(n.) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indications for Majer-Piquet, Labayle cricohyoidopexies and cricohyoido-epiglottopexies are discussed.
(2) Writing on Twitter, Caroline Piquet reported a “series of enormous explosion, sounds like grenades”.
(3) The PCV (Piquet-Crinquette-Vilette) laryngoscope has been designed for use in difficult endotracheal intubation in the adult.
(4) The indications of partial supracricoid laryngectomy have become more numerous since the first descriptions made by Majer, Labayle and Piquet.
(5) The human serum of about twenty years old men, recently vaccinated has been tested by Laurell's method (Mesnier and Piquet variant).
(6) The selected operations are the cordectomy, the fronto-lateral laryngectomy according to Leroux-Robert, the reconstructive near total laryngectomy according to Tucker, the reconstructive subtotal laryngectomy according to Majer-Piquet and Labayle.
(7) Over the last twenty years, functional subtotal laryngectomy or reconstructive laryngectomy have appeared (J. J. Piquet, Labayle).
(8) Partial laryngectomies for glottic carcinoma: CO2-laser endoscopic cordectomy, fronto-lateral partial laryngectomy (LEROUX-ROBERT), hemiglottectomy (GUERRIER), anterior partial laryngectomy with epiglottoplasty (TUCKER), subtotal laryngectomy with cricohyoidoepiglottopexy (MAJER-PIQUET).
(9) Functional results were always of good quality, and the recurrence rate significantly lowered by the use of the Majer-Piquet or C.H.E.P.
(10) From 1970 through 1982, 106 patients with carcinoma of the tonsillar region were treated by trans-mandibular bucco-pharyngectomy (composite resection) in the ENT department of Prof. Piquet at Lille University.
Quatorze
Definition:
(n.) The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.
Example Sentences:
(1) He bought Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (the little 14-year-old dancer) for £5m in 2004, at the height of the art boom, and loaned it to the RA.
(2) Another beauty was Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans by Edgar Degas , one of only a handful of bronze casts of what is an internationally famous sculpture in private hands.
(3) More than a century later and Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans is one of the most celebrated sculptures of the modern age – and it will again be in the spotlight as one of the highlights of Sotheby’s next big London impressionist and modern art sale, the auction house announced on Wednesday.