(n.) The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.
(n.) A collection of maps in a volume
(n.) A volume of plates illustrating any subject.
(n.) A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.
(n.) A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio.
(n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.
(n.) A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.
Example Sentences:
(1) This section includes a description of the presentations on the pages, the use of color in the scans, and the use of certain advanced features of the ACTA-Scanner, the scanner used for the atlas.
(2) Students will use this computerized atlas interactively to learn the structure of the body and to understand their own bodies in health and disease.
(3) Familial occipitalization of the atlas with atlantalization of the axis was defined as a single congenital disease in Arabian horses following a clinical, radiologic, and morphologic study of 16 horses with congenital malformations of the occiput, atlas, and axis, and from a study of three reported cases.
(4) As for the liberals who are today pointing at an atlas and shrugging for the cameras, back then their parents were probably writing letters to the Times about the need for greater economic efficiency.
(5) From the survey of another 21 patients having bony abnormalities at the craniovertebral junction, the first type of arterial anomaly described above was seen in 4 patients and associated with failure of segmentation of the embryonic sclerotome such as occipitalization of the atlas or Klippel-Feil syndrome.
(6) The second, the normal tubercle for insertion of the transverse ligament of the atlas, may look like a separate ossicle or a chip fracture.
(7) The corresponding transformation is chosen so that the modified atlas agrees with a set of CT or NMR images of the patient.
(8) Rheumatoid arthritis, which produces anterior displacement of the atlas over the dens to more than 10 mm, neurologic symptoms, or untreatable pain must be stabilized by means of C1-C2 fusion.
(9) Anterior atlas clefts (AACs) are rare developmental variants that may mimic fractures.
(10) Fissures in the anterior arch of the atlas are rare.
(11) Conventional anatomical atlases provide rigid spatial distribution of internal structures extracted from a single subject.
(12) Modeling of polyline vertices established from gray scale contour mapping and atlas reconstructions further enhance the spatial understanding of relationships to midline structures.
(13) Various neurological manifestations secondary to exceptional atlo-occipital and sometimes axis-atlas subluxations and medullary lesions as well as syndromes of the cauda equina.
(14) Surgical treatment for cervical myelopathy in os odontoideum with posterior instability is suggested as follows: in the absence of canal stenosis of the atlas (Group IIIA), atlantoaxial fusion in a reduced position is indicated; when associated with canal stenosis of the atlas (Group IIIB), laminectomy of the atlas followed by occiput-to-C2 arthrodesis is indispensable.
(15) Serial sections of five brainstems from adults with no known neurological disorders were stained for Nissl substance, acetylcholinesterase, and substance P. The topography, cytoarchitecture, and acetylcholinesterase reactivity of the tegmental nuclei were presented in a mini-atlas depicting sections cut in transverse and sagittal planes.
(16) Films such as Cloud Atlas and were turned down for co-production, despite having significant elements designed to accommodate Chinese sensibilities, while Zhang was thought to be referring to Iron Man 3 with the "one or two shots" line.
(17) The structures examined included the lower cranial and upper spinal nerves, the caudal brain stem and rostral spinal cord, the vertebral artery and its branches, the veins and dural sinuses at the craniovertebral junction, and the ligaments and muscles uniting the atlas, axis, and occipital bone.
(18) Treatment of choice is a laminectomy of the dorsal arch of the atlas and an osteoclastic dilatation of the foramen magnum but without opening of the dura.
(19) The native atlas planes were spaced at 2 mm intervals, sufficient axial sampling to permit the generation of oblique planar sections through the atlas space.
(20) The frequency of two non-metric skeletal traits, atlas bridging and clinoid bridging, were examined serially in a randomly chosen sample of 147 families who participated in the Burlington Growth Study.
Gazette
Definition:
(n.) A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.
(v. t.) To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy.
Example Sentences:
(1) UK Press Gazette, the journalists’ trade publication which is running a Save Our Sources campaign, said that 25 police forces had refused to respond to its freedom of information requests for details on their use of the Ripa law.
(2) The announcement that Crosby was being stripped of the knighthood was made in the London Gazette just as the commission's members were locked in negotiations about the conclusions of their final report, which is expected to run to 600 pages.
(3) I’d been away for two weeks and came back last night so confused because all the shops had changed and said Grimsby on them – I thought I was drunk," Bethany Casey, 19, told the local Thurrock Gazette newspaper .
(4) Retail Gazette in the UK has warned that "there is a danger that larger spaces will turn into empty buildings, with only tumbleweed passing through them".
(5) "I was surprised but not that surprised," DNA specialist Vince Evelsizer told the Gazette .
(6) As for those tax exiles and their families living in place like Monaco who have accepted public honours, there should be no hiding place: either they pay back the taxes they should have been paying like everybody else, or, like Fred Goodwin, their honours can be publicly withdrawn in a special issue of the London Gazette.
(7) A Stand Up For The Observer meeting organised by the National Union of Journalists and trade magazine Press Gazette is due to be held at the Friends Meeting House in Euston Road, central London, on Monday, 21 September.
(8) Meanwhile in Brentwood, local paper the Gazette claim a petrol station in the locale has had to close down due to an infestation of rats.
(9) In the early hours of Monday morning, Tsipras published a decree in the official government gazette setting out the capital controls to be imposed on the country.
(10) The two of them composed enticing videos which received thousands of followers and viewers from all over the world within a short period of time,” Mayman told the Saudi Gazette.
(11) In an interview during the campaign with the Glenrothes Gazette, Gordon Brown came close to admitting this.
(12) Paul Dacre, the Daily Mail editor, was given the special award by events organiser Press Gazette, while London Evening Standard investigative reporter Andrew Gilligan was named journalist of the year.
(13) According to the Montreal Gazette, Canadian Pacific's revenues per car have risen 12% in the first quarter since last year, thanks to the oil by rail surge, while 12% of Canadian railroad freight is hazardous material.
(14) Curriculum vitae Age 49 Education Cumnor House prep; Chailey secondary school, East Sussex; Harlow College journalism course Career 1987 reporter, South London News; Streatham and Tooting News 1989 showbusiness editor, the Sun 1994 editor, News of the World 1995 editor, Daily Mirror 2004 sacked 2005 publishes first memoirs; buys Press Gazette 2006 judge, Britain’s Got Talent; launches First News 2009 ITV chatshow host; GQ columnist 2011 replaces Larry King on CNN with Piers Morgan Live 2014 show cancelled, joins Mail Online as editor-at-large (US)
(15) Charlton, who is in his early 60s, previously edited the Sheffield Star for 12 years and before that the Blackpool Evening Gazette.
(16) Guidelines for the protection of privacy in the conduct of medical research have been issued by the National Health and Medical Research Council, approved by the Commonwealth Privacy Commissioner, and gazetted on 1 July 1991 (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No.
(17) HSBC customers in India suspected of tax evasion have been given 30 days to nominate a legal representative in Switzerland or face seeing their names published in the country’s official gazette.
(18) This is applicable both to major newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, which implemented its paywall in 1997 and which registered only a 15 % decline in print circulations in the 15 years which followed, and to smaller-market papers such as the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which adopted its paywall in 2002, and whose print circulation in the second half of 2011 was higher than in 2000.
(19) Drug companies were pouring opioids into West Virginia, delivering 780m painkillers into a state of just 1.8m people over a five year period to 2012, according to an investigation by the Charleston Gazette-Mail .
(20) Dominic Ponsford, editor of the Press Gazette trade publication, said there is a distinction between the Daily Mail, where the stories are carefully checked and put to subjects before publication, and Mail Online.