(n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
(n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands.
(n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
(n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
(n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
(n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
(n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
Example Sentences:
(1) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
(2) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(3) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(4) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(5) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
(6) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(7) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(8) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(9) No reaction product was observed in the lamellar areas.
(10) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
(11) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(12) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
(13) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
(14) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(15) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(16) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(17) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(18) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(19) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(20) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
Planimetry
Definition:
(n.) The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paraffin sections (8 microns) containing the medial habenular nucleus were stained with cresyl violet and both left and right medial habenular nuclei were measured by planimetry.
(2) Data of ether-extracted total fat content versus data of fat marbling planimetry correlated well with r = 0.9.
(3) beta-TG levels did not correlate with the volume of cerebral infarction as measured by planimetry from CT scans.
(4) Mean fiber area, determined by planimetry, was 49.1 and 34.5% greater following enlargement in male and female mice, respectively.
(5) Regurgitant volume was calculated from reverse aortic flow and was compared to jet length, area (by planimetry) and volume (from Simpson's rule).
(6) The lungs of bleomycin-treated dogs which received urokinase had less severe fibrosis and this was confirmed by morphometry with planimetry and the point counting method.
(7) In the interpretation of the tracings, significant differences were found for all measures, except planimetry; however, not all of these have the same practical implications.
(8) Gastric antral endoscopic pinch biopsies from a group of dyspeptic patients were analysed for acute and chronic inflammatory cell numbers in the lamina propria and surface epithelial layer using computer-linked graphic tablet planimetry, and independently graded for Campylobacter pylori (CP) infection using a visual scoring system with grade 1 assessed as patchy epithelial infection and grade 2 as a continuous layer of organisms on the mucosal surface extending into gastric pits.
(9) Amplitude, duration and magnitude (as measured by planimetry) of anal relaxation elicited by rectal distensions were related to rectal distending volume (P less than 0.001).
(10) Blood-brain barrier disruption was assessed by spread of Evans blue dye with planimetry.
(11) Human coronary arteries were perfusion-fixed; sectioned and their external and lumenal circumferences measured by microscopic planimetry.
(12) The surface areas of the wheal and flare responses were measured by planimetry.
(13) Planimetry of transmission electron micrographs showed 59% of the intraepithelial membranes were stained with lanthanum in the DNP-OA-sensitized and DNP-OA-challenged group; 39% in the saline-sensitized, DNP-OA-challenged group, and 26% in the DNP-OA-sensitized, BGG-challenged group.
(14) Planimetry of megakaryocytes (MK) was performed in bone marrow biopsies (BMBs) from patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders (CMPD) to substantiate cytomorphologic differences in this cell lineage between the four main groups of CMPD.
(15) At the age of 7, mastoid X-rays were obtained and the air cell areas measured by planimetry.
(16) The menu for the data analysis provided for this device includes multilinear densitometry, with planimetry, area densitometry, measurement of anterior chamber depth and thickness of lens layers, determination of chamber angle and positioning of implanted intraocular lenses, and measurement of opaque areas in the retroillumination image.
(17) The effect of nitroglycerin and ibuprofen, given between 2 and 7 days after left anterior descending coronary artery ligation, on the mechanical resistance of the infarcted left ventricle to rupture or the rupture threshold (balloon technique), and on topography (computerized planimetry) and function (two-dimensional echocardiography) at 7 days (n = 32) and 42 days (n = 34) postligation was studied in 66 dogs randomly allocated to sham (no infarction, n = 22) and infarction subgroups (15 controls; 15 received nitroglycerin, 30 mg oral isosorbide dinitrate b.i.d.
(18) Three commonly used prostate volume measurement techniques were analyzed: planimetry, prolate ellipse volume calculation (HWL), and an ellipsoid volume measurement technique.
(19) NRL was quantified by planimetry of photographs of cut sections of brain.
(20) In this study we have measured gland size by planimetry,and cellular activity by autoradiography using tritiated thymidine and tritated histidine.