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GOUGES [10 records]

Record 1 2008-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

Instrument designed to cut and shape solid materials and hard tissues such as tooth and bone with a beveled cutting edge on one side.

OBS

These instruments typically consist of a manual, handheld device with a flat blade with the cutting edge at the working end; chisels may be conformed with or attached to a handle. Chisels are used mainly in clinical settings to cut and contour bones in surgical (e.g., middle ear, orthopedic), dental, and postmortem (e.g., autopsy) procedures.

OBS

An instrument modeled after a carpenter’s chisel intended for cutting or cleaving hard tissue. The cutting edge is beveled on one side only; the shank may be straight or angled.

OBS

In all probability, chisels and gouges, derived from carpenters’ and masons’ tools, were utilized to amputate hands and feet as a legal punishment... During the nineteenth century, smaller gouges and chisels with a single beveled edge were employed generally for mastoid, skull, and bone surgery.

PHR

Army, bone, chlamydia, contra-angle, middle ear, nasal, obstetric, pituitary gland, posterior, spine, symphysiotomy chisel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
OBS

Le terme anglais "chisel" désigne tant un burin qu'un ciseau. Les deux instruments peuvent être utilisés seuls ou percutés à l'aide d'un marteau. Tous deux ont une extrémité biseautée tranchante. Alors que le burin sert à entailler le périoste ou l'os, le ciseau est utilisé en chirurgie osseuse pour prélever, tailler ou trancher un greffon ou un fragment osseux.

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Safety
  • Police
DEF

A cavity in the roadway surface resulting from contact with a vehicle [metal] part.

OBS

There are three types of gouges : chips, chops and grooves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité routière
  • Police

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
CONT

Gerzog bone mallet [are] lead filled and faced bone mallet used to exert force on osteotomes, chisels, and gouges.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
CONT

Shaving the layers of the film from the emulsion takes practice and patience. An over anxious retoucher usually ends up with an uneven job, or worse yet a few deep gouges. Keep the blade in motion, moving with small strokes in one direction-never back and forth. After etching, apply retouching fluid to the emulsion if lead will be used. Care must be taken when applying the fluid to avoid lines of demarcation. When applying retouching fluid or "dope", be sure the fluid is either fresh or thin. Thick, tacky retouching fluid will create a dust problem. Artist turpentine of methanol are good thinners to add to thickened fluid. Again, handle all chemicals with caution. Apply the retouching fluid only within the facial area when working on b/w portraiture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
DEF

Liquide que l'on applique sur la gélatine d'un phototype pour faciliter l'utilisation de la mine du crayon à retouche.

Spanish

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Record 5 1997-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coins and Bank Notes
  • Numismatics
  • Coining
DEF

Said of any coin, token, or medal that has been repaired by plugging holes, filing rim gouges, etc., and then made available for sale as if the coin had never had any damage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pièces de monnaie et billets de banque
  • Numismatique
  • Monnayage

Spanish

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Record 6 1997-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coins and Bank Notes
  • Numismatics
  • Coining
DEF

A coin with holes, cuts, excessive scratches or gouges, etc. that are not intended to be there.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pièces de monnaie et billets de banque
  • Numismatique
  • Monnayage
DEF

Pièce de monnaie présentant des trous, échancrures, rainures, stries, ou autres marques de mutilation intentionnelle.

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Finishing
DEF

Treatment given to wood at various stages of its finishing to simulate wear and damage. (Do-It-Yourselfer’s Guide to Furniture Repair and Refinishing, 1977, p. 186).

CONT

In mechanical distressing, coral rock, a chain, a hammer and many other items can be used to put small gouges, scratches and dents in the wood surface.(Cabinetmaking and Millwork, 1970, p. 820).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finition du bois
DEF

Opération qui consiste à donner au bois une apparence ancienne par marquage ou tachage de la surface. (Vocabulaire de la finition du bois, 1984).

Spanish

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Record 8 1987-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

(...) tool(...) used most frequently for striking chisels or gouges. It is also used to tap parts of a project together during the assembly process. It is made in various shapes and sizes. Those of more recent manufacture have heads made of hard composition rubber, thus to protect the work or tools.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
CONT

Le maillet et le marteau sont utilisés pour frapper, d'où leur nom d'outils de percussion. Ils comportent deux parties: la tête (bloc en frêne, bois dur se fendant difficilement, de préférence avec fibres enchevêtrées) et le manche (bois dur avec fibres droites), de préférence en frêne ou en cornouilles. Usages: 1 - enfoncer les bédanes et les ciseaux, 2 - fixation et desserrage du valet ordinaire, 3 - montage et démontage des assemblages, 4 - réglage de la butée sur l'établi.

Spanish

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Record 9 1986-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Leatherworking Tools and Equipment
OBS

Gouges channels, skives, and counter-sinks rivets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outils et machines pour le travail du cuir
OBS

Pour amincir où l'on veut lacer, ou poser des rivets.

OBS

Le terme «drayoire» peut être masculin ou féminin.

Spanish

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Record 10 1986-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
  • Anthropology
DEF

a period ca. 2, 000 years B. C., including the northern forests of New England, New York, and the Canadian Maritimes Provinces; markers : adzes, gouges, polished-slate spear points etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
  • Anthropologie

Spanish

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