(n.) The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).
(n.) A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.
(n.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.
(n.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.
(n.) The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata.
(n.) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.
(n.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.
(n.) The primary or secondary central line of any design.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(2) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(3) The results clearly show that the acute hyperthermia of unrestrained rats induced by either peripheral or central injections of morphine is not caused by activation of the pituitary-adrenal axis.
(4) In this study, pinealectomy did not alter the inhibitory effect of testosterone on neuroendocine-gonadal activity in the male rat, suggesting that the pineal gland does not mediate the response of the rat hypothalamic-pituitary axis to testosterone.
(5) The bundles may lie parallel to the plasma membrane and to the long axis of the cell.
(6) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
(7) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
(8) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
(9) 3-D curves were computed with an apparent rotation around the vertical axis Z.
(10) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
(11) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(12) These activities define both the polarity of the anterior-posterior (AP) axis and the spatial domains of expression of the zygotic gap genes, which in turn control the subsequent steps in segmentation.
(13) In addition, FSH and LH were low or normal in the presence of low testosterone levels, suggesting that the hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis is impaired.
(14) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.
(15) The first axis embraoes the genotypic period, the second the effects of etioepigenetic factors, and the third the formation of psychopathologic (neurotic or psychiatric) syndromes.
(16) This study shows that the presence of pancreatic juice in the duodenal lumen enhances the fat-stimulated release of enteric hormones that have a stimulatory action on the enteroacinar and enteroinsular axis as well as an inhibitory action (enterogastrone-like activity) on the postprandial regulation of gastric function.
(17) Thus, Hox-1.6 is involved in regional specification along the rostrocaudal axis, but only in its most rostral domain of expression.
(18) We conclude from this study that there is little or no seasonal photoperiodic entrainment of the antler and testicular cycles of males in this population of axis deer.
(19) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
(20) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
Epaxial
Definition:
(a.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pseudo-ChE occurs in several isozymic forms including sialated and asialated slightly-anodal forms found principally in liver, and a larger, asialated asymmetric form that barely penetrates the 10% PAGE gel matrix found together with true AChE in epaxial muscle, brain, and eye.
(2) Epaxial and hypaxial motoneurons show no obvious morphological differences and occupy extensively overlapping positions in the motor column.
(3) Deformation was measured in the lateral epaxial musculature of the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss during stage one of fast starts.
(4) The RNA:DNA ratio in the white epaxial muscle is lowest in starved fish and increases in proportion to the feed rate and individual specific growth rate.
(5) Some of the motoneurons innervating this hypaxial muscle were located in the ventral part of the motor column, like epaxial motoneurons, but they were segregated longitudinally from epaxial ones.
(6) In amniotes, the motoneurons innervating epaxial and hypaxial muscles are spatially segregated in the cord (Smith and Hollyday: J. Comp.
(7) In contrast, epaxial and hypaxial motoneurons are spatially segregated in water snakes, rats, and monkeys, apparently as a consequence of an isomorphic mapping of motoneuron location onto the position of innervated muscle in the embryonic myotome.
(8) The dorsal ramus nerve diverges dorsally from each spinal nerve to innervate the epaxial muscle and dermis that are derived in situ from each dermamyotome.
(9) Palpable rigidity of the epaxial (paraspinal) muscles, lordotic flattening, and spinal flexion accompanying back pain generally are ascribed to epaxial muscle spasm.
(10) Electromyographic evidence of denervation in the epaxial muscles was observed in 22 dogs.
(11) Medial longissimus, the remaining major lumbar epaxial muscle, is a muscle of the proximal tail-tailbase.
(12) Epaxial compartment syndromes are proposed as a possible cause of palpable rigidity, lordotic flattening, and spinal flexion accompanying idiopathic back pain.
(13) Though there were slight differences in the locations of motoneurons filled from nerves entering epaxial and hypaxial muscle, their distributions in the cord overlapped substantially.
(14) It was concluded that the best sites for injection in dogs are the lumbar epaxial musculature or the quadriceps femoris muscle when IM administration is imperative.
(15) In addition, resting and exercising epaxial compartment pressures were measured in 18 normal volunteers with a slit catheter.
(16) Electromyography and cinematography were used to determine the activity of epaxial muscles of colubrid snakes during terrestrial and aquatic lateral undulatory locomotion.
(17) Their large axons traveled medial to the Mauthner axon in the cord and entered branches of spinal nerves running deep in the epaxial or hypaxial muscle.
(18) Recordings from the axons of the epaxial motoneurons of female rats showed a strong activation of neuronal firing with an onset latency of 5.8 ms from the last shock of a three ms, three shock train; the onset in male rats, 8.4 ms, differed significantly.
(19) There is no obvious topographic relationship between the location of motoneurons in the motor column and the dorsoventral location of the muscle they innervate in the myomeres; epaxial motoneurons are not segregated from hypaxial ones.
(20) Intermediate and medial muscles, based on the central location of motoneurons that supply them, are part of the longitudinal epaxial musculature and are not part of a trapezius complex.