(n.) One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc.
(n.) That which wastes or diminishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither did the degree of dysfunction in complete denture wearers vary with the condition of their prostheses.
(2) The measurement is used to control a sensory feedback device applied to the surface of the skin within the socket of the prosthesis informing the wearer of the strength of grip exerted.
(3) The amount he is being paid for three short columns a week would “only get you sandal wearers all upset” if revealed, he says.
(4) The study showed surprising results: in the majority of cases, the helmet does not protect the wearer, but instead intensifies the damage caused by the bullet.
(5) It renders images on a split screen to simulate a stereoscopic view for the wearer, much like 3D TVs and 3D spectacles in cinemas.
(6) No differences in taste thresholds were found between denture wearers and subjects with natural dentition.
(7) Bacterial contamination of lens care systems is well known as a potential cause of keratitis in contact lens wearers.
(8) A young female contact lens wearer presented with a long history of painful central corneal ulcer.
(9) 380 patients, aged 19-41, 60% of whom were wearers of Gravigard, and 40% wearers of Copper T, were observed for a total of 5000 woman cycles.
(10) 244 denture wearers claimed they were satisfied although only 11 dentures could be rated 'good' and 67% of complete dentures were 'poor'.
(11) The PHAP has been evaluated using groups consisting mainly of elderly hearing aid wearers having mild to moderate hearing impairments.
(12) Controversy exists as to whether patients who are asymptomatic, long term PMMA contact lens wearers demonstrating an acceptable clinical ocular response should be routinely refit into hard gas permeable lenses.
(13) One-half of a population of wearers with similar protection would be expected to experience long-term average workplace protection factors in excess of 44 and one-half below that value.
(14) Studies of extended-wear and daily-wear contact lens patients strongly suggest that extended-wear patients face a greater risk of ulcerative keratitis than other cosmetic contact lens wearers.
(15) The black and Latino communities have been gelling down baby hairs – the shorter, softer hairs on the hairline – for decades, but the styling technique was filed by the fashion world under “ghetto” until its wearers were white.
(16) Sometimes these slogans proclaim the wearer's enjoyment of football ("Keep calm and play football!")
(17) Endometrial biopsies were performed in asymptomatic IUD wearers on specific days of the menstrual cycle, and the histologic features were compared to those expected for the day of the cycle.
(18) Twelve of 16 dissatisified bifocal contact lens wearers (75%) were successfully fit with the Tangent Streak trifocal.
(19) It was hypothesized that nonseat-belt wearers were more likely to be externally oriented than seat-belt wearers but this was not confirmed.
(20) The study has revealed that candida infection and poor denture cleanliness are very common in elderly denture wearers.
Weaver
Definition:
(n.) One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave.
(n.) A weaver bird.
(n.) An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of innervation following transplantation indicates that, in repopulating dopamine-deficient cortical areas of recipient weaver mutants, graft-derived dopamine fibres show a preference for those layers which are normally invested by dopamine afferents.
(2) Weaver mutant mice alternated above chance levels but less often than normal mice in a 2-trial spontaneous alternation test.
(3) The metabolism of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) in the CNS was investigated in four kinds of morphologically different ataxic mice; reeler, staggerer, weaver and Purkinje cell degeneration mutants, and in hypocerebellar mice experimentally produced by injection of cytosine arabinoside.
(4) The immunoreactivity in OZ42, a neural cell specific antibody that recognizes premigratory cerebellar granule cells, was examined in early postnatal wild-type and weaver mouse cerebella.
(5) We suggest that a genetic mutation of the syndrome may be the same in Japanese as other ethnic groups and that Weaver syndrome may be an autosomal dominant disorder with variable expressions.
(6) Weaver said the New York tour, which he called a “cousin” of the Iowa road trip, was executed “brilliantly” by Clinton’s then-campaign team, which launched a successful bid for senate before her confidants squandered an early advantage in chasing the White House seven years later.
(7) The mesencephalic dopamine (DA) cell system was examined in mice homozygous and heterozygous for the weaver (wv) gene and in wild-type controls to estimate the extent of cell losses associated with the genetically determined central DA deficiency observed in weaver homozygotes.
(8) These mutant genes and other ADH2 deletions constructed by BAL 31 endonuclease digestion were studied after replacing the wild-type chromosomal locus with the altered alleles by the technique of gene transplacement (T. L. Orr-Weaver, J. W. Szostak, and R. S. Rothstein, Proc.
(9) Thus, in spite of the degeneration and failure of development of the nigrostriatal innervation in weaver mice, D1 binding in the weaver's striatum undergoes the elaborate change in distribution of these sites that is a hallmark of normal striatal development.
(10) In regard to swimming performance, the weaver mutants swam with less ability but with more vigor than normal mice.
(11) In rather small, photoperiod may not serve as a cue to trigger seasonal reproductive periodicity, it seems that photoperiod can act as a Zeitgeber for the initiation of spermatogenesis in the weaver bird at least.
(12) Eighty-two-year-old Richard “Buddy” Weaver was killed by Oklahoma City police after he allegedly raised a machete at an officer who opened fire; neighbors later described Weaver as having schizophrenia.
(13) After reaggregation with wild-type EGL precursor cells, weaver precursor cells extended neurites equivalent in length to wild-type cells, migrated along astroglial fibers, and expressed TAG-1 and astrotactin.
(14) The abnormalities in the striatal dopamine content of weaver mice are not accompanied by abnormalities in the turnover of dopamine, judging from measurements of the dopamine metabolite dihydroxyphenylacetic acid.
(15) The values of 17-ketosteroids (according toe Drekter, Pearson, Bartezak, modification of Kukuskina and Gurjeva), 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid (according to Sjoerdsma, Weisbach and Udenfriend) and 3-methoxy, 4-hydroxyvanillyl mandelic acid (according to Pisano et al, modification of Georges) were followed up in the 24-hour urine of 37 female-weavers (subdivided into two groups--healthy and neurotics) and 15 males--operators of control boards from the Chemical Combinate--Vratza.
(16) The diagnosis of Weaver-Smith syndrome has been carried out on two patients with facial dysmorphic features, excessive growth and accelerated bone maturation.
(17) Weaver mutant mice engaged less in motor activity and hole poking.
(18) Sitting with him as he spoke were Sigourney Weaver and Joel David Moore, who starred in Avatar , which charts the fight of the fictitious Na'vi people against outside attempts to pillage their resources on the planet Pandora.
(19) Reduced levels of binding in the agranular weaver cerebellum as compared to normals indicated that binding in the normal cerebellum was to receptors on granule cell dendrites.
(20) The Occupational Health Programme in Mirzapur was conceived by the SEU to improve the health and living conditions of child and adult weavers.