(n.) The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic.
(n.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Northern Australia plan aims to make region an 'economic powerhouse' Read more The forum followed the release earlier this year of the federal government’s white paper on developing northern Australia – the region above of the Tropic of Capricorn – and making it an “economic powerhouse.” The federal trade minister, Andrew Robb , said Australia had to focus on capitalising on change, and “the centre of gravity for global growth has moved ... to Asia” with a growing middle class.
(2) The sera collected from pelagic birds nesting on islands in the Capricorn-Bunker group in 1970 were devoid of any antibodies to the shearwater virus, while a high proportion of the sera collected from birds on the same islands in 1972 (one year after the isolation of the shearwater virus) had antibodies to the haemagglutinin and neuraminidase of the shearwater virus, some to a high titre.
(3) Thus the thermoregulatory responses observed in Japanese Brazilians may be largely attributed to the climate in their native places located on the Tropic of Capricorn.
(4) It forms part of the federal government’s development push for the region north of the tropic of Capricorn, which covers 40% of Australia’s land mass but is home to just 5% of the population.
(5) I grew up when there were movies like Capricorn One , where the guy gets out of this conspiracy and gets to the press and then it’s all OK.
(6) The committee will consider policies for developing parts of Australia that lie north of the Tropic of Capricorn spanning Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
(7) Capricorn Ventures, which owns Nando's in the UK, is promising to expand even further, declaring that Britain can support up to 400 branches.
(8) Aqueous extracts of 75 specimens of the xanthid crab, Eriphia sebana, collected from coral reefs in the Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, were assayed for toxicity to mice.
(9) Speaking of flight, in line with official Ukip policy, anti-aircraft guns are already in operation outside Gatwick and Heathrow, blasting all incoming planes out of the sky in case they contain Bulgarian immigrants, Romanian immigrants, asylum seekers, halal butchers, gay spouses, Capricorns, or people on an unfamiliar mobile phone tariff we don't like the sound of.
(10) All countries located between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn reported cases of yaws.
Tortuous
Definition:
(a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
(a.) Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
(a.) Injurious: tortious.
(a.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their tortuous or irregular outline did not usually correspond in position or appearance to normal tributaries of the vein.
(2) In the lateral segment of the left hepatic lobe, the bile ducts were anterior to the portal vein in seven cases, posterior in seven, and tortuous (ie, both anterior and posterior) in three.
(3) Carotid angiography demonstrated that the left internal carotid artery was tortuous toward the medial side in the C2 portion, and the saccular aneurysm was present in the anterior temporal artery 3 mm distal from the middle cerebral artery.
(4) The crypts of Lieberkühn were tortuous at the base.
(5) APV was less accurate in a 7.94-mm straight tube and in tortuous segments.
(6) A patient with trigeminal neuralgia caused by a tortuous vertebrobasilar artery is reported.
(7) The arterial anatomy of renal transplants is often complex, with overlapping, tortuous vessels which prevent easy visualisation of the origins of the transplant artery.
(8) The IMF, citing deep-seated concerns over the country’s debt sustainability, has still not decided whether it should participate in the third bailout Athens signed up to after months of tortuous negotiations in mid-2015.
(9) The close (20 nm) apposition between the membranes of the migrating cell and the radial fibre is maintained even in areas where the fibres bend or curve tortuously.
(10) Tortuous aortas, pancreatic pseudocysts, metastatic cancers, lymphomas, and low-lying livers may all present as pulsatile masses clinically mimicking an aortic aneurysm.
(11) This is in contrast to an expanded and tortuous granulomalike vascular network which was found around an abscess in chronic pulpitis.
(12) Using an iris vascularity scale that ranged from Grade 0 with no visible vessels to Grade 4 with dilated and tortuous vessels, we found that the intoxicated infants had increased grades in the iris periphery and collarette (P less than .02) as compared to 36 control newborns who had no cocaine in their urine.
(13) A second type of microtubule, smaller in diameter and tortuous in form, was also seen in certain cells and is presumed, from its shape, to have little to do with cytoplasmic support.
(14) The tortuous basement membrane features numerous hemidesmosomes along its length.
(15) The inter-Sertoli junctions are tortuous and predominantly perpendicular to the basal lamina.
(16) An elongated and tortuous vertebral artery was recognized at the left cerebello-pontine angle both by CT scan and vertebral angiograms.
(17) This condition is characterized by a decreased caliber of the internal carotid arteries and bilateral occlusion of the anterior and middle cerebral arteries with visualization of an extensive collateral network of tortuous blood vessels of the rete mirabile type at the base of the brain.
(18) The case of a 66-year-old woman who developed both trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm caused by a tortuous vertebrobasilar system is reported.
(19) The axons of all cell types were tortuous, and some entered the dorsolateral fascicle before crossing into the dorsal column: collaterals were often seen but could not be followed far.
(20) Golgi analysis of neocortical dendritic spine morphology extended our previous observations of immature, long, tortuous spines in one adult case of fraX (Rudelli, et al., Acta Neuropathologica 67:289-295, 1985) to 2 new cases.