(1) Sixty adult chronic hair pullers completed a semistructured interview that focused on their hair-pulling behavior and demographic characteristics and that incorporated screening questions for DSM-III-R axis I disorders.
(2) Sixty-four white-faced rams and wethers were dressed with the aid of a commercial pelt puller.
(3) A commercial belt-type pelt puller and a scale that recorded force required to remove the pelt from the thickest part of the legs was used as lambs hung suspended from their front legs.
(4) Subjects were drawn from an outpatient population of chronic hair pullers who had been referred to a trichotillomania clinic or had responded to a newspaper advertisement announcing a treatment study of adults who pull out their hair.
(5) LIVE ON BIG WEBSITE LATER Transfer-deadline-day-short-straw-puller Rob Bagchi is limbering up as we type, with – and we kid you not – a computer keyboard and computer mouse in front of him.
(6) The use of a response surface procedure which allows the experimenter to change more than one factor at a time and therefore determine the desired puller condition more efficiently is demonstrated.
(7) The modification is described specifically for an Industrial Science Associates, Inc. M-1 micropipette puller.
(8) Her husband's earnings as a rickshaw puller in their village in Kurigram in the distant north were insufficient to pay for schooling for their two boys so, following other relatives, they came to Savar.
(9) However, in principle it should be applicable to any horizontal two-stage puller using a solenoid to generate the pull force.
(10) It's true that Kapoor is a crowd-puller and his recent exhibition at the Royal Academy drew unprecedented numbers for a one-man show by a living artist.
(11) Channel 5's home improvement show, House Doctor, is one of its biggest ratings pullers.
(12) The instrument resembles a conventional horizontal two-stage, solenoid-powered electrode puller but the pull is now developed by a light moving-coil and a fixed permanent magnet, using the principle of the moving-coil loudspeaker.
(13) Spanning sport and politics, you’d think it would be a crowd-puller.
(14) Details are given of a graphite heating element that can be mounted on a standard microelectrode puller and used for making quartz micropipettes.
(15) Two muscle pullers were used to study the natural mechanical actions of autogenic reflexes, which arise from muscle receptors and feed back to the muscle of origin, and heterogenic reflexes, which feed back to muscles other than the muscle of origin.
(16) The length of a given segment could be controlled to within 0.2% of the segment's length by adjusting the over-all length of the fibre by means of an electromagnetic puller and servo system.
(17) This study was constructed to detail the demographic and phenomenological features of chronic hair pullers as well as to assess psychiatric comorbidity in a sizable study group.
(18) This article highlights the use of a post puller for safe and effective removal of an intraradicular post in conjunction with retreatment.
(19) The motor and the puller assembly are separate components so that the puller assembly can be autoclaved.
(20) This paper describes an improved electrode puller for the manufacture of glass microelectrodes or micropipettes.
Pulley
Definition:
(v. t.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain.
(b. t.) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
Example Sentences:
(1) The model consists of electrically stimulating the lower leg muscles to contract against a weighted pulley bar.
(2) The traumatic agent is the sudden extension while the finger is holding an object and the flexor digitorum profundus is strongly contracted: the tendon retracts and the stump can be found either at the distal pulley, at the bifurcation of the superficialis tendon, or in the palm of the hand.
(3) Nine tendons were repaired with each of four suture patterns: single-locking loop, double-locking loop, triple-locking loop, or three-loop pulley.
(4) There was no evidence of a synovial cell layer on the surface of the A1 pulleys in either normal or trigger digits.
(5) The "pulley effect" of the skin and soft tissue as a supplement to the fibro-osseous pulleys in reducing tendon bow-stringing was also noted.
(6) Therefore, a method was developed to reconstruct the fibro-osseous pulleys with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane.
(7) The pulleys were studied in specific configurations to determine their effectiveness in transforming tendon excursion into finger flexion.
(8) Pulley advancement increased the tendon excursion required to flex this joint and thus the mechanical advantage at this joint, but only when the joint was partly flexed.
(9) It is not yet known whether it has sufficient breaking strength to meet the functional demands of human pulleys.
(10) Suddenly, we were back in the age of ropes and pulleys and brute strength to deliver her into the hands of the mechanised world.
(11) Pulley positions are relatively constant throughout postnatal development, with the gross anatomic characteristics correlating closely to those of the adult hand.
(12) Some rigged up pulley systems to hoist shopping to their windows, where the glass was cracked and fixed with tape.
(13) The whole flexor apparatus was resected and a single digital pulley (A 2) was reconstructed, using segments of the animals own deep flexor tendon.
(14) Suggested minimum requirements for the breaking strength of artificial implant pulleys may be made based on these studies.
(15) Flexor pulley restoration and the importance of maintaining strong pulley support are discussed and surgical techniques including those for flexor tendon grafting and reconstruction are described.
(16) The transverse fibers of the palmar aponeurosis are attached by vertical septa to the underlying transverse metacarpal ligament and thus form a pulley over the flexor tendons.
(17) The synthetic Nitex pulley appears to have the potential to function as an effective fibro-osseous pulley replacement.
(18) The triple-locking loop and three-loop pulley patterns were close in strength and only the triple-locking loop was stronger than the double-locking loop.
(19) The long-term results of the key grip procedure (tenodesis of the flexor pollicis longus tendon to the radius, release of the A1 pulley, and percutaneous pin fixation of the interphalangeal joint of the thumb) were evaluated in 10 tetraplegic patients.
(20) Satisfactory grip functions were restored for all patients after the secondary pulley reconstruction.