The surgery inserted a silicone tube around Mr. Christie's stomach to help him restrict his food consumption.
The engineers used a silicone polymer to build a centimeter-long jellyfish consisting of a membrane with eight armlike appendages.
That something was a product called SplashGuard, a silicone insert that acts as a seal-cum-opening to make spilling nearly impossible.
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You can slip it in your pocket, or put it in a silicone sleeve that can be clipped to a waistband or bra.
It features a silicone sleeve that conforms to the phone or tablet to provide stability support to keep the reader from moving or spinning when swiping a card.
In that procedure, doctors put a silicone tube, which is like a big rubber band, around the top of your stomach, restricting the amount of food you can take in.
Even if a strong association between silicone and a disease is found, it does not necessarily establish causation.
Although nobody denies that a burst silicone implant is an unpleasant thing, the evidence that intact implants do any harm is far from clear.
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Problem two solved: a fairly simple silicone shower head evenly distributes coffee over the grounds.
The dual material case is available with high visibility orange trim with a black protective silicone sleeve to seal all ports.
In 1992 the agency called a moratorium on silicone breast implants, playing into the hands of tort lawyers making an industry of suing silicone implant maker Dow Corning.
The artificial digit has a pad made from silicone to mimic the way the skin on the end of a finger moves and stretches as it drags across a surface.
Before they set hoof onto the snow they have to undergo a change of shoes, a feat made possible by farrier Christian Lampert, who replaces regular shoes with a set containing winter grips and a unique layer of silicone to prevent snow sticking to hooves.
The AbioCor's motor sits between the two ventricles inside a separate chamber filled with silicone fluid.
I'm looking for something that falls between the typical silicone wrap and a full-on army grade rubber block of invincibility.
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Three sizes of silicone sleeves offer a comfortable fit and noise isolation.
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The implants by French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) were banned last year when it emerged the company had used a non-medical grade silicone filler.
Fifty thousand years ago, a meteor carrying trace amounts of silicone carbide crashed into present-day Arizona.
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Implants from the firm were banned last year after they were found to contain a non-medical-grade silicone filler.
Breast implants from French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) were banned last year after they were found to contain a non-medical-grade silicone filler.
More than 100 doctors (many of whom had lost suits over silicone implants) signed a petition denouncing O'Quinn and calling for the hospital to reject his gift.
To try to bolster their case in the absence of a defined disease, the plaintiffs' experts have put forward a number of possible ways that silicone might cause disease.
To attend a recent charity event, Liz Seccuro, a fit size 4, donned silicone breast pads and bottom-boosting underwear so that her figure wouldn't be lost under her sheer, beaded, backless minidress.
Inamed has launched a new ten-year study of silicone implants involving 900 patients in hopes of reversing the FDA ban.
In January the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected a manufacturer's request to restore silicone breast implants to the market.
"I made Dow Corning go bankrupt, " he told Forbes in a 2000 article on the battle over silicone breast implants.
All painted in a nice white color and using black silicone mounts.
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