(n.) The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following percutaneous administration, the drug seems to be absorbed catenary to some degree.
(2) Two model structures, mammillary and catenary, were fitted to the data.
(3) Tissue loading was determined using a previously verified model of the capsule that represents its upper edge as a catenary suspension cable.
(4) A catenary process of development of orientation selectivity is proposed, the immature compartment being a transit pool between non-specific and specific cells.
(5) A theory is developed, for drugs that can be described by pure catenary pharmacokinetic models, which enables one to quantitatively determine at what time a cyclic infusion of drug should be initiated, what the frequency of infusion should be, and what the amplitude of the infusion should be to obtain maximum therapeutic benefit at steady state.
(6) Two mandibular arch forms, the catenary and the Bonwill-Hawley, were examined.
(7) As examples, the method is applied to mammillary and catenary models.
(8) This theoretical analysis suggested that in vitro nitrate action is mediated by a catenary process, consistent with published biochemical evidence that suggests a series of reactions involving metabolic activation to nitric oxide, production of cyclic GMP, and myosin light-chain phosphorylation to produce relaxation.
(9) Elimination of the drug by metabolism and excretion was described by a catenary model.
(10) Polynomial and catenary equations were fit by least square error methods to the dentitions of seven children with "normal" occlusion.
(11) As an example, the expression of D for mammillary and catenary pharmacokinetic models is derived.
(12) The method is applicable to catenary metabolites with any precursor order and does not require separate administration of the metabolite.
(13) The model consists of a catenary system of a biorhythmic control, the adrenal gland, and a body compartment containing circulating cortisol.
(14) A catenary turnover model is proposed, which links in vivo erythrocyte labile cholesterol and plasma esterified cholesterol.
(15) 45Ca desaturation from rat kidney slices can be analyzed as in an open three-compartment catenary system.
(16) This approach, which treats excretion as the 'last' compartment of all catenary metabolic pathways, avoids the use of convolution integrals and provides algebraic solutions that can be programmed on hand held calculators or personal computers.
(17) There was no synthesis in pool 3 using a mammillary model but a mean 5.3 percent of the total body production rate was found in compartment 3 if a catenary model was assumed.
(18) (The catenary is found in nature as the approximate shape taken by a flexible cable when it is suspended at two points).
(19) The hydrolysis rate of the acetate ester moiety was found to be slow, with a minimum in the pH-rate catenary at approximately pH 3.5.
(20) Although a catenary model is biologically unlikely, it could not be excluded.
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.