(a.) Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
(v. t.) To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead.
Example Sentences:
(1) The internal elastic lamina was also corrugated and disrupted.
(2) A corrugated appearance of the patellar tendon on sagittal images indicates a reduction in the normal tensile force applied to it and indicates the need for careful evaluation of the patella and quadriceps tendon mechanism.
(3) Imagining happy events, sad events, and the events of a typical day led to measurable electromyographic (EMG) changes in the corrugator muscle of the face in both depressed and nondepressed subjects.
(4) The functional significance of these corrugations remains unknown, but, they could be important in equalizing tension in the tracheo-bronchial tree during inspiration, as well as in providing elastic recoil during expiration.
(5) Examination of Triton X-100 extracted, TA-GA fixed parasites showed that the outer membrane was partially removed while the inner membrane complex was not, but had a corrugated aspect.
(6) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(7) The micro-organisms were observed to lodge in all components of the breathing system, with the greatest concentration being recovered from the corrugated tubing.
(8) A gentle drizzle beats an insistent rhythm on the rusty, corrugated iron classroom roof at Katwe primary school in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda’s capital.
(9) In contrast, the thickness of the purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium with its densely packed less-corrugated structure exhibits very little variation in thickness in coated preparations and the values obtained are in good agreement with x-ray data.
(10) In nerve biopsies from patients with diabetic neuropathy, such residual basal laminal tubes tend to be circular rather than corrugated and appear to be more persistent during regeneration; this suggests increased rigidity and durability.
(11) We summarize Wiener's theory of the dielectric constant of heterogeneous systems and extend its application to suspensions of particles with corrugated surfaces and interstitial solvent.
(12) During presentation of pictures with negative valence the m. frontalis lateralis and the m. corrugator supercilii revealed enhanced EMG-reactions as compared to the repeated presentation of pictures with positive valence.
(13) A complete solution of plane-wave scattering from a groove-corrugated surface of infinite extent for arbitrary incidence is presented.
(14) It has been shown that they are made up of elastic tissue in a collagen matrix, and that the elastic fibres continue into the smallest bronchioles beyond where the corrugations are no longer visible.
(15) Angiorgrams sometimes show regular and symetrical corrugations of the arterial outline.
(16) Vascular alterations, which were predominantly detected in the ruptured vessel, consisted of endothelial cell corrugation, detachment, crater formation, intimal adhesion of platelets and red blood cells, intimal thrombi, and reendothelialization.
(17) A pair of corneal forceps combining a large overall size with delicate features-13,5 cm long, 1.5-cm wide handles, and 0.15-cm teeth on the branches--is fenestrated and finely corrugated for easy grip.
(18) The corrugator muscle region of the forehead has special significance in producing facial expressions associated with depression.
(19) Patients who are candidates for this type of surgery include those who have a long forehead, a short forehead, deep wrinkles, or thinner skin, as well as patients with deep frown lines and hyperactive corrugator muscles.
(20) A monocularly viewed surface specified by parallax alone was seen as a rigid, corrugated surface translating along a fronto-parallel path.
Crumple
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.
(v. i.) To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synapses or other sites that might be responsible for exciting these muscles during crumpling have not been found.
(2) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
(3) A sixth conducting pathway is the epithelial system, which mediates crumpling, a response involving the radial muscles without pacemaker intervention.
(4) The BBC had a great subject: working-class, postwar Britain was being revealed.” Frears, a great crumpled bear of a man whom I met at his regular cafe in Notting Hill, said: “I tell you what: it’s really the growth of management you should be writing about.
(5) Congenital contractural arachnodactyly (CCA) was described by Beals and Hecht as an autosomal dominant disorder distinct from Marfan syndrome and comprising joint contractures, arachnodactyly, scoliosis, and a distinct "crumpled ear" deformity.
(6) she cried, jabbing the sculpture with a pole until it crumpled.
(7) A lesser side might have crumpled, particularly after the clumpy 2-2 draw against Sunderland that left them six points behind the following Wednesday, with only one game in hand.
(8) It is the details of Martin's story that catch in the throat: his anxiety about his mother's wellbeing; his conviction that if he had been more helpful she would have wanted him to stay; his gentle care for the neighbourhood cats; the crumpled piece of bread he carries in his pocket for comfort.
(9) Louis van Gaal described it as “one of our best matches this season” and, even if he was exaggerating at times, talking about their opening 35 minutes being “unbelievably good,” it says a lot about Leicester that they refused to crumple.
(10) pedicaled subcutis muscle flaps, free tissue flaps or bone chips) we see no crumpling up of the obliterated areas and no retractions.
(11) Dressed in black Armani and heels, she walked the corridors, perching on desks reminding the crumpled agents that they were not only talented but handsome.
(12) We describe a male neonate with severe arachnodactyly, hypermobility of the fingers, flexion contractures of elbows, wrists, hips, and knees, micrognathia, crumpled ears, rockerbottom feet, loose redundant skin, and ocular abnormalities.
(13) The hands and feet appeared to be swollen and crumpled.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Crumpled Guggenheim … inside the rotunda.
(15) He began to make still-life photographs of his own discarded clothes, battered and crumpled and suggestively sexual, as if they still held the scent and warmth of the person who had worn them.
(16) The manner in which they had crumpled was almost shocking to see.
(17) The new houses paid for by the casino revenues, clustered together in their own neighbourhoods, stand out from the crumpled homes that have endured decades of desert winds.
(18) It is argued that these swollen and crumpled fiber knots are slowly degenerating fibers.
(19) Two triangular lobes jut into this space on either side, housing science and technology labs, their faceted forms giving it all the look of a crumpled New York Guggenheim rotunda .
(20) "You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives."