| strait | Origin: OE. Straight, streit, OF. Estreit, estroit. See Strait, a. 1. A narrow pass or passage. "He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold." (Spenser) "Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast." (Shak) 2. <geography> Specifically: A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw. "We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad." (De Foe) 3. A neck of land; an isthmus. "A dark strait of barren land." (Tennyson) 4. A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. "For I am in a strait betwixt two." (Phil. I. 23) "Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever." (South) "Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts." (Broome) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| inferior strait | Apertura pelvis superior, superior strait, apertura pelvis superior. Origin: M.E. Streit thr. O. Fr. Fr. L. Strictus, drawn together, tight (05 Mar 2000) |
| Minerva jacket | A plaster of Paris body cast incorporating the head and trunk, usually for fracture of the cervical spine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sayre's jacket | A plaster of Paris jacket applied while the patient is suspended by the head and axillae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| jacket | 1. A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts. 2. An outer covering for anything, especially. A covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc. 3. In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired. 4. A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; called also cork jacket. Blue jacket. See Blue. Steam jacket, a space filled with steam between an inner and an outer cylinder, or between a casing and a receptacle, as a kettle. To dust one's jacket, to give one a beating. Origin: F. Jaquette, dim. Of jaque. See Jack. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| jacket crown | A hollow crown of acrylic resin, fused porcelain or cast gold, combinations of gold and acrylic or gold and porcelain; it fits over the prepared stump of the natural crown. (05 Mar 2000) |
| yellow jacket stings | Stings from yellow jackets and other large stinging insects such as bees, hornets and wasps can trigger allergic reactions of varying severity. Avoidance and prompt treatment are essential. In selected cases, allergy injection therapy is highly effective. (the three a's of insect allergy are adrenaline, avoidance and allergist.) (12 Dec 1998) |
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