The operation also drains the trachea, and the amount of poison absorbed is thus diminished.
To arrest the bleeding it may be necessary to apply cocaine and adrenalin mixture, and to raise the foot of the table so that the blood drains away from the field of operation.
In such cases he evacuates the contents of the cyst and stitches the edges of the opening in the cyst to the margins of the abdominal wound, and drains the cavity.
If the secretion be excessive, the foot of the table should be raised so that the mucus drains away from the part to be explored.
The final step is to irrigate the cavity with warm boric or saline solution and to insert drains of gauze or of fine india-rubber tubing between the dura mater and bone.
The surface of this area is everywhere intersected by shallow, rocky watercourses, which are the natural drainsfor the deluge that annually visits it.
I saw you in the winter makingdrains and ditches, and it wet.
Fit only to be working in drains and ditches in the winter.
The Shigar river drains the waters from the Mustagh range and K^{2}, perhaps the greatest accumulation of ice and snow that exists outside the arctic regions.
The landdrains satisfactorily and, although the rainfall average is the lowest in the country, it is adequate for dependable grain crops and vineyards.
Then there were the stone drainsto be making, and the great talking about the run of the water, and the lie of the land, and the niceness with which we laid those drains!
I am tired of nosing drains and buying copperas and hounding the latent plumber that he adjust the water-pipes.
It receives several large tributaries and drains a valley embracing seventeen millions of acres.
The river thus drains a broad basin, embracing myriads of lakes in the northern Maine forests, and it has an enormous water-power, as yet only partially utilized.
The Merrimack drains the southern slopes of the White Mountains, and takes the outflow of Lake Winnipesaukee, a vast reservoir, the waters being regulated at its outlet to suit the wants of the mills below.
The Penobscot drains an immense territory covered with pine, spruce and hemlock forests.
The water which drains from the mud is collected by the Javanese, and by being exposed in the hollows of split bamboos to the rays of the sun, deposits crystals of salt.
This site doubled the charges; for they were obliged to be at a vast expense in making drains to convey the water that came down the hill into the morass and the Cayster.
Bad business in one country may be offset by good business in another; drains of gold to one country may be met with gold flowing in from others.
If soft or yielding places appear during the rolling these should be corrected by tile drains or by removing the earth from the spongy place and back-filling with material that will compact when rolled.
Side ditches, necessary culverts and tile drains should be constructed as required for drainage.
Especially those of you of the drains and dikes and others who might follow this young Samson, whose locks have been shore!
Mr. Truslow says that the members of your drains and dikes committee follow your vote on every bill.
When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers.
The necessity of a high temperature is undoubted, and is itself a strong alignment against the view which makesdrains merely the vehicle of transmission of the poison.
It is asserted by some writers that the poison of enteric fever is never generated in obstructed drains, but that the drains are merely the vehicle of transmission of the poison from an infected person.
There are from ten to fifteen of these terminal ducts; each drains a separate group of glands, but all end in the nipple.
Once the Rats get in these disused drains all the professional Rat-catchers in England could not clear them without pulling the building down.
The time the Rats get into these places is whilst the workmen are putting the drainsin the back yards, leaving the drains open at nights.
They scratch the soil from beneath the flags, which then sink, and the consequent stench from the drains is abominable, jeopardising the health of the tenants.
For even in the shape and stature of Polyphemus, when he shuts his fleeced flocks and drains their udders in the cave's covert, an hundred other horrible Cyclopes dwell all about this shore and stray on the mountain heights.
They may have been cisterns, or designed for receiving refuse-water from the houses, but against this view is to be set the fact that they are not connected in any way with the numerous brick channels and clay drains that were discovered.
Good tile drains properly laid last for years and do not fill up.
Tile drains are the best and cheapest that can be used.
An overflow drains the pit to an irrigation ditch, the solid matter being allowed to settle and the liquid to drain off.
Since that time frequent examinations of the inspection pit, which is connected by a pipe to the rubble drains under the floor, have never revealed the slightest leakage.
This arrangement of drains under the floor of the reservoir at San Geronimo was devised as a safeguard against damage to the lining through the accumulation of water inside the impervious bank against its back.
He cannot, therefore, hope to make his soil available for the growth of his crops to a greater depth than that to which his drains descend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
