(n.) A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(2) The EMG patterns of patients showing cogwheel rigidity featured discrete, phasic bursts superimposed upon more generalized stretch-related increases in activity.
(3) The insertions of the microtubules were supported by blunt projections of the polar ring, forming a cogwheel pattern in transverse view.
(4) An original method of nonsuture microvascular anastomosis was developed using magnet rings and hollow cogwheel-shaped metal devices held together by magnetic power.
(5) No patients had optic atrophy, spasticity, pigmentary retinal degeneration, or cogwheel rigidity, and only 1 had dementia.
(6) Neurological examination revealed limb and truncal ataxia, orthostatic hypotension, cogwheel rigidity in all limbs, generalized hyperreflexia without pathological reflex, and horizontal gaze nystagmus.
(7) The pursuit abnormality, characterized clinically by "cogwheel" eye movements, represented the inability to match eye velocity to target velocity.
(8) In addition, however, the animal developed a 3.8 Hz resting tremor which in humans is pathognomonic of Parkinson's disease, as well as cogwheeling, the glabellar tap sign, drooling, impaired ability to relax, and many other symptoms.
(9) A cogwheel phenomenon, hypotonia and disorders of automatic and voluntary movements were also present.
(10) Within 5 days of erythromycin use, vomiting, weakness, lethargy, ataxia, nystagmus, and cogwheeling movements developed.
(11) On neurological examination of March, 1987 there were: slight right-sided hemiparesis with symmetrical hyperreflexia; discrete bradykinesia in combination with cogwheel rigidity also on the right-side; resting tremor of the right hand; and bilateral papilledema.
(12) These results do not support the previously reported frequent occurrence of cogwheel rigidity in patients on lithium maintenance.
(13) The data suggest a positive correlation between the duration of lithium maintenance and the severity of cogwheeling.
(14) The results confirm previously reported occurrence of cogwheeling in lithium-treated patients.
(15) One of them developed a fine tremor, three a coarse tremor with a cogwheel phenomenon, two developed a full parkinsonian syndrome.
(16) So far only one other case with the same findings has been described in the literature; it was termed "cogwheel macular degeneration."
(17) A specific morphologic abnormality, the cogwheel erythrocyte, has been reported in patients with neuroblastoma.
(18) We noted significantly higher prevalence of plastic rigidity with cogwheel phenomenon, headache, fatigue, nervousness, memory complaints, and sleepiness in the exposed group.
(19) Additional arguments for damage of cerebellar oculomotor functions are the predominance of cogwheeled smooth pursuit and the occasional observation of hypermetric saccades, both toward the side of the tumor.
(20) Cogwheel movements, rigidity, and marked sedation were documented.
Pinion
Definition:
(n.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
(n.) A feather; a quill.
(n.) A wing, literal or figurative.
(n.) The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
(n.) A fetter for the arm.
(n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis.
(v. t.) To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
(v. t.) To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
(v. t.) To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
(v. t.) Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
Example Sentences:
(1) It felt pretty amazing.” O pinions of BrewDog tend to go one of four ways.
(2) Trimming of the comb, devocalisation, trimming of claws, pinioning and caponisation of birds are procedures, which are often requested or carried out by keepers of animals.
(3) And after Eddie Mair's careful pinioning and dissection of Boris Johnson on Sunday's The Andrew Marr Show, there is a feeling out there that a new one has just graduated.
(4) At corners, Charles found his arms pinioned by one opponent while another crashed into him from behind.
(5) Soaring aloft, he exchanges a beast for a bird: Air Force One is America with wings, a mechanised version of the beaked, pinioned eagle – a predator that clutches in its claws twin bundles of peacemaking olive branches and spiky, militarised arrows – that appears on the country’s Great Seal.
(6) The assistant executioner pinions the legs, while the executioner puts a white cap over his head and fits the noose round his neck with the knot drawn tight on the left lower jaw, where it is held in position by a sliding ring.
(7) The different hinge designs studied were fixed axis, gear-on-gear, rack-and-pinion, and natural 3-D; they showed only moderate differences in forces.
(8) Fielding describes the family profession thus: "Just before the time of the execution, the executioner and his assistant join the ... prison officials outside the door of the condemned cell ... the executioner enters the cell and pinions the prisoner's arms behind his back, and two officers lead him to the scaffold and place him directly across the division of the trap on a spot previously marked with chalk.
(9) Two-dimensional echocardiography is the pinion of diagnostic procedures utilized to characterize the coronary arteries in Kawasaki disease.
(10) These problems can be exceptionally difficult in analysis and philosophical management, and are frequently pinioned between technical craftsmanship, curability, and deformity.