What's the difference between cambered and convex?

Cambered


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Camber

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The kinematic parameters of push time, push angle, and abduction showed differences between 3 and 6 degrees camber.
  • (2) If the same-sized valves of this two kinds are used, the hemodynamic parameter of cambered bileaflet valve would be better than those of yak pericardiac valve.
  • (3) 'Last time there was one of them here, down by Camber Sands?'
  • (4) There was also a significant difference (P less than 0.05) when +0.174 and -0.174 rad camber were compared to 0 rad camber during both the support and swing phases of flexion-extension.
  • (5) A triaxial elgon was used to measure the movement of each subject's right and left knees when running on a horizontal or laterally inclined treadmill at 2.4 m.s-1 during each experimental condition (on the horizontal surface and on cambers of +0.087, +0.174, -0.087, and -0.174 radians).
  • (6) Pyrolytic carbon cambered bileaflet valve developed by Chengdu University of Technology and Sciences was evaluated for its hemodynamics.
  • (7) My colleague Simon Cambers points out that she is only the sixth woman since 2000 to reach the semis at the first three grand slam events of the year.
  • (8) Today's skating technique does not require any waxing and only the cambered portion of the ski is waxed when performing the diagonal stride.
  • (9) My colleague, Simon Cambers, says he's played wearing sunglasses and it's really hard.
  • (10) "You have to be quite gentle, especially in Sochi because there is a bit of a camber so even though you think you can see what is going on you also have to feel through your body."
  • (11) My colleague Simon Cambers is poring over the numbers and thinks he would go 11th.
  • (12) Eight nonimpaired subjects participated in a wheelchair exercise test using a motor-driven treadmill in order to study the effect of rear wheel camber on wheelchair ambulation.
  • (13) The material is much thinner than before, and its camber can be varied during cruising for greater efficiency.
  • (14) Surface camber mean values for +0.087 and -0.087 rad were significantly different (P less than 0.05) during the swing phase for internal and external rotation.
  • (15) There was a significant difference (P less than 0.05) between +0.174 and -0.174 rad camber mean values for all six dependent variables (i.e., support and swing, flexion-extension, internal and external rotation, and valgus-varus range of motion).
  • (16) The surviving members of the Camber family, Cujo's owners, buy a new dog.
  • (17) In our view, however, in this case Jeremy Clarkson deliberately employed the offensive word to refer to the Asian person crossing the bridge as well as the camber of the bridge.” Ofcom noted that the sequence was scripted in advance and clear consideration had been given to the use of that particular term, to formulate what was intended as a humorous word play around it.
  • (18) Under anaesthesia, cardiopulmonary bypass and chemical cardioplegia, a cambered bileaflet valve (i.d.
  • (19) The purpose of this study was to determine the three-dimensional kinematics of the knee joint during running on level surfaces and surfaces of different degrees of camber.

Convex


Definition:

  • (a.) Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.
  • (n.) A convex body or surface.

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).

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