(n.) The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.
(n.) A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
(n.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
(v. t.) To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).
Example Sentences:
(1) Gareth P Rowell, who submitted the petition, said: “This will severely reduce the income of such individuals but confer none of the rights and benefits of a staff employee.” Neil Lupin, managing partner of Green Park, a recruitment agency providing interim managers across the public sector, said: “There is no doubt that the unintended consequences of these changes will be profound for local authorities and other public sector bodies.
(2) Alexis Rowel, a Camden councillor said the campaign is gaining real momentum among councils.
(3) Rowasa (mesalamine) rectal suspension enema, a new product by Reid-Rowell, represents a major breakthrough in the treatment of distal ulcerative colitis.
(4) That is what a Performance Oversight Management Group, comprising of the former sprinter Jason Gardener, the sports scientist Dr Sarah Rowell and the former Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike will investigate in the coming weeks.
(5) The contested IPCC statement reads: "Up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation (Rowell and Moore, 2000)."
(6) Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell of Spinwatch reckon just 1% of lobbying is even remotely “regulated”.
(7) In a statement it said: “The performance oversight group, comprising Jason Gardener MBE, Dr Sarah Rowell and Anne Wafula-Strike have begun work on their review, and will aim to conclude their report no later than the first week of August.” Ed Warner, the chair of UK Athletics, said: “This review is a serious response to the questions raised in recent days.
(8) The patient also had circulating anti-Ro(SS-A) antibodies whose similarity to the anti-Sj-T antibodies found in the original Rowell's syndrome cases has been recently claimed.
(9) We demonstrate here the advantages of the OEG procedure by comparing it with two silver techniques, Rowell's and Holmes's.
(10) A review of the literature suggests that most of the cases of Rowell's syndrome described thus far in fact may be cases of coincidental association of lupus erythematosus and erythema multiforme.
(11) Changes in the normal behavior patterns seen during lactation in the female golden hamster have received relatively little attention in the past (Rowell 1961; Daly 1972).
(12) We describe a patient with discoid lupus erythematosus who developed annular lesions of the thigh and chilblainlike lesions of the fingers matching those described in the original reports of Rowell's syndrome.
(13) The three bishops who voted no were also from the Anglo-Catholic wing of the church: John Goddard, the bishop of Burnley, Geoffrey Rowell, the bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, and Martin Warner, the bishop of Chichester.
(14) Andy Rowell, co-author of a new book A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain , said: "This is exactly how lobbying works.
(15) The other active component is 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA); the only 5-ASA enema preparation currently available in the U.S. is mesalamine (Rowasa, Reid-Rowell) containing 5-ASA 4 g in 60 mL.
(16) A Quiet Word: Lobbying , Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain by Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell is published by The Bodley Head at £18.99.
(17) Leake's problem is with the Rowell and Moore reference, a WWF report.
(18) Such shifts in the control of behavior by non-nest and nest-related, conspecific stimuli correspond well with the first occurrence of nest exits at P11-12 (e.g., Dieterlen, 1959) coupled with the persistent return of hamster pups to the maternal nest for as long as it is maintained (Rowell, 1961).
(19) Within UK Athletics, the Corporate Governance responsibility for our performance programme, overseeing these systems and reporting back to the board, rests with the Performance Oversight Management Group, comprising Jason Gardener MBE, Dr Sarah Rowell and Anne Wafula-Strike.
Seton
Definition:
(n.) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the prevalence of postoperative complications was higher with the seton procedure (P < .001).
(2) More liberal use of the seton in the treatment of horseshoe abscesses and fistulas is advocated.
(3) The seton, with supplemental agents, maintained the intraocular pressure (IOP) within a therapeutic range for 6 months, until the time of death from cardiac complications.
(4) Primary healing, after removal of the seton, occurred in 25 of the 32 patients (78 per cent).
(5) Twenty-one patients with high transsphincteric fistulas treated by the seton technique were re-examined after two to 14 years.
(6) One patient developed a leak from the pouch necessitating loop ileostomy (J) and one patient had a low pouch vaginal fistula successfully treated by a seton (W).
(7) Hobbs is the dean of the Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey.
(8) This result is inferior to those quoted in the literature with the use of other types of setons, and especially to the results of Dr. Antonio Mendez who used a similar implant.
(9) The surgical management of complex fistula-in-ano can be difficult, and often requires a seton suture or a colostomy.
(10) For this reason such high fistulae should be progressively laid open in staged procedures, after encircling the sphincters for some weeks with a seton.
(11) We use a common office implement, the rubber band ligator, to manage the seton in an outpatient setting.
(12) We compared the effect of seton (White pump shunt) surgery (16 eyes) with that of trabeculectomy and 5-fluorouracil (31 eyes) in treating 38 Asian patients with medically uncontrollable neovascular glaucoma.
(13) Seton fistulotomy with counter drainage has become the authors' operative procedure of choice for horseshoe abscess fistula.
(14) Over an 8-year period five patients with suprasphincteric fistula and two with extraspincteric fistula a primary transsphincteric track were treated with fistulotomy, using delayed seton technique.
(15) Minor incontinence developed in 13 patients (54 per cent) undergoing two-stage fistulotomy and seven patients (54 per cent) treated with a cutting seton.
(16) High fistulas should be treated with seton drainage to limit recurrent suppuration and preserve sphincter function.
(17) We find that the use of the seton after partial fistulotomy for complicated anal fistulas reduces the rate of incontinence caused by sphincteric transection and has a very low recurrence rate.
(18) This qualified success rate is far below rates reported for other setons.
(19) The functional results in transsphincteric and suprasphincteric fistulas, which are usually considered at higher risk for postoperative incontinence, were better in the anal manometry group, due to greater use of the seton.
(20) The Molteno long tube seton was used in 12 eyes with glaucoma.