(1) Categorisation by degree of hyperactivity produced groups that differed in terms of variables that were independent of the diagnostic criteria.
(2) Rats selected according to turn preference in an open field were categorised as showing left or right hemispheric dominance (turning to right or left respectively).
(3) "I find it disturbing that a political party with far-right links and extreme views is keeping lists of people categorised by ethnicity.
(4) Between 1986 and 1989, 2268 new patients with bleeding were categorised by symptom grouping and entered into programmes of investigation and management.
(5) The epithelial salivary gland tumours have for many years been categorised according to the 1972 World Health Organisation (WHO) classification.
(6) The categorisation of lymphosarcomas with immune markers has enriched the prognostic value of W.H.O.
(7) However, Iran is determined that UN sanctions should also be lifted, because the security council resolutions underlying them categorise the nuclear programme as illegal and a threat to international peace and security.
(8) Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian She says she understands why some are either anxious or actively hostile – and, just to underline the fact that what people say about migration often defies easy categorisation, lays some blame on people from eastern Europe .
(9) We studied 34 routine medico-legal cases categorising them into one of four diagnostic groups.
(10) "My feeling is that nobody really makes those kind of cult movies any more that are outside of the box and defy categorisation," he says.
(11) Can children with SLI be categorised as having expressive versus receptive language problems?
(12) An investigation of the categorisation of subjective disappearances showed that, although the stability of pattern components was not determined by reporting these singly or in conjunction, the disappearances of the whole pattern were significantly increased by reporting only these as opposed to reporting disappearances of each component.
(13) The use of the WHO approach for the categorisation of childhood tuberculosis cases is recommended for both clinical and epidemiological purposes.
(14) Qualitative data gathered in the study was transcribed and categorised into themes.
(15) These 'super-enumeration' districts were then categorised into 15 cluster types which highlighted the major social characteristics of the areas within Southampton.
(16) When untransformed egg count data were categorised as low, moderate and high, the 2 methods were in agreement for 53 of the 61 groups.
(17) "I spent 20 years politely answering the question, 'How do you feel when people categorise you as a gay writer?'
(18) Factor analysis of three published studies of 93, 62 and 52 schizophrenic patients and a large pooled sample showed that more than two distinct dimensions are required to categorise symptoms in schizophrenia.
(19) Documents seen by the Guardian show how millions of people currently in receipt of some sort of benefit will be categorised into seven classes including, "too sick to work", "too committed to work", a category including lone parents, and those deemed to be "not working enough".
(20) Jolie said part of the appeal of the film was the updated morals of the fairytale, which did not categorise life into simply good and evil – a message she said she was keen to pass on to her own children.
Pulley
Definition:
(v. t.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain.
(b. t.) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
Example Sentences:
(1) The model consists of electrically stimulating the lower leg muscles to contract against a weighted pulley bar.
(2) The traumatic agent is the sudden extension while the finger is holding an object and the flexor digitorum profundus is strongly contracted: the tendon retracts and the stump can be found either at the distal pulley, at the bifurcation of the superficialis tendon, or in the palm of the hand.
(3) Nine tendons were repaired with each of four suture patterns: single-locking loop, double-locking loop, triple-locking loop, or three-loop pulley.
(4) There was no evidence of a synovial cell layer on the surface of the A1 pulleys in either normal or trigger digits.
(5) The "pulley effect" of the skin and soft tissue as a supplement to the fibro-osseous pulleys in reducing tendon bow-stringing was also noted.
(6) Therefore, a method was developed to reconstruct the fibro-osseous pulleys with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane.
(7) The pulleys were studied in specific configurations to determine their effectiveness in transforming tendon excursion into finger flexion.
(8) Pulley advancement increased the tendon excursion required to flex this joint and thus the mechanical advantage at this joint, but only when the joint was partly flexed.
(9) It is not yet known whether it has sufficient breaking strength to meet the functional demands of human pulleys.
(10) Suddenly, we were back in the age of ropes and pulleys and brute strength to deliver her into the hands of the mechanised world.
(11) Pulley positions are relatively constant throughout postnatal development, with the gross anatomic characteristics correlating closely to those of the adult hand.
(12) Some rigged up pulley systems to hoist shopping to their windows, where the glass was cracked and fixed with tape.
(13) The whole flexor apparatus was resected and a single digital pulley (A 2) was reconstructed, using segments of the animals own deep flexor tendon.
(14) Suggested minimum requirements for the breaking strength of artificial implant pulleys may be made based on these studies.
(15) Flexor pulley restoration and the importance of maintaining strong pulley support are discussed and surgical techniques including those for flexor tendon grafting and reconstruction are described.
(16) The transverse fibers of the palmar aponeurosis are attached by vertical septa to the underlying transverse metacarpal ligament and thus form a pulley over the flexor tendons.
(17) The synthetic Nitex pulley appears to have the potential to function as an effective fibro-osseous pulley replacement.
(18) The triple-locking loop and three-loop pulley patterns were close in strength and only the triple-locking loop was stronger than the double-locking loop.
(19) The long-term results of the key grip procedure (tenodesis of the flexor pollicis longus tendon to the radius, release of the A1 pulley, and percutaneous pin fixation of the interphalangeal joint of the thumb) were evaluated in 10 tetraplegic patients.
(20) Satisfactory grip functions were restored for all patients after the secondary pulley reconstruction.