(n.) The act or process of overlaying with plaster.
(n.) A covering of plaster; plasterwork.
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.
Pointing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Point
(n.) The act of sharpening.
(n.) The act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod.
(n.) The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
(n.) The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used.
(n.) The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
(n.) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
Example Sentences:
(1) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(2) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
(3) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(4) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
(5) The isoelectric points (pI) of E1 and E2 for all VEE strains studied were approx.
(6) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(7) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(8) A one point dilution enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure suitable for determining immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody levels to Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) in community seroepidemiological surveys is described.
(9) Subsequent isoelectric focusing in sucrose revealed an isoelectric point of 9.0-9.2.
(10) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(11) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
(12) A Monte Carlo simulation was performed to characterize the spatial and energy distribution of bremsstrahlung radiation from beta point sources important to radioimmunotherapy (RIT).
(13) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(14) He said Germany was Russia’s most important economic partner, and pointed out that 35% of German gas originated in Russia.
(15) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
(16) In 11 of the 22 cells PAI-1 mRNA and in 6 of the 22 cells PAI-2 mRNA was found, pointing to a possible role of plasminogen activator inhibitors in the tumor-related plasminogen activator activity.
(17) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(18) Recent studies point to the involvement of regulatory peptides in diseases of the gut and lung.
(19) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
(20) The starting point is the idea that the current system, because it works against biodiversity but fails to increase productivity, is broken.