(n.) An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.
(v. t.) To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd.
Example Sentences:
(1) Corkscrew oesophagus is a radiological diagnosis and is characterised by twisted segments in the distal third of the oesophagus.
(2) You don't have to do everything 50 times and then twist a corkscrew around it just to be sure."
(3) The signs of arteriosclerosis are described including irregular constrictions, multiple occlusions and the corkscrew pattern of the collateral arteries.
(4) An additional motion of blood, angular momentum, produces a corkscrew component to the flow.
(5) I once saw a merlin above Burgh Castle spiral in a relentless tight corkscrew as it pursued a skylark that steepled until it was only a dust mote.
(6) Corkscrewing does not occur if the microtubule bundle is pretreated with salt, a procedure that removes MAPs from microtubules, suggesting that the force is generated by a MAP or MAPs.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest If I stabbed their eyes out with a corkscrew though … DW: You say taking the law into your own hands, but the cops in the movie, they take the law into their own hands.
(8) A serrated, "corkscrew" pattern was present and corresponded well to the perivascular fibrosis noted histologically.
(9) On addition of ATP and other hydrolysable nucleotides the microtubule bundle contorts into a helical configuration, a property we have called 'corkscrewing', before straightening again.
(10) Rising in a strenuous corkscrew from the village of Zermatt, you are rewarded with terrific views of Monte Rosa, the Gorner glacier, the Dent Blanche and the Matterhorn.
(11) Nonpropulsive esophageal contractions radiologically described as tertiary contractions or "corkscrew" esophagus suggest the presence of an underlying motility disorder and may lead to impaired acid clearance.
(12) A 59-year-old man is described in whom the insertion of an epicardial sutureless "corkscrew" electrode resulted in fatal ventricular perforation.
(13) Embryos derived from germline clones of corkscrew (csw) exhibit a "twisted" phenotype.
(14) bulls (about 1200) have been examined yearly, and a total of 60 cases showing more than 2% corkscrew sperms in their semen have been recorded.
(15) A lesion in the brain was completely avascular and displaced the surrounding vessels, whereas the renal lesions were hypovascular, usually well demarcated, sometimes exhibited beak formation, and demonstrated fine, corkscrew-like tumor vessels with delayed emptying but no tumor blush or early draining veins.
(16) When pentagastrin was subcutaneously injected before a barium examination a distortion of the oesophageal contour, described as curling or corkscrew oesophagus, regularly appeared.
(17) Multiple metastases in the kidneys were hypo- or avascular, but some showed fine corkscrew vessels.
(18) The picture of corkscrew oesophagus develops into a diffuse spasm of the oesophagus and finally into achalasia.
(19) Cerebral angiography showed corkscrew-like veins in the frontal region.
(20) On the basis of experience with 171 patients the advantages and disadvantages of a sutureless, corkscrew-like myocardial electrode are compared with those of endocardial electrodes.