(n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.
(n.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
(v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.
(v. i.) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Where the PGCs bulge out into the coelomic cavity, they stretch the somatic cell covering to a thin, cytoplasmic layer.
(2) On admission she was found to be a well-nourished infant with a head circumference of 56 cm, bulging anterior fontanelle and mental retardation.
(3) An unusual appearance of echoes behind the aorta bulging into the left atrium in diastole on both the M-mode and cross-sectional echo suggested this diagnosis prior to cardiac catheterization.
(4) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(5) Bulge formation, due to the presumed action of an autolysin(s), may be an initial step in the septation sequence when the mucopeptide is modified to allow construction of the septum.
(6) Regional myocardial wall function was improved in the central and peripheral ischemic region as demonstrated by a significantly reduced systolic bulging.
(7) Some birds were subjected to unilateral eyelid-suture, a protocol which usually induces axial lengthening and corneal bulging.
(8) I look out at this brilliant audience here today, bulging with ideas, and I ask you possibly to solve it.
(9) The chief characteristics of stage 18 (approximately 44 postovulatory days) are rapidly growing basal nuclei; appearance of the extraventricular bulge of the cerebellum (flocculus), of the superior cerebellar peduncle, and of follicles in the epiphysis cerebri; and the presence of vomeronasal organ and ganglion, of the bucconasal membrane, and of isolated semicircular ducts.
(10) In 10 dogs with acute posterior wall ischemia the B-C excursion (aneurysmal bulging) increased (P less than 0.01), but the mean systolic posterior wall velocity and posterior wall excursion decreased (P less than 0.01).
(11) If there is no evidence of a canine bulge, and the tooth appears to be tipped medially in the frontal radiograph, with the crown medial to the lateral border of the nasal cavity, a future impaction of the maxillary canine is a significant possibility.
(12) In a 50-year-old patient with complex ventricular arrhythmia (monotopic ventricular extrasystoles in bigeminy and triplet form), coronary angiography with ventriculography revealed an aneurysm of about 2-3 cm diameter that bulged visibly into the right ventricle during the systole.
(13) Fabregas hammers it down the middle, the ball sailing slightly to the left before bulging the net.
(14) Intravenous ISO injection now induced regional dysfunction in the LCX-dependent segment with the occurrence of systolic bulging.
(15) The results indicate that tat interacts with both the bulge and loop regions of TAR.
(16) A 51-year-old female patient, admitted with a chief complaint of dizziness, had bulging of the occipital area, which had started insidiously.
(17) The original "root area" widens with the broadening of the back and can still be demonstrated as an homogeneous "root area" of the "intestinal bulge", after the typical adult situs has developed.
(18) Five of the hairpins have single-base bulges at different positions.
(19) They topped a list of eight "triggers" that could rupture aneurysms – bulges in the walls of blood vessels – in the brain.
(20) Removal of d-alanine from a growing population of cells resulted in cell bulging 25% of the cell length from one cell pole, followed by cell lysis.
Ogive
Definition:
(n.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additional analysis in which a normal ogive was fitted to the sample VC data distributions suggests that statistically significant predictions of the probability of eventral flap necrosis can be made using VC measurements obtained immediately postoperatively.
(2) Similar to the endogenous data, exogenous insulin removal followed an ogival pattern during fasting.
(3) Cumulative distributions may be plotted as sigmoidal ogives or can be transformed into discrete probabilities (linear probits), which are then linear, and amenable to regression analysis.
(4) Data were also expressed as cumulative frequencies (ogives) and subjected to statistical analysis by the non-parametric Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.
(5) The cells occur chiefly as pairs within chains and elongate to ogive-shaped cells during growth.
(6) There was a curvilinear relationship (rising ogive) between mean GTT and age.
(7) Additional analysis in which a normal ogive was fitted to the sample VC data distributions suggests that statistically significant predictions of the probability of eventual flap necrosis can be made using VC measurements obtained immediately postoperatively.
(8) This led to a psychophysical function in which the probability of a long response was related to signal duration in an ogival manner.
(9) Three children, two females and one male, born from unrelated parents show brachycephaly, ogival palate, blindness from 5-6 months and progressive piramidal symptoms.
(10) In our pediatric out-patient clinic, most of the patients suffering severe recurrent ENT problems show variable malformations: abnormal implantation or shape of the external ear, a microretrognathism, cervical or facial branchial fistulae, high or ogival palate with anomalies of the dental occlusion or a bifid uvula.
(11) Calibration curves, such as the commonly adopted logistic ogive in relation to log dose, are fitted by weighted least squares to observed counts directly using empirical weights proportional to the reciprocal of estimated counting variance.
(12) Analysis of 140 cortisol assays, all with two replicates of each of 50 sources (9 standard doses, 3 quality control preps, and 38 unknowns), led to an asymmetric rising ogive relating variances to means of counting rates.
(13) Frequency, length, and intensity of the habit generate as a consequence: anterior open bite, retrusion of the mandible, protrusion of the maxilla, excessive overjet, labial version of the upper incisors, uprighting of the lower incisors, posterior cross bites, sometimes associated to a ogival palate, diastema between the upper incisors, and any others facial characteristics.
(14) None of these distributions differed significantly from normal, and they were well fitted by normal ogives.
(15) All had a facial abnormality: one woman had a complete Pierre Robin syndrome with mandibular hypoplasia, glossoptos and cleft palate; in the other cases, minor forms were observed, with micrognathia and ogival palate.
(16) The two technics gave comparable mean values, ogives, equivalent points, and overlap for patients with cystic fibrosis and healthy subjects.
(17) As expected, weighting the lever with 0, 15, 30, or 45 g produced progressive decreases in maximal rates, but it also caused a weight-related shift to the right of the rate-frequency ogives in each of the 7 rats.