(n.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.
(n.) That which resembles a rib in form or use.
(n.) One of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel.
(n.) A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it.
(n.) One of the rods on which the cover of an umbrella is extended.
(n.) A prominent line or ridge, as in cloth.
(n.) A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.
(n.) The chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf.
(n.) Any longitudinal ridge in a plant.
(n.) In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like.
(n.) A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like.
(n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.
(n.) An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support.
(n.) A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib.
(v. t.) To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.
(v. t.) To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
Example Sentences:
(1) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
(2) There is approximately a 25% decrease in aggregation from regions of the rib distal to the metaphyseal-growth plate junction (69%) to the region proximal to it (50%).
(3) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
(4) Microsurgical anastomoses were performed for revascularizing the rib graft.
(5) The resections included an average of three ribs (range, two to five) and, in seven cases, part or all of the sternum.
(6) Arterial complications are usually associated with cervical ribs or rudimentary first ribs, but 12 per cent have occurred in patients with no osseous abnormality.
(7) The three different layers of this tissue are: the outer fibrous layer, the central part called proliferation zone and the inner part towards the underlying rib called transition zone.
(8) Statistical analysis of the findings indicates that there is no significant difference in bone-remodeling activity between similar sites on alternate ribs.
(9) The rib was the most frequent site of the former; the distal femur, of the latter.
(10) Radiologically, the clavicles, the sternum and the first ribs are grossly enlarged with complete fusion between them.
(11) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
(12) Upper thoracic fractures that involved the clavicles, scapula, sternum, and ribs were present in four patients.
(13) The left subclavian artery was prominent in 33 cases, signs indicating a collateral circulation (rib notching, internal mammary artery) were present in 26 cases.
(14) Definitive evidence for poly(ADP-Rib) polymerase activity is localized within internucleosomal "linker" regions of HeLa cell chromatin is presented.
(15) 1) Rates of purine synthesis de novo are regulated at both the PP-Rib-P synthetase and amido PRT reactions by end products, with the latter reaction more sensitive to small changes in purine nucleotide inhibitor concentrations.
(16) Five of 20 ambulatory patients and 8 of 10 patients in acute respiratory failure showed inward abdominal motion coincident with outward rib cage motion during inspiration, suggesting ineffective diaphragmatic function.
(17) Abnormal radionuclide concentrations were observed in the sternoclavicular, sternocostal, and manubriosternal joints, in the ribs, and in the sternum.
(18) This is the first report of detection of tenascine in rib cartilage matrix of human embryos.
(19) This pattern of EMG activity was associated with profound deformations of the rib cage.
(20) Constant ribbing about his private life was compromising Deayton's position as the show's "holier-than-thou" host, who showed no mercy towards politicians or celebrities caught in a similar position, the corporation added.
Rive
Definition:
(v. t.) To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.
(v. i.) To be split or rent asunder.
(n.) A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a little two-yard reception but it adds up to six points on what was a well rounded, d ominant d rive by D enver - call it a 3D-TD.
(2) Reinnervation, observed in some cases, is not the main factor for the good clinical results obtained with Rives muscle plasty, but can improve adaptability and elasticity of the transplant considerably.
(3) Thus Rives muscle plasty using a flap of the latissimus dorsi muscle to cover large congenital diaphragmatic defects seems morphologically as well as functionally superior to other procedures especially those using plastic material.
(4) It was used on Yves's ready-to-wear line and the Rive Gauche shop front .
(5) PI was increased by renal interstitial volume expansion (RIVE) via injection of 50 microliters of a 2% albumin in saline solution into the renal interstitium through a chronically implanted interstitial catheter.
(6) Rives muscle plasty using a pediculate flap of the latissimus dorsi muscle is an approved method for correction of large congenital diaphragmatic defects.
(7) And in the mid-60s, his ready-to-wear Rive Gauche label became a global phenomenon, offering women an affordable slice of the YSL dream.
(8) Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis with meclofenamate or indomethacin attenuated the natriuretic response and blocked the increase in UPGE2 associated with RIVE.
(9) YSL Rive Gauche, the ready-to-wear line, was immediately sold to Gucci, netting Saint Laurent and Bergé $70m.
(10) A series of 96 patients who underwent "eventration repair" using Mersilene-Mesh, according to Rives technique between jan 1983 and june 1988 is reported.
(11) Implantation site was the retromuscular space following the J. Rives technique.
(12) After a survey of the state of electrotherapy at the beginning of the 19th century, the author studies the pertinent work of Auguste De la Rive (1801-1873), mainly exposed in the three volumes of his Traité d'électricité théorique et pratique (1854-1858).
(13) The Rives technique was used, placing the prostheses between the posterior sheath and the rectus muscle; in one case it was inserted under the peritoneum.
(14) A standard Rives plasty was performed, emg electrodes were inserted into the diaphragm as well as into the muscle transplant.
(15) As Lauren Bacall put it in 1968 at the opening of the New York branch of Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, while wearing a black jumpsuit, "If it's pants, its Yves"; Helmut Newton's photograph of a woman on a street, smoking in a tuxedo , is part of the label's iconography.
(16) The brand was founded in 1961 as an haute couture house; five years later Yves and Bergé revolutionised the fashion industry with the first ready-to-wear line, Saint Laurent Rive Gauche.
(17) The results demonstrated 9.9% morbidity and 5.7% recurrences by Rives' technique vs 3.1 morbidity and complete absence of recurrences by Stoppa's technique.
(18) On the other hand recurrent hernias in risky patients as well as gross hernias are treated by Rives' method which consists in a prolene mesh placement through the inguinal approach.
(19) Fractional sodium excretion (FENa), renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure (PI), and urinary prostaglandin excretion (UPGE2) were measured before and after RIVE in eight control, seven meclofenamate-treated, and eight indomethacin-treated rats.
(20) Fusion of FISH and of reconstituted influenza (RIVE) or reconstituted Sendai virus envelopes (RSVE) with recipient membranes was determined by the use of fluorescently labeled envelopes and fluorescence dequenching methods.