(n.) An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
(n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
Example Sentences:
(1) As with alloplastic orbital implant extrusions in enucleated sockets, autogeneous dermis fat grafts can be useful in managing extrusions in previously eviscerated sockets.
(2) A case of a failed total hip replacement consisting of a Vitallium hip socket and a stainless steel femoral head prosthesis is presented.
(3) The torques, although not large enough to dislodge the socket immediately, are repetitive and so may contribute to loosening.
(4) The measurement is used to control a sensory feedback device applied to the surface of the skin within the socket of the prosthesis informing the wearer of the strength of grip exerted.
(5) You can also blast individual eyeballs from their sockets, or – if you're particularly skilful – make their testicles explode like a pair of microwaved eggs.
(6) Only in 5 patients with severe haemophilia and in 1 patient with mild heamophilia bleeding from tooth sockets was extensive enough to require further replacement therapy.
(7) In one case, there was a very large anfractuous cavity in the socket and head, complicated by a pathological fracture of the socket, which raised the suspicion of a malignant tumor.
(8) In order to evaluate the usefulness of gamma-ray-irradiation to improve the tolerance to wear of the sockets, the worn surface of the 2.5 M rad gamma-ray-irradiated HDP sockets after total hip arthroplasty has been quantified by a newly-developed 3 dimensional (3-D) image analysis method in combination with scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
(9) Since the intra-articular volume of a ball-and-socket joint with a deep fossa, such as the hip joint, cannot be readily altered, this swelling is expected to exert a marked imbibitional pressure within the bone of the femoral head.
(10) The reduction in the rate of aseptic loosening of the socket in our series, compared with the higher rates reported in similar long-term studies in which other acetabular components were used, supports the conclusion that there is enhanced longevity of acetabular fixation when a metal-backed acetabular component is used in cemented total hip arthroplasty.
(11) One week after extraction, newly-formed vessels have extended widely to the socket center, and dilated vessels have arborized towards the socket opening.
(12) You are hunting for signs of the assembly of injuries - a broken nose, knocked-out teeth, fractured eye socket - incurred by falling face-first down a fire escape in Michigan while high on crystal meth, crack cocaine and cheap wine.
(13) The mitogenic, chemotactic, and synthetic responses of rat periodontal ligament (PDL) fibroblastic cells to epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor (rhPDGF)-AB, rhPDGF-BB, natural (n) PDGF-AB, and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) were examined in vitro using PDL cells obtained from the coagulum of healing tooth sockets.
(14) It has been shown that a socket wears predominantly on its superior part and that this is a direct consequence of the orientation of the cup in the body and the direction of loading of the hip.
(15) There are many unanswered questions regarding the histology and anatomy of the normal, as well as the contracting, socket.
(16) However, in all 21 cases the mode of loosening deviated from what is commonly observed in revision operations of loosened THA sockets.
(17) Bone remodelling of post-extraction socket was studied in the past by various methods.
(18) The results of split thickness autologous skin grafting along with the use of a dental impression material (Compo), a thermoplastic substance are presented in a series of 11 patients of acquired, severely contracted, anophthalmic sockets.
(19) The central, contained, solid grafts had less resorption than did the central, contained, crushed-bone grafts, as evidenced by less migration of the socket during follow-up.
(20) Salivary gland hypofunction caused a significant delay in socket healing.
Thimble
Definition:
(n.) A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.
(n.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.
(n.) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes.
(n.) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.
(n.) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.
(n.) A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing.
Example Sentences:
(1) A conveniently formed thimble has been created for use in dissection during augmentation mammaplasty and gynecomastia operations which forms a rigid extension to the surgeon's finger.
(2) You will need : pins needle thread thimble iron Firstly, turn the garment inside out and iron the ripped area so it is nice and flat to work with.
(3) He left so few paintings – not more than 120 over a 40-year career – it is rightly said that he measured out his genius in thimblefuls.
(4) Paintings dark with age line the walls, and the audience sits on rough benches drinking thimbles of pruneau brandy.
(5) The pressurized gas exited through the pores of the glass frit and shattered the thin liquid film flowing on the surface of the thimble-shaped device to form small droplets.
(6) The use of a thimble to facilitate scrotal fixation of the testis is described.
(7) Radiation dose given to patients undergoing radiotherapy by 300 kVp X-rays is detected by a thimble ionization chamber placed at the skin surface.
(8) The chamber is capable of being calibrated directly with an iridium-192 source which has in turn been calibrated with thimble-type ion chambers.
(9) No significant differences in lithium release were found when the volume of media used in the test was reduced from 250 ml to 200 ml, the final stage of the test in pH 6.8 phosphate buffer reduced from 5 to 3 h, the number of tablets in each thimble reduced from three to one, or the prescribed phosphate buffers replaced with phthalate and Tris, respectively.
(10) A thimble-shaped glass frit nebulizer has been developed for atomic spectrometry.
(11) It cannot be hidden by the pea and thimble game played by the Australian government, which claims the offshore detention camps are out of our jurisdiction and in the control of the Papua New Guinean and Nauruan governments.
(12) Nespresso's velvety crema and its darkling thimble of ristretto daily give me the illusion I am a sophisticated continental, living in caffeinated leisure at a pavement cafe where only lovely things – passionate dalliances, superb cakes – are on today's menu.
(13) Two thimble chambers calibrated by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology provide calibration traceability of iridium-192 HDR sources and re-entrant chambers to a primary national standards laboratory.
(14) The total effects of the cavity displacement and the perturbation of the field by the cavity in thimble-chamber measurements of absorbed dose were investigated for electron beams of energy 15, 20, 30, and 39 MeV and for 60CO gamma radiation by LiF dosimeter rods of diameter 1 mm and length 6 mm.
(15) It was found that relative signal distributions from the shielded semiconductor detector agreed, within 1 per cent of the maximum signal, to the depth dose curves and that the relative signal in profile distributions also agreed, within 1 mm or 1 per cent of the signal at the central axis, as compared with dose measurements with a cylindrical, thimble ionization chamber.
(16) The cervical cap--a small, rubber, thimble-shaped barrier contraceptive--fits tightly across the cervix and prevents sperm from entering the uterus.
(17) The rate of temperature changes was studied in a nylon thimble chamber provided with a temperature sensor, when the chamber was inserted in different phantom media.
(18) An air kerma rate is measured using a calibrated thimble chamber in an "in-air" calibration jig.
(19) The thimble glass frit was pressurized internally by gases such as helium (He) or argon (Ar) while the test solution was applied externally to the frit.
(20) At the café table, at the bar, they order a thimble-sized espresso.