(n.) A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
(n.) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.
(v. t.) To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Were it the latter, you'd think he'd change the angle, either by moving across the crease or going around the wicket, because it's clear his man won't be tempted.
(2) Bifid uvula, preauricular pits, and abnormal palmar creases were also slightly more common in the patients, but the differences were not statistically significant.
(3) It seems to adequately provide the additional needed lift when nipple descent has been no more than 1.5 to 2 cm below the inframammary crease.
(4) A report is given on a small-for-date male infant showing the following symptoms: bilateral aplasia of humerus, radius, and ulna, shortened femora, bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, stigmata of dysmorphism, and notably; simple helix formation of the ear, simian crease, clinodactylia, bilateral clubfoot deformity, hypospadia, thrombocytopenia, micrognathia, and contractures in the knee joints.
(5) Descent of a prosthesis below the desired inframammary crease is an infrequent but disturbing complication of augmentation mammaplasty, which may occur for a number of reasons.
(6) Two flaps are described which have been designed to resurface the skin around the basal flexion crease of the fingers.
(7) A single anatomic unit is rebuilt, transferring a strong new muscle strap with ideal supporting vectors and leaving scars in natural creases.
(8) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(9) This method is useful in restoring eyelid contour defects, separating the eyelid lamella to lower the upper eyelid crease, and augmenting eyelids in anophthalmos.
(10) It hasn’t helped that one mischievous customer appears to have added a crease to the carton on the right to make it look even more like a penis.
(11) There are four basic surgical techniques applicable to the upper face: (1) direct browlift, (2) midforehead crease incision, (3) prehairline incision, and (4) posthairline incision.
(12) A prospective study of 125 consecutive patients undergoing coronary arteriography was carried out to evaluate the ear lobe crease with the presence and extent of coronary artery disease.
(13) The authors present a series of 74 patients who underwent injections of a biphasic copolymer (Bioplastique) to improve the facial contours or to fill deep creases and folds.
(14) The combined presence of ear-lobe crease and ear-canal hair was more definite and more sensitive index of underlying CAD.
(15) Temporal and frontal ptosis, as well as glabellar and frontal creases are treated through this approach.
(16) A posterior incision in the knee crease, rather than the conventional medial approach, gives expedient exposure for precise repair.
(17) Ambigouous genitalia, microcephaly, microphthalmia, hyoptelorism, single choanal opening, low-set ears, simian creases, Tetralogy of Fallot, bilateral hydronephrosis, and absence of the left ureter characterized an infant the died 1 hour postpartum with the karyotype 48,XXY,+13.
(18) The syndrome is characterized by short stature; a broad, prominent forehead, hypertelorism, congenital ptosis, a broad, short nose with anteverted nostrils, a long, broad upper lip, low-set, abnormally shaped and posteriorly rotated ears; simian palmar creases; brachyclinodactyly; short fingers; ligamentous laxity allowing for hyperextensibility of the fingers, genu recurvatum, flat feet; and an anomalous penoscrotal configuration resulting in "saddle" deformity with scrotal folds incircling the base of the penis.
(19) An ear lobe crease score was correlated with a coronary artery disease score, taking into account the variables of age, sex, and body mass index.
(20) With a mean frequency 1.75% of elderly primiparae, the operation took place in 60% of the cases in the year 1984 and in creased up to 80.95% during 1987.
Crinkle
Definition:
(v. t.) To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.
(v. i.) To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
(n.) A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The genome organization is very similar to that of carnation mottle virus (CarMV) and turnip crinkle virus (TCV).
(2) The postulated amino acid sequence of CMeV capsid protein had 36% homology to turnip crinkle virus and 26% homology to carnation mottle virus in the arm and S domains, but western blots showed no serological relationship to either.
(3) Acceptable estimates of medial and intimal area could be obtained by simply delineating the boundaries of the intima and media and ignoring the crinkles in the elastic laminae.
(4) A stocky man with a round face and belly, and skinny legs revealed beneath his shorts, he answered to Dr T or, among friends, Johnny, and when he smiled, his eyes crinkled nearly shut.
(5) Genome-length cDNA clones of turnip crinkle virus (TCV) were constructed with SmaI and XbaI restriction sites engineered at the 5' and 3' termini, respectively.
(6) These results are consistent with the proposed assembly model for turnip crinkle virus.
(7) We have previously proposed the same mechanism for the formation of defective interfering RNAs, chimeric sat-RNAs, and sat-RNA recombinants in the turnip crinkle virus system (Cascone, Carpenter, Li, and Simon.
(8) Dissociation of turnip crinkle virus (TCV) at elevated pH and ionic strength produces free dimers of the coat protein and a ribonucleoprotein complex that contains the viral RNA, six coat-protein subunits, and the minor protein species, p80 (a covalently linked coat-protein dimer).
(9) Mutations at a site with homology to the catalytic strand of self-cleaving sequences in certain viroids and satellites appeared to confer virulence on sat D in that test plants showed severe crinkling and stunting normally associated with sat C. However, sat C appeared along with a restored form of sat D in the progeny RNAs of these severely infected plants.
(10) Inspection of the alignment showed good correspondence between the experimentally defined beta-strands and alpha-helices of the capsid proteins of tomato bushy stunt, southern bean mosaic and turnip crinkle viruses, allowing prediction of the secondary structure elements in proteins with unresolved tertiary structure.
(11) The turnip crinkle virus coat protein binding sites in the ribonucleoprotein complex resulting from virion dissociation have been identified previously.
(12) We report a case of "crinkled cellophane maculopathy" which developed during the first few days following an uneventful trabeculectomy in a high myopic patient with primary open-angle glaucoma.
(13) My 24-year-old daughter – brilliant, ambitious and amazing – crinkles her nose at the words "feminist" and "women's movement".
(14) A hole opened in the cytoplasmic membrane through which the nucleus escaped, and crinkling of the residual cytoplasmic membrane was observed.
(15) Turnip crinkle virus (TCV) supports a small family of satellite RNAs (RNAs C, D and F).
(16) Striking amino acid homology has been observed between two potential polypeptides encoded by MCMV and polypeptides encoded by carnation mottle virus (CarMV) and turnip crinkle virus (TCV).
(17) Repeatability of the measurements is excellent but it is essential to digitize at a magnification at which crinkles in the internal elastic lamina are clearly visible.
(18) A 22-base region of turnip crinkle virus satellite-RNA C (sat-RNA C) is involved in the accumulation of monomeric and dimeric forms.
(19) (b) The vesicle membrane tends to 'crinkle' or collapse depending on the concentration of the other components of the fixative solution.
(20) A short open reading frame (ORF), ORF6, potentially encoding a polypeptide (pX) of 32-69 amino acids, was revealed upon computer translation of the 3' terminal regions of tomato bushy stunt, cymbidium ringspot, cucumber necrosis and artichoke mottled crinkle tombusviruses.