(n.) Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.
(n.) A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.
(n.) Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.
(n.) Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.
(v. t.) To cover with an arch or arches.
(v. t.) To form or bend into the shape of an arch.
(v. i.) To form into an arch; to curve.
(a.) Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.
(a.) Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.
(n.) A chief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
(2) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(3) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
(4) A forty-four-year-old woman with Takayasu's arteritis and involvement of the aortic arch and its main branches complained of precordial pain on effort.
(5) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(6) Global 'abnormality', hunching (rigid arching of back), hindlimb abduction, forepaw myoclonus, stereotyped lateral head movements, backing, and immobility occurred significantly only in drug-treated rats.
(7) Between March 1986 and September 1988, 38 patients underwent extended aortic resection (aortic valve, ascending aorta, and arch) for acute type-A aortic dissection with aortic valve insufficiency; deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest were used.
(8) Other associated malformations were an interrupted aortic arch and an atrial septal defect.
(9) The sucker, covered with basal lamina, has a constant volume; its layer of muscles resists deformation and supports the stability of the arch.
(10) In the anaesthetized dog the carotid sinuses and aortic arch were isolated from the circulation and separately perfused with blood by a method which enabled the mean pressure, pulse pressure and pulse frequency to be varied independently in each vasosensory area.
(11) The data presented in this paper confirm the need for stimulation of the pudendal reflex arch to achieve physiological conditions.
(12) This article describes the application and efficacy of the lipbumper used in the lower arch.
(13) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
(14) The most commonly associated lesions were ventricular septal defect (50%), hypoplastic aortic arch (45%), patent ductus arteriosus (41%), transposition of great arteries (22.7%) and other intracardiac lesions comprised 30%.
(15) This malformation was demonstrated in alcian-blue- and alizarin-red-stained fetal skeletons by measurements of the distance between the cartilaginous ends of each vertebral arch.
(16) No correlation was found between aortic arch size and the size of the left-to-right shunt in cases of DAP.
(17) After 48 hours in culture, all specimens were examined at 6x magnification for defects in the facial arches, head fold, and neural tube fusion.
(18) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(19) Although different dimensions of the face and head and the upper dental arch width were found to be significantly correlated in children with normal occlusion, this relationship is not found to be strong enough in children with different categories of malocclusion.
(20) We suggest that incomplete development of the bones of the dorsal neural arches of the upper sacrum may be a marker of incomplete neurogenesis of the sacral nerves.
Camerate
Definition:
(v. i.) To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.
(v. i.) To divide into chambers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scintillation camer superior venacavogram provides a quick, safe, and accurate method of evaluating the patency of the SVC and its tributaries.
(2) The presence of normal major coronary arteries and absence of any small myocardial coronary branches from the tunnel argues against the structure being a coronary-cameral fistula and supports the diagnosis of aortico-right atrial tunnel.
(3) A coronary-cameral fistula was inspected clinically by two-dimensional and pulsed Doppler ultrasound.
(4) Gross coronary anomalies included coronary-cameral communications (n = 29), single left coronary artery (n = 2), single right coronary artery (n = 1) and tortuosity (n = 19).
(5) Coronary cameral fistulae in 208 orthotopic heart transplants performed at Papworth Hospital were examined.
(6) The mean transepithelial potential was +4.04 mV (cameral side positive to stroma).
(7) In 1983, five years after becoming prime minister, he introduced a constitution for a "tri-cameral" parliament in which whites, coloureds and Indians were given representation.
(8) He was demonstrated to have a ventricular septal defect, mitral regurgitation, and two coronary-cameral fistulas.
(9) Coronary cameral fistulae are an uncommon complication of heart transplantation and follow-up biopsy, and appear to be of no haemodynamic significance.
(10) In addition, this technique allowed the demonstration of primitive vascular communications between the coronary artery and left ventricular cavity in 1 patient (coronary-cameral fistula).
(11) The occurrence of producing an ocular hypertension in the untreated fellow eye following repeated intra-cameral injections of small dosage (1 microgram) of Triethyltin, every two days for more than one month, in the other eye is described.
(12) A case is reported in which multiple needles were inserted into the heart by a patient, resulting in the unusual combination of a coronary artery-cameral fistula to the left ventricle, an intramural defect of the left ventricular free wall and a ventricular septal defect.
(13) Coronary-cameral communications and tortuosity were significantly associated with the subgroup that had mitral hypoplasia and aortic atresia.
(14) She, too, became its Creative Director, appearing at CES in 2010 to launch camere glasses.
(15) Annual arteriograms performed in cardiac transplant recipients have revealed several distinctive angiographic features that include clockwise rotation of the heart, presence of coronary arterial-cameral fistulae, presumably resulting from right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy specimens and collateralization of the brachial anastomosis from coronary atrial branches.
(16) The regional cerebral blood flow, the regional blood flow distribution, and the regional distribution of perfused (= vital) brain tissue been imaged with a digitalized conventional Anger camer.
(17) Twenty two years after surgical ligation of a large coronary-cameral fistula originating from the circumflex artery and terminating to the right atrium, non-sustained exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia occurred in a 26-year-old male with known Klinefelter (XXY) syndrome.
(18) Twelve traumatic coronary artery-cameral fistulas have been reported in the world's literature.