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Sentence Examples January has wrapped the worn-out city in a cold gauze of wood smoke and exhaust fumes. The specimens were then wrapped in gauze soaked in normal saline solution, sealed in an airtight bag, and frozen until the time of testing. The stitches above and below each eye were covered by sterilised adhesive strips, with gauze dressings hiding everything from view. Five minutes later she is kneeling in front of him, taping a gauze pad over his elbow, when a note whisks under the door. The woman took away the gauze and a month's worth of meal money, and Dorothy took Wilma home. The procedure consists of inserting tampons of sterile gauze inside the nasal cavities of the patient, by using surgical forceps. The extra layer of repression, though, becomes a gauze obscuring the emotional beats of the story. After vaccination, the skin should be wiped with dry sterile gauze, which is then put into a biohazard waste container. Wipe off the gums with gauze or a washcloth moistened with water after each feeding. What does an art teacher do when faced with a ton of plaster gauze and a bird bath salvaged from a scrap heap? Taking a roll of gauze from the medicine cabinet, Cordelia wrapped both hands and taped it in place. Then she went through the medicine cabinet and found some bandages, gauze, and medical tape. The gauze of normality gives it a hallucinatory atmosphere of science fiction cut with the surreal banality of the suburbs. He ties the man's hand in front of his chest with a length of gauze, and wraps the body in a sheet. Mona grabbed some gauze and a large Band-Aid and her jacket, and followed Cat to the back door. The gauze mask helped protect her burned face until she could receive treatment in hospital. She looked at him from anxious blue eyes for a moment, and then nonchalantly wrapped a line of gauze around her forearm. Treatment with moisture-retentive dressings consisted of either a hydrocolloid, an alginate, or sterile gauze. Then she unraveled the gauze with a dried blood spot which was the size of a half dollar. Excessively muted in tone and atmosphere, they seem remote now, as if filtered through gauze. Show More Sentences Gauze or gauze-like products are typically manufactured as a single piece of material folded into a several ply gauze pad. The solution is poured over thin gauze placed on a stainless steel anodal plate. I finished, tucking the end of the gauze into the side opposite the bandaged wound. Use wraps, such as stockinette or soft gauze, to protect areas of skin where the risk of tearing is high. Or use stockinette, gauze wrap, or any other similar type of wrap instead of tape to secure dressings and drains. Apply an antibiotic ointment and cover the wound with an adhesive bandage or gauze. This I cleaned as well as I could and stitched it up, then bandaged it using the last of my clean gauze bandages. It looked lovely on television but up-close it was just so much gauze and stage scenery. A bolero jacket decomposed at the edges into layers of peach gauze, dotted with lace flower appliques and fur patches. Fog, wet and oppressive, like gauze on a camera lens, softens edges off in the distance. Cages were 30.5 cm long and 3.8 cm in diameter with four holes covered with organdy gauze for air circulation. Her body is more or less indecipherable, and her arms are quite lost in the voluminous gauze oversleeves. Apparently there wasn't enough money in the budget for gauze, so they used cheesecloth instead. In 1999, he developed a way to chemically modify cotton gauze so that it selectively targets and soaks up elastase. Behind the low stage a large dark blue gauze drape with subtle, pastel coloured swirls was suspended from the high ceiling. The gauze mask is a good idea whenever you're brushing out chambers and bores. The skin wound was dressed with gauze, and sterile plaster wool was applied. Placing a blood-soaked gauze pad in a garbage can containing otherwise ordinary trash converts the entire container into medical waste. To stop the bleeding, press firmly but gently on the cut with a clean cloth, tissue, or piece of gauze. I did not feel the weight nor the pressure of the dress and corset I'd been wearing before, but rather the loose gauze of my nightgown. Show More Sentences The endaural incision is closed with 510 plain catgut and the remaining canal is packed with BIPP impregnated gauze. She gingerly touched the pallid white gauze, then was brought back to the present by the burning smell coming from her toast. After insertion, catheters were sutured to the skin and covered with gauze and an occlusive dressing. He passed out and woke up later in the recovery room, his wrists tied with gauze to the bed and gagging from the tube in his throat. They all use Q-tips, gauze, ice bags and a flat rectangular tool called an enswell to reduce swelling. Their feathers embedded in individually sewn gauze plackets or variants on strips, shreds and wrinkles could have commercial applications. Medicated gauze, alcohol cotton balls or dermatitis plasters are also necessary. Keep