(n.) A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other.
(n.) The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it.
(n.) Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple determination of size, shape, and diameter of the left atrium were made during the control state and under conditions of varied ventricular outflow resistance in intact anesthetized dogs with markers chronically attached to the mitral annulus and the valve cusps.
(2) It is concluded that most annulus vacuums are a degenerative phenomenon at the attachment of the annulus to bone.
(3) A 29-mm Medtronic mitral valve was secured in the mitral position with a fixed number of ten pledgeted sutures in each annulus.
(4) Intervertebral disc proteoglycans (PGs) were radiolabelled in vivo (with [35SO4(2-)], 24 hours and 60 days prior to euthanasia, when lumbar discs were dissected into nucleus pulposus (NP) and annulus fibrosus (AF).
(5) To date, 3-dimensional studies have demonstrated that the mitral valve is saddle-shaped in systole, so that apparent superior leaflet displacement in the mediolateral 4-chamber view, often seen in otherwise normal individuals, lies entirely within the bounds defined by the mitral annulus and occurs without leaflet distortion or actual displacement above the entire mitral valve.
(6) The mean MAS was nearly twice that of 80 normal specimens (4.9 vs 2.5 mm), the range of MAS was increased from normal (0.11 vs 0.7 mm) and the mean diameter of the aortic annulus was decreased compared with the normal specimens, data that will be of interest to echo- and angiocardiographers in the clinical description of DSS, and to the surgeon who must resect these lesions.
(7) Echocardiography allowed preoperative classification of MI in 4 groups: Group 1 (n = 46) with prolapse of the posterior leaflet; Group 2 (n = 4) with prolapse of the anterior leaflet; Group 3 (n = 8) with prolapse of both mitral leaflets; Group 4 (n = 2) with abnormalities of the mitral annulus alone.
(8) Ten patients with roentgenographically demonstrable mitral annulus calcification (MAC) were found to have distinctive echocardiographic patterns.
(9) Pathologic features include focal and diffuse calcification and ossification in the anterior longitudinal ligament, paraspinal connective tissue, and annulus fibrosis, degeneration in the peripheral annulus fibrosis fibers, L-T-, and Y-shaped anterolateral extensions of fibrous tissue, hypervascularity, chronic inflammatory cellular infiltration, and periosteal new bone formation on the anterior surface of the vertebral bodies.
(10) Echocardiography and subsequently computed tomography showed a mass in the posterior mitral annulus causing incompetence of the valve.
(11) The valve gradient was significantly reduced (47%) from a mean (SD) of 72 (31) to 37 (23) mm Hg with no short term change in cardiac index after dilatation with a balloon with a mean (SD) diameter that was 118 (10.8)% of the valve annulus.
(12) Preoperatively there was a disproportionate increase in left coronary artery and annulus size during systole.
(13) This paper describes the histology and distribution of keratin patches and postulates a mechanism for their formation, based upon the movement of the superficial layer of corneocytes towards the annulus.
(14) Potentially damaging tensile stresses in the annulus fibrosus are directly related to the hydrostatic pressure in the centre of an intervertebral disc: the design and development of a miniature strain gauge pressure transducer is described for measuring such pressures.
(15) Replicas of freeze-fractured collagen fibrils of peripheral and central parts of the annulus fibrosus of bovine intervertebral discs show microfibrils which run either arranged in parallel or in a helix with an inclination-angle ranging from 4 degrees to 8 degrees.
(16) In normal subjects, the left ventricular (LV) epicardial apex swung up to the base only a few millimeters, and the mitral annulus ring moved about 14 mm as mean value toward the apex during systole.
(17) A method is described that allows intact removal of a prosthetic valve without damage to the annulus.
(18) In the annular form, only the annulus, and in the peripheral type only the peripheral connections of the valve are found in both ventricles.
(19) These results suggested that early mitral flow studied in an apical four chamber view is variably skewed both at the leaflet tips and at the annulus.
(20) In the presence of centre illumination, stimulation of the surround with an annulus caused a depolarization and a net decrease in conductance, and the reversal potential of the light-evoked response was shifted in a positive direction.
Moon
Definition:
(n.) The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.
(n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
(n.) The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.
(n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
(v. t.) To expose to the rays of the moon.
(v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) A second operation, total adrenalectomy, resulted in an improvement of the clinical and laboratory findings such as hypokalemia, high blood pressure, muscle atrophy and moon face.
(2) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, said the resolution "sent an unequivocal message to [North Korea] that the international community will not tolerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons."
(3) Perhaps you'd like to know how she felt holding the Olympic flag alongside Ban Ki-moon at the 2012 opening ceremony .
(4) Nevertheless, moonlight does not seem to have any effect on the composition of adult mosquito population since the difference in the parous rate of females collected during full moon and during no moon was not significant (P greater than 0.05).
(5) They are traditionally consumed on the first full moon of the new year; in our family we always like to have them right after the new year countdown.
(6) The HLP submitted its report (pdf) to Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, in May, proposing 12 goals.
(7) By October the Chronicle's editors had announced a new series of articles, aimed at providing "a full and detailed description of the moral, intellectual, material, and physical condition of the industrial poor throughout England", and Mayhew was to be the Metropolitan Correspondent, filing regular reports from areas of London that might as well have been on the moon for all the notice most people took of them.
(8) "These results," said Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, "represent a tremendous reduction in human suffering and are a clear validation of the approach embodied in the MDGs.
(9) On the eve of the latest suicide data for the UK, Madeleine Moon, chair of the all-party parliamentary group for suicide and self-harm prevention (APPG), said a third of local authorities in England had no suicide action plan.
(10) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
(11) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
(12) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
(13) She was often at Moon's side for the mass weddings.
(14) A statement by the spokesman for UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon demanded that both sides "immediately translate these commitments into action on the ground".
(15) World leaders will assemble at the UN general assembly this month to hear Ban Ki-moon set out his vision for what should replace the millennium development goals (MDGs).
(16) Ending marginalisation and exclusion of LGBT people is a human rights priority – and a development imperative,” said Ban Ki-moon at the UN general assembly last September , despite the fact there is no mention of LGBT rights in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) announced at the conference.
(17) Speaking from a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, where she is promoting her novel, she said: "I'm over the moon.
(18) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon,has promised a separate UN investigation.
(19) Accusing Raquel Rolnik, the UN special rapporteur on housing, of having an agenda, Shapps said he had written to the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, demanding an apology and an explanation of Rolnik's findings.
(20) W hat do you think happens to the rubbish when you throw it out into the street?” asks the Mighty Boosh ’s great realist Howard Moon.