What's the difference between stretchable and stretchy?
Stretchable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Both had congenital heart disease, "floppy valve syndrome", hernias, short stature, stretchable skin and moderate joint hypermobility.
(2) Dexon had low stretchability and tended to result in postoperative hemorrhage.
(3) Avascular retina is stretchable, and therefore much of it stays attached, while vascular retina is nonstretchable and detaches.
(4) The Food Hugger Food hugger These are a range of stretchable silicone covers that prolong the life of cut produce by forming a seal around the cut end of a fruit or vegetable.
(5) In order to find the best suture material to use for vaginal hysterectomies, we examined the tensile strength, stretchability and contractibilty of suture materials such as silk, chromic and plain catgut, and dexon under both wet and dry conditions.
(6) A new, stretchable precordial ECC belt is described.
(7) It is postulated that this regional distribution of elastic tissue is related to the differential functional requirements of the posterior, postero-inferior, and inferior aspects of the capsule for flexibility and stretchability.
(8) These are divided into 3 groups the more fragile as much as they are stretchable.
(9) In the stretchable prostheses (B), which can stretch only longitudinally, the long axes of the smooth muscle cells oriented in rows parallel to the bloodstream.
(10) Plain catgut was easily absorbed and had the greatest tensile strength and stretchability.
(11) It is also stronger and more stretchable than other conductors.
(12) Biochemical analysis of skin samples revealed that the content of type III collagen was greatly reduced in several subjects with joint hypermobility, stretchability and bruisability of skin.
(13) Neoprene is soft, stretchable, lightweight, durable, nontoxic, machine-washable, and has a good memory.
(14) Nylon cloth is cut from a cardboard pattern to fashion a stretchable sock to envelope the balloon.
(15) In addition to the usual features of the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (loose-jointedness and excessively stretchable, fragile, and bruisable skin), these patients had severe scoliosis and fragility of ocular tissues leading to rupture of the globe or retinal detachment.
(16) However, the WTR cylinder decayed rapidly for nylon during the first three months but more slowly for Mersilene because of its lack of stretchability.
(17) The early development of a coelom, a primitive body cavity, with stretchable mesothelial cells endows the subsequently developed internal organs a great flexibility to expand, retract, and deform.
(18) The hymen, contrary to common notion, is often a slack, thick, folded, stretchable tissue which may persist after digital or penile penetration.
(19) Under dry conditions, the tensile strength, stretchability and contractibility was greatest in No.
(20) (plain catgut greater than chromic catgut greater than dexon or silk) Under wet conditions, the tensile strength was not so changed, but the stretchability of catgut and silk was increased and that of dexon was low and unchanged.