| They used iron chisels, saws, drills, and callipers, set squares and plumb lines. |
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| Specialist equipment such as splints, callipers and braces can help with paralysis and contractures. |
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| The vernier callipers I guess would do a very fine measurement, down to a millimetre or perhaps less. |
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| She extended the callipers like a pair of compasses preparing to plot the landmarks on his face. |
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| Leaf, petiole, and internode lengths were measured with a ruler and petiole and internode diameters were measured with digital callipers. |
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| The other measuring equipment, apart from the 20-metre tape, we have vernier callipers, feeler strips and telescopic measures. |
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| She can now walk short distances with callipers, but spends most of her time in a wheelchair. |
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| Perthes' disease affects one in a thousand people and treatment can include patients being fitted with orthopaedic aids, such as callipers. |
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| His father Harry encouraged him to walk across the living room wearing callipers by sitting across the room with pieces of banana. |
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| At the time I was only using callipers, but they asked me if I wanted to go to the Junior Wheelchair Games. |
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| The witness against the government of Iraq walked stiffly into the room, metal callipers buckled to heavy medical shoes. |
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| It left him crippled and scarcely able to walk, often relying on the help of callipers and sticks. |
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| They held cooking classes, had their own vegetable garden and a workshop where they made shoes, callipers and artificial limbs. |
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| When they returned, they could be wearing callipers, or walking with crutches, permanently disabled. |
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| The major programmes taken up are making aids and appliances such as callipers, walking aids, belts and braces, artificial limbs and splints. |
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| He needs callipers on his legs and struggles to speak clearly, but that doesn't stop him being a chatty boy at school, where teachers nominated him for a national award. |
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| He has already walked several times, using callipers and leaning on bars, and says that after a spasm he can sometimes twitch the muscle in his leg. |
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| Neurological complications often reflect skeletal deformity, and the use of callipers, crutches, and wheel-chairs predispose to the development of peripheral nerve entrapment. |
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| Many children in that first ward had iron lungs to help them breathe, and callipers. |
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