(n. pl.) A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bamu also beat him, taking a pair of pliers and wrenching his ear.
(2) A cyclical load of 500 N was applied to the handles of the pliers, while a 0.9 mm (0.036 inch) round, stainless steel wire was held between the tips of the beaks.
(3) Orthodontists sterilized their instruments 66% of the time and pliers 49% of the time.
(4) In addition, transcutaneous adjustments of the spring now can be made without an incision using clasp-adjusting dental pliers.
(5) The major changes represented are greater use of protective barrier wear by doctor and staff members; increased heat sterilization methods for instruments, pliers, and handpieces; and increased disinfection of alginate impressions.
(6) He says they were removed with pliers while he was being questioned about his associates in Pakistan, the July 2005 terrorist attacks in London, and an alleged plot against the United States.
(7) A plier passed within an Amplatz jacket (previously introduced through the anus) assists the laparoscopic ureterosigmoidostomy "in elephant trunk" which is performed by sero-muscle suture using 3-zero reabsorbable single-strand material.
(8) The tractor driver told of regular interrogations, of forced confessions (for crimes he never knew he had committed); he spoke of knives and other people's severed fingers, of pliers and ropes and wires, of boiling water, cigarette burns and finger nails extracted – and worse: electric drills.
(9) A polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) solution is applied to one side of the film forming a flat disc when frozen with a pair of pliers precooled in liquid nitrogen.
(10) In the present study this technique was used to determine the hardening effect of ion implantation on the beaks of stainless steel orthodontic pliers.
(11) There were only three techniques described that do not require drilling a hole, cutting a notch or slot, clamping with claws or jaws, prying with instruments, or grasping with forceps and pliers.
(12) Then, the choice of the instrumentation (needle-holders, pliers and scissors) will be discussed.
(13) The few minutes required to alter one of these instruments will be more than repaid in time saved while attempting to place amalgam with a conventional carrier or cotton pliers.
(14) (2) Bond failure at the bracket-adhesive interface occurred with significantly greater frequency for the Starfire brackets when debonding was performed with the electrothermal instrument and with significantly less frequency when the debonding pliers were used.
(15) Ahmed said one of the ISI interrogators sat on the floor beside him and pushed the jaws of the pliers under the left side of his small fingernail before slowly prising the side of the nail upwards.
(16) Before examination the exterior part of the spring at the orbital edge was cut off with cutting pliers.
(17) The connector failures occurred early in the series before the development of connector pliers; there have been no connector failures in the last 202 consecutive implantations.
(18) Changes observed in the group made by orthodontic pliers lacked in the group bended by the machine.
(19) Removal of ceramic orthodontic brackets, utilizing orthodontic pliers, has resulted in significant patient discomfort, enamel trauma and bracket shattering.
(20) Ten orthodontic pliers (Dentarum 003 094) were divided into two equal groups, designated control and experimental.
Plus
Definition:
(a.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.
(a.) Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gel filtration of the 40,000 rpm supernatant fraction of a homogenate of rat cerebral cortex on a Sepharose 6B column yielded two fractions: fraction II with the "Ca(2+) plus Mg(2+)-dependent" phosphodiesterase activity and fraction III containing its modulator.
(2) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(3) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
(4) There is a relationship between the duration of stimulation (t) and the total heat production (H) of the type H = A plus bt, where A and b are constants.
(5) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(6) The AL plus EA produced significantly greater adverse effects than with SFO plus EA.
(7) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(8) We are currently conducting a trial to compare the ability of DHPG administered plus an anti-CMV immune globulin preparation with acyclovir to prevent posttransplant TI-CMV disease.
(9) Two hours after the administration, the combinations of ethanol plus diazepam and ethanol plus meclophenoxate impaired significantly the number of necessary repetitions.
(10) We conclude that heparin plus AT III partially prevents the endotoxin-induced generation of PAI activity which seems to correlate with the reduced presence of fibrin deposits in kidneys and with a reduced mortality.
(11) Both strong-stop DNAs are made early during in vitro reactions and decline in concentration later, consistent with postulated roles as initiators of long minus- and plus-strand DNA.
(12) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(13) On average, retinoscopy under cycloplegic conditions revealed +0.50 to +0.75 D more plus than near retinoscopy.
(14) Rabbits were immunized by repeated intravenous injections of large amounts of chylomicrons plus VLDL isolated from human lipemic plasmas.
(15) Total GGT and GGT complexed with low-density-lipoprotein plus very low-density lipoprotein (LDL + VLDL) have been evaluated in sera from 53 healthy subjects, 23 patients with chronic hepatitis, 87 with liver cirrhosis and 50 with liver tumors (primary and metastatic).
(16) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
(17) Before the offer for the jungle came in she was meant to be presenting the Plus Size Awards this week, an event supporting plus-size people who are doing amazing things but are overlooked by the mainstream.
(18) A T cell was responsible for the suppressive effects on LAK generation because suppression was abrogated by treatment of alloimmune cells with anti-T serum plus complement.
(19) Newborn suppressor T cells were characterized as being non-adherent to Ig-anti-Ig affinity columns, soybean agglutinin receptor negative (SBA-), and susceptible to lysis by anti-T-cell specific antiserum plus complement.
(20) Removal of bPTH by washing the membranes virtually abolished activity, but washing after addition of bPTH plus Gpp(NH)p did not prevent continued accumulation of cAMP.