(n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
(v. t.) To cement, or stop, with putty.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors discuss 34 cases of pseudarthrosis of the neck of the femur that were subjected to two different types of osteotomy, namely the support osteotomy of Putti and the valgising osteotomy of Pauwels.
(2) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
(3) Often times light-body wash (LB) cannot be added to the heavy-body putty (HB) within 30 minutes when utilizing the two-step reline impression technique.
(4) On anatomic specimens in which the classic Putti-Platt technique was used, lateral rotation could not reach neutral without disruption of the lateral stump from the labrum.
(5) This study was concerned with the adhesion of a light-bodied silicone to a putty silicone in a putty-wash impression technique when the preliminary putty impression was contaminated with human saliva or residues from acrylic resins used in the fabrication of provisional restorations by direct technique.
(6) Its colour reminds one of lightly tanned Caucasian flesh, or putty.
(7) Washing the latex gloves decreased the effect of inhibition of setting on the putty but did not eliminate it.
(8) This patient was later on stabilized with a Putti-Platt procedure.
(9) This technique is a controlled process in which the thickness of the obturator can be easily modified by adding to or shaving off the dimensionally stable silicone putty.
(10) The impression material was a putty-wash polyvinyl siloxane material.
(11) In ten patients (eleven shoulders), disabling pain in the shoulder began an average of 13.2 years after a Putti-Platt repair that had been done for recurrent anterior unidirectional instability.
(12) A stable occlusal record was made using an addition curing silicone rubber putty and was placed on a light source onto which a video camera was focused.
(13) A routine Bankart procedure was performed in 20 shoulders (in two of which a Connolly procedure was added), a Putti-Platt procedure in four, and capsulorrhaphies in four shoulders.
(14) Thus, latex gloves should not be worn while mixing or handling vinyl polysiloxane putties.
(15) With the material tested, this study indicates that the laminated and putty wash plus spacer techniques both give accurate impressions and that only two accurate models can be poured.
(16) The working models, which differed in the size of cervical spillway (2mm and 9mm) and the impression techniques applied (the two-phase technique and the wash technique), were produced by using putty-type impression materials with three different strain levels (Reprosil, Express and Exaflex) following the metal master model of mandibular denture in an abutment form.
(17) If the glenoidal labrum is detached from the rim, the Bankart technique must be combined with the Putti-Platt.
(18) Nadya's evolution over the three months after our visit to the penal colony, when she claimed to wish only for monotony, went something like this: she tried to reconcile herself to the life of the inmate as putty, to dream only of living to see the end of her term.
(19) The polyvinylsiloxane putty did not adhere to its impression adhesive.
(20) Some brands of latex gloves as received from the distributor caused severe retardation or complete inhibition of setting in most vinyl polysiloxane putties; other brands of latex gloves affected the setting in the vinyl polysiloxane putties to varying degrees.
Slime
Definition:
(n.) Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
(n.) Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
(n.) Bitumen.
(n.) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
(n.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
(v. t.) To smear with slime.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
(2) We therefore used two different tRNA genes from the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum which are efficiently transcribed and processed in vivo in yeast.
(3) Furthermore, there were differences between anterior and posterior regions of both slime sheaths and stalk tubes.
(4) Passive protection towards a heterologous strain, even one with an antigenically similar slime layer, was dependent on the dose of the challenging injection.
(5) Electron microscopic evidence demonstrated that dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) induces formation of giant intranuclear microfilament bundles in the interphase nucleus of a cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium.
(6) Several lines of experimental evidence suggest that an anterior-posterior gradient of cyclic AMP exists in migrating pseudoplasmodia of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, and that this gradient may be responsible for control of the proportions of stalk and spore cells that form during culmination.
(7) An isotope dilution technique has been used to analyze the synthesis of metabolically stable nucleic acids during the mitotic cycle in surface plasmodia of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum.
(8) The nucleoproteins resulting from digestion of the nuclei of the true slime mold Pysarum polycephalum with micrococcal nuclease have been resolved according to the size classes in linear sucrose gradients containg 0.5 M NaCl, and analysed for DNA, RNA and protein content.
(9) Some responses of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum to ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation were investigated by analyzing two aspects of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) excision repair in the vegetative cells: (i) the fate of thymine-containing dimers and (ii) the production and rejoining of single-strand breaks.
(10) A modified ruthenium red staining procedure was used to examine the fine structure of capsule and slime.
(11) Slime production by coagulase-negative staphylococci did not relate to the density of organisms recovered from the catheters or influence the presence of gram-negative bacteria.
(12) Some of the strains studied showed a greater potential to synthesize excess slime layer material than others.
(13) The intranuclear actin bundles appear at any developmental stage in two different species of cellular slime molds after treatment with DMSO.
(14) We predict that the Y.Smal protein in the restriction-modification enzyme gene locus of the enterobacterium serratia marcescens is a regulator of endonuclease expression; and, that the vegetative specific gene VSH7 of the slime mold dictyostelium discoideum codes for a regulator of gene expression specific for the slime mold growth phase before the onset of the developmental program.
(15) RNA Polymerase III transcription factors from the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum were characterized, based on their stable binding to isolated tRNA genes.
(16) The ecmA (pDd63) and ecmB (pDd56) genes encode extracellular matrix proteins of the slime sheath and stalk tube of Dictyostelium discoideum.
(17) Thirty carrier and 29 invasive Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates were analysed for production of slime, extracellular enzymes and antibiotic resistance.
(18) The chemical analysis of lipopolysaccharide and the minimal concentration for mitogenic response eliminated the possibility that the activity of slime products may be due to the contamination of lipopolysaccharide.
(19) A soluble cytochrome was isolated and purified from the slime mould Physarum polycephalum and identified as cytochrome c by room-temperature and low-temperature (77 degrees K) difference spectroscopy.
(20) Glycoproteins synthesized by the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum have been shown to contain asparagine-linked high-mannose oligosaccharides which have an N-acetylglucosamine group in a novel intersecting position (attached beta 1-4 to the mannose linked alpha 1-6 to the core mannose).