(n.) A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
(n.) A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2.
(v. t.) To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
(a.) Moving or turning round; circuitous.
(a.) Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
(2) All of the above patients had an acute inferior myocardial infarction, and in 10 of the 12 patients with supraventricular arrhythmias and in four of five with sinus dysrhythmias, the origin of the sinus node artery started just after an occluded right coronary or left circumflex artery or was involved in the occlusion.
(3) Significant circumflex coronary artery disease (greater than or equal to 75% stenosis) was more prevalent in patients with posterior or inferoposterior infarction (17 of 21) than in those with isolated inferior infarction (11 of 23) (p less than 0.02).
(4) When left circumflex artery (LCX) was occluded, ST elevation in V4R lead after RCA occlusion was blocked.
(5) The effect of the xanthine oxidase inhibitor, allopurinol, on myocardial ultrastructure after left circumflex coronary artery occlusion (40 min) with or without reperfusion (60 min) was examined in rabbits.
(6) A cast was made of the stenotic circumflex coronary artery, the degree of stenosis is measured, and the per cent area stenosis calculated.
(7) Coronary artery rings isolated from the ischemic left circumflex coronary artery showed a similar degree of endothelial dysfunction to ACh, with normal relaxation in response to NaNO2.
(8) To study the relation between structure and vascular reactivity in mature coronary collateral arteries, we prepared 17 dogs with a casein occluder near the origin of the circumflex coronary artery.
(10) The animals were chronically instrumented with a microtip manometer in the left ventricle, two pairs of piezoelectric crystals for sonomicrometry and a hydraulic occluder around the circumflex branch of the left coronary artery and arterial and venous catheters.
(11) Anesthetized dogs were subjected to 5 minutes of left circumflex coronary artery (LCx) occlusion (or sham) followed by 10 minutes of reperfusion.
(12) Coronary perfusion with non-oxygenated Tyrode's solution was performed through a cannula inserted into the left circumflex coronary artery.
(13) The proximal circumflex coronary artery was occluded for 90 minutes and then reperfused for 2 hours via an extracorporeal circuit with either whole blood (n = 11) or with blood depleted of neutrophils by leukocyte filters (n = 11).
(14) Studies have been conducted on isolated segments of the left circumflex coronary artery of the dog to gain information on the mechanism or mechanisms of vasospasm.
(15) Myocardial infarcts were artificially induced in a series of dogs by ligation of the circumflex coronary artery.
(16) Muscle spasm, pressure on posterior circumflex vessels, and compromised pericephalic microcirculation in the newborn have been demonstrated to increase intraarticular pressure.
(17) The inferior MI was the result of complete occlusion of the right coronary artery (RCA) in 38 patients and the result of complete occlusion of the posterior descending artery (PDA) coming off the circumflex artery (Cx) in two patients.
(18) Vessel attempted: Left anterior descending (3), circumflex (4), obtuse marginal (2), diagonal (1), right coronary artery (3), and internal thoracic artery (1).
(19) Blockage of the balloon system was possibly caused by twisting the system to reach and pass the lesion in the branch of left circumflex coronary artery.
(20) Noradrenaline overflow from and the potassium content of circumflex territory venous effluent was unchanged.
Diacritical
Definition:
(a.) That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, /, a, /, /, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Great news for Arsenal fans, who, if the summer transfer of Mesut Özil was anything to go by, love nothing more than to pull people up on the internet for accidentally forgetting to add diacritics to people's surnames.
(2) Shouldn't there be an umlaut or other diacritic over a vowel?"
(3) This paper proposes the use of a set of symbols related to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and diacritics for the description and notation of articulatory behaviours which can be perceived visually, but which have no effect on the perceived auditory quality of phonemes produced.
(4) Speech and prosody analyses and content analyses of transcribers' comments yielded diacritic-level profiles of these speakers' linguistic and paralinguistic behaviors in continuous speech.
(5) Second, they reveal that Broca's aphasics are only sensitive to the presence of an incorrect inflection when it functions as a marker of lexical category (noun vs. verb) and not when it functions as a diacritical marker (second person singular vs. third person singular).
(6) The names Oesophagostomum moçambiquei and Oesophagostomum santos-diasi are corrected to O. mocambiquei and O. santosdiasi respectively, since diacritic marks are not allowed under the Code of International Zoological Nomenclature.
(7) In the pointed spelling, diacritical signs (pointing) are added to consonantal letters to convey vowel information.