(n.) The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.
(n.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(2) Employees who received the entire series in the arm or in the arm and buttock (mixed) had a significantly greater number of responders than employees who received the entire series in the buttock (P less than .05).
(3) A 25-year-old man on hemodialysis developed arthritis of 2 right metacarpophalangeal joints and a 65-year-old man on chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis suffered from pain and tenderness in the left buttock.
(4) In the trunk, e.g., in the buttock and the breast, it is useful to reconstruct the natural convexity.
(5) A patient presenting with a draining sinus in the buttock, back pain, and a history of lumbar spinal fusion with Ostamer was recently scanned in our department.
(6) Prevention of sciatic injection neuropathy can best be accomplished by teaching that the injection should be made into the gluteal mass in the upper outer quadrant rather than the buttock, and that the needle should be introduced in a plane perpendicular to the surface of the bed when the patient is lying prone.
(7) With Osborne's right buttock approach, the gluteus maximus muscle was divided in the direction of its fibers, exposing a 3.5 by 5 cm aneurysm which was located above, the sciatic nerve and adherent to it.
(8) It was observed that isoproterenol, a beta-adrenergic receptor agonist, was not effective in augmentation of skin blood flow in the arterial buttock flaps.
(9) Twenty-four patients with a history of recurrent infection of perigenital sites (e.g., buttock, thigh) were exposed one to four times with 4 minimum erythema doses of UV light.
(10) The major findings include buttock tenderness extending from the sacrum to the greater trochanter and piriformis tenderness on rectal or pelvic examination.
(11) Diagnosis can be made only by open deep biopsy of the buttock mass, and, due to the low grade histologic appearance of the malignancy, an incorrect diagnosis is frequently made.
(12) In addition, all affected members show a characteristic pattern of cutaneous hyperpigmentation, which resembles macular amyloidosis around the neck and waist, but which confers a dappled appearance to the axillae, popliteal fossae, thighs, buttocks, and lower aspect of the abdomen.
(13) Using a pig model, 55 animals were operated on and the critical ischemia times and survival patterns of the buttock skin (n = 85) and latissimus dorsi myocutaneous (n = 88) island flaps were determined after being submitted to 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16 hours of normothermic ischemia.
(14) Grouped patches of spinous papules are seen involving the elbows, knees, and buttocks.
(15) Extrapelvic spread of disease, particularly from gastrointestinal tract perforations which may be clinically occult, may first present in the buttock, hip, thigh, and even lower leg, and the extraperitoneal space of the abdomen itself.
(16) The implant has been used to reconstruct breasts following mastectomy (secondary reconstruction), at the time of mastectomy (primary reconstruction), following subcutaneous mastectomy, in Poland's syndrome, in breast augmentation, and even in buttocks asymmetry.
(17) Medial thigh, buttock, ankle, and facial suction emerged as the most difficult locations with regard to the results and complication rate.
(18) Slump-sit right knee extension (-15 degrees), right SLR (80 degrees coupled with dorsiflexion), and lumbar flexion (85% coupled with neck flexion) all continued to reproduce right buttock cramping and pain.
(19) Over the three-week period before presentation he also developed nodules on his wrist, abdomen, and buttocks.
(20) No.” As it is, Gareth Bale’s untimely buttock injury and Suárez’s lack of match fitness have postponed the ultimate in forward-line set-tos, but this is still Leo Messi against Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar against Karim Benzema, with Suárez, James Rodríguez, Ivan Rakitic and Toni Kroos all entering the frenzy for the first time.
Convexity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.
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).