(n.) From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.
(adv.) From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.
(adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.
Example Sentences:
(1) But in 2017, to borrow another phrase from across the pond, there simply is no alternative.
(2) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(3) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(4) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(5) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(6) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
(7) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(8) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(9) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(10) The relative rates of reduction of several spin-labeled molecules that partition differently across the hy-drophobic-interface of inner membranes from rat liver mitochondria were investigated.
(11) Exposure to nanomolar concentrations of saralasin, an Ang II agonist, attenuated the passage of the fluorophores across the monolayers by 50-75%.
(12) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
(13) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(14) Serum and pituitary gonadotropins, hypothalamic luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH), and the profile of FSH forms across the isoelectric focusing gel were determined by radioimmunoassay.
(15) The functions of O-GlcNAc remain largely unknown, but it may be important in blocking phosphorylation sites, it may be required for the assembly of specific multiprotein complexes, it might serve as a nuclear transport signal, or it may be directly involved in the active transport of macromolecules across nuclear pores.
(16) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(17) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(18) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(19) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
(20) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
Transilience
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Transiliency
Example Sentences:
(1) These bone histomorphometric data are important because: (1) they come from a cohort of living subjects that was recruited solely for the purpose of establishing normal bone histomorphometry; (2) they represent the age range of patients with postmenopausal osteoporosis; and (3) they markedly expand the bone histomorphometric database of healthy persons given in vivo fluorochrome labeling prior to transilial biopsy.
(2) All transilial biopsies were assessed with the use of quantitative histomorphometry.
(3) A surgical method for obtaining transilial bone biopsy specimens in baboons that provides adequate amounts of trabecular and cortical bone for histomorphometric analysis was developed.
(4) Secondly transilial bone biopsy to iliac bone followed by Jowsey's microradiological analysis was performed in each patient with OPLL, patients with osteoporosis and normal individuals.
(5) However, histologic examination of transilial bone biopsy specimens (7 patients, 13 hips) revealed steroid-induced osteoporosis, by the presence of hyperosteoidosis (increased unmineralized osteoid) and increased bone resorption.
(6) Transilial pins and paired plastic spinous-process plates were used to repair fracture-luxations of the sixth lumbar vertebra in 6 dogs.
(7) Population 2 included 94 patients with vertebral compression fractures who underwent transilial biopsy to evaluate osteoporosis.
(8) The histomorphometry of a vertical biopsy specimen of the iliac crest did not differ significantly from that of a transilial biopsy specimen of similar diameter taken from an adjacent site.
(9) Transilial bone biopsy showed signs of high turnover and cortical bone loss in more than 20% of patients.
(10) In order to detect a possible hypomineralization in these vitamin D-deficient patients, we measured the bone mineral content in 64 transilial biopsies, embedded in methylmethacrylate for histomorphometric evaluation.
(11) Histomorphometric analysis of serial transilial specimens showed that, at 6 months, OX had significantly increased the rate of bone remodeling in the ilium.
(12) We characterized the bone disease of transilial biopsy specimens from children with hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets with hypercalciuria (HHRH) and genetically related asymptomatic hypercalciuric subjects.
(13) Transilial crest bone biopsy with quantitative histomorphometry is an important technique for the assessment of metabolic and endocrine bone disease.
(14) Pin migration associated with improper bending of the transilial pins and requiring early implant removal was the most common postoperative complication.
(15) Transilial bone biopsy confirmed heparin-induced osteopenia in a 23-year-old postpartum patient.
(16) A transilial bone biopsy and serial evaluation of serum immunoreactive PTH (iPTH) calcium phosphate and alkaline phosphatase were performed before and at the end of therapy.
(17) We performed a histomorphometric analysis of bone structural parameters in transilial biopsies of 39 patients with hip fracture (21 cervical, 18 trochanteric), 23 patients with one or more vertebral crush fractures and 20 control subjects.
(18) Transilial bone biopsies were obtained from 34 healthy postmenopausal women following in vivo fluorochrome labeling.
(19) Transilial bone biopsies following in vivo fluorochrome labeling were obtained from 90 women with postmenopausal osteoporosis and 34 healthy post-menopausal women.
(20) These 6 cases illustrate the efficacy of plastic spinous-process plates in combination with transilial pins for the repair of fracture-luxation of the sixth lumbar vertebra.