(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.
Ruga
Definition:
(n.) A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugae of the stomach.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the mouse, Meissner corpuscles, glomerular corpuscles, and Merkel cell nerve endings were seen in every palatine ruga, though the first antemolar ruga also contained simple and atypical lamellated corpuscles.
(2) The number of primary rugae of Japanese children were more than those of Indian children, but the number of transverse palatal rugae were the same.
(3) Extent of cancer invasion was underestimated in giant-rugae tumors (40%), as endoscopy could barely detect the small nest of esophageal infiltrations.
(4) Flattening of the anal verge and rugae occurred during dilatation by the midpoint of the examination in 44% and 34%, respectively.
(5) the esophageal lesion revealed a variety of macroscopic manifestations including giant rugae, submucosal nodules, multiple erosions, and craters.
(6) Regarding the developmental relation of rugae to maxillary dentition in the mouse, a comparison of particular stages of teeth and rugae development and analysis of their similarities and dissimilarities may extend the knowledge of general rules of morphogenesis and differentiation in oral biology.
(7) (d) Many differentiated tumors showed a smooth depressed surface, erythema at the edge of the cancer, and tapering of the gastric rugae.
(8) Similar distribution patterns also were observed in palatine rugae that had received mechanical stimulus during fixation.
(9) The great majority of patients with enlarged rugae presented with peptic ulcer symptoms.
(10) It appears that the division of the maxillary outgrowth oral epithelial covering into rugae as well as into the dentition anlage is closely related.
(11) In 15-day embryos with well-formed secondary palates, the rugae occur, numbering nine on each palatal process.
(12) As the characteristic configuration and spatial patterns were found on each of days 13-19, rugae could be utilized as a natural positional marker (eg, in odontogenesis or palatogenesis studies).
(13) In the middle elevation area, a small region of exposed mesenchyme occurred at the level of the first and second rugae between day 16.9 and 17.5 of MA-age.
(14) In a sample of Swazi (47 males and 70 females) the palatal rugae were studied and the results compared with those in the literature.
(15) On exploratory gastrotomy, the mass was found to consist of hypertrophic rugae resembling cerebral gyri and sulci.
(16) Meissner corpuscles in the normal palatine rugae could be roughly classified into three types by amount and localization of Ca2+.
(17) There were many transverse palatal rugae in the two populations at the left side.
(18) The mucous epithelium of the rat palatal rugae was observed by light and electron microscopy.
(19) Intravaginal findings of vaginal ridges (90.2%) and rugae (88.7%) were found primarily through the labial traction approach.
(20) Distinctive left and right anterior and posterior rugae which appeared on all four casts were identified, the medial ends marked, and the anteroposterior distances measured.