(a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
(a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
(n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The angular distribution of the scattered light was obtained as a function of time and compared with the rates at which hydrolysis products were formed.
(2) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(3) The angular distribution of the scattered acoustic field from an inosonifying source will directly relate to the distribution of surface fibrillatory changes.
(4) The kainate and quisqualate types of excitatory amino acid receptor were visualized autoradiographically in brain sections from rats kindled by stimulating the angular bundle.
(5) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
(6) The purposes of this study were to detect eventual late complications and to compare late results with postoperative angular curve correction.
(7) In severely impaired limbs, there was a marked shift in both the peak EMG angle and the angular domain of EMG activity for both biceps and triceps muscle groups, away from the normal elbow flexion-extension axis towards external humeral rotation and shoulder girdle elevation.
(8) Neither the sufferers and their spouses, nor the 20 couples who constituted the control group, showed any relationship between partners with respect to angular displacement.
(9) When a meridional-size lens is used to provide magnification in the horizonal meridan for one eye the resulting stereopsis distortion is readily accounted for in the terms of the binocular disparity caused by changed angular relations.
(10) The significant difference found in calculating the angular mandibular opening may be the result of difficulties in maintaining maximum passive opening.
(11) In keeping with current theories of training, gains were largest with prolonged, high intensity activity at angular velocities approximating those adopted during training.
(12) A new device for the intraoperative anterior correction of angular kyphoses is presented.
(13) 15 linear and angular measurements were performed on 80 lateral cephalometric films of 40 subjects.
(14) Type II cells are angular or stellate and contain numerous secretory granules averaging 200-220 nm in diameter.
(15) These results are compared with experimental data on angular scattering from liver, muscle, and blood, reported in a companion paper [J. Acoust.
(16) The preliminary experiments described here suggest that tilt aftereffects and illusions induced by projected slides of tilted real-object scenes have angular functions similar to that induced by a line grating.
(17) Comparison of Experiments 1 and 2 showed that the presence of gravireceptor stimuli increased the range of detectable angular accelerations and reduced the time required for detection.
(18) There was some correlation between substituents on aromatic ring and angular position, and antiarrhythmic activity.
(19) Rat TSH cells were ovoid or angular to stellate, and contained granules ranging in size from 60-175 nm.
(20) Histograms of cell orientation angles were plotted and the mean and angular deviation of each sample were calculated.
Angulation
Definition:
(n.) A making angular; angular formation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taken together, these data indicate that the regulation of probing angulation in clinical measurement of GAL with the TAPP is an important determinant of the reproducibility of periodontal probing.
(2) The angulation at the last follow-up averaged 5.4 degrees.
(3) Angulation problems due to anatomic limitations, however, still remain.
(4) Changes in third molar angulation from pretreatment to posttreatment for the two groups were compared for statistical differences using a Student's t-test.
(5) Narrowing and angulation of these veins could result in elevated back pressure favoring the formation of a transudate.
(6) With the straight bevel with a slight angulation (40 degrees), the limit of the cavity-filling joint is clear.
(7) The more serious sequelae must be ascribed either to rotary deformity or to ulnar angulation at the fracture-site.
(8) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
(9) Head posture was evaluated by the craniocervical angulation and airway as nasopharyngeal airway size.
(10) The following signs in the preoperative radiographs were predictive of unfavorable outcome: small head fragment, comminution of the calcar femorale, and varus angulation of the head.
(11) Carotid angiography, which was conducted in all cases, revealed a richly vascularized tumor in the region of the carotid artery bifurcation with characteristic "angulation" and "cuff" signs.
(12) There is a small but statistically significant decrease in U-VS angulation and increase in nasal septal deviation in patients with sinusitis.
(13) In summary, endoscopic dilatation for postgastroplasty strictures is a useful and effective technique, obviating the need for operative revision in the majority of patients; however, when the stenosis is associated with channel angulation, dilatation is almost uniformly unsuccessful.
(14) Malunion (angulation greater than 10 degrees) occurred in three patients and there was some loss of knee motion (less than 90 degrees of flexion) in one patient.
(15) Radiographic evaluation of these fractures using axial, lateral, anteroposterior, and oblique medial projection (Broden's view) with varying tube angulation toward the head and computerized axial tomography in two planes, coronal and transverse, were done.
(16) The findings are that most of the upper central incisors in linguoversional anterior deep over bite exist crown-root angulation in a labiolingual direction.
(17) The tip, 2.2 mm phi, of the BF-2.2 T angulates like a conventional bronchofiberscope, and this is the main characteristic of this instrument.
(18) The CT scan provided a three-dimensional study of the underlying bone, to determine the position, angulation, and depth of the fixture to be used.
(19) However there were definite neurogenic changes including type grouping and angulated fibers.
(20) An uncommon complication of percutaneous insertion of the titanium Greenfield filter is angulation at discharge with clustering of the limbs to one side of the vena cava.