(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.
Plane
Definition:
(n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
(a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
(a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
(a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
(a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
(a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
(a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
(a.) To efface or remove.
(a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
(3) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(4) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(6) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
(7) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(8) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(9) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
(10) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(11) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(12) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(13) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
(14) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(15) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
(16) The resistance is a complex function of the perfusion pressure and the cross-sectional area of the stenosis and cannot be accurately predicted from a single plane angiographic image.
(17) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(18) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(19) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(20) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.