(n.) The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(2) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(3) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
(4) Intrinsic bending of the 527-bp fragment (bend center approximately at bp 240) was represented as a composite of at least two components located near bp 170 and near bp 260.
(5) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.
(6) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
(7) The developed apparatus included ultrasonic generators operating at a frequency of 0.5-3 MHz, piezoceramic radiators of various design providing the heating of an object with convergent, divergent and plane ultrasonic waves, thermoprobes in the form of single or multiple thermocouples with the bends from 5 points at a 5 mm distance from one another, temperature meters and various auxiliaries.
(8) Optical diffraction measurements on electron micrographs of the bend demonstrate that the axostyle tubules slide over one another and that the tubules on the inside of a bend usually contract, sometimes by as much as 25%.
(9) Temperature decline through the region of 10 degrees C caused a number of spermatozoa in buffer to undergo a sudden asymmetric bending of the flagellum in the region of the midpiece.
(10) This large increase in power output can be accommodated without an increase in metabolic rate only if internal viscous resistances to flagellar bending are relatively low.
(11) I was asked, as still the home secretary, would you bend on ID cards, and we'd put all our bits in, and we thought we could get a deal here.
(12) We measured the stiffness of comparable configurations (1 or 2 bars) under axial compression, four-point-bending in two planes, and torsion.
(13) The criteria of failure of pedicular instrumentation or "death" of an implant were defined as 1) screw bending, 2) screw breakage, 3) infection, 4) loosening of implants, 5) any rod or plate hardware problems, or 6) removal of hardware due to a neurologic complication.
(14) Static and fatigue testing of representative samples by the simultaneous application of compressive and bending loads to the maximum values specified by international standards exposed no failures by the time a million cycles had been reached.
(15) My Paul Nuttalls routine has floated back up the U-bend | Stewart Lee Read more Nuttall told Marr that “nothing should be a sacred cow in British politics.
(16) Using fluorescence energy transfer, the extent of DNA bending was estimated by measuring the end-to-end distance of the DNA fragment which was labeled with a donor-acceptor pair on two opposite ends.
(17) Future ice loss and bending of the crust due to rising sea levels have the potential ultimately to raise levels of both earthquake and volcanic activity.
(18) In addition, the ability to bend DNA is retained by a small proteolytic fragment of the protein, suggesting that the DNA-binding domain of the protein is resistant to proteases and is sufficient to bend DNA.
(19) As in our previous studies, the modulus of elasticity in bending was significantly less than the value obtained in tension for only the smaller cross-sectional wires.
(20) Assuming no future environmental or lifestyle changes, the upward trend in age-adjusted mortality rates, which averaged 2 to 3% per annum since 1950, is projected to discontinue and bend downward by the second decade of the 21st century.
Incurvate
Definition:
(a.) Curved; bent; crooked.
(v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.
Example Sentences:
(1) Basic signs of this syndrome: dwarfism with bilateral tibio-fibula incurvation and sclerosis, are remembered, as well as deafness like associated symptom.
(2) This consists of a flattening or incurvation of the medial boundary of the orbit, best demonstrated by axial tomography.
(3) The radial shaft bands while the hand incurves medially.
(4) The coronal suture incurves around a pivot formed by the lateral orbital pillar and the pterion, giving rise to a set of facial and cranial deformities, variable according to the precocity and the topography of the synostosis.
(5) This therapy was particularly effective in patients with severely incurved nails.
(6) Though well planed in advance, the creation of this man-made lake, illustrates the necessity at the very beginning of a project that will distrub all the ecology of a region, to establish the total disadvantages and health hazards incurved by the people who live there.
(7) The good results are obvious not only on the pain, but also on the induration and incurvation, permitting the resumption of sexual intercourse in more than 75% of cases.
(8) Although a complete recovery was not obtained, pain disappeared and incurvation improved in the majority of patients thus enabling normal sexual activity.
(9) Literature is reviewed and the clinical, radiologic, pathologic and etiopathogenetic features are commented, pointing out the diferent associated abnormalities that other authors did not consign: facial, anacraneal dysplasia, epiphyseal separations and dislocations of radius, and peroneal incurvation.
(10) The histological study of the tendons and ligaments of 4 other wrists, submitted to manoeuvres of stretching, of rupture and of incurvation, reinforces these results.
(11) A case of Russell-Silver dwarfism is described with intrauterine dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion, congenital asymmetry of the body, triangular face, retro- and micrognathia and short incurved fifth fingers.
(12) The geometric, radial arrangement seems to arise from a gradual incurvation and convergence of parallel units in these membranes.
(13) The patient was tall and had markedly incurved little fingers on both hands as well as small testes.
(14) The latero-medial projection of incurvation was correlated with the length of dyschondroplastic lesions.
(15) In a review of the findings in 148 reported cases of the syndrome, abnormalities occurring in over 50% of the cases are short stature, craniofacial dysproportion, low birth weight, term gestation, body asymmetry, incurved fifth digits, normal intelligence, short fifth digits, and down-curved corners of the mouth (shark mouth).
(16) Characteristic US findings were dilatation of the distal ureter, often disproportionate to the appearance of the upper collecting system; lower ureteral hyperperistalsis; and a sharply tapered, incurving, distal adynamic segment, 1-3 cm long.
(17) Specific complications are of a neurological nature (cases of cutaneous hyperesthesia, one severe motor deficit) long-term problems with device and material are uncommon; rupture of sub-laminar wire 8 cases; secondary incurving of frame 1 case.
(18) Clinical signs were microcephaly, hemangiomata, long incurved eyelashes, strabismus, enlarged bridge of the nose, abnormally long philtrum, high-arched palate, low set ears, hexadactyly of the four extremities, umbilical and inguinal hernias, neonatal respiratory distress, psychomotor and growth retardation.
(19) Only two cases of incurvated nails (2) required re-operation.
(20) Mental retardation, short stature, microcephaly, hypertelorism, epicanthus, ptosis, short, broadbased nose, carp mouth, abnormalities of teeth, microretrognathy, big, protruding and low set ears, short neck, pterygium colli, broad chest, incurved fifth fingers, muscular hypotonia and low birth wieght establish a clinical diagnosis of the 18p-syndrome in many instances even before the result of chromosomal analyis is known.