(n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
(n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
(v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
(v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary.
(2) Member, Canton and Riverside Division, Cardiff, St. John Ambulance.
(3) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(4) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(5) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
(6) Crude and relative survival rates were analyzed using data from 4,199 incident breast cancers in females and 39 breast cancers in males registered between 1974 and 1988 in the Cancer Registry of the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
(7) The follow-up sample consisted of 841 men in the Canton of Zurich who had been selected from a complete survey of men born in 1952.
(8) Separation forces were tested with an Instron machine (Instron Corp., Canton, Mass.).
(9) In the Canton of Graubunden, 33% of the 13-15 year old pupils and 34% of those aged 17-19 from a total of 166 smoked regularly or occasionally; none of the younger, but 8% of the older pupils had already tried drugs once.
(10) The authors study the various aspects of the 484 attempts of suicide examined over the year 1974 at the Psychiatric Policlinic of the Geneva Cantonal Hospital.
(11) Angry demonstrations over the government’s refusal to relieve Kobani , the Syrian canton under siege from the brutal group calling itself Islamic State (Isis), led to a spate of deaths.
(12) In the first survey, based on representative population samples, blood lead level was measured in the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg.
(13) Four spines were mounted in an Instron machine (Instron Engineering Corp., Canton, MA).
(14) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
(15) At a lower level, France has the level of "canton."
(16) All renal allotransplants performed at the Cantonal Hospital, Zurich, in 1975 and 1976 were analysed with respect to pre-transplant blood transfusions, excluding secondary transplants, patients on dialysis outside of Switzerland, combined renal and pancreatic transplants, and women with previous pregnancies but without transfusions.
(17) Between 1978 and 1984, the University Hospital of Geneva (Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire) received 46 head injured patients who "talked and died" after their brain insult.
(18) (And even in Switzerland the tax policies vary canton by canton, and are regularly put to the vote.)
(19) The purpose of the present epidemiological study is to investigate and describe panic disorder and sporadic panic attacks among a cohort of young adults, aged 28 years, from the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
(20) Velásquez, 23, had been terrified by stories linking Zika to birth defects , so on Christmas Day she drove 25 miles south from the semi-rural canton of Aguilares to the nearest public hospital in the capital, San Salvador.
Horizontal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or near, the horizon.
(a.) Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface.
(a.) Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
(2) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(3) The present study examined whether an uptake system for GABA could be detected in isolated skate horizontal cells by means of electrophysiological methods.
(4) Horizontal sections of the left cortex were reacted for the demonstration of HRP.
(5) The horizontal portion of the intracavernous ICA as well as the whole aspect of the aneurysm could be exposed as a result of the extended opening of the cavernous roof anterior to the posterior clinoid process.
(6) The following oculomotor paradigms were investigated: horizontal and vertical saccades of different sizes (10-80 degrees), smooth pursuit eye movements, optokinetic and vestibular nystagmus.
(7) Thus, prostate tissues of mice can be a potential source of horizontally transmitted mammary tumor virus in mice of at least some high mammary cancer strains.
(8) We postulate that an abnormality in retinal dopaminergic neurons, which are known to reduce light responsiveness of horizontal and ganglion cells, is the underlying pathophysiology of this clinical finding.
(9) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.
(10) The complete thyroid cartilage is dissected out, and then a horizontal cut is made through the cricoid cartilage.
(11) Results of tests on 4 mammalian, 19 reptilian, and 17 avian species confirmed the prediction that lack of optomotor response to monocular optokinetic stimulation in one of the two horizontal directions would correlate with afoveate retinal organization, whereas consistent optomotor responses to monocular stimulation in either horizontal direction would correlate with foveate organization.
(12) Although active head movements reversed horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflexes, vertical vestibulo-ocular reflexes in light and darkness were normal.
(13) In one group of patients peak eye movement velocities alone were measured during horizontal refixation saccades.
(14) Electrophysiological studies were performed to determine whether or not ethanol potentiates the inhibitory effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) on medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) neurons responding to horizontal sinusoidal rotation using alpha-chloralose anesthetized cats.
(15) With the head centered over the axis of rotation, no systematic horizontal responses were observed.
(16) After properly fixing the vas deferens with a ring clamp, the surgeon pierces the scrotal skin, vas sheath, and vas deferens in the midline with a curved dissecting clamp held at a 45 degree angle from horizontal.
(17) The "lazy-T" technique consists of a surgical horizontal and vertical shortening of the involved portion of the lower eyelid.
(18) In the case of H1 horizontal cells, which are known to be GABAergic, the neurotransmitter can also be demonstrated by superimposed immunocytochemistry.
(19) The migration of human spermatozoa in cervical mucus obtained from women shortly before mid-cycle was studied, using an in-vitro method for horizontal sperm penetration.
(20) Articulation tests for sound fields simulated with a single reflection of delay time delta t1 after the direct sound were conducted changing the horizontal incident angle xi of the reflection.