(n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk.
(v. t.) To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meticulous handling of the graft (using a Goeller trephine and Tenon's traction sutures), filleting Tenon's capsule and avoiding cautery of the graft bed may minimize graft necrosis and atrophy.
(2) Sub-Tenon injection was compared to other delivery techniques.
(3) In one of the patients, a Tenon's conjunctival flap was advanced to cover the defect, and was unsuccessful with the spicules of the hydroxyapatite eroding through the vascular flap after 1 month.
(4) Clinical observations and histologic studies provide new anatomic information concerning the course of the anterior ciliary vessels in the sub-Tenon's region.
(5) Migration assays were conducted in 48-well micro-chemotaxis chambers, using rabbit aqueous humour which has been previously identified as a powerful chemoattractant for Tenon's fibroblasts, and fibronectin as the stimuli for migration.
(6) Tenon's and conjunctiva are sutured over the scleral homograft.
(7) Large areas of denuded and in many cases ischemic sclera were covered with Tenon flaps, which were prepared and advanced from the parabulbar undamaged connective tissue.
(8) If a method of trabeculectomy could be devised so that the conjunctiva and tenon's capsule were not injured, the failure rate might be reduced.
(9) In the process of closing scleral wounds caused by various conditions, incarceration of conjunctiva, Tenon's capsule, or vitreous in the wound can occur unexpectedly.
(10) These findings support the role of fibroblasts in failure of filtration surgery for glaucoma and suggest a role for 5HT in serum-derived Tenon's fibroplasia.
(11) It consists in the following: a collagen hemostatic sponge, connected to a silicone tube, is implanted into the sub-Tenon's space; the drugs are administered via this tube.
(12) With good illumination and magnification and a careful search of the sub-Tenon's capsule space it is unusual to need to explore the orbital fat to retrieve the muscle.
(13) Patients with a primary implant, an acrylic ball covered with sclera inserted within Tenon's capsule, had better cosmetic results and a lower complication rate and fewer needed any other therapeutic measures.
(14) Tenon's capsule and the conjunctiva are closed separately.
(15) After surgical excision of the scarred cystic conjunctiva and Tenon's fascia surrounding the leaking bleb, relatively uninvolved conjunctiva and Tenon's fascia are mobilized with the help of a large relaxing incision in the superior fornix and sutured over the area of filtration.
(16) In the orbit of man as well as the cynomolgus monkey three localizations of PC cells were detected: (1) Tenon's capsule along the ciliary arteries at the level of the entrance of the arteries into the eyeball, (2) Tenon's capsule along the ciliary nerves at the level of the entrance into the eyeball, and (3) the sclera around the ciliary arteries and nerves.
(17) For revascularization, the Tenon's capsule is used.
(18) We have investigated the cell types involved in outgrowth from human Tenon's layer explants in culture.
(19) The surgical technique involves creation of a tenon and mortise which not only preserves the insertions of both the labiomental muscles and at least some of the suprahyoid muscles but also improves the stability of transosseous fixation.
(20) I asked Paul Belsman at accountants RSM Tenon to crunch my numbers for me.
Tusk
Definition:
(n.) Same as Torsk.
(n.) One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.
(n.) A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.
(n.) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.
(v. i.) To bare or gnash the teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The European council president, Donald Tusk, said the incident underlined the importance of EU attempts to revamp Europe’s border force.
(2) Civic Platform, led for most of its existence by Donald Tusk before he became president of the European Council, included many of the liberal architects of the post-1989 republic and their supporters – those who had negotiated the transition, those who determined its free-market economic model, those who established a conciliatory tone and pro-European orientation in foreign policy, those who negotiated the constitutional settlement reached in 1997.
(3) The two men appear to be discussing Tusk's fallout with Cameron over the latter's proposals to curb access to benefits: "What the fuck are they on about with these benefits?"
(4) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
(5) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
(6) "The PM and Prime Minister Tusk discussed the EU targeted measures approved today and agreed that the EU should continue to look at the ways it can promote a peaceful and democratic settlement in Ukraine, recognising that continued violence will make it harder to reassure all Ukrainians that their legitimate aspirations will be realised."
(7) Tusk added that Eurozone finance ministers could endorse cash in return for the proposed tax and pension reforms by Wednesday evening.
(8) EU renegotiation: UK wins partial concession on migrant worker benefits Read more In a major boost to David Cameron, who laid the ground for a short referendum campaign to keep Britain in a reformed EU after Donald Tusk published his proposals, the home secretary said progress had been made in the negotiations.
(9) She wants it to be a smooth, constructive, orderly process.” With speculation rife about how Britain plans to conduct the negotiations, Tusk wants to avoid a discussion and will not invite other EU leaders to respond.
(10) Tusk offered a declaration that the UK is “not committed to further political integration”.
(11) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
(12) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
(13) It shows how important our discussion was … We are ready to help rebuilding of control of our external borders,” European council president Donald Tusk said in Brussels.
(14) To say that it is a Pandora’s Box is too little.” Tusk’s comments were the first delivered publicly on the British issue since he took office as European council president in December.
(15) Updated at 8.22am GMT 7.40am GMT Coming up at Davos Here's an agenda: • 9.30am CET (8.30am GMT): Henry Kissinger speaks on “The state of the world” • 10.30am CET: David Cameron gives a "special address" • 11am CET: Enda Kenny, Mario Monti, Mark Rutte and Donald Tusk discuss the eurozone crisis • 2.15pm CET: Angela Merkel gives a "special address" • 2.45pm: George Osborne discusses an "economic insight" (your guess is as good as ours!)
(16) First, because of the shape of the growth curve of tusks with age, the conversion factor that relates the number of elephants killed to the ivory yield in weight is not constant, but a function of the population size.
(17) Florian Siepert (@siepert) @Simon_Burnton As Hungary has neither a coast nor tusked mammals, Ivory Coast translates as Elephant Bone Bank in Hungarian.
(18) Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits as president of the European council, said the EU should agree to share at least 100,000 refugees.
(19) There the message is that everything in the Tusk-Cameron document is marginal, even meaningless, though simultaneously a threat to our whole way of life.
(20) This tusk specimen contains a metal spear with a wooden component, which is surrounded by a quiver-like osseous encasement.