(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.
Helical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distribution of the amino acid pairs, i, i + 1 in alpha-helical configurations does not differ from the random pairing.
(2) An analysis of the triple helical stabilities of these cleavage site regions as reflected by their imino acid contents fails to yield a correlation between reactivity and triple helical stability.
(3) The Helical structures of d(C-G-C-A-m5C-G-T-G-m5C-G), d(m5C-G-C-A-m5C-G-T-G-C-G) and d(C-2aminoA-C-G-T-G) were studied in aqueous solution at various salt concentrations and temperatures by 1H-NMR spectroscopy.
(4) Chloride caused a significant concentration-dependent shortening of myosin rods due to destabilization of the alpha-helical double coiled rod structure.
(5) The poly(dG-dC) helical duplex forms a modified, B-family structure (B*) at very high hydration and a normal B structure at slightly lower hydration.
(6) Pretreatment with a novel CRF antagonist, alpha-helical CRF9-41 (130.9 nmol i.t.v.
(7) The melting profile exhibited two transitions--one at about 35 degrees C and one above 50 degrees C. Our spectral data showed that helices I and II were stable during the first transition, and agreed with other data that helix III was the most likely helix to have melted.
(8) (1974)88, 857-872, 873-894] for predicting secondary structure from amino acid sequence have been applied to five predominantly helical membrane-associated peptides.
(9) The alpha-helical content of the free form of the lipoprotein was measured from the circular dichroism spectrum of the lipoprotein in 0.01% sodium dodecyl sulfate and found to be 87%.
(10) In these discoidal complexes, the alpha-helical content was estimated to be 65%, with the rest of the structure being essentially unordered.
(11) A modified plot accounting for amphiphilic helices indicates 5-6 such alpha-segments.
(12) The inactivation of exogenous and neural norepinephrine (NE) by helical strips of rat tail artery was studied with a combination of the techniques of transmural stimulation and oil immersion.
(13) The above analysis suggests that in aqueous solution the protein is devoid of alpha-helical and beta-conformations but that it contains a significant amount of turns.
(14) These results are consistent with a structural model for the membrane in which the peptide chains vary greatly in the proportion of helical segments and polar regions which they contain.
(15) The latter, which is external and solvent accessible, is associated with a distortion in the alpha-helix centered around Tyr33 which consists of a significant increase in the CO(i-4)-N(i) and CO(i-4)-NH(i) distances relative to those in the rest of the helix, as well as a significant departure in the phi, psi angles of Tyr33 relative to regular helical geometry.
(16) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
(17) It is suggested that the alpha-helical region, situated in the region between residues 10 and 20, binds to the RNA during assembly of the virus particle.
(18) Considering the density of helices along the RNA, it is not unexpected to find that all these sites lie in helical regions.
(19) Most double-helical segments were reactive to cobra venom ribonuclease to some degree; the exceptions were the five "long-range" helices that are probably compactly folded within the structure.
(20) The angle obtained for the C alpha-D resonance was consistent with a single-stranded beta 6.3-helical model for the backbone but not with double-helical models.