(n.) Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.
(n.) Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
(2) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
(3) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
(4) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(5) It was concluded that the detachment of the oxaloyl residue from oxaloacetate and its replacement by a proton proceed with inversion of configuration at the methylene group which becomes methyl during the hydrolysis.
(6) The distribution of the amino acid pairs, i, i + 1 in alpha-helical configurations does not differ from the random pairing.
(7) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
(8) Because of the wide range of human nasal anatomic configurations, some people sniff odorants against comparatively high resistances.
(9) The principal variables influencing a particular configuration and their effects are indicated.
(10) The peculiar configuration of the pneumocephalus is attributed to the partial obliteration of the subarachnoid space due to the increased intracranial pressure.
(11) In a triple tier configuration, females concentrated 66% of their travel on the top tier.
(12) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.
(13) A new simplified technique for evaluating the internal pudendal artery and the penile vessels is described using a new catheter configuration with a very short 90 degrees-angled tip.
(14) Both amino acids were found to have the L-configuration by GC analysis on a chiral column and alanine was assigned to be the N-terminal amino acid by Edman degradation.
(15) In normal kidneys fixed by perfusion with tannic acid and glutaraldehyde, glomerular slit diaphragms have been reported to consist of highly ordered and isoporous substructures with a zipper-like configuration.
(16) The curved configuration of the cervico-thoracic vertebral column embedded in long spring-like muscles is interpreted to function as a shock absorber.
(17) In the cell-attached (CA) configuration, the presence of isoguvacine (3-5 microM) in the pipette solution triggered the opening of channels displaying multiple current levels.
(18) The effective direction in this stimulus configuration is opposite to the preferred direction of individual cells for movement of an object.
(19) Separation and recombination experiments, employing a variety of tissue configurations in organ culture, were performed to determine the extent to which the epithelium of the maxillary process influences the viability of the underlying mesenchyme during organogenesis.
(20) A stem cell line has been obtained with cell culture, having a germ cell character and a yolk sac configuration.
Registry
Definition:
(n.) The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.
(n.) The place where a register is kept.
(n.) A record; an account; a register.
Example Sentences:
(1) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
(2) This information has been collected in Finland retrospectively from waterworks, and will be correlated with the Finnish Cancer Registry data.
(3) In Belgium the proportion of adenocarcinomas is much higher than in any of the French registries.
(4) The computerized registry of The Cleveland Vascular Society includes 19,990 vascular procedures, which have been divided into two groups.
(5) Of leukemic children born in areas for which information on past influenza activity was available, the population-based Alameda County Cancer Registry recorded 89 cases during 1960-1969, the California Tumor Registry recorded 653 cases during 1950-1970, and Children's Hospital recorded 575 cases during 1957-1972.
(6) The new registry entered 1802 consecutive patients who had not had a myocardial infarction in the 10 days before angioplasty.
(7) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
(8) A registry, established by the Committee on Prevention of Spinal Cord Injuries Due to Hockey, of major injuries to the spine or spinal cord sustained while playing ice hockey contains 117 cases entered between January 1966 and March 1987; 112 of these injuries were sustained in Canada.
(9) The different congenital abnormality entities and the components of fetal radiation syndrome did not show a higher rate after the Chernobyl accident in the data-set of the Hungarian Congenital Abnormality Registry.
(10) The information was obtained from the Finnish Cancer Registry and from the antenatal records of the mothers.
(11) Two major facilities of the Western Division of Dow Chemical USA are located fortuitously within an area covered by the population-based California Tumor Registry, which allowed linkage of records to identify incident cancers among 1,403 male workers.
(12) The Bone Tumor Registry of Westphalia contains data on 7,400 tumors and tumor-like lesions of bone, 135 primary spinal tumors, 187 metastases, 98 plasmacytomas, 4 extranodal manifestations of Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas of the vertebral column.
(13) During the years 1969 to 1982, 16 patients with primary malignant melanoma of the vulva were entered into the Tumor Registry at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Medical Center.
(14) Infants who were born at Yale-New Haven Hospital from 1979 to 1981 and who were referred by clinicians during the postpartum period to the hospital's child abuse registry because they were considered at high risk of child abuse or neglect became the high-risk group.
(15) Results of coronary artery bypass grafting were evaluated in 856 nonrandomized patients in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry with mild angina (Canadian Cardiovascular Society Classes I and II) and three-vessel disease, defined as 70% or more stenosis in the proximal or middle segment of the three major coronary arteries.
(16) Approximately 300 incident cases of contralateral breast cancer and 300 randomly chosen surviving controls with unilateral breast cancer were identified through the Connecticut Tumor Registry for inclusion in each study.
(17) The identification of patients usually refractory to outpatient treatment was hindered by the constant flux in the population base as illustrated by an 85% increase in the asthma registry over the succeeding 12-mo period.
(18) An analysis was performed of 2,168 consecutive stroke patients who were examined by computed tomography and entered into a hospital-based stroke registry in Akita Prefecture, Japan.
(19) During the past 11 years, the Metro Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry has prospectively followed all cases of glomerulonephritis starting from the time of biopsy.
(20) Familial Cancer Registries have an enormous potential for identifying persons at high cancer risk, for etiological and biomarker studies as well as for the evaluation of detection and prevention programs in high risk groups.