(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.
Zero
Definition:
(n.) A cipher; nothing; naught.
(n.) The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences.
(n.) Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his patience had nearly reached zero.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(2) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(3) The final model has a probability 0.08 of underlying survival time being zero and, given non-zero survival time, takes the form of an exponential distribution with mean of 14.95 months.
(4) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
(5) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(6) Electromagnetic flow probes with an inner diameter of 2, 1.5 and 1 nm were used for studies on zero-line drifting and for calibration procedures in a series of rats and rabbits.
(7) The open probability is weakly voltage dependent, large at zero and positive potentials (cytoplasm minus SR lumen), and decreasing at negative potentials.
(8) Stepwise depolarizations from the holding potential (-67 to -83 mV) to a potential which varied from -10 to +63 mV resulted in an exponential decline of h from its initial level to a final, non-zero level.
(9) Average increases in nonvellus hair counts between months 4 and 12 were 216, 181, and 264 in the 2% minoxidil, 3% minoxidil, and placebo-to-3% minoxidil crossover groups, respectively, all highly significant differences from zero (p = 0.0001).
(10) For data sampled at a high rate (approximately 200 Hz) pupil velocity deviations from zero can simply be used, giving a satisfactory inaccuracy of about 5 ms. For data sampled at a low rate (less than 50 Hz), e.g.
(11) In 15 patients undergoing aortofemoral bypass, partial thromboplastin time (PTT) tests before and following intravenous administration of 75 U. per kilogram of heparin at zero, 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes were determined for study of control of anticoagulant adequacy.
(12) As an index of inhomogeneous distribution of inspired air, the mean dilution number (the ratio of the first to zero moments) was calculated from each multibreath nitrogen washout during spontaneous breathing.
(13) Blood pressure was measured with a random-zero sphygmomanometer every 2 weeks of this 8-week trial.
(14) Pairwise correlation between an affected parent and child is zero: The disease is monogenic (no major expression gene).
(15) Where no fluoride was taken zero dmf scores were 41-69 per cent.
(16) He deploys a zero-risk strategy aimed at keeping his rightwing political base behind him, while convincing the public that he alone could lead the country in times of regional turmoil.
(17) Furthermore, the value of the flux ratio for this substance under conditions of zero electrochemical potential across the bowel wall unequivocally demonstrates active transport.
(18) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
(19) A reduction of tidal volume to zero or an increase by 30% led to a corresponding change of mean carotid artery pH level.
(20) The incidence of probable type B viral hepatitis in patients receiving factor IX concentrate was 13.8 percent (four of 29) versus zero percent (zero of 29) in control patients (difference not significant).