(n.) The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.
(n.) A circle; anything circular.
(n.) The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.
(v. t.) To include in a circular space; to bound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(3) The oblique interface between corneal and scleral stroma determines the appearance of the surgical limbus whose landmarks vary around the circumference of the globe but predictably correlate with structures of the anterior chamber angle.
(4) Total body fat decreased from 55.8 to 41.4 kg and lean body mass and arm muscle circumference (AMC) remained unchanged.
(5) The variations of the elastic properties and the density around the circumference of both the immature osteopetrotic femur and the unaffected femur were found to be similar to those previously measured on normal adult bovine femora.
(6) Weight, arm circumference and muscle area-for-height were calculated.
(7) Arm muscle circumference was significantly reduced in males.
(8) Chest and biceps circumferences increased 4.2% and 3.1%, respectively; abdomen and thigh circumferences did not significantly change; body fat decreased 16.8%; and body mass increased 2.3%.
(9) Serial measurements of proximal interphalangeal joint circumference using a single joint that was selected as being 'worst' on clinical grounds or the largest joint at baseline were compared with the mean of all 10 joints in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis receiving second-line drugs.
(10) On admission she was found to be a well-nourished infant with a head circumference of 56 cm, bulging anterior fontanelle and mental retardation.
(11) Although changes in circumference are most often used, volumetric changes have been reported to be more sensitive and thus more effective.
(12) Closely associated with alcoholic hyalin and often found along its entire circumference, were bundles of fine filaments in parallel arrangement of much smaller size.
(13) Heights, weights and head circumferences were obtained from two groups of primary school children: 1016 children from throughout Oxfordshire, a rural county with few areas of deprivation, and 219 children from an economically deprived part of the city of Newcastle on Tyne.
(14) The affected family members had normal stature, normal occipitofrontal circumference, and no other medical problems.
(15) Measurements of cross-sectional muscle areas of the upper-arm and mid-thigh from MRI images were compared to corresponding estimates from anthropometric measurements of limb circumferences and skinfold thicknesses in 25 normal, healthy, elderly persons.
(16) In the second placebo controlled experiment 150 mg im testosterone enanthate administration was associated with enhanced rigidity of NPT but with no effect on frequency or circumference change of NPT and no effect on frequency of REM.
(17) Cannon bone circumference at weaning was increased (P less than .05) by growth implants.
(18) In order to assess the efficacy of therapy, manual measurement of the circumference of thigh and leg and echotomography were performed in order to measure the thickness of the muscle layer.
(19) A defect was created in the thoracic trachea in nine piglets (10 kg) by excising a segment from the entire thoracic trachea proximal to the right upper lobe bronchus (3 to 3.5 cm in length) and 30% of the circumference in width (1 to 1.5 cm).
(20) The results indicated significant negative correlations between maternal plasma zinc and albumin-bound zinc concentrations and plasma copper concentration in the third trimester of pregnancy and mid-arm circumference and ponderal index.
Diameter
Definition:
(n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.
(n.) A diametral plane.
(n.) The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock.
(n.) The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(2) Two kinds of silicafiberscopes with outer diameters 0.80 and 0.45 mm were used in the present study.
(3) A conduit of a diameter of 23 mm was made by hand with a glutaraldehyde preserved xenopericardial graft.
(4) Eighty interposition mesocaval shunts, using a knitted Dacron large diameter prosthesis, have been performed during the past five and one-half years.
(5) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(6) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
(7) In the medium-size intermediate fibers, the number and diameter of the mitochondrial columns are intermediate between those of the red and white fibers.
(8) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
(9) The inner diameters increased with age in the same way in both obese and control persons, indicating the the former are not protected against osteoporosis in the form of endosteal resorption.
(10) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
(11) However, when it has attained a length of about half the cell body diameter, it becomes SUP GLU+ and 6-11B-1+.
(12) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
(13) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(14) The internal carotid diameters increased 20% to 30% for both the vein and synthetic patched arteries.
(15) Axonal regeneration with the ANG was equal to SAGs as measured by axonal diameters, physiological, and functional methods, although the SAG demonstrated statistically higher axonal counts.
(16) Light microscopic analyses revealed an age-dependent decrease in axon diameter.
(17) Striking features were non-atherosclerotic stenosis with negative Sudan III, seen in the ICA less than 200 mu in diameter of almost all the hearts of stages II and III rabbits.
(18) Blood flow was measured from gastric serosal vessels (average diameter, 1.6 mm) severed immediately after, 24 hours after, and 48 hours after ethanol injection.
(19) Viral particles in the cultures and the brain were of various sizes and shapes; particles ranged from 70 to over 160 nm in diameter, with a variable position of dense nucleoids and less dense core shells.
(20) Electromagnetic flow probes with an inner diameter of 2, 1.5 and 1 nm were used for studies on zero-line drifting and for calibration procedures in a series of rats and rabbits.