What's the difference between biconvex and convex?

Biconvex


Definition:

  • (a.) Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Studies of the dorsal ocelli of the wasp Paravespula vulgaris (L.) led to the following results: Under a biconvex corneal lens, 150 microns in thickness, about 600 receptor cells are located.
  • (2) The white disc-like structure in 11 cases was composed of an anterior, stiff, bulgy, biconvex structure combined with a posterior flattened portion that grossly was incorrectly determined to be part of the disc, but that was identified histologically as a posterior disc attachment that had undergone adaptive change characterized by connective tissue hyalinization.
  • (3) Twenty knees that were resurfaced with a patellar button prosthesis and implanted with conventional surgical technique constituted Group A. Twenty knees that were resurfaced with a new biconvex prosthesis and implanted with specially designed instrumentation constituted Group B.
  • (4) The dioptric apparatus of each ommatidia includes a biconvex corneal lens and a spherical crystalline cone that is secreted by two cone cells.
  • (5) Between flattening of kidney and capsular artery or capsule, one may individualize a mass of soft tissue density, convex or biconvex, corresponding to the hematomas.
  • (6) Epidural hematomas demonstrated a high density and a biconvex, lenticular shape.
  • (7) The resolution efficiencies of 31 biconvex silicone intraocular lenses, ranging in power from 16.0 to 23.5 diopters, were tested in air and in water to see if a predictable relationship existed as previously reported with polymethylmethacrylate lenses.
  • (8) Analysis of these medications reveals that the most commonly prescribed combination is the glucocorticoid triamcinolone (unscored white tablets) and the antihistamine chlorpheniramine (coated biconvex orange or red tablets).
  • (9) With capsular fixated IOLs, the features that have a statistically significant impact on reducing PCO include (1) one-piece, all-polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) IOL styles, (2) a biconvex or posterior convex optic design, and (3) angulated loops.
  • (10) Constant ultrasonographic features include a biconvex, echogenic, intracranial mass adjacent to the inner table of the skull.
  • (11) Flattening of vertebral bodies with biconvex deformity and short tubular bones with irregular epiphyses and metaphyses are the major radiographic features.
  • (12) In healthy children younger than 5 years of age, the thymus had a quadrilateral shape and biconvex lateral contours.
  • (13) The exact positioning of the biconvex, one-piece lens in the bag is the prerequisite for good centration and for an optimal result.
  • (14) In aortic stenosis and idiopathic cardiomyopathy, the septum tends to be biconvex with maximal thickening in its middle third.
  • (15) Laboratory studies have suggested that one-piece, biconvex designs may reduce or delay posterior capsular opacification and that in-the-bag fixation of the posterior chamber IOL may reduce inflammation.
  • (16) Asphericities for five lens shapes; the minimum spherical aberration lens and its reverse form, the equi-biconvex lens, the plano-convex lens and its reverse form are determined.
  • (17) Rat embryos at 9.9 days of gestation, when the neural epithelium is a biconvex plate, and at 10.4 days of gestation, when the cervical neural epithelium has formed the neural tube and when the cephalic neural folds have elevated but not fused, were used.
  • (18) A linear charged coupled device (CCD) image array sensor and a biconvex lens are used to determine the position of the pupil.
  • (19) In transverse section the neural ectoderm is biconvex; the cranial mesenchyme cells beneath them are widely separated by extracellular matrix (ECM) and are joined to each other and to the ectodermal basement membrane by fine cytoplasmic processes and strands of ECM material.
  • (20) A new technique, the frown incision, was developed and a series of 62 eyes with 6 mm and 7 mm incisions for intercapsular phacoemulsification and implantation of a 6 mm or 7 mm one-piece biconvex poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) posterior chamber intraocular lens with single horizontal mattress suture closure was prospectively evaluated for induced astigmatism.

Convex


Definition:

  • (a.) Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.
  • (n.) A convex body or surface.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seventy-eight patients presented optochiasmal arachnoiditis: 12 had trigeminal neuralgia; 1, arachnoiditis of the cerebellopontile angle; 6, arachnoiditis of the convex surface of the brain; and 3, the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome due to occlusion of the CSF routes.
  • (2) The intervertebral discs expand centrally and become increasingly convex.
  • (3) Rocking the hepatocyte-splenocyte cultures changed the elution profile from linear to convex.
  • (4) Lower density foams can be used only if the impact test standards are rewritten with less emphasis on impacts with convex and pointed objects.
  • (5) A solution of a specific ligand molecule of constant concentration is introduced into the cell so that its concentration in the cell increases continuously (as in a mixing chamber for forming a convex gradient).
  • (6) Rotations toward the convexity occur in rotational kyphosis.
  • (7) The patient's soft-tissue profile was normally convex.
  • (8) The case of a 49-year-old female with a left parietal convexity meningioma associated with an acute subdural hematoma is described.
  • (9) This change in shape varied from a slight flattening of the LV and IVS during diastole to total reversal of the normal direction of septal curvature such that the IVS became concave toward the RV and convex toward the LV.
  • (10) The technique combines the conventional plotting the contour lines and the highlighting, by means of hatching, of the concavities (or convexities) of the 'surface' representative of radioactive distribution.
  • (11) Ablations of the entire dorsal convexity, and of the mesial and cingulate regions of the cortex, failed to interfere with the spindle bursts and recruiting responses, whereas ablations confined to the orbital cortex alone abolished completely these potentials in the cortex and thalamus.
  • (12) The method uses overlapping of Pi1, 3 and 4 in perfect centering of the lens in the axis of the eye (it is assessed by drawing a perpendicular line on the centre of the cornea) and marked dislocation of Pi3 in the direction of decentration of the planoconvex lens with the convexity facing the cornea.
  • (13) In the trunk, e.g., in the buttock and the breast, it is useful to reconstruct the natural convexity.
  • (14) Rats with spinal deformity showed an imbalance of the paraspinal muscles when assessed by EMG; this was expressed by an increase of muscular activity on the convex side.
  • (15) The diagnostic criteria of median nerve compression (carpal tunnel syndrome) include morphological and signal changes in the nerve, abnormal palmar convexity of the flexor retinaculum and signs of tenosynovitis of the intracarpal flexor tendons.
  • (16) Microvillus formation was not observed when cell volume was increased by incubation of tissue in half-normal amphibian Ringer's solution for 30 min, or with exposure to acetylcholine, which caused accentuation of the convexity of the apical surface of the granular cell similar to that observed with VP-induced osmotic water flow.
  • (17) Meningiomas of the convexities (six patients) turned out to be particularly susceptible to complete embolizations.
  • (18) The granulomatous lesions were classified by location into basilar, convexity, intrahemispheric, and periventricular white-matter involvement.
  • (19) One exception to this is observed in the brain, where arteries come in from the base and veins collect over the convexity.
  • (20) The shapes of false lumina assessed by enhanced CT scans at the time of discharge were categorized in three types; 21 patients (group A) without false lumina of the aorta, or with a small crescentic false lumen in the thoracic aorta (type a), six patients (group B) with intimal flaps and two contrast-material-filled lumina in the thoracic aorta (type b), and nine patients (group C) with expanded false lumina or a false lumen whose margin was convex towards a true lumen in the thoracic aorta (type c).

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