled or between sheets of plaster) was represented.
(9) My colleague Tim Adams, who was writing an article on better potential candidates for the London mayoralty, stood beside me, as we watched the quilted, coiffed godfather of punk, and gawped.
(10) I remember getting my first quilt with my own quilt cover and just walking around this children’s home wrapped up in it.
(11) It was Caitlin Moran who said that feminism should be a “massive patchwork quilt”; we should all fight the battles that are important to us, and bring our individual ideas and strengths to the movement.
(12) But this is a very big country and cannot be run by a very much smaller civil service in London and a huge, disparate patchwork quilt of local authorities all pulling in different directions," he says.
(13) Since the use of silk waste for the filling of bed quilts a great number of patients suffering especially from silk-asthma could be observed.
(14) Blanket, or quilt, insulation is easy to lay yourself and available at DIY stores – try B&Q 's sustainable rockwool, from £5 a roll – in stores on 21 October.
(15) At this year's Frieze, the quilted, chained shoulderbag was the style of choice in an environment where designer accessories come as standard.
(16) For others, it's a symbiotic process; a campaigning idea might be expressed through craft – let's say you're making a patchwork quilt out of embroidered vulvas, to protest against female genital mutilation – and then in the act of crafting, the idea finds new expression.
(17) Even with the quilt it gets pretty cold, but exercise helps."
(18) In each case a quilted, split-skin grafted pectoralis major muscle flap was used.
(19) Some of them presented talks in which they applied high level maths to crochet, knitting, needlework and quilting.
(20) This report describes two female patients, 69 and 79 years old, with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) developing from erythema ab igne (EAI) due to thermal irradiation from a sunken hearth (irori in Japanese) or an underfloor brazier covered with a quilt (kotatsu in Japanese).