(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.
Vertical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.
(a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.
(n.) Vertical position; zenith.
(n.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
(2) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
(3) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(4) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(5) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
(6) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(7) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(8) 3-D curves were computed with an apparent rotation around the vertical axis Z.
(9) The following oculomotor paradigms were investigated: horizontal and vertical saccades of different sizes (10-80 degrees), smooth pursuit eye movements, optokinetic and vestibular nystagmus.
(10) From a psychological-vertical aspect the group is rather a common situation in which the individual members remain in their experience separated from each other.
(11) Single vertical spin and electron microscopy analyses of these HDL subpopulations demonstrated that acid elution from the affinity columns caused no detectable change in size and density of the three subpopulation particles.
(12) 'Vertical' sections are plane sections longitudinal to a fixed (but arbitrary) axial direction.
(13) Although active head movements reversed horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflexes, vertical vestibulo-ocular reflexes in light and darkness were normal.
(14) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
(15) These observations suggest that the persistently mobile, vertically positioned unbonded cup remain stable despite the stress of significant trauma.
(16) First, the possibility of "vertical" transmission of the virus was examined, as the Papio stock in Sukhumi was genetically homogeneous.
(17) The "lazy-T" technique consists of a surgical horizontal and vertical shortening of the involved portion of the lower eyelid.
(18) The LVOR in the presence of visual targets (VLVOR) was tested by recording human vertical eye and head movements during self-generated vertical linear oscillation (averaging 2.7 Hz at peak excursion of 3.2 cm) while subjects alternately fixated targets at D = 36, 142, and 424 cm.
(19) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
(20) Accommodation measurements of nine young, emmetropic subjects were obtained with an infrared optometer while they viewed superimposed horizontal and vertical square-wave gratings at various dioptric separations.