needle shank

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• Shank (sewing) — A shank is a device for providing a small amount of space in between a garment and a button. Shanks are necessary to provide space for fabric to sit in between the button and the garment when the garment is buttoned. Shanks also allow a garment… …   Wikipedia

• shank — /shangk/, n. 1. Anat. the part of the lower limb in humans between the knee and the ankle; leg. 2. a corresponding or analogous part in certain animals. See diag. under horse. 3. the lower limb in humans, including both the leg and the thigh. 4.… …   Universalium

• Needle threader — A needle threader is a small device for helping put the thread through the eye of small needles. Most familiar today is the needle threader of Victorian design, consisting of a small tinned plate stamped with the Queen s head and with a diamond… …   Wikipedia

• needle — 1. A slender, solid, usually sharp pointed instrument used for puncturing tissues, suturing, or passing a ligature around or through a vessel. 2. A hollow n. used for injection, aspiration, biopsy, or to guide introduction of a catheter into a v …   Medical dictionary

• stop needle — a surgical needle with a shank that has a protruding collar to stop it when the needle has been pushed a prescribed distance into the tissue. A stop needle has the eye at the tip. * * * a needle with a shoulder that prevents it from being… …   Medical dictionary

• stop needle — a surgical needle with a shank that has a protruding collar to stop it when the needle has been pushed a prescribed distance into the tissue. A stop needle has the eye at the tip …   The new mediacal dictionary

• spring needle — noun : a fine steel needle for machine knitting that has a butt at one end and a long flexible hook at the other that curves back to the shank of the needle …   Useful english dictionary

• textile — /teks tuyl, til/, n. 1. any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting. 2. a material, as a fiber or yarn, used in or suitable for weaving: Glass can be used as a textile. adj. 3. woven or capable of being woven: textile fabrics. 4 …   Universalium

• hook — 1) a bent piece of wire with its tip sharpened and often a barb below the tip, used to catch fish. Available in many sizes and styles, variously numbered and named. May be single, double or treble but all these are counted as one hook in angling… …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Otoplasty — Otoplasty: the pre operative front aspect (left), and the post operative front aspect (right) of an infantile otopexy (ear pinback) correction to a girl. Otoplasty (Greek ōtoûs, ear + plassein, to shape) denotes the surgical and non surgical… …   Wikipedia

• Fish hook — Fishhook redirects here. For other uses, see Fishhook (disambiguation). Anatomy of a fish hook A fish hook is a device for catching fish either by impaling them in the mouth or, more rarely, by snagging the body of the fish. Fish hooks have been… …   Wikipedia