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Bisect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut or divide into two parts.
  • (v. t.) To divide into two equal parts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Embryos bisected at blastocyst stages had a higher survival rate in vitro than those bisected at the morula stage.
  • (2) Despite the claims, the Pyongyang metro is indeed a functional system, running along two bisecting lines in the central and outer-western parts of Pyongyang.
  • (3) It is shown that both IgGs contain the same carbohydrate chains (biantennary and bisected) but the relative amount of bisected and incomplete chains (with fewer terminal galactose residues) is higher in myeloma IgG4.
  • (4) The procedure involves bisection of single-cell eggs in a medium containing cytochalasin; fusion of egg halves with single blastomeres, induced using Sendai virus or an electrofusion apparatus; and embedding in agar, followed by culture of the reconstituted embryos in the ligated oviducts of ewes in dioestrus.
  • (5) Stanislas could have celebrated that reprieve by treating himself to another goal when United’s defence was bisected by a wonderful pass from Gosling.
  • (6) The two types of procedure also yield different conclusions in scaling experiments designed to study the functional midpoint of two or more durations (temporal bisection procedures).
  • (7) Day 6 embryos were bisected and the resulting demiembryos were stained with Hoechst 33342 and cell counts were made by counting intact blastomere nuclei.
  • (8) These findings suggest that the left hemisphere has the ability to estimate the midpoint of the line through the right visual field and that visuospatial disorder in the line bisection test is attributable to the pathological change in the right hemisphere.
  • (9) The tailpiece sequence thus has profound effects on assembly, yet it is apparently unstructured and can be bisected without affecting its function.
  • (10) Binding was not affected by the inner core portion of complex oligosaccharides nor by the presence of a bisecting N-acetylglucosamine residue.
  • (11) In planarians bisected transversely through the pharyngeal region, the decolouration occurs only in the cephalic segment, and the caudal segment remains dark.
  • (12) The distribution of stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.), caught on adhesive-coated Alsynite cylinder traps indicated that a significantly higher proportion of flies landed on the side most protected from the wind, and that flies were distributed equally on both sides of the traps bisected by the direction of the prevailing wind, and that the proportion of trapped flies decreased significantly with height on the trap.
  • (13) This may explain the preferential action of Gal-transferase on the Man alpha 1,3 arm of both bisected and nonbisected oligosaccharides.
  • (14) Three experiments were conducted with bisected embryos.
  • (15) The negligible GlcNAc-T III activity of the four human T-cell lines and of tonsillar T lymphocytes agrees with the reported absence of bisected structures in N-glycans from human T lymphocyte membrane glycoproteins.
  • (16) The illusion results from an overestimation of the length of vertical lines, seems to be predominantly cognitive in nature, and exists in the absence of line bisection and a comparison line.
  • (17) An eccentricity index, defined as the ratio of the length of two perpendicular minor-axis diameters, one of which bisected and was perpendicular to the interventricular septum, was obtained at end-systole and end-diastole.
  • (18) In addition, evidence is presented for the first time that plasma fibrinogen possesses (GlcNAc beta 1----4Man beta) residues (bisecting GlcNAc) and O-glycosidically bound carbohydrate units.
  • (19) Along this distinctive cell contact, the cell membranes of apposing cells are separated by 210-300 a bisected by irregularly spaced 100-150-A extracellular particles which are often circular in profile.
  • (20) Over the past 15 years the harbour that bisects the city has been transformed from an industrial zone into a cultural and residential hub with water so clean that we take Liv swimming in the harbour baths – lifeguarded floating swimming-pool structures that are accessible for free.

Bisector


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Speech and noise are both spectrally shaped according to the bisector line of the listener's dynamic-range of hearing, but with the noise in a single octave band (0.25-0.5 or 0.5-1 kHz) increased by 20 dB relative to this line.
  • (2) The Voronoi polyhedron of a given S-phase cell nucleus is that polyhedron of minimal volume defined by planes all of which are perpendicular bisectors of the vectors extending from the given cell to all other S-phase cells in the tumor.
  • (3) The results suggest that the dioxygen ligand is strongly tilted, the direction of tilt being close to one of the bisectors of the N-Fe-N bond angles.
  • (4) For the three-dimensional non-coplanar case, homogeneous target dose distributions are obtained by designing field modifiers which produce a uniform dose distribution on the perpendicular bisector plane for each pair of fields.
  • (5) Distinctive bisector analysis patterns are positively correlated with each sleep--waking stage.
  • (6) Speech and noise are shaped by the same amplitude-frequency response; their spectra are varied relative to the bisector of the individual's dynamic range.
  • (7) All AT-containing polydeoxynucleotides and crab satellite DNA adopt a high humidity a modified B form characterized by the orientation of the bisector of the phosphate group OPO at 64 degrees with respect to the helical axis which is significantly lower than 68-74 degrees observed in DNAs.
  • (8) This constant is the ratio of absolute dose rate in medium, 1 cm from the source on its transverse bisector, to source strength.
  • (9) The deviation of the bisector of (formula: see text) of the greater than PO2- group from the normal to the bilayer is less than 45 degrees and the mean orientation of all polar head groups is rather parallel than perpendicular to the plane of the bilayer.
  • (10) This A form is characterized by the orientation of the bisector of the phosphate OPO group at 34 degrees with respect to the helical axis, which is slightly lower than that of DNA.
  • (11) Dose is calculated as a function of angle with respect to the transverse seed bisector for distances from the seed center ranging from 0.1 to 7.5 cm.
  • (12) After a brief review of available data in the literature on the sections for surgical approach to the cervical segment of the thoracic duct, the authors made a comparative analysis, using time-honoured objective criteria on surgery, between the universal transverse cervical section (20 operated patients) for approach to the cervical segment of the thoracic duct and the oblique cervical section which they suggest (28 operated patients) it passes along the bisector of the angle formed between the thoracic pedicle of the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the upper edge of the left clavicle.
  • (13) The system of loading, which results in observable physiologic response, maintains the compressive load at virtually 90 degrees at the bisector of the disc for all weights and all angles of forward flexion.
  • (14) A new developed discrimination method--the bisector method--is used for discrimination and classification between the normal and pathological groups.
  • (15) Although the 1974 version of the EEG bisector analysis is not exactly comparable to visual analysis, in this design it defined significant drug effects on sleep and EEG.
  • (16) Using electroencephalogram (EEG) bisector analysis, tape recordings of sleep were analyzed for two beta, three alpha, three theta, and two delta EEG patterns, as well as for detections of sleep spindles, K-complexes, eye movements, body movements, average electromyogram (EMG), and calculation of seven sleep-waking stages.
  • (17) If the screw is introduced, as recommended by Danis, in the bisector of the angle between the perpendicular on the fracture fissure and the perpendicular on the bone axis, one obtains high interfragmentar compression and reduction of shear stress by one-half.
  • (18) In addition, the chains are tilted along one of the bisectors (omega = 0 degrees) of the hexagonal lattice (8 wide-angle maxima, 2 unique), a phase not previously reported in DPPC studies.
  • (19) At high relative humidities (higher than 90%, B form), the bisector of the less than OPO in the complexes forms an angle with respect to the helical axis which has a value lower by about 4 degrees than in the corresponding DNA sample.
  • (20) It has been proposed that these negative solid-angle illusions (assimilation effects) which occur in dual-angle (Bourdon-type) displays result from a failure to discriminate between the test (judged) edges and the bisectors of the solid angles.

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