(n.) A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
(n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
(n.) The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.
(n.) The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
(n.) Unmanufactured material; raw material.
(n.) The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
(n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
(n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
(n.) A small pit.
(n.) A district granted to an abbey.
(a.) Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
(a.) Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
(a.) Fit to be sold; marketable.
(a.) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
(v. t.) To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(2) Anastomotic devascularization has been incriminated in the development of post-operative complications (fistula, stenosis) of circular stapling.
(3) It is now recognized that dwarfism in males is frequent around the Mediterranean, where wheat is the staple of life and has been grown for 4,000 years on the same soil, thereby resulting in the depletion of zinc.
(4) I’d expect further activity later in the year to centre on fresh, own label and even staples,” he said.
(5) We suggest that emergency staple transection is an effective salvage treatment for this high-risk group.
(6) Modern stapling began with Hültl in 1908 and Petz in 1924.
(7) 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.
(8) There was a higher incidence of inflammation, discomfort on removal and spreading of the healing scar associated with staples.
(9) A technique for facilitating stapled anastomosis in end to end esophagojejunostomy is described.
(10) The trocar mounted on the main stem of the circular stapler allows the stem of the main device to be brought out through the distal staple line.
(11) The extraperitoneal site of the anastomosis after rectal anterior resection with stapled anastomosis and surgery for cancer showed a statistically significant predisposition to anastomotic dehiscence.
(12) Where the standard staple remover is not immediately available, an artery forceps, correctly applied, is just as quick.
(13) Postoperatively, the anastomosis performed by a stapling instrument that was larger and more elastic than the one sutured by hand.
(14) In 73 patients anastomosis was performed by double stapling; in 37 cases the EEA stapler was used.
(15) We report our 7-yr experience with staple transection of the esophagus in this patient group.
(16) We recommend the use of the stapling device in excision of Zenker's diverticulum.
(17) Patients were randomized to have their skin closed with either continuous subcuticular non-absorbable polypropylene 'prolene' suture (33 patients) or metal skin staples (Autosuture 'Premium' or Davis and Geck 'Oppose'; 33 patients).
(18) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(19) The warming is expected to continue without undue problems for 30 years but beyond 2050 the effects could be dramatic with staple crops hit.
(20) Macroscopic examination showed no major inflammatory adhesions around the staples.