(a.) Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.
(a.) Hollow; void of contents.
(n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
(n.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.
(v. t.) To make hollow or concave.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the absence of glutamine the aggregate is readily dissociated following dilution of the extract; that is, velocity concaves upward as a function of increasing protein concentration.
(2) Under the SEM, the unstained area of rods is always showing a concavity, which is just a nucleoid in sections under the TEM.
(3) Three cases are presented in which a focal concave deformity occurred along the greater curvature of the stomach on upper gastrointestinal (GI) series.
(4) This change in shape varied from a slight flattening of the LV and IVS during diastole to total reversal of the normal direction of septal curvature such that the IVS became concave toward the RV and convex toward the LV.
(5) The technique combines the conventional plotting the contour lines and the highlighting, by means of hatching, of the concavities (or convexities) of the 'surface' representative of radioactive distribution.
(6) The trapezoidal shape of the vertebrae and scarring of the soft tissues within the concavity made correction difficult.
(7) On freeze-fracture preparations, the fragments with concave profile, corresponding to the external fracture face of plasma membrane, displayed an intramembrane particle density (ranging from 0 to 750 particles per micron2) which is similar to that recorded on the corresponding fracture face of intact cells from the common lymphoblastic leukemia antigen positive leukemic cell line (Nalm-1) or of vesicles shed in the culture medium by Nalm-1 cells.
(8) In testicular and cauda spermatozoa NBD-phallacidin fluorescent material was present in the two ventral processes that extended from the upper concave surface of the sperm head; also fainter material occurred along the concave border and as a dorsocaudal spur.
(9) When viewed in the lateral projection, the concavities superimpose, lying in the posterior portion of the vertebral body.
(10) Dose-effect relationships for most of the sampling times were linear and sometimes linear-quadratic concave upward or downward.
(11) This should be prevented by a bone-graft operation along the concave side of the tibia.
(12) Since February 1982, 23 patients with scoliosis were treated by releasing the soft tissues on the concave side and plaster spinal fusion jacket.
(13) The DRT curves of all data were concave and appeared to have two discrete slopes (z(D) values).
(14) Between the concave surfaces of two bent cadaverine molecules exists water channels all along the short b axis.
(15) Homotropic cooperative effects were observed as shown by the concave downward curvature of the reciprocal plots.
(16) The late mortality is 3.8% per patient-year--standard disc group 2.9% per patient-year and convexo-concave group 4.3% per patient year (no significant difference).
(17) The relationship between chloride transport and extracellular chloride in the presence of bromide is concave upward which suggests that this anion inhibits chloride movement.
(18) (3) A row of regularly spaced ribosomes located in the concavity, but at some distance from the arciform filament.
(19) The authors also consider a problem of how to interpret the symptom of a "snake mouth" or a "concave lens" which (depending on its cause) can be either transient (in a large concrement) or stable (in an exophytic tumor, completely occluding the duct).
(20) In both maxillary and mandibular teeth, approximal concavities often started in enamel, extending down to the root surface.
Scotia
Definition:
(n.) Scotland
(n.) A concave molding used especially in classical architecture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Questionnaires were mailed to 200 randomly selected hospital nurses and to all 177 community health nurses working in the Nova Scotia metropolitan centre; 74 completed questionnaires were returned.
(2) The Micmac Indian women of Nova Scotia appear to be at a much higher risk for the development of cholesterol gallstones and gallbladder disease than Caucasian women in Framingham, Massachusetts.
(3) and other species in stool specimens from stray dogs and cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(4) From September 1990 to March 1991, 47 of 52 patients with genital C. trachomatis infections in a rural health unit in Nova Scotia were interviewed about preventive education by physicians partner notification, past history, and treatment.
(5) All-female hybrids of the killifishes Fundulus heteroclitus and Fundulus diaphanus, known from two sites in Nova Scotia, Canada, are shown to reproduce clonally.
(6) In Experiment 1, speeding feedback signs were effective even when 10 were used in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and reductions in speeding were associated with reductions in accidents.
(7) The prevalence rates of cytomegalovirus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Trichomonas vaginalis, and herpes simplex virus infection were determined for 247 women attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia between July 1983 and December 1985.
(8) Thirty-six harbor porpoises, Phocaena phocaena, were caught off the coast of Southern New Brunswick and Nova Scotia as part of a study of the biology and ecology of these animals.
(9) The proportion of definite and possible AMI was similar in Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan in 1977, but not thereafter.
(10) He stayed there for some years before he again left for USA, and spent the last years of his life in Nova Scotia.
(11) But for most folk, Scotland still doesn’t pass the hold-your-partner’s-hand test, certainly compared with London.” Similarly, campaigner Jordan Daly says: “It’s not enough to say to LGBT kids, ‘Hey, you can get married, so don’t worry about being bullied at school.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Participants in the annual Pride Scotia parade, on Edinburgh High Street, 2015.
(12) Affected males from two Nova Scotia families who cannot be associated with the kindred by history were also found to have the rarer NcoI allele, which suggests they are, in fact, part of the kindred.
(13) "If there was any doubt that the eurozone was headed for recession, these data should confirm it," said Alan Clarke, eurozone economist at Scotia Capital.
(14) Thus, to analyse Fabry disease in Nova Scotia, especially within a large kindred known to contain 30 affected males and 50 possible carrier females, we isolated an independent cDNA for alpha-gal.
(15) In March 1941 Freud signed on as an ordinary seaman on the armed merchant cruiser SS Baltrover, bound for Nova Scotia.
(16) The infection control department of the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia conducted prospective hospital-wide surveillance for one month to evaluate the incidence of UTIs.
(17) All commercial fishermen in the Canadian Maritime provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) are registered with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO).
(18) First National Bank in Scotia, NY is in its 90th year with 10 branches and $400m in assets.
(19) The New York state Level-of-Care Survey (LOCS) was used in 1987-88 to assess the community care and social support needs of 936 mentally disabled community residents in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(20) Over a four-year period, eight patients with documented gastrointestinal bleeding had angiography as a part of their investigation and treatment at the Department of Radiology, Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia.