(n.) A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.
(v. t.) To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
(v. t.) To split; to crack.
(v. t.) To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(2) In a second experiment, 32 litters of pigs were farrowed in crates equipped with either solid, vertically slatted, horizontally slatted or diamond mesh creep partitions.
(3) For the fattening farm the following elements of confinement management were negatively correlated with pulmonary function: fully slatted floor, an automatic feeding system, natural ventilation, and the use of dust masks.
(4) The Grade II-listed scenic railway, devastated by an arson attack in 2008, has been rebuilt, wooden slat by wooden slat, back to its rickety, grinding glory.
(5) Feed and water were provided on the lower level only and lambs could move freely between levels by means of a slatted ramp.
(6) During lay, hens were housed in pens with partly-littered partly-slatted floors.
(7) Effects of N-alkyl-N,N,N-trimethylammonium ions with different alkyl substituents (hexyl, nonyl, dodecyl, and octadecyl) on the lateral packing of lipids in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) dispersions in H2O was investigated by Raman spectroscopy in a spectral region of 2800--3100 cm-1 at temperatures between 22--70 degrees C. The lateral order parameter Slat calculated by empirical equation reveals that the addition of the ions decreases the lateral ordering of lipid hydrocarbon chains in the gel phase, while in the liquid crystalline state the lateral ordering is increased.
(8) Higher slat concentrations (50 mM KCl or 200 mM NaCl) provided partial protection from lysis.
(9) Slatted fattening systems are the easiest to adapt to weekly modules of production which limits disease spread between batches and reduces the requirement for medication.
(10) Twenty cattle with induced infestations were randomly allocated to five groups of equal size based on the numbers of engorged female ticks which fell through the slatted floor of individual pens during the 3 days prior to treatments.
(11) The production results were significantly poorer (with the exception of carcass classification) and the number of culled animals was significantly larger in both slatted floor systems compared with the D-system.
(12) A questionnaire sent to 78 producers revealed that tail tip necrosis was seen only in units with fattening bulls housed on slatted floors.
(13) Keeping of piglets on slatted metal floor, without complementary iron supply, caused anaemia within seven days from parturition.
(14) At weaning, 162 sows were assigned randomly to six groups and housed in individual cages fitted on a slatted floor.
(15) There were marked rises in the glomerular filtration rate and calcium excretion but no significant change in slat and water excretion was observed with verapamil.
(16) What else is architecture if not a ray of light on a wall?” Below him, a tilted facade of wooden slats sweeps out in a broad arc, forming a streamlined front to the building, before colliding with another curving wall clad with gold-anodised aluminium.
(17) A second form of prothrombin is also described, which is not adsorbed into barium slats, and has less than 1% the activity of the normal protein, contains only four gamma-carboxy glutamic acid residues.
(18) It has been demonstrated that after experimental infection of pig slurry from the space under the slatted floor (infection dose of 10(6)PFU per ml), the Aujeszky's disease virus (ADV) survived for 72 hours at the temperature of 15 degrees C and at pH 6.5, but was inactivated after 96 hours.
(19) The evaporative cooling system, with its open shades and sand bedding, enhanced reproductive performance and milk production compared with that of cows cooled with a spray and fan system with slatted flooring in this hot climate.
(20) We then observed that although the number of organisms decreased by 99.8%, their number on slatted floors still ranged between 0.02 x 10(4) and 3 x 10(4) per cm2.
Splint
Definition:
(v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.
(v. t.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
(v. t.) A splint bone.
(v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
(v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
(v. t.) Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
(v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
(v. t.) To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
(2) The pain response will be significantly better than the dysfunction response when the patient is treated with an occlusal splint.
(3) A review of the data on splinting of hands in RA is included, as is a review of methods for evaluating hand function and staging RA.
(4) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
(5) Primary sternal closure was difficult and delayed closure was performed using splint with a resin plate.
(6) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(7) Histological evaluation was performed after splinting periods of 48 h and 6 weeks.
(8) The polyvalent and adaptable material which we have developed (sliding splint-staple) and which we also use in thoracic traumatology (thoracic flaps), has allowed us to perform audacious corrections for deformities or wide resections for tumours since 1980.
(9) Since fractures of the foramen triosseum are usually not surgically repairable, they can be stabilized with coaptation splints.
(10) The MMPS is now the preferred splint at the Royal Brisbane Hospital Burns Unit.
(11) To study the influence of splints on the periodontia over a period of time, Obwegeser and Merkx splints were applied on beagles.
(12) Just over one-third of respondents never or 'rarely' (less than 1 in 50 cases) used splints for procedures involving both walls of the nasal cavity.
(13) Long-term rubbing of a pressure stocking and splint was believed to be responsible for breakdown in the graft of the patient who had a hypertrophic scar.
(14) The use of the splint is a very important step in the treatment of the dysfunctional patient.
(15) Ninety-two patients with tendon rupture or chip fracture were treated by splinting, and 42 percent of them had a decreased range of motion, mostly of a minor degree, but only 18 percent stated complaints at the follow-up examination.
(16) Postoperative use of very small polyethylene tubing for splints appears feasible.
(17) This test has been reliable in evaluating lacrimal function and suggests that a canaliculus can be repaired and splinted satisfactorily.
(18) This report summarizes the experience of treating seven extremity melanoma patients with early immobilization and discharge using plaster casting or splinting following wide local excision and split-thickness skin graft.
(19) Orthodontic appliances (83.9%) were used in the departments of orthodontics for intermaxillary fixation, while orthodontic appliances (47.8%) and wire splints (49.2%) were used in the departments of oral surgery.
(20) Night splints or operative procedures are rarely indicated.