(n.) A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concertina effect is a phenomenon where the QRS complexes reflect alternating phases of gradual widening and narrowing.
(2) During the follow-up, the detached posterior hyaloidal membrane appeared to have collapsed on the anterior retina in concertina-like folds.
(3) So we've gone through the process that BT went through over 25 years, but we've concertinaed it into three."
(4) At the pub on the island there was a concertina-player and we got the feeling – fuelled by pints of rich dark stout – that we were being absorbed into a community.
(5) Synchronized electromyography and cinematography were used to determine the muscle activity of colubroid snakes during sidewinding and concertina locomotion.
(6) Either equally spaced X-ray fractions (concertina design) or single or multiple pairs of X-ray doses (single and multiple split-dose designs) were given at varying intervals, followed by graded doses of neutrons.
(7) Airstrikes have concertinaed hundreds of buildings and carved large slices out of hundreds more.
(8) Mulling over the wars – Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09, Operation Pillar of Defence in 2012 and the current Operation Protective Edge – concertinaed into her short life, Najia concludes that this one is the worst.
(9) He tells aides: “The trouble with all options other than going immediately is they collapse like a concertina.
(10) Marked ;concertinaing', or gathering of the small intestine proximal to the mercury weight, was seen at laparotomy in all six subjects.
(11) On a dirt road, concertinaed slabs of concrete and wire drape from flattened buildings, next to the only remaining housing that was not blown apart in the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.
(12) Third, experiments using three or more evenly spaced fractions, 'concertina'-style, permit interaction between non-adjacent fractions.
(13) The scaphoid has lost its stabilizing function as a bridge between the proximal and distal carpal row, so that the wrist shows the typical "concertina" deformity of dorsal instability.
(14) The high court was told negotiations between the firm and investigators had been “concertinaed” to complete an agreement with US regulators before Donald Trump becomes president on Friday.
(15) Theoretical considerations combined with observed differences suggest that the more elongate body of Elaphe is advantageous for performing concertina locomotion.
(16) Embryos from mothers homozygous for mutations in the concertina (cta) gene begin furrow formation by forming a zone of tightly apposed cells, constrict some cells, and then fail to constrict enough cells to form an organized groove.
(17) The walls had been raised to 3.6 metres (12ft) and topped with barbed wire and concertina barbed wire.
(18) But even in this "concertinaed" timeline - extending millions of centuries into the future, as well as into the past - this century is special.
(19) As elastin is laid down in a contracted form, this elastosis may be responsible for the shortening or 'contracture' of the taeniae which in turn leads to the characteristic concertina-like corrugation of the circular muscle.
(20) Back-up pacing or concertina mode were used in 3 of 4 patients.
Concertino
Definition:
(n.) A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto.