(v. t.) To make coordinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coordinate ideas in classification.
(v. t.) To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coordinate muscular movements.
(n.) A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.
(n.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See Abscissa.
Example Sentences:
(1) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
(2) The Test of Motor Impairment (TOMI) was used to select 12 children with a Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and 12 age-matched controls.
(3) By using these methods, it was clearly indicated that these factors such as TDF of rectum, Z-coordinate of weighted geometric center (WGC-Z), the dose of whole pelvic irradiation, history of chemotherapy and Treponema pallidum hemoagglutination test (TPHA) were important for occurrence of rectal complication.
(4) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
(5) Guidelines are presented for pharmacist coordination of the importation for use by institutionalized patients of drugs not currently approved by the FDA.
(6) Furthermore, non-coordinate expression of DR and DQW1 was present in 8 out of 40 carcinomas, with the proportion of DQW1 positive epithelium always being less than that of DR. Carcinomas exhibiting non-coordinate expression were never well differentiated; there was no relationship with the extent of the inflammatory infiltrate.
(7) During well-coordinated neurological and psychiatric treatment the laughing seizures (spontaneous, event-related, psychogenic) decreased and a considerable improvement in psychiatric and psychosocial problems was attained.
(8) This process may be achieved by co-ordinated synthesis and translation of new mRNA or gradual accumulation of constitutively synthesized mRNA, followed by coordinated translational activation.
(9) Since PDE alpha was not reduced, this suggests that synthesis of PDE alpha and PDE beta may not be coordinately controlled.
(10) According to the resolution of the national coordinative conference, 1098 cases with extrahepatic biliary cancer, from 1977, January to 1989, April were collected by over 40 hospitals and coordinative groups throughout the country.
(11) Transfer of nonprofessional tasks out of nursing and reduction of tension arising from reduced responsibility of nurses for coordinating activities with ancillary departments are possible explanations for the positive relation between the presence of SUM and professional nurses' satisfaction.
(12) A nearly identical mapping pattern is obtained with the coordinately regulated GAL7 promoter.
(13) A sound source is commonly spherical, therefore solutions are found for the wave equation in spherical coordinates, giving a precise meaning to the 'azimuthal' and 'magnetic quantum number' analogy.
(14) Office procedures include selecting an office coordinator, ensuring a smoke-free office, establishing a mechanism to identify and monitor patients who smoke, and involving the office staff in intervention and follow-up.
(15) Stereo cineradiography in the late postoperative period (mean, 52 days after surgery) allowed computer-aided measurements of the three-dimensional coordinates of multiple sites in anterior, inferior, lateral, and septal LV regions at 16.7-msec intervals throughout the cardiac cycle.
(16) Based on the refined atomic coordinates of the tRNAphe in the orthorhombic crystal, on the recent advances in the distance dependence of the ring-current magnetic field effects and on the adopted values for the isolated hydrogen-bonded NH resonances, a computed spectrum consisting of 23 protons was constructed.
(17) This mechanism, which is activated by changes in culture density, coordinately regulates the activities of HMG-CoA reductase and acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT).
(18) A number of the complexes showed potent cytotoxic activity in vitro and antitumor activity in vivo, with the phosphine-coordinated gold(I) thiosugar complexes demonstrating the greatest in vitro and in vivo activity.
(19) Many of the limitations of conventional diagnostic arthroscopy of the knee have been largely overcome through the development of techniques that permit manipulation of intra-articular structures through paired, coordinated entry sites.
(20) Utilizing the known atomic coordinates of the chromophores (Schirmer, T., Bode, W. and Huber, R. (1987) J. Mol.
Graticule
Definition:
(n.) A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of fields are examined using an indexed-squares graticule in 10 different areas of the brain.
(2) An eye-piece graticule was used to measure the proportion of bone-surfaces covered with osteoid, and there was good correlation between the results obtained by these two methods.
(3) In view of the limitations of linear measurement and the high cost and complexity of computer aided microscopy, we propose that a simple stereological technique using an eyepiece graticule is the method of choice in the quantitative assessment of mucosal architecture in jejunal biopsy specimens.
(4) Cylindrical projections convert the coordinate lines into rectangular graticules for isopotential maps of sensory evoked responses.
(5) Additional features are: a graticule for calibration, a facility to display alphanumeric characters, and an option for automated uninterrupted viewing of the visual image.
(6) The intimal thickness was measured at the anastomoses and in the mid-graft region using an eye-piece graticule set at right angles to the graft internal elastic lamina.
(7) The thickness of the fibrous articular layer, undifferentiated germinal mesenchyme layer and the hyperplastic cartilage layer were measured using an eyepiece graticule and the presence and frequency of islands of cartilage in the subchondral bone were noted.
(8) The Weibel graticule was found to be useful in assessing the severity of histological changes and in following changes after treatment.
(9) (4) In large collections of neurones, e.g., in the thalamus, three methods are available: (a) the nearest neighbour method; (b) a conventional squared graticule count, and (c) a count of cells intersected by a line probe as in Haug's (1972) technique (fig.
(10) Inter- and intra-observer variation in measuring the depth of invasion of malignant melanomas was assessed using three different techniques: eye-piece graticule, stage Vernier, and projection image analysis.
(11) The degree of villous atrophy was estimated with a Weibel eyepiece graticule, and this correlated strongly with the degree of crypt hyperplasia, which was assessed by deriving the mean number of enterocytes in the crypts.
(12) Graticules consisting of concentric circles and radial lines are projected onto the subject's fundus, providing a pattern that the examiner can use to determine the exact location to be stimulated in the fundus.
(13) The point-counting graticules commonly used, with 25 points, are inadequate with tissue proportions below 10%.
(14) A method of measuring pupillary diameter in the dog using a Kowa RC-2 fundus camera, to which an eyepiece graticule had been fitted, is described.
(15) Morphometric studies of the epididymal region of three avian species (Gallus domesticus, Coturnix coturnix japonica, Japanese quail, and Numida meleagris, guinea-fowl) were performed using a stereological compensating eyepiece graticule.
(16) Subchondral bone and articular cartilage histomorphometry was carried out in three different regions of the specimens (central, middle, and peripheral regions) using an image-analyzing system and an eyepiece graticule.
(17) Pupil diameter was measured either directly by reading off from the calibrated graticule or from photographs.
(18) Weibel graticule measurements appear to be a useful adjunct to the subjective assessment of villus atrophy.
(19) Sections were quantitated using an eye-piece graticule and all values were expressed as a percentage of osteoid surface.
(20) Differential light thresholds were measured and quantified according to one investigator's graticule for the neural representation of visual space.