(n.) Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
(n.) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
(n.) A high, tapering silk hat.
(n.) A worthless horse.
(n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
(v. t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
(2) Six of the obstructed livers developed biliary cast formation so extensive that the smaller intrhepatic ducts became plugged to an extent that they could no longer have been treated by surgical mena.
(3) An in vitro, eccentric arterial stenosis model was created using 15 canine carotid arteries cannulated with silicone plugs containing special pressure-transducing catheters designed to measure pressure directly, within the stenosis.
(4) This report describes two patients with long-term catheter use who developed increasing respiratory failure and cor pulmonale, at least in part, due to a large tracheal mucus plug.
(5) Certain of the schistosomes were covered with a dense mass of interconnected blood platelets resembling a temporary haemostatic plug but not a blood clot.
(6) Monaural plugging was performed on different juvenile bats at 7, 14, and 35 days of age.
(7) The device was composed of a standard biopsy brush, protected by a single catheter and occluded with an agar plug.
(8) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
(9) Cement was pressurized into the cavity of the anatomic specimens, and the maximum interface shear strength between the cement plug and the bone was experimentally determined for each revision.
(10) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
(11) Aqueous plugs are introduced on both sides of the plasma sample before it enters the precolumn.
(12) It’s as if they were a team away from the team, and they’re not shy of plugging into it.
(13) So the kids then went and pulled out the computer, plugged in the modem and they found it on YouTube.
(14) Three times a week, he rolled his wheelchair up to a computer monitor and allowed scientists from Battelle , a nonprofit research organisation that invented the technology they hoped would let him move his hand with his thoughts again, to plug into his brain.
(15) After standardized observation of mating behavior culminating in ejaculation and a sperm plug, females were allowed to produce litters in undisturbed conditions.
(16) Histological studies showed a prolonged healing process in both eyes, with a persistent epithelial plug.
(17) The consequence of these derangements is often widespread plugging of small bronchi and bronchioles.
(18) Posterior fossa decompression with obex plugging (the Gardner operation) was the procedure of choice for SM-ACM and for idiopathic holocord syringomyelia.
(19) Commerzbank, 25% owned by the German government, is trying to raise €5.3bn to plug a capital gap identified by the European Banking Authority.
(20) Tube dysfunction, defined as peritube leakage, plugging, fracture, or migration, occurred in 36% of patients over a mean follow-up period of 275 days and was significantly more common and likely to necessitate tube replacement in PEJ patients.
Tampon
Definition:
(n.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.
(v. t.) To plug with a tampon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the interview, he also pledged to scrap the 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products, known as the “tampon tax”.
(2) These symptoms were: dyspareunia, apareunia, haemorrhage at the first act of intercourse and more recently signs connected with the increasing use of tampons for the periods.
(3) Not only menstruating girls using tampons, but also quite young children can acquire this disease.
(4) Three groups of 20 women each used the regular, super, and super-plus sizes of a digitally inserted rayon and cotton tampon; two additional groups of 20 each used external sanitary protection or an applicator-inserted rayon polyacrylate tampon.
(5) Industrially manufactured cotton wool tampons have been used for 5 years on approx.
(6) Female volunteers received RU 486 vaginally in polyethylene glycol (PEG) suppositories, in tampons and in oil solution.
(7) All the heifers with retained tampons were inseminated.
(8) To prevent from the recurrence of the disease it is sufficient to process the hydatid cyst fibrosal tunic with a tampon moistened with 5% formaline or 1% tripaflavine solution.
(9) Two years later the strong connection between this disease and the colonization of vaginal tampons with certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus was noted.
(10) The effect of tampon usage on the vaginal microflora of 35 healthy women was determined following their random allocation to either tampon or napkin use for three consecutive menstrual cycles.
(11) On the other hand, it seems very probable that the much less common use of tampons, especially the highly absorbent variety, could be responsible.
(12) The heifers were inseminated on the second to fifth day after the removal of the tampons.
(13) Since many of the fibers previously used in tampons combine with Mg++, an explanation for the pathogenesis of menstrually related toxic shock syndrome presents itself.
(14) The shape of the mitral valve ring, the position of its chordae and of its leaflets were studied in 34 normal hearts fixed through intra-ventricular injection of tamponate formalin.
(15) The authors have examined the pH, the pCO2, the pO2, and the oxygen saturation of the blood of patients upon whom endonasal surgery followed by tamponing of the nose had been performed.
(16) When the irradiation was completed and the tampons were taken out, the ewes (three to four years old lambing ewes, yearling ewes) were stimulated to superovulations by an administration of 1500 IU serum gonadotropin (SG) or 450 IU follicle stimulating hormone (FSH).
(17) In menstrual hygiene, vaginal tampons are preferred.
(18) He applied his own moral stamp, with VAT reductions on nicotine gum and other stop-smoking products, along with contraceptives, tampons and children's car seats.
(19) In cases of relapse, when the posterior tampon is removed after 48 hours, systematic ligature of the sphenopalatine artery is carried out on arteriosclerosis patients aged about fifty who have high blood pressure.
(20) I doubt the men in that room have ever so much as held a tampon.