(n. pl.) An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Baroness Jenny Tonge, president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), said the Cairo agreement was akin to a "Copernicus revolution".
(2) Oliver's departure followed the exit of Kenneth Tong last Thursday, which forced Channel 4 to abandon the planned eviction vote on Friday and offer a refund to viewers who had already voted.
(3) The prime minister of Tuvalu , Enele Sopoaga, said that Tong’s views are “strongly shared by leaders of smaller island states.” The 1.5C commitment already appears to be in trouble, however, with New Zealand indicating its opposition to the pledge.
(4) In this research, 74 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) were grouped in matched-pair, one group took orally Inositol and Mai Tong as the control group, the other group took orally Yi Xin Decoction as the tested group.
(5) The geographical impetus has also made the band think about a possible follow up, based on Tong's hometown.
(6) Yet even as the paper hailed Cameron's move on Friday, it did hold it in a pair of tongs, carefully putting quotes in a headline which said "Internet porn: PM steps in to 'safeguard children'".
(7) Warp's next act of subversion was to wind up Pete Tong by declaring that bleep was dead and that the future of music was "clonk" - the title of Sweet Exorcist's next 12in.
(8) The effects of TZT, with the serum levels of LDL-c and Apo B being lowered and the serum level of HDL-c being elevated, were more beneficial than inositol and Mai Tong.
(9) Tong (1976) described the polar coordinate transformation by which the sinusoidal regression problem can be treated as a linear regression problem.
(10) For example, 91% believed bad food and poor sanitation and hygiene were responsible for tong-sia, but only 34.4% gave this response when referring to index cases.
(11) In a 68-year-old man the correction was sustained by skull tong traction, while the neurologic condition was monitored.
(12) Everyone, 93.1%, and 67.5% mentioned flies and germs (sanitation and hygienic practices) as the cause of ahiwa, tong-sia, and bid, respectively.
(13) Subjects specified 12 terms for diarrhoeal illnesses that were grouped into four locally meaningful groups, namely, tong-sia, a non-specific term for diarrhoea, bid, associated with colicky abdominal pain, ahiwa, referring to severe illness, often cholera; and taae-tua, diarrhoea associated with milestones of growth and development.
(14) He should talk about freedom, the suspension of the newspapers and the use of the sedition law – something that is so repressive – and the welfare of the former opposition leader [Anwar].” Liew Chin Tong, a lawmaker from the opposition Democratic Action party, said Cameron must tell Najib categorically to “respect the rule of law as well as human rights”.
(15) Points of contact invariably produce friction and friction generates heat and may lead to a conflagration,” declared South Africa's minister of the interior, Dr T E Tonges, in 1950, when he introduced the Group Areas Act , the law that enforced the division of cities into ethnically distinct areas.
(16) If Tony Abbott was here, facing the situation we are facing now, what kind of an answer would he expect from me as prime minister of Australia?” Tong said that Abbott should visit Kiribati, a nation of 102,000 people living on 33 mostly pancake-flat coral atolls, to witness the potential damage that climate change will cause.
(17) Failure of attachment ("pull-off") of Gardner-Wells tongs from the cranium occasionally occurs, and may cause problems, especially in cases of significant cervical spinal instability.
(18) The EPR results are consistent with a recent X-ray crystallographic model for the p21-MgIIGDP complex (Milburn, M. V., Tong, L., DeVos, A. M., Brunger, A., Yamaizumi, Z., Nishimura, S., and Kim, S.-H., 1990, Science 247, 939-945).
(19) "He did it after Jenny Tonge made unacceptable comments about Palestine."
(20) Indications and a procedure for rapid closed reduction and decompression of cervical fracture dislocations in less than two hours by tong traction are described.
Tonus
Definition:
(n.) Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.
Example Sentences:
(1) One is the ureteral peristaltic contraction which plays a principal role in urinary bolus transport at low flows; the other is ureteral wall tonus, which plays an important role in the transport of columns of urine by the ureter, which does not coapt its walls, at the higher flow rates.
(2) This experimental model excludes the interference of subjective factors, such as erotic stimuli and libido on erection, and it seems that androgen deficiency has a direct effect on the neurophysiology of the erectile tissues resulting in a higher tonus of the detumescence factors, which can be explained by an incomplete relaxation of the sinusoidal smooth muscle.
(3) As the KR channel is highly active in cells in physiological saline, we suggest that it controls the tonus of the coronary artery, as an endogenous dilating factor.
(4) It was found that the principal test for operative identification of the ventro-oral parts of the dentate nucleus in electrostimulation are motor reactions and changes in the muscular tonus in the homolateral limbs and reactions of the cortex of the central and precentral areas of the cerebral hemispheres revealed by electrocorticography.
(5) Its role in reversing the compulsory rotation at the beginning of flexion can now easily be explained: since it is an extensor, the flexion would cause its passive elongation, against which its mere tonus causes rotation.
(6) In 55 subjects in whom both the resting tonus and blood pressure were simultaneously measured at least twice during pregnancy, the mean maternal blood pressure increased as the resting tonus increased.
(7) The vasodilatory action of nicorandil on the epicardial coronary artery was especially pronounced in cases with increased coronary vascular tonus.
(8) It was found that: 1) papaverine abolished the concentrations induced by drugs (histamine, acetylcholine, bradykinin); 2) papaverine reduced the tonus of depolarized muscle and eliminated its increase under the effect of a rise of the external calcium concentration; 3) papaverine had no effect on the amplitude and the ascending phase of the contractile off-response; 4) papaverine accelerated the discending phase of the contractile off-response.
(9) Study of regional hemodynamics showed a significant increase in the tonus of the arteries of the brain and crura and diminished tonus of the veins.
(10) on the contractile reaction of the guinea-pig intestine to constant doses of histamine and bradykinin and on the initial tonus of the smooth muscles is observed.4.
(11) These results suggested that nicardipine might improve feto-placental blood flow while decreasing the spontaneous basal tonus.
(12) The newly-formed sphincter displays changes in its enzyme pattern and becomes capable of continuous tonus; the spinal reflex arc is set up and the transplanted muscle develops characteristic metabolic and contractile properties.
(13) Before and after treatment, multiple colonic manometry was performed, monitoring tonus, intensity and frequency of sinusoid contraction waves, transitories and vibrations, as well as the voluntary contraction capacity.
(14) In patients with spastic paraparesis, increased extensor tonus can be decreased by stimulation of flexor reflex afferents.
(15) The uterine response to the vaginal administration of this compound was characterized by a gradual increase in uterine tonus followed by sustained stimulation.
(16) These results suggest that D1 receptor tonus is a necessary prerequisite for the expression of a DA agonist's effect.
(17) Therefore, rats with initial prevalence of the sympathetic compartment tonus of the vegetative nervous system are more labile to the effect of the dehydration stress.
(18) After resection of the suspensory ligament of ovarii, an increase in resting tonus in the ovarian side did not only cause an increase in RSNA, but also a decrease in renal blood flow.
(19) Thus, as a single entity, S-CaOs may be implicated in diverse manifestations of heart failure--impaired systolic performance, increased diastolic tonus and an increased probability for the occurrence of arrhythmias.
(20) The response to each substance could be distinguished by different effect on beat rate, amplitude, and diastolic tonus, as well as by the duration of responses to standard 1-min applications.