What's the difference between crosswise and transverse?

Crosswise


Definition:

  • (adv.) In the form of a cross; across; transversely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Resulting from old cleaning ceremonies and preventing or treating uncanny effects in children, it was been usual to lick forehead of newborn and children crosswise.
  • (2) This method described gives relief only when vitreous strands traverse the whole bulbus crosswise.
  • (3) The Laplacian operator in electroencephalographic measurements consists of a mathematical combination of the responses from a number of electrodes (e.g., five in a crosswise montage).
  • (4) The crosswise arrangement of the blastomeres in the rabbit at the 4-cell stage is a consequence of a 90 degree rotation of the polar axis in one hemisphere of the egg.
  • (5) Numerous nerve bundles of variable size were coiled around the anastomosing channels, and occasional bundles ran crosswise over the U-shaped bent vessels.
  • (6) Barium eluates of the liver and of the brain restored the effect of 3', 5'-AMP eliminated by BaSO4, crosswise and equally.
  • (7) It was demonstrated that the pattern of cleavage in the rabbit differs from that in the sea urchin, because the blastomeres at the 4-cell stage are arranged crosswise in the former, while they are situated next to each other in the latter.
  • (8) In crosswise mixed incubation experiments with isolated combined VLD and LDL and total lipoprotein depleted plasma from a control subject and a patient with fish eye disease, respectively, esterification of free cholesterol occurred.
  • (9) Spleen cells showed a markedly high level of activity 7 days after the reconstitution, followed by a decline, whereas the activity of bone marrow cells was very low on day 7 and increased crosswise.
  • (10) Helical fibres in crosswise arrangement rather than isolated sphincters are recordable from the pyloric region.
  • (11) Phage phiKZ has unique characteristics of particle (a large size of the head and the presence in the head of a structure which is visible on electron micrographs as crosswise striated substance).
  • (12) 2) Imaging of the right-ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) for evaluation of RVOT obstruction, including a crosswise imaging of aortic valve.
  • (13) The modification of the operation consists in additional longitudinal osteotomy of the sternum, suturing of the manubrium to the sternum shaft, non-suturing of the rib cartilages after resection, filling of the through-like groove in the reposited sternum with the fragments of the resected rib cartilages, and immobilization of the fragments of the longitudinally osteotomized sternum that are inserted crosswise with several (usually three) Kirschner wires, based on the thorax.
  • (14) For this purpose, a crosswise cut slice approximately 100 microns thick was cut off at the middle level of the root, which permitted comparative quantification of the instrumented area of the buccal and lingual canals.
  • (15) According to the muscle extent a variable number of electrodes are inserted crosswise the fibers.
  • (16) The reason for this is presumably the lack of biostability, the tendency of the fibres to fracture crosswise, and the much lower concentration of fibres in the critical length-diameter range.
  • (17) At the level of the second cell and crosswise to the building slighter temperature differences were observed and the temperature was higher.
  • (18) Physicochemical characterisation, precipitation, using polyclonal antisera, and crosswise neutralisation of lysis reaction were likely to suggest occurrence of immunological relationship reactions as well as differences between organ lysozymes, on the one hand, and intestinal lysozymes, on the other.
  • (19) A new type of nephrostomy is described with the following main characteristics: it uses a small multiperforated Silastic tube; its crosswise location allows perfect drainage of all of the calyces and the pelvis; it does not become obstructed nor move from its position; and it causes minimum traumatization of the renal parenchyma.
  • (20) The surface layer of the cuticle is crosswise and lengthwise ridged.

Transverse


Definition:

  • (a.) Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
  • (n.) Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  • (n.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
  • (v. t.) To overturn; to change.
  • (v. t.) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
  • (2) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
  • (3) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
  • (4) The perinatal development of the levator ani (LA) muscle in male and female rats was investigated by measuring the total number of muscle units (MU) (i.e., mononucleate cells, clustered or independent myotubes, and muscle fibers) in transverse semithin sections of the entire muscle and the MU cross-sectional area in 22-day-old fetuses (F22), 1-day-old (D1 = day of birth), 3-day-old (D3), and 6-day-old (D6) newborns.
  • (5) The operational meaning of all the resulting theorems is that when any of them appear to be refuted experimentally, the presence of more than one parallel transport pathway (that is, of membrane heterogeneity transverse to the direction of transport) can be inferred and analyzed.
  • (6) In order to study cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) absorption across the dural sinus wall, the effect of CSF pressure (recorded from the cisterna magna) on dural venous pressure (recorded from the transverse sinus) was investigated in groups of rats at 2, 10, 20, and 31 days after birth and in adulthood.
  • (7) An A-to-T transversion, which substitutes asparagine16 with isoleucine (N16I), was identified.
  • (8) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
  • (9) The normal anatomical position of the point of junction of the superficial cerebral veins with the superior sagittal and transverse sinuses of the rat was studied with an analytical mathematical method.
  • (10) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
  • (11) Cytochrome oxidase histochemistry revealed patchy patterns of the enzyme activity in transverse sections through the caudal part of the ventral subnucleus of the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus, interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus, and layer IV of the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus in the cat.
  • (12) The gastrocolic response of monkeys to feeding is most prominent in the right and transverse colon in both duration and frequency of contractions.
  • (13) Hypertension consequent upon increasing brain edema, and intercerebral pressure gradient which is the cause of transverse dislocation diminish with the use of a method which provides for hydrodynamