(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.
Mil
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A variety of homobifunctional crosslinking agents have been used to gain insight into the nature of the murine interleukin 3 (mIL-3) receptor.
(2) We have previously shown that a spontaneous mutant of MH2 (PA200-MH2), expressing only the v-mil oncogene, is able to induce proliferation of quiescent neuroretina cells.
(3) Recombinant mIL 1 beta, administered as a single i.v.
(4) In contrast, after induction of tumors in quail with mil-deficient MH2 viral stocks, a majority of the tumor DNAs contained mil+ proviruses, suggesting that there is selection for retention of the v-mil gene in vivo and that the mil protein may play a role in the oncogenicity of MH2 virus.
(5) The prevalence of myasthenia gravis (MG) in Finland was 264 patients per 4.7 mil.
(6) By phase separation and analysis, tie-lines for the constituent phase in the two-phase zone demonstrated that the mixed micelles were saturated with MIL and Ch and the coexisting vesicles were saturated with MBS, but not with Ch.
(7) Both rheologically effective substances show side effects, but they lie in the per-mil-range.
(8) There are differences, however, between MIL and MIB in the sequence organization of their unconventional C-terminal domains.
(9) TA-2 also inhibited adhesion to EC activated with mIL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and LPS, and the adhesion of spleen T cells to activated EC.
(10) Single subcutaneous injections of a mineral oil adjuvant vaccine containing 20 mg dry weight of Campylobacter fetus subsp fetus biotype venerealis cells and 20 mg dry weight of C. fetus subsp fetus biotype intermedius cells per 5 mil dose protected 2- and 3-year-old heifers and 3- and 4-year-old cows against genital infection with either organism.
(11) The inhibition of mIL-1 expression was noted in response to both autoreactive T-cell lines specific for class I or class II MHC determinants as well as bacterial endotoxin.
(12) Intracellular processing studies carried out in the presence and absence of methylamine suggested that mIL-3 is cleaved at two specific sites before its complete digestion within lysosomes.
(13) Ternary lipid systems were composed of a physiological mixture of bile salts (BS), mixed intestinal lipids (MIL), principally partially ionized fatty (oleic) acid (FA) plus racemic monooleylglycerol (MG), and cholesterol (Ch), all at fixed aqueous-electrolyte concentrations, pH, temperature, and pressure.
(14) Murine interleukin-3 (mIL-3) is a lymphokine that stimulates the proliferation and differentiation of both pluripotent hemopoietic stem cells and their committed progeny.
(15) In dogs pretreated with total spinal anesthesia or phenoxybenzamine, MIL significantly decreased both MCP and TPR.
(16) MIL shifted the right ventricular output curve to the left and upward and shifted the venous return curve to the left and rotated it clockwise.
(17) In a totally serum-free culture condition, mIL-7 produced a similar cellular proliferation, whereas hIL-7 was much less effective.
(18) The hemodynamic response to Mil was also examined in rats treated with the ACE inhibitor.
(19) Using albumin as a molecular clock, we estimated B. bombina and B. variegata diverged within the last million years, whereas the B. orientalis lineage diverged roughly 10-12 mil yr ago.
(20) Two distinct c-mil-related cDNA clones have been isolated from a chicken embryo cDNA library.