all sponges, gauze, pledgets, and their strings moist throughout the procedure to help them resist ignition. The zone suspends light and shadow, hanging them like a formless gray gauze. Deep necklines and minis take centrestage along with transparencies in gauze, knit or crochet, which add to the appealing look. The Davy lamp was fuelled by oil or naptha, and the wick was contained in a metal gauze cylinder. Measures are usually taken to stop the bleeding by packing the involved area tightly with gauze or suturing the artery with a running stitch. She placed her hand across her chest, above her belly button and away from the gauze bandage. Wash your eye with tepid water, using a clean piece of cotton wool or gauze for each wipe. Thus was born the Davy lamp, in which the flame is surrounded by wire gauze to dissipate heat and prevent ignition of flammable gases. All cages were capped with organdy gauze to maintain the planthopper treatments. The presentation ended with a sea of white, starting with a sexy silk gauze ribbon-slashed gown. Try muslin or gauze, which ensure privacy without depriving a room of light. It was a bluey-white colour, caused by the white gauze over light blue fabric. He wrapped the test tube in a roll of cotton gauze and placed it in his bag. Show More Sentences In their methods and approach, they use a range of materials that includes sand, printed fabric, mud, gauze and textured whites. The curtaining rock was twisted and translucent, like chiffon or silk or a very airy sort of gauze. Women cover their clothes with the traditional black cloak, which goes over the head, and wear a veil of thin black gauze over the face. For the evening, there was a long slinky black dress made of transparent gauze with dark tiger stripes cutting across it. I'm gently unwrapping the chrysalis of gauze surrounding a hand-painted silk evening dress as delicate as a butterfly's wings. Alternatively, you could use a silk gauze for the top layer, which is so airy it will turn out lighter in any event. Gently wash areas of infected skin with clean gauze and antiseptic soap daily. In order to prevent re-infection the site is dressed with cotton gauze soaked in a special iodine mixture, which is changed once or twice a day. Cotton gauze has been used to dress wounds for hundreds of years because it is naturally soft, pliable, and absorbent. As the audience fill the auditorium, they will see a Victorian audience fill a duplicate auditorium behind a gauze on stage. Another bold piece of color is a simple red dress made of silk gauze worn by one Monica Maurice for her wedding to Arthur Jackson. The more we try to look through the gauze, the more it all begins to look like gauze. Be sure to wash your own hands thoroughly after touching your child's eyes, and throw away items like gauze or cotton balls after they have been used. Start slowly, you can use a washcloth or piece of gauze to wipe the teeth, front and back in the same manner you will eventually be using the toothbrush. Assorted medicine bottles, packs of gauze and rolls of antacids and cough drops were scattered on dirty metal shelves and the tops of unopened boxes. She lay on a four-poster bed with a canopy of shimmering gauze and silk. Pie pans and pre-cut gauze were given to each pair of students. Following another incubation, and after filtration through nylon gauze, the highly fluorescent nuclei were analyzed with an impulse cytophotometer. There's unfortunately nothing you can do about this, but you can stabilize the damaged areas by sewing a bit of cotton gauze to the underside with silk thread. First, the normal saline and sterile gauze pads needed for the dressings usually are inexpensive and readily accessible in health care facilities. Show More Sentences If the person is bleeding, cover the wound with a gauze pad or a thick, clean piece of cloth and press on the wound hard enough to stop the bleeding. He remained silent as Grace added the gauze and roller bandage. He progressed gingerly towards the gauze grate in the grimy iron girdered floor and was careful not to get too close as he peered into the gloom below. See, the doctor not just bandaged Bobby himself, but stuck a big wad of gauze into the slice she'd put in him, to keep it open and to help it drain. He had put a wire gauze on top of the burner before turning the gas on. Wrap a moistened gauze square or washcloth around the index finger of the hand of the other arm and gently massage the teeth and gingival tissues. Put the bandages and gauze away, and get ready to enjoy oysters for their ease rather than their challenge. I still had all my indistinctive cuts, and the pulsating throb on my arm, beautiful quivering under the pressure of the gauze, wasn't helping much. I have created a lot of beautiful windows with cotton bubble gauze. A sweet gauze of confusion has settled around her senses, and that helps. Either way, the gauze, acting as a heat sink, removes the thermal energy from the system so that the temperature above or below it is not sufficient to ignite the gas. The anaesthetic was ether, dribbled on to the