What's the difference between axis and multiaxial?

Axis


Definition:

  • (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.

Multiaxial


Definition:

  • (a.) Having more than one axis; developing in more than a single line or plain; -- opposed to monoaxial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 24 hospitalized borderline patients were administered an Attachment Style Inventory and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory.
  • (2) This study examined patterns of consistency and change on the basic personality and symptom scales of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) in a sample of VA inpatient alcoholics (N = 96), who were administered the MCMI at intake and at 1 month into treatment, and in a sample of drug abusers (N = 33), who received MCMI administrations at intake into treatment and after 1 and 3 months of treatment.
  • (3) A major feature of DSM-III is its multiaxial format.
  • (4) They propose a new, multiaxial method of classification in which the clinician could indicate the role of psychological factors in the initiation, exacerbation, or maintenance of any physical disorder.
  • (5) This study used criteria based on the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory to partition 20 patients, who were all schizophrenic by three diagnostic systems, into two subgroups.
  • (6) One thousand two hundred inmates were given the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) in a midwestern reception and diagnostic center.
  • (7) The atlantoaxial articulation is a multiaxial joint with a freedom of motion that presents unique problems in achieving surgical stability.
  • (8) Research on an empirically derived multiaxial classification for chronic pain is described and related to chronic orofacial pain.
  • (9) The Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) Psychotic Thinking scale previously was found insensitive in the detection of schizophrenia.
  • (10) We studied the scores obtained on the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) by Black and White male psychiatric inpatients to determine the presence or absence of racial bias.
  • (11) The results of this review have led the DSM-IV Multiaxial Issues Work Group to consider several options for major changes in the format of axis IV to be recommended to the DSM-IV Task Force.
  • (12) Samples of alcohol-dependent-only subjects (n = 164), cocaine-dependent-only subjects (n = 63), and subjects dependent on multiple substances, including alcohol and cocaine (n = 103), were administered the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) as part of a routine clinical evaluation.
  • (13) These findings confirm that, in patients with a cross-sectional diagnosis of schizodepressive disorder, the previous course of the illness is of crucial importance for prognosis, and support the usefulness of a multiaxial classification of schizoaffective states, taking into account not only cross-sectional symptomatology but also course.
  • (14) These scores were examined in relation to situational and background measures, two personality instruments (the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), and to regrets about career decisions.
  • (15) Recently, an empirically derived multivariate classification system, the Multiaxial Assessment of Pain (MAP) patients, has been developed.
  • (16) To assess a polyglandular affection we found useful the multiaxial synchronous test where stimulation of several hypothalamic releasing hormones combined with a hypoglycaemic stimulus is used.
  • (17) The CHLs represented a multiaxial unit containing a system of venous tributaries in accordance with intralobular septation, whereas the SHLs were found with one axial vessel having a dendritic tendency at the incipient end; some SHLs were drained eccentrically by separate vessels into a sublobular vein.
  • (18) A second purpose of this paper is to present a multiaxial approach for the assessment of PTSD.
  • (19) The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) and a demographic questionnaire were mailed to patient-led support groups for women who had poorly assimilated a previous abortion experience.
  • (20) Eighty-seven men with testis cancer (TC) and 35 men with other cancers (OC) completed measures of mood (Profile of Mood States) and of personality and psychopathology (Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory).

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