(n.) A small box for carrying snuff about the person.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new scheme of management is recommended for general use in accident and emergency departments on the strength of a prospective study of 111 patients with pain after injury, tenderness and swelling in the anatomical snuffbox.
(2) In this report, a 31-year-old man developed a compartment syndrome of the first, second, and third dorsal interosseous muscles following an injection of heroin in the "snuffbox" area.
(3) It is concluded that the snuffbox fat is part of a major fat-pad located in a recess radio-dorsally on the wrist.
(4) To better define the frequency of initially negative radiographs of the navicular associated with true navicular fractures, and to test the efficacy of the three clinical signs (snuffbox tenderness, pain with supination against resistance, and pain with longitudinal compression of the thumb toward the navicular), a prospective study of 85 patients who presented to the emergency department during a four-year period with a mechanism of injury suggesting possible navicular injury was conducted.
(5) When no appreciable response was recorded at the anatomic snuffbox from the medial digital branch, a response was recorded from the ulnar nerve at the volar wrist at 14cm.
(6) A 69-year-old woman developed bilateral aneurysms of the anatomic snuffbox within 1 month of a short febrile illness that was consistent with polymyalgia rheumatica.
(7) This paper describes a technique for measuring conduction of the lateral and medial digital branches of the radial nerve to the third digit at a distance of 10cm from the base of the digit to the anatomic snuffbox.
(8) Being the nutrient vessel for the transfer, it was anastomosed to the distal segment of the radial artery at or beyond the anatomic snuffbox.
(9) Between January 1979 and December 1989, an end-to-end arteriovenous fistula for chronic haemodialysis was performed at the anatomical snuffbox (AVF-AS) in 140 patients (49 females and 91 males) with mean age 51 years (range 14-81) referred to our Center from 12 different Hospitals.
(10) Anatomic snuffbox tenderness was 100% sensitive and 76% specific and had a 92% positive predictive value for carpal navicular fracture.
(11) Snuffbox tenderness had a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 98% for fracture; supination against resistance had a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 98%; and longitudinal compression of the thumb had a sensitivity of 98% and a specificity of 98%.
(12) In these 5 cases we were able to find a subcutaneous artery which coursed superficial to the anatomical snuffbox and crossed superficial to the tendon of the extensor pollicis longus muscle.
(13) Orthodromic conduction of the radial nerve digital branches to the third digit from the anatomic snuffbox has rarely been described.
Tobacco
Definition:
(n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
(n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
Example Sentences:
(1) The models are applied to estimate the demand for tobacco products in Finland.
(2) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(3) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(4) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(5) The history of tobacco production and marketing is sketched, and the literature on chronic diseases related to smoking is summarized for the Pacific region.
(6) The mechanism by which such high levels were attained was primrily a combination of arterial hypoxia and a high carbon monoxide yield from tobacco.
(7) This structure could be constructed in intron 1 of tobacco rps12 gene.
(8) An important stratification factor, however, was related to tobacco usage.
(9) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(10) These regions are also conserved in chloroplast DNA of tobacco.
(11) The policy was effective in reducing perceived environmental tobacco smoke exposure in work areas where smoking was banned but not in nonwork areas where smoking was allowed in designated areas.
(12) The group of tobacco smoking persons showed during rest, loads and in the restorative period more distinct disorders of cardio-vascular system values.
(13) Future increasing segments of females addicted to tobacco smoking will obviously markedly influence sex difference in morbidity.
(14) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
(15) The present article reports a study of how such lifestyle habits, notably alcohol and tobacco consumption, are addressed in medical consultations.
(16) Cigarette smokers did not differ significantly from users of smokeless tobacco regarding hypercholesterolemia.
(17) However, most of these studies are difficult to interpret because they do not correctly take into account associated carcinogens such as tobacco smoke and other occupational carcinogens.
(18) The acute effects of smokeless tobacco (ST) on buccal mucosal transport and barrier function were studied by means of in vivo and in vitro techniques.
(19) The predilection of localization of epidermoid and small cell carcinomas in the upper lobes suggests a possible relationship to tobacco smoke inhalation as these regions have been shown to be more affected by the smoke.
(20) We have isolated an auxin-regulated cDNA, parB, from the early stage of cultured tobacco mesophyll protoplasts.