(adv.) With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eleven patients with stones overlying the sacro-iliac joint were treated in the prone position, while 56 patients with stones distal to the sacro-iliac joint, were treated in the saddle (astride) position.
(2) The results are in agreement with data on visual callosal connections in animals and confirm previous psychophysical findings (Berardi & Fiorentini, 1987) indicating the particular properties of the interhemispheric cross-talk between symmetric regions of the visual field astride the vertical meridian in man.
(3) Segmental ganglia of the ventral nerve cord arise as laterally thickened sheets of tissue lying astride the ventral midline.
(4) After all, “how can you expect a little child whose mother is an angel and whose father is a Cannibal King and who has spent her life sailing the seas to tell the truth always?” Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking.
(5) The caudal lobe of liver is an independent sector astride the right and left liver regions.
(6) The Sunday Mirror reprinted Profumo's 'Darling' letter, while the News of the World famously photographed Keeler sitting naked astride a fashionably modern chair, an image that would come to epitomise the Swinging Sixties.
(7) Serial histologic sectioning of the specialized atrioventricular junctional area revealed that the final bifurcation of the branching bundle came astride the septum in the inferior angle of the defect.
(8) Coagulative denaturation of contractile proteins follows, presenting as irregular, amorphous degeneration stripes astride irreversibly damaged myocells.
(9) Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmind Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking is the invention of Swedish children’s book author Astrid Lindgren.
(10) Updated at 10.13am BST 10.07am BST To those of you astride a high moral horse ...
(11) The Buddh circuit has been built as a flagship development for a bigger project: a new town with a population of several hundred thousand, which will have malls, sports and education facilities, and will sit astride a new motorway linking it to Delhi, 32km away, and Agra, 190km away.
(12) in which he bobs towards his fiancee across the Aegean, astride a jet-ski, half naked but without a hint of torso jiggle.
(13) Roy Wood told Today that even in their heyday, Christmas songs had a touch of the Samuel Becketts about them – born astride the grave, they were rung out once the new year was rung in.
(14) But it wasn't only Reagan: Springsteen is so popular astride political fissures that Chris Christie, the recently elected Republican governor of his home state, New Jersey, wanted Springsteen to play at his inaugural bash.
(15) In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo he is likened to Kalle Blomkvist, Astrid Lindgren's boy detective, while Lisbeth Salander is regularly compared to her more famous creation for children, Pippi Longstocking, what with being so unconventional and super-strong.
(16) Manometry was performed with an assembly combining 13 side holes and a sleeve sensor positioned astride the pylorus.
(17) Astrid, suddenly, tells me to stop the car at the next intersection.
(18) Astrid Silva had no idea Barack Obama was going to name her in his landmark immigration speech , making her the poster child for reform, until the roomful of fellow activists in Las Vegas exploded around her.
(19) Times have changed and so - evidently - has Astrid Proll.
(20) A 560-kb region covered by a DXS56-positive YAC has been restriction-mapped and subcloned, disclosing a 187-kb MluI fragment astride the breakpoint.
Side
Definition:
(n.) The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.
(n.) Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side.
(n.) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather.
(n.) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.
(n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
(n.) The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.
(n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
(n.) Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.
(a.) Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark.
(n.) Long; large; extensive.
(v. i.) To lean on one side.
(v. i.) To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party.
(v. t.) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
(v. t.) To suit; to pair; to match.
(v. t.) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
(v. t.) To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(3) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
(4) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(5) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(6) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
(7) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(8) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(9) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
(10) Estimates of potential for gastrointestinal side effects using the rat enteropooling assay and in vivo monkey effects indicate that diarrhea will be substantially reduced with retention of uterine stimulating potency.
(11) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(12) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
(13) Thus there may be four types of LPS in PACI: one contains unsubstituted core polysaccharide and yields L2 on acid hydrolysis, another has short antigenic side-chains of the SR type and yields the LI fraction, while the two high molecular weight fractions are derived from core polysaccharides with different side-chains.
(14) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(15) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(16) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(17) The product of this enzymatic hydrolysis was F420 with one less glutamic acid in the side chain.
(18) On embryonic day 3.5 (E3.5), 1 day after surgery, there is a 42% average increase in volume of the polyganglia compared with the corresponding DRG on the unoperated side.
(19) Side effects were observed in 15.9% of the patients in the urapidil group and in 11.3% of the prazosin group (NS).
(20) Significant side-effects occurred infrequently and only 2 children lost weight during the period of medication.