patient's gauze mask by the matron of the public hospital, and it was a Caesarian section for twins. The canopy's rose-colored silk gauze panels flow from a circular hoop with a rainbow-colored silk top, secured with roses and pink ribbon streamers. In England, France and Germany magic lanterns, moveable gauze screens and transparencies had been used to experiment with light on stage since the seventeenth century. Avian influenza, unlike SARS, can pass through gauze face masks. He took hold of the gauze he had placed over the cut in his palm and held it in place while he unrolled several inches of gauze strip and some tape. They were made of fine gauze and silks and their seams showed no wear. After placing a gauze compress over it, the pain subsided measurably. An overskirt of shimmering gauze bordered at the waist and hem with pearls matched the hems of her long sleeves and modest neckline of her bodice. Once she established the tongue tie, she gave him a pacifier dipped in sugar water, grabbed his tongue with a some gauze, injected just a bit of lidocaine, then snipped it. Show More Sentences Line a colander or sieve with cheesecloth or gauze and set it over a bowl. He dominates this show from the start, greeting you on a huge screen with his upside-down face, spewing out six metres of gauze like some psychic medium ejecting ectoplasm. Staff members who needed to draw Mr L's blood were instructed to use glass syringes, latex-free gloves, and blood pressure cuffs wrapped in gauze rather than tourniquets. Next, gauze is applied along with another layer of mineral gunk. They put a gauze with five-minute epoxy over it to seal the shell. It was achieved by restricting the ingress of air with either metal gauze or fine tubes, but the illumination from such lamps was very poor. If a naked flame was thus enclosed totally by such a gauze, then methane could pass into the lamp and burn safely above the flame. It is drawn down through the gauze then passes the flame and ascends the chimney. For example, the iron gauze on a Davy lamp only needed to lose one wire to become unsafe. Later designs used gauze for the same purpose and also as a barrier in itself. A galley with gauze provided the inlet, above the glass was a chimney with perforated copper cap and gauze outer. In the case of the gallery system air passes through a number of small holes into the gallery and through gauze to the lamp. In the Davy system a gauze surrounds the flame and extends for a distance above forming a cage. Rising hot gases are cooled by the gauze, the metal conducting the heat away and being itself cooled by the incoming air. The Clanny configuration uses a short glass section around the flame with a gauze cylinder above it. The top of the glass has a perforated copper cap with a gauze screen above that. Air enters into a ring near the base which is protected by gauze or perforated plate. Plus, moistened gauze is much cheaper in the short term than the hydrocolloid dressings and vacuums that suck out wound fluid. Electrode paste, followed by wrapping the head with gauze, may be an alternative when the patient has had a reaction to collodium. There is an inner and outer shield so that air cannot blow directly on the gauze but must first find its way through a slim chamber. Show More Sentences Admiral Zheng He was dispatched with imperial letters, silk brocade, silk floss, silk gauze, and other gifts for the rulers of these countries. The glass was surrounded by gauze so that in the event of a glass breakage the Geordie became a Davy. Rusting of the gauze quickly made the lamp unsafe, and the number of deaths from firedamp explosions rose yet further. They put on her a purple vest, thickly embroidered with gold and pearls, underdrawers of scarlet silk, and gauze trousers of many folds. Later Stephenson designs also incorporated a gauze screen as a protection against glass breakage. In the absence of an engineered solution such as MedeGrip, physicians and nurses have commonly used gauze to grip ampules when breaking them. They will cover each other's face with the petroleum jelly and then plaster gauze. The flame is surrounded by a glass tube surmounted by a gauze capped cylinder. Hold a length of drainpipe vertically and stuff a loose wad of metal gauze up into the lower end. It was quickly discovered that an air current could cause the flame to pass through the gauze. The flame playing directly on the gauze heats it faster than the heat can be conducted away, eventually igniting the gas outside the lamp. A bolster fashioned from a dental roll and Xeroform gauze was sutured into the cymba concha and maintained for 7 days. The important principle is that no direct current of air can impinge on the gauze. The shield had the disadvantage of not allowing the collier or the deputy to check that the gauze was in place and clean. In the Davy lamp a standard oil lamp is surrounded by fine wire gauze, the top being closed by a double layer of gauze. The egg gauze was carefully collected from the field after 48 h of exposure and maintained within 10 ml glass dactylethrae. The gases then start