(n.) The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown.
(n.) A narrow channel of water.
(n.) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.
(n.) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.
(n.) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.
(v. t.) To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.
Example Sentences:
(1) We performed carinal reconstruction in eight patients, sleeve pneumonectomy in eight patients and wedge pneumonectomy in one.
(2) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
(3) Lobectomy with sleeve excision of the bronchus and the pulmonary artery was done in 3 patients, of which one had bilobectomy plus one segmentectomy with segmental bronchoplasty, lobectomy with wedge excision of the bronchus and the pulmonary artery in 2, lobectomy with wedge excision of the bronchus and sleeve excision of the pulmonary artery in 2, lobectomy with sleeve excision of the bronchus and wedge excision of the pulmonary artery in 1, and regular lobectomy with sleeve excision of the pulmonary artery in 1.
(4) This is best accomplished with a continuous stream of normal saline from a 1-I bag which is attached to an intravenous line with a 16-gauge Teflon catheter placement sleeve affixed to the distal end of the line.
(5) Distention of the antral sleeve by hydrostatic pressure (3-25cm H2O) caused stepwise and significant increase in gastrin release that was reversible.
(6) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
(7) Transperineurial arterioles are defined as any arteriole that is confined to a perineurial cell compartment, which would include all arterioles within the perineurium proper or within perineurial sleeves in the epi- or endoneurium.
(8) When right upper sleeve lobectomy was performed, only limited peribronchial inflammation related to PDT procedure was detected indicating only slight extrabronchial influence of PDT.
(9) They believed the film strips strapped around his forearm, which they called a sleeve, would stimulate his muscles to make those movements a physical reality.
(10) A molded rubber sleeve connecting the prosthesis and the thigh was found to enhance this effect so that suction suspension occurred during the entire swing phase.
(11) A sleeve resection of the involved trachea with reanastomosis was successful, and the patient is alive and well with no evidence of tumor four years later.
(12) Sleeve resection is the ideal form of excisional therapy for benign endobronchial tumors, bronchostenosis, tumors of low-grade malignant potential, and for selected cases of carcinoma.
(13) Between the submitochondrial sleeve and the axoneme is a space, the cytoplasmic canal, that is open to the exterior posteriorly.
(14) Since 1975 200 tracheal sleeve resections for iatrogenic tracheal and subglottic laryngeal stenoses have been performed in our institution.
(15) Conservative surgery by sleeve resection without pulmonary resection was performed.
(16) In 1976 Dent (Gastroenterology 71: 263-267) introduced a sleeve-catheter device for obtaining continuous recording of lower esophageal sphincter pressure.
(17) As a rule, conventional myelography showed only minor root-sleeve deformity.
(18) Entomophthoromycosis was diagnosed by finding wide eosinophilic sleeves intimately surrounding thin-walled hyphae.
(19) Bonus points, of course, for anyone wearing gloves and short-sleeved shirt.
(20) All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason .
Snug
Definition:
(superl.) Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.
(superl.) Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
(superl.) Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.
(n.) Same as Lug, n., 3.
(v. i.) To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.
(v. t.) To place snugly.
(v. t.) To rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you make a small diagonal snip in each corner of the paper, it will help fit the paper snugly into the corners of the tin.
(2) The backpack was held snugly in place by shoulder and body straps.
(3) They protect against (most) rain, and keep your toes snug.
(4) The netropsin molecule displaces the spine of hydration and fits snugly within the minor groove in the A-A-T-T center.
(5) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
(6) Discovery of antiviral agents of this type will, therefore, depend on designing compounds that can enter and fit snugly into the hydrophobic pocket of a particular viral capsid protein.
(7) Only gut, polyglycolic acid, and polydioxanone granny knots were as secure as square knots; no loosely tied (500 g tension) asymmetric square knots were as secure as snug square knots, and only polydioxanone and polypropylene loose square knots were as secure as snug square knots.
(8) The fryingpan should be large enough to hold the pork and rhubarb fairly snugly.
(9) The fibrous and lipomatous tissue snugly surrounds the fascicles and cannot be separated from them without damaging them, even if the finest microsurgical techniques are used.
(10) In these a portion of the superior surface of S1 is removed in such a way that the body of S1 fits snugly against the under surface of the repositioned body of L5.
(11) The buttons are more flush against its surface, the twin sticks fit more snugly against the player's thumbs and both the shoulder buttons and the D-pad respond to the slightest pressure.
(12) The wheels on our bikes had barely stopped turning by the time we'd drained the first pint of Guinness in front of a log fire in one of its many snug alcoves.
(13) Certainly, many of his acting projects fit snugly with his social views, if not overtly.
(14) The anticodon stem is extended by two non-Watson-Crick base pairs, leaving the three anti-codon bases unpaired and splayed out to bind snugly into three separate complementary pockets in the protein.
(15) In fact, he's more like the sort of fellow you'd find in the snug of a West Country pub.
(16) Each helmet is designed to fit snugly against the prominent aspects of the infants' cranium and to be loose fitting where the head is shallow.
(17) "There's a lady in the snug who wants to give you a thousand pounds."
(18) He liked Somerset because it was "less cleaned-up" than the home counties: as Whitfield writes, he had a hatred for "English gentility … 'snug cottages with roses around the door'".
(19) He shows me a large, hard, hollow ball of mud with a snug entrance hole carved into it.
(20) A small hole is drilled in the distal shaft to allow the placement of a spiral wire, allowing a snug fit even in older, well used electrosurgical handles.