(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.
Uniaxial
Definition:
(a.) Having but one optic axis, or line of no double refraction.
(a.) Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; -- opposed to multiaxial.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new triaxial constitutive relation for the myocardium is presented which exhibits the observed exponential length-passive tension behavior of left ventricular papillary muscle in the limit of uniaxial tension.
(2) Thus from just beyond the chiasma the fibres had already achieved the major uniaxial rearrangement necessary to establish a normal tract distribution despite the eye translocation.
(3) Whole-tissue stress-strain behavior under uniaxial loading is predicted from an analysis of the compression of a conglomerate of cells in a simple arrangement.
(4) The normalized residual anisotropy (A infinity) is insensitive to viscosity and temperature changes, supporting the model of uniaxial rotation of the protein about the membrane normal.
(5) For larger deformation, the results were quantified using a nonlinear analysis of viscoelastic response of the spinal cord under the uniaxial experiment.
(6) A model is proposed for two conical bodies swimming in a uniaxial membrane which interact with each other through elastic coupling.
(7) Biaxial and uniaxial stress-strain curves from the literature are used to evaluate the parameters of the model.
(8) The stress and strain modes are illustrated using the representation of the stress and strain fields around a circular hole in a flat plate of cortical bone subjected to a uniaxial field of tension as the example.
(9) Natural and glutaraldehyde fixed bovine pericardium samples were mechanically conditioned by a cyclic uniaxial load procedure.
(10) We also conducted uniaxial compression tests to failure of the vertebral bodies after removal of the posterior elements, and found that vertebral compressive strength was also correlated at a high level of significance (R2 = 0.82, p less than 0.0001) with direct measurement of the trabecular apparent density.
(11) The uniaxial compression modulus for the growing direction was appreciably larger than those for the other two directions, while the anisotropy of the modulus was absent for a decalcified ligament.
(12) Uniaxial loading of human lens, zonules, ciliary muscle, and choroid shows a nonlinear relationship between stress and deformation of the specimen, and hysteresis on unloading.
(13) Anacystis nidulans cyanobacteria and their fragments embedded in unstretched, uniaxial and skew (two axes of stretching forming an angle of 40 degrees) stretched poly(vinyl alcohol) films have been investigated.
(14) Formulas were derived on the assumption that the optical properties of the axon could be represented by a model of a uniaxial crystal that was not only birefringent but also dichroic, its extinction coefficients and the angle of retardation being changed independently on excitation.
(15) The mechanical properties of human skin in vivo are studied by means of uniaxial strain measurements.
(16) The effect of increased and decreased uniaxial tissue tension on capillary blood flow, plasma volume, edema formation, and vascular permeability in myocutaneous flaps was studied.
(17) Data obtained from canine femur-medial collateral ligament-tibia complexes (FMT) and isolated chicken flexor tendons revealed that the strains on opposite surfaces of these parallel fiber soft connective tissues were similar during a uniaxial tensile test.
(18) Glutaraldehyde-fixed bovine pericardium demonstrates both relaxation of stress and hysteresis during uniaxial loading and unloading.
(19) Uniaxial load-deformation measurements were carried out with a non-invasive extensometer and utilized in formulating the model.
(20) Both Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio varied with uniaxial loading in pericardium, chemically modified free of tension.