(n.) One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
(n.) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
Example Sentences:
(1) Excessive poppet wear has also been noted in the aortic position; poppet embolization has occurred on 2 occasions, and a third patient was found, at the time of reoperation for periprosthetic leak, to have opppet wear sufficient to permit embolization.
(2) All four poppets were densely coated with biological debris and microthrombi.
(3) The projected probability of poppet escape using all 11 patients is 12.2% at 5 years; the 70% confidence bands of projected probability of poppet escape separate from those of the risk of re-replacement at 61 months.
(4) Fame Academy – the Blue Peter-like BBC attempt to ape Cowell's more Magpie-esque shows – built Sneddon up because, unlike those ITV poppets, he wrote his own songs.
(5) Several unique features of escaped mitral poppet are discussed.
(6) Embolization of a prosthetic valve poppet, a rare complication following valve replacement, has been, until recently, generally fatal.
(7) The first generation of aortic ball-valve prostheses, used until 1965, was associated with poppet damage owing to fatty infiltration of the silicone rubber ball, a phenomenon termed ball variance.
(8) To facilitate the insertion of prosthetic valves, holders are available which keep the poppet out of the area of suture insertion or keep the open ends of the struts occluded.
(9) The incidence of disabling thromboembolism (42%) and poppet failure (21%) is high with these early models.
(10) Although hemolytic anemia of significant degree was not observed in any of the 16 patients who died late, the occurrence of renal hemosiderosis in 13 of the 16 patients indicates that the poppet disc prosthesis is considerably traumatic to erythrocytes.
(11) Norway Aligned to the Viking Empire bloc Alexander Rybak's song Fairytale is the bookies' favourite partly because Alexander is such a poppet and also because his song is as nelly as the proverbial elephant.
(12) We believe this to be the second reported case of survival following successful reoperation for embolization of a prosthetic poppet.
(13) Ball variance was discovered at necropsy in two patients and clinically in one in whom the poppet was replaced.
(14) Similar measurements were obtained for two unused silicone rubber poppets.
(15) M-mode echocardiography showed dense, linear echoes from the prosthetic valve between the interventricular septum and the mitral valve, along with loss of normal poppet motion within the aortic root.
(16) Interference to poppet movement is attributable to the prosthesis's being too large for the ascending aorta or left ventricular cavity in which it resided.
(17) Eleven patients (5 since the date of follow-up inquiry) have suffered poppet escape, 9 of whom died.
(18) Examination of pressure tracings and cineangiographic films suggested only minor interference with valve poppet movement induced by the catheter transversing the valve.
(19) In contrast, thrombi were observed on a prosthesis in 14 of the 16 patients who died late (4 to 47 months [average 21] postoperatively), but in none did the thrombi appear of sufficient size to alter poppet function.
(20) However, the presystolic murmur was associated with early closure movement of the presthetic poppet.
Puppet
Definition:
(n.) A small image in the human form; a doll.
(n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
(n.) One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.
(n.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Gays Against Guns protester carries a puppet representing congressman Lee Zeldin.
(2) Alternatively, the politicians could be raising suspicions without evidence to weaken the incoming president, Donald Trump, whom his former opponent Hillary Clinton dubbed a “puppet” of the Russians.
(3) Romney should totally come out with a ventriloquist's puppet called Mr Mittens and channel all answers through him.
(4) Senior Coalition members backed the minister, while accusing unions of being Labor’s puppet masters.
(5) Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Tom Hiddleston will be popping up to get pally with the puppets.
(6) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(7) Extreme discomfort and anonymity are the chief challenges faced by puppeteers.
(8) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(9) A puppet Government set up at Vichy which may at any moment be forced to become our foe; the whole western seaboard of Europe, from the North Cape to the Spanish frontier, in German hands; all the ports, all the airfields upon this immense front employed against us as potential springboards of invasion.
(10) Three- and 4-year-olds attributed knowledge and perceptual experience to the person (either themselves or the puppet) who had viewed the hidden object, but not to the person who did not view it.
(11) Nothing that transformed the writer into a glove puppet of the manipulators of the media was acceptable to him.
(12) The program includes a self-instructional package presented by a children's puppet.
(13) No, you’re the puppet.” She said the intelligence agencies blamed election-related cyberattacks on Russia.
(14) Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group in Northern Ireland Queer Space, wanted a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie with the slogan: support gay marriage.
(15) Things that you really wouldn't think about, like for example, you never use the word 'puppet'.
(16) Plans for the show, which has the working title No Strings Attached, are for a puppet presenter interviewing real life celebrities.
(17) With two people to a puppet, synchronised co-ordination was a new challenge.
(18) Anatomical dolls, medical puppets and stuffed animals, toys and games, as well as replicas of medical equipment and furniture are now available to demonstrate more clearly to patients what will be happening to them.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson: ‘Saudi Arabia and Iran puppeteering in Middle East’ – video It’s true, the Saudis are propping up Yemen’s feeble half-government against a rebellion by Iranian-backed tribal militias.
(20) On the first day of every workshop, there would be a new Joey puppet with new joints or parts, and I'd always go say hello to him.