(n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
(n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
(n.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.
(n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
(n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
(v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
(v. t.) To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
(v. t.) To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
(2) Data from cases with myocardial bridges show that both fatty streaks and raised lesions are seldom observed in the region distal to myocardial bridge.
(3) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
(4) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(5) Brief digestion at neutral pH without reduction produced a molecule in which the Fab and Fc fragments were still linked by a pair of labile disulphide bridges, and the Fc fragment released by cleaving these bonds, called 1Fc fragment, contained a portion of the ;hinge' region including an interchain disulphide bridge.
(6) Acute coronary angiography showed myocardial bridging and total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery in the middle one-third of its course.
(7) These force-generators are identified with projections (cross-bridges) on the thick filament, each consisting of part of a myosin molecule.
(8) Segmental function was diminished an average of 67.8% in "noses" and 46.6% in "bridges".
(9) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
(10) Close van der Waals' contacts between the Cys22-Cys63 and Cys51-Cys75 disulfide bridges and the central hydrophobic core composed of the Trp25, Leu46, His48a and Trp62 side-chains are among the distinguishing features of the kringle 2 fold.
(11) The reactivity of the three disulphide bridges of insulin towards sodium sulphite was studied by amperometric titration of the liberated thiol groups.
(12) The cartilage of the concha is a valuable substitute of the bridge and the posterior wall of the external auditory conduct.
(13) It is shown from an analysis of the transient force responses observed after sudden changes in muscle length applied both at full and reduced overlap and during the rising phase of short tetani that these responses can be explained on the basis of varying numbers of cross bridges attached at the time of the length step.
(14) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.
(15) The dynamic properties of cross-bridge movement were investigated in glycerol-treated muscle fibers under various conditions by analyzing tension responses to two types of length change.
(16) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(17) It is suggested that a general manner of folding may be a common feature of the heterogeneous population of kappa-chains: one bridge which folds an invariable stretch of the chain, another bridge which folds a stretch that varies from protein to protein, and a bridge at the C-terminus which is the interchain link.
(18) 1-[(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl]-3-(2-chloroethyl)-3- nitrosourea hydrochloride (ACNU) causes chloroethylation of DNA strand followed by cross linking through an ethylene bridge.
(19) Optimal staining of antigen rich tissue, such as frozen sections, with the peroxidase antiperoxidase method required low antiserum concentrations apparently to minimize the binding of both antigen-binding fragments of the bridging antibody to the tissue bound antiserum.
(20) The results provided information on the energetics of actin-myosin-ligand states that occur in the portion of the cross-bridge cycle where MgATP binds to myosin.
Gantry
Definition:
(n.) See Gauntree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two sets of a twin-focus X-ray tube and a 12-inch image intensifier (II) were mounted on the gantry in the isocentric and cross-firing positions.
(2) Some of these groups have constructed apparatus based on a radiotherapy simulator gantry, others around a linac or a special purpose gantry.
(3) A device for computed tomography (CT)-guided percutaneous punctures that is not affixed to the patient and can be used even when the gantry is tilted was developed and tested.
(4) The detectability of small acoustic neuromas is considerably improved by the application of newer-generation CT apparatus and the use of specific scanning parameters, including extremely thin overlapping slices, low scan speed, high gantry tilt, short time between contrast agent application and tumor scanning, and computer-assisted magnification of the posterior fossa.
(5) The detector is attached to one arm of the simulator gantry and acquires projection data from a fan beam of X-rays derived from the simulator X-ray tube.
(6) CT scatter was observed to increase as scan field size and slice thickness increased, whilst there was little change in scatter with changes in gantry tilt and table slew.
(7) It may also reveal unexpected mechanical misalignments in the camera gantry.
(8) It was found that there are significant levels of gamma radiation throughout the treatment room, which increase both in the vicinity of the walls in line with the beam axis and in close proximity to the neutron therapy gantry.
(9) To minimize such partial volume effects, the algorithm can be used prospectively, during acquisition, to reposition the scanner gantry and bed to match an earlier study.
(10) The gantry tilt technique provides direct visualization of the pathway of the needle tract; direct visualization is not possible with previously described techniques such as stereotactic biopsy or the triangulation technique.
(11) When a mechanical checkout jig was set up at the same point, a discrepancy of 4 mm resulted when the gantry was moved from 0 degrees to 180 degrees.
(12) Direct sagittal CT was performed by placing the entire infant sideways and supine within the gantry after metrizamide was injected.
(13) The co-table-unit is linked to the original CT table board directly within a few minutes, coming through the opening of the gantry from the rear.
(14) The technique uses concurrent and continuous rotations of both the gantry (300 degrees, from 30 to 330 degrees) and the couch (150 degrees, from 75 to -75 degrees).
(15) Were you aware the circular letter required hotels to set up internal security gantries, metal detectors for checking under vehicles and the guarding of beach entrances?” Lopez, whose role involved delivering holidays to tourists on the ground in Tunisia , said he was not aware of the existence of the letter.
(16) Symmetry in both the radial and transverse axis of each x-ray beam was monitored for eight gantry positions.
(17) The gantry and other things inside the room may contain metal parts, which can cause excess noise.
(18) A mathematical transformation is applied to determine the corresponding cord locations on the oblique radiographs for any arbitrary gantry angle.
(19) "Things are going to start getting exciting once the sun starts to go down," says ITV4's man in the gantry.
(20) During the collection of transmission projection data, suitable for the digital reconstruction of patient cross sections, the simulator gantry rotates continuously through about 360 degrees.