(n.) An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.
(n.) A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar.
(n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer.
(v. t.) To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.
(v. t.) To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house.
(v. t.) Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.
Example Sentences:
(1) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(2) Plaster of Paris, a biocompatible, degradable ceramic material prepared from CaSO4, may have an osteogenic property and become an alternative implant material for ear surgery.
(3) Conservative treatment (immobilisation in a plaster alone) was compared to percutaneous K-wire fixation.
(4) One must pay attention to the setting expansion of plasters and to the setting contraction of acrylic resins which may be very important if these materials are used without care.
(5) Images of dead ducks in oil sands tailings pond have been plastered on billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis.
(6) If the ambition set out by the world’s heads of state in New York is ever to be achieved, the global tax system needs more than just a sticking plaster.
(7) The soleus muscles were examined immediately after removal of the plaster or after six months of observation.
(8) Prevention of progressive orthopedic deformity through the use of plaster casts may minimize the need for surgical treatment.
(9) Holograms of dental casts may solve storage problems by replacing space consuming plaster models.
(10) In an outspoken intervention that will reignite tensions between church leaders and the government, Sentamu accuses those in power of offering only "warm words" and "sticking plaster" solutions to a problem that is having "devastating" effects on people's lives.
(11) Macroscopic and microscopic examination of plaster models obtained from impressions with alginate mass Kromopan Super and silicone mass Dentaflex Pasta confirmed that leaving of saliva and blood on the surface of impressions causes uneven surface of plaster models.
(12) This report summarizes the experience of treating seven extremity melanoma patients with early immobilization and discharge using plaster casting or splinting following wide local excision and split-thickness skin graft.
(13) But anyone who dreams that Germany’s warmth provides more than a sticking plaster to Europe’s migration crisis should have seen the scene half a mile south of the petrol station on Sunday.
(14) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(15) The average duration of the plaster cast fixing period after resection treatment was 18 days longer than after curettage, but the low rate of recurrence in the first-mentioned case makes up for this disadvantage.
(16) It has been the policy of the accident and emergency department in Leicester to treat all clinically suspected fractures of the carpal scaphoid in plaster for 2 weeks, even after negative radiology.
(17) Andrew Tyrie, the Tory MP who chairs the Treasury select committee, has described the Co-op as an organisation "run by a plastering contractor, a farmer, a telecoms engineer, a computer technician, a nurse, a Methodist minister (Paul Flowers) – and two horticulturalists".
(18) Priority has been given to applying sticking-plasters to libel law when urgent surgery is needed to regulate a tabloid newspaper industry that has been shown to have no regard for privacy or the criminal law.
(19) Traditional elastomeric impression materials, four recently developed "hydrophilic" silicones and a hydrocolloid have been tested for their accuracy of reproduction by use of indirect measurements via plaster dies and for their wettability by means of the sessile drop method.
(20) Report on 35 cases of mallet finger treated conservatively: a circular plaster cast was modeled in hyperextension of the distal interphalangeal joint.
Plater
Definition:
(n.) One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.
(n.) A machine for calendering paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Personnel records of over 1000 welders and electricians but only 235 caulkers and 557 platers employed at a shipyard in NE England between 1940 and 1968 were obtained and the mortality followed up to December 1982.
(2) 14 (38%) of 37 chrome platers in 17 chrome electroplating factories surveyed had occupational contact dermatitis, chrome ulcers, or both.
(3) For the SGE method, a spiral plater was used to set up a concentration gradient of an antimicrobial agent within an agar plate across which bacterial strains were inoculated as radial streaks.
(4) Car painters and car platers were compared to car mechanics on Monday before work.
(5) Among specific causes of death, only lung cancer was found to be significantly higher than expected for all platers (16 observed, 8.9 expected; SMR 179; 95% CI 102-290).
(6) This study investigated the effect of HDI and HDI-BT on lung function and included two control groups: (1) car platers, exposed to the same solvents and grinding dust as car painters, but not to isocyanates, and (2) car mechanics (controls), not exposed to the mentioned agents.
(7) The study was limited by the lack of accurate job exposure details, and there was no record of smoking habits, but welders and caulkers showed a higher standardised mortality ratio for all causes, lung cancer, ischaemic heart disease, pneumonia, and accidents than platers and electricians.
(8) Plater and two pals then marched on to the stage in string vests, baggy shorts and false moustaches.
(9) The jazz-loving, heroically cigarette-smoking, Hull City-supporting Plater was a populist all-rounder with more than 300 assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and films (his screenplay for DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy, directed by Christopher Miles in 1970, is probably his best) as well as journalism, six novels, broadcasting and teaching.
(10) Platers reported the highest fatigue rates in the shoulder regions during the test.
(11) When asked to define his nationality, Plater's stock response was: "Geordie by birth, Yorkshire by upbringing and now a metropolitan sophisticate."
(12) The SMR for lung cancer of the chromium plater subgroup was highest among those exposed for the shortest period and among those exposed in the most remote calendar years.
(13) Irritant factors are therefore important in the aetiology of contact dermatitis in these chrome platers.
(14) The project was then quickly taken up by the BBC, attracting quality scriptwriters such as Alan Plater and Malcolm Bradbury and the actors Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan in the lead roles.
(15) plumbers, fitters and platers, 'a' was 0.4, 0.6 and 0.2 respectively.
(16) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
(17) The MN frequency in nasal mucosa was not altered in chromium platers, whereas a significant increase (p less than 0.01) in MN was found in 2 out of 3 subjects involved in the accidental EtO leakage and a non-significant increase in MN was found in the group chronically exposed to EtO.
(18) Excessive urinary excretion of beta 2-microglobulin, a specific proximal tubule brush border protein, and retinol-binding protein has been reported among chrome platers and welders.
(19) "This place lives and breathes stories," says Plater.
(20) The point prevalence of white fingers was 42% for the plater category currently exposed with an odds ratio of 85.