(a.) Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.
(n.) That which is adjacent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(2) A complex linkage between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix is illustrated both in the cord forming Sertoli and granulosa cells, and in the adjacent mesenchymal cells.
(3) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
(4) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
(5) Other DNase I hypersensitive sites located adjacent to the S14 cap site at -65 to -265 base pairs (Hss-1) or upstream at -1.3 kb (Hss-2), -2.1 kb (Hss-3'), -5.3 kb (Hss-4), and -6.2 kb (Hss-5) remained unaffected by changes in S14 gene transcription.
(6) The results, together with the known geometry of the enzyme, indicate that active site probes in the dodecamer are widely separated and that energy transfer occurs from a single donor to two or three acceptors on adjacent subunits.
(7) Fifty-four cases were analysed, and a two-fold excess of clustering within one year was observed, both within single districts and between adjacent districts.
(8) Sialosyl-Tn antigen expression also was observed in intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and in transitional mucosa adjacent to the colorectal carcinoma, which are considered to be cancer-related lesions.
(9) Three animals received unilateral lesions which included both the inferior parietal lobule and a portion of adjacent dorsal prestriate cortex (IPL-PS).
(10) Tunnel-like formations at different depths of the oral epithelium contained higher numbers of bacteria than those seen on the adjacent oral surface.
(11) This apparent lack of centrosomal staining was not due to problems associated with penetration of the antibody probes, since staining adjacent to and within the centriolar cylinder was observed when phosphoprotein antigens recognized by the MPM-2 antibody were localized.
(12) In the latter groups, specimens were taken from both polyp tissue and adjacent nasal mucosa.
(13) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
(14) When collateral marginal vessels were eliminated, adjacent arterial blood flow decreased to control levels and venous flow virtually stopped.
(15) Tissue sections, taken from foliate and circumvallate papillae, generally revealed taste buds in which all cells were immunoreactive; however, occasionally some taste buds were found to contain highly reactive individual cells adjacent to non-reactive cells.
(16) The model was activated, and the dipole potential generated by adjacent activated and resting cells was calculated to obtain a high-resolution QRS complex.
(17) The other three oncogenes namely c-K-ras, c-H-ras and c-myc, were not detected in these two carcinomas or the non-cancerous liver tissue adjacent to the carcinomas.
(18) The bony elements of both adjacent vertebral bodies are secondarily involved.
(19) In two cases that showed punctate or linear low density structures adjacent to the distal side of the tumor nodules to the porta hepatis, a daughter nodule was detected by CT at 6.5 and 9.2 months, respectively, after the appearance of the low density structures.
(20) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
Diastema
Definition:
(n.) A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
(2) The definitions, aetiology, and symptomatology of the diastema mediale superior are discussed in the present study on the basis of personal experience and reports in the literature, special attention being paid to the verbal evaluation of "genuine" or "spurious".
(3) The authors describe a clinical case of closing upper central incisives diastema, reconstructiva of a conoid upper lateral and the rechaping of an upper canine to a lateral incisive.
(4) Median diastema in twenty patients aged 17-30 years old were restored randomly with two light cured composite resins.
(5) This approach sustains a physiologic load on the periodontium and prevents a recurrence of the diastema.
(6) The primary factors contributing to maxillary diastema appear to be degree of spacing or crowding in most cases, the specific types of sutures and frenum making a minor contribution.
(7) In the management of diastema verum associated with persistent labial frenum it is important to distinguish, on the basis of clinical testing, between a normal and abnormal labial frenum.
(8) A diastema developed between the incisors and the force was transmitted superolaterally and then transmedially, thus causing fractures in the nasal complex and other iatrogenic sequelae.
(9) In spite of the success and excellent results orthodontists have had in correcting dental abnormalities, one particular area which lends itself to relapse is the diastema between the incisors.
(10) A three-stage surgical procedure was shown to be very effective in alleviating the relapse phenomenon following orthodontic treatment of diastemas.
(11) The medial and lateral parts of the m1 epithelial anlage are situated in dorsal continuation of both the dental and vestibular laminae of the diastema region.
(12) In connection with this case report considerations are made concerning the normal development of the dentition and the need for orthodontic treatment of a median diastema in the maxilla.
(13) From the analysis of histories, dental casts, and cephalograms of 471 children of the Burlington Growth Centre sample, interrelationships between the degree of spacing, crowding, diastema and frenum and suture type were derived and the following conclusions were drawn: 1.
(14) Results were as follows: (1) In amphibian eggs the diastema was formed after development of the MA, appearing between the two asters after the MA had begun to degenerate.
(15) or greater at age 9, there was a significant association between the diastema and the amounts of crowding or spacing at age 16.
(16) This study used finite element stress analysis to investigate the stress-concentrating effect of a fraenal notch with and without a midline diastema.
(17) The diagnosis is made accidentally or from abnormal findings such as persistance of a milk tooth, disturbances in tooth eruption, diastema and others.
(18) This report describes a means of replacing a missing anterior tooth, while maintaining a midline diastema.
(19) It was found that a large fraenal notch resulted in high stress levels and that these stresses were augmented more by a narrow median diastema than its wider counterpart.
(20) The diastema in which the retained tooth develops should exceed its mediodistal diameter.