to rise up the intermediate chimney before exiting through another gauze. The flame on reaching the gauze fails to pass through and so the mine atmosphere is not ignited. Here, from the fading canvas, smiled Lady Elizabeth Devereux, in her gauze hood, pearl stomacher, and pink slashed sleeves. However, if the flame is allowed to play on the gauze for a significant period, then it will heat up, sometimes as far as red heat. Show More Sentences The top of the tube is closed by a horizontal gauze attached to the body of the lamp by small bars to conduct heat away. Using tape and gauze, he then tried to plug the holes in that leg. Davy conceived of using an iron gauze to enclose a lamp's flame, and so prevent the methane burning inside the lamp from passing out to the general atmosphere. A pressure bandage can be made by placing rolled-up gauze, or even a sanitary napkin, directly over the wound and wrapping or placing duct tape tightly over the bandage. The air passes down the side of the lamp passing through a series of gauze covered holes and enters the base through another yet another series of gauze covered holes. Davy experimented with brass gauze, determining the maximum size of the gaps and the optimum wire thickness to prevent a flame passing through the gauze. Holes were cut into the plastic and sealed with micromesh gauze. At the top it leaves through gauze and the top of the double shield. So far this is just a Clanny, but in the Mueseler a metal chimney supported on an internal gauze shelf conducts the combustion products to the top of the lamp. Examples from Classical Literature The subjoined is a drawing of the gauze burner, which is an open cylinder with wire gauze at the top. The species which oviposit on larger plants or trees are inclosed in a gauze bag tied over the branch. The conjunctival sac should be washed out with boric lotion and a pad of cyanide gauze applied over the closed lid. Before passing into the pump again the oil is strained or filtered by a screen of wire gauze and all foreign matter removed. To counteract this, screens of fine mesh gauze are laid over the expanded metal. Kellas and I had a praying mantis in a large tin box with gauze as a lid so that we might watch him at his devotions. Care must be taken to introduce the gauze right down to the aditus and to pack the cavity evenly. A gauze bag of the correct shape and size is filled with salt and ice mixed, and applied to the area to be anesthetized. With a practiced hand she wound strips of gauze and adhesive tape about the ankle. It is stuffed with iodoform gauze, which is changed daily, and the cavity is allowed to granulate up from the bottom. Searching through his knapsack, he drew out what is known to first aid as a wire gauze bandage. The mouth of the bottle should be covered with gauze or leno, and a bit of moistened sugar put on the top outside. She was tall, and her lovely arms showed through the black gauze of her dress with an exquisite roundness and morbidezza. Then commonly the entire ovum comes away with the gauze, or what remains of it is taken out with a curette. Her gown, what there was of it, was of black gauze emblazoned with dartling sequins of deep blue. She thrilled to the look, and the desert spirit made her screen her face from it, with a sequined gauze scarf which she wore. You will flutter high, but your wings are of the finest gauze, dusted with the fairest pigments. Wrap in a strip of gauze or cheesecloth and place in a steamer. Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head. A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Show More Sentences She appeared clad in a thin slip of transparent and jetted gauze. She hailed the happy thought and invested in countless yards of gauze. This was an oil lamp which had a chimney or cage of wire gauze. About half of one end was removed and replaced by wire gauze. I serve it, under the wire gauze bell, to a third egg layer. The captive clung to the wire gauze and did not move for a week. When the paper is to be wove, it is covered with wire gauze. With that idea, I took off the gauze which covered my features. There was further, in the wonderful box, an old remnant of gauze. His head had emerged slowly, month by month, from swathings of gauze. Let her go as ariel, all gauze, flesh-tints, and natural curves. Cover the spots with medical tape, 2nd Skin gauze or moleskin before they become troublesome, and make sure they have fresh coverings before your next dance session. It's well seen what choice the most of 'em know how to make, by the poor draggle-tails o' wives you see, like bits o' gauze ribbin, good for nothing when the colour's gone. The abscess cavity was packed with iodoform gauze to divert oral fluid from reaching the infected spaces in the right neck and anterior mediastinum. The morning was beautiful, and in this early springtime the birds sang on the trees and the sunbeams shone through the misty glades, like curtains of golden gauze. His hair beneath the gauze skullcap still smells like gasoline. Find more words! 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