(n.) A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse.
(n.) A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc of Hadley's quadrant.
(n.) An arch.
(n.) The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(2) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
(3) Thus, the decreased hyperemic response after arrest suggests a reduced energetic debt with CSC compared with ARC and may indicate superior myocardial protection with CSC.
(4) By contrast, patients with urological symptoms had a significantly increased prevalence of spina bifida occulta at S1 and S2 and a higher level of opening of posterior sacral arcs.
(5) The peptide-TR-FIA is specific, as assessed by testing HIV-1 positive sera which included samples from AIDS, ARC patients and HIV-positive drug users.
(6) In a multivariate regression model noncompliance was significantly associated with the absence of AIDS or ARC (p less than 0.001), homelessness (p less than 0.005), and alcoholism (p less than 0.05).
(7) This protein did show an immunoglobulin arc on immunoelectrophoresis against abovementioned antibody and against rabbit anti mouse Ig serum.
(8) Looping the tail of a "g", flicking the line up from the end of an "m", arcing it over an "a" or an "o".
(9) In contrast, the relative percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids was 85% greater than normal (P less than 0.001) in ARC and 100% greater than normal (P less than 0.001) in AIDS-I patients.
(10) Average range of motion was from 17.1 degrees to 44.3 degrees, with an arc of 27.2 degrees.
(11) A subsequent S3 encountered further nonuniformly shortened refractoriness (normal areas had shortened refractoriness greater than ischemic areas) and the arc of block was lengthened.
(12) The technique consists of 3 pairs of non-coplanar arcs using a 4 MV accelerator.
(13) Experiments following depletion of norepinephrine suggest that the central part of the baroreceptor reflex arc does not contain adrenergic neurons.
(14) High concentrations of SST inhibited virus replication in 80% of LC from ARC patients, but were completely ineffective in LC from AIDS patients.
(15) In our series of 46 patients with Ad35 isolates, 36 had AIDS or AIDS-related complex (ARC), seven patients were immunocompromised because of other diseases, and three patients were "normal."
(16) The possibility of contaminating the breathing air zone with hazardous substances in manual and semi-automated welding increases with the intensity of their formation in the arc zone.
(17) Optical differences between a mercury arc lamp and a laser-illuminated flow cytometer are compared.
(18) In this report, we have compared homogeneous yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) pyruvate kinase to enzyme from cell-free extracts in several different ways: 1) isoelectric focusing of cell-free extracts indicates one peak of pyruvate kinase activity whose isoelectric point is the same as that of the pure enzyme; 2) antibody prepared to the pure enzyme produces a single, fused precipitin line against enzyme in the cell-free extract and pure enzyme; 3) immunoelectrophoresis of cell-free extract produces one precipitin arc which has the same mobility as that of the pure enzyme; and 4) immunoprecipitation of the pure enzyme from cell-free extract with subsequent solubilization in 1% sodium dodecyl sulfate and electrophoresis on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels produces a single protein band attributable to pyruvate kinase which co-migrates with the purified enzyme.
(19) There were no significant differences in ARn concentrations in eight other nuclei that were examined for significant sex differences in ARc levels observed under these experimental conditions.
(20) Cells from subjects with ARC had a selective antigen recognition defect independent of the number of CD4+ lymphocytes.
Subtend
Definition:
(v. t.) To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.
Example Sentences:
(1) A state of cellular resistance to insulin action subtends the observed hyperinsulinism.
(2) Collinearity errors are consistent with the hypothesis that the sizes of all subtended angles are underestimated.
(3) Many thousands of arachnoid villi subtend all the membranes from the intrathecal space, and many of these end in the large epidural veins.
(4) Our results show that the endothelial cells and the subtending basal lamina of myocardial capillaries gradually mature morphologically during the final days of gestation and the first neonatal week.
(5) Findings are reported which suggest that this phenomenon is based on a difference in the accessing of proximal stimulus information, which, in the case of size, refers to visual angle subtended.
(6) The relationship between the logarithm of this distance and that of the fraction of the lobe subtended by an airway could be described by a quadratic equation with a correlation coefficient greater than 0.85.
(7) Eight angles, variously oriented, provided judgmental errors attributable to the size of the subtended angle and line orientation.
(8) Most PVNs subtend large, bilateral receptive fields and are exquisitely sensitive to stimulus motion and direction but insensitive to stimulus speed.
(9) We present a configuration of 3 applicators subtended by an equilateral triangle in order to target and relocate a 'hot spot' for improved treatment of deep tumors.
(10) To characterize the size of more peripheral airways, the size and number of the terminal bronchioles subtended by each airway in each left lower lobe cast were identified so that the fraction of the lobe served by that airway could be estimated.
(11) Suture holes are provided on a flange subtending 120 degrees around the circumference of the shell and are exactly matched on a stainless steel template.
(12) Two-sized checks subtending 15' and 31' were used as stimuli.
(13) Myocardial ischemia was diagnosed by either FDG-PET or Rb-PET in 34 segments subtended by significant local coronary stenoses.
(14) The magnitude of beat-to-beat alternation of unipolar waveforms was described by the difference between the time integrals subtended by electrograms of consecutive beats.
(15) We conclude that subendocardial segment lengths "average" shortening in the muscle they subtend when arrayed across the perfusion boundary.
(16) The rostellar distal cytoplasm of Echinococcus granulosus protoscoleces is characterized by extensive basal membrane infolding, prominent hemidesmosomes and is subtended by a lamina reticularis with microfibrils of approximately 10 nm diameter that occasionally show a 55 nm banding periodicity.
(17) A mathematical relationship between the peak area subtended by an immunoprecipitate in the crossed immuno-electrophoresis system and the quantity of vesicles used in the adsorption process has been derived.
(18) In this report, different events led to a sudden and fatal outcome in two patients with total coronary occlusions subtending recently infarcted, but still viable, areas of myocardium.
(19) VEPs were obtained to each of two grid sizes flashed to one eye (individual squares subtending 15 and 60 min of arc) and changes in amplitude of these VEPs were considered as a function of four stimuli continuously presented to the other eye (diffuse light, 15, 30, and 60 min of arc squares in grids).
(20) The temporal fovea, which can resolve targets subtending half a minute or less must depend upon its peripheral cornea for such sharp resolution.