(v. i.) To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.
(v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
(v. t.) To collect to a point; to concentrate.
(v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
(n. & v.) See Center.
Example Sentences:
(1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(2) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
(3) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(4) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(5) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
(6) Salmonella Centre of Paris confirmed the antigenic structure and agreed with this designation.
(7) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(8) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
(9) We report on the clinical studies of bladder tumours carried out at the centre for oncology in the Aarhus area and describe the experience and results of the past three decades.
(10) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
(11) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
(12) Various immunoassays have been introduced into, and evaluated at, the Amani Medical Centre in north-east Tanzania.
(13) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
(14) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
(15) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
(16) The results of this study are compared with the results of an earlier study which was completed before the Community Care Centre was established.
(17) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
(18) At discharge, 58% were living with their families, 23% were living in group homes, 12% were in supervised apartments and 5% were in an alternative rehabilitation centre.
(19) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(20) Four centres contributed a total of 466 patients to a study comparing the efficacy of oral amoxycillin with that of probenecid and intramuscular ceftizoxime.
Centrode
Definition:
(n.) In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study describes an in vivo method that precisely determines the centrode pattern and reports the results for 21 normal male volunteers who were studied at the L4-5 and L5-S1 levels.
(2) This result invalidates the notion that plotting centrodes may be of diagnostic value in recognizing mechanical disorders.
(3) The centrode moves in a direction opposite that of the DRUJ movement and is located near the center of the ulnar head.
(4) rotating about a single axis of rotation or whether the joint moves about a changing axis of rotation referred to as a locus or centrode.
(5) The pathway of the instantaneous centers of rotation, or centrode, of the DRUJ has a characteristic pattern.
(6) The position of the centrode shifted downward into the body of L5 in the moderate group.
(7) Centrode lengths measured 43.7 mm and 55.9 mm, respectively, for the L4-5 and L5-S1 levels.
(8) The movement of complex joints with rotational and translational components (such as the lumbar motion segment) is tracked by a pathway of instantaneous centers of rotation, or a centrode.
(9) The experimental results, presented as a function of time, indicate that the instantaneous centers of rotation can be represented by space centrodes that are characteristic for each patient and the applied force system.
(10) The normal centrodes were compared with those with minor, mild, moderate, and severe degenerative disc disease.
(11) Moiré fringes were used to determine centrode patterns in cadaveric spines with degenerative disc disease.
(12) Multiple tracings of each radiograph, combined with a digitizer and computer, were used to improve precision in the calculated centrode patterns.
(13) These loci, or centrodes, are longest in the earliest stages of degeneration, but maintain their length through moderate degenerative disc disease.
(14) The motion pattern in current knee joint mechanisms is investigated by graphical construction of their centrodes and it is compared to the motion pattern of the natural knee joint.
(15) This was manifested by the increased anterior displacement of the centrode at the lower level associated with probable posterior migration of the centrode at the upper level.
(16) This study demonstrates that precise centrode pattern analysis for sagittal plane motion of the lumbar spine is possible in vivo.
(17) Furthermore, radiographic changes consistent with moderate disc disease are associated with inferior migration of the centrode.
(18) The finite helical axis rotates by an average of 11.4 deg, the centrode translates an average of 19.8 mm, and the total axial translation averages 0.1 mm during flexion from 20 to 80 deg.