(n.) The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(2) The solution of these differential equations gives the velocity of the basilar membrane and hence other related quantities, e.g., displacement, pressure, driving-point impedance at the stapes.
(3) A pre-operative diagnosis of otosclerosis was made but at tympanotomy, the stapes crura in each ear was found to be disconnected from the footplate, the ossicular chain being otherwise normal.
(4) Unfortunately, both the malleus and the stapes have to be in good position to use this type of reconstruction making it much less common than other forms of ossiculoplasty.
(5) The leak was observed to be coming from a defect in the stapes footplate, and it was controlled by firmly packing the inner ear vestibule with muscle.
(6) Whereas a simple tympanoplasty could cure a localized pearl, typically anterosuperior in the mesotympanum, the stapes is fast eroded (7 cases) if progression goes on.
(7) Primitively, vibrations reached the stapes mainly via the anterior hyoid cornu, but in dicynodonts, therocephalians, and cynodants vibrations passed mainly or exclusively from mandible to quadrate to stapes and the reflected lamina was a component of the eardrum.
(8) In ten cases the stapes footplate was found totally fixed, with histological verification of the diagnosis of otosclerosis.
(9) Stapes gusher sometimes occurs at the moment the vestibule is opened.
(10) These statistics provide our practice with a realistic prognosis when discussing revision stapes surgery with the individual surgical candidate.
(11) At operation, the tumour was found to have eroded the stapes.
(12) Tissue characteristics of this laser energy should permit the vaporization of the stapes footplate or oval window soft tissue without thermal effect to the vestibule and without passing through the perilymph to damage the delicate structures of the inner ear.
(13) Further research is needed to evaluate this type of stapes fixation.
(14) The stapes is assigned the highest rating (2 points), while all other entrees on the scale are 1 point.
(15) Although the stapes, the interossicular joints, and the subarcuate fossae were slightly underdeveloped in the majority of cases, the other structures in the middle ear were almost normal.
(16) In over 200 consecutive operations performed under local anesthesia with the CO2 laser, no patient became dizzy intraoperatively while the CO2 laser was applied to the stapes footplate or the oval window neomembrane, confirming the lack of significant caloric effect to the inner ear at these energy settings.
(17) The best results were obtained in ears with intact stapes, while cholesteatomatous ears showed poorer results than other chronic ears.
(18) When the stapes superstructure was intact, 52% of the patients with canal-up operations had an air-bone gap of less than 20 dB.
(19) The reshaped incus is repositioned between the malleus handle and oval window when the stapes is fixed and there also exists a lateral ossicular chain defect.
(20) The result was that it is not possible to prove any phase shift between the two measurement points at the short or at the long base of the stapes in a volume range within the physiological limits.
Stirrup
Definition:
(v. i.) A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body.
(v. i.) Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron.
(v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(2) After her husband’s death she carefully arranged the stirrups of the horse that accompanied his funeral procession.
(3) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(4) Eventually the pressure became too much, I abandoned my home birth plan and my baby was born in a more conventional way – forceps, episiotomy, feet in stirrups.
(5) Lord Stirrup said the story had given a "totally false picture" of what he was saying he could do.
(6) Nevertheless, the air stirrup has not been shown to provide significantly greater inversion restriction than taping or lace-on braces and is not recommended as a first-line method of support for individuals with no history of recent ankle sprain.
(7) Downing Street was irritated with Fox when he announced in June that Sir Jock Stirrup would be standing down as chief of the defence staff.
(8) Investigative need is cited in the areas of previous horse-related injury, lessons, experience vs knowledge, epilepsy, drowning, gender, deaths, safety helmets, stirrups, and body protectors.
(9) An advisory board on the commemorations, chaired by the culture secretary, Maria Miller, will include former head of the armed forces Sir Jock Stirrup, former head of the army Sir Richard Dannatt and former defence secretaries Tom King and George Robertson.
(10) With all the information provided, I feel very confident – if you showed me this video and asked me, as an ob-gyn, what it was, I would say a premature delivery, based on the bed, the stirrups, the techniques – abortion would not even come to mind,” said Gunter.
(11) From our experience with the stirrup at the Royal Perth Hospital, savings in ward costs can be achieved by shortening the time in hospital and reducing the need for antibiotic cover, by decreasing maintenance costs and by reducing the size of the appliance stock kept to cover the range of tractions used in orthopaedic practice.
(12) These deep perineal tears occurred in 0.9% of the women delivered of infants without the use of either episiotomy or stirrups and in 27.9% of the women delivered of infants with both episiotomy and stirrups.
(13) Simultaneous access is possible by placing the patient in a prone position with the thighs and knees cradled laterally in a "boot" type stirrup.
(14) We advocate the use of pneumatic air stirrup in the cost-effective management of stable ankle fractures.
(15) The chief of defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, said the news would increase the determination of the troops on the ground: "Our armed forces take enormous pride in their role in Afghanistan where they are helping to provide security to protect our freedoms at home.
(16) Spontaneous deliveries of 241 nulliparous women were analyzed to test the hypothesis that both episiotomy and use of stirrups for delivery of infants were related to the occurrence of third- and fourth-degree perineal lacerations.
(17) Others fooled by the Sunday Times included Lord Dannatt, former head of the army; Admiral Trevor Soar, former head of the Royal Navy fleet; Lord Stirrup, former chief of the defence staff, and General Sir Mike Jackson, former head of the army.
(18) Lt Gen Richard Applegate, formerly head of procuring equipment at the MoD; Admiral Sir Trevor Soar, former commander of the naval fleet; Lord Dannatt, former head of the army; his predecessor, Sir Mike Jackson; Kiszely; and Lord Stirrup, former chief of defence staff, boasted away about what they could achieve.
(19) Fox and Cameron had agreed earlier this year that Stirrup would be retiring but No 10 was annoyed by Fox's decision to announce it.
(20) Isometric tension was recorded by means of stirrups passed through the wall of the central part of the bronchial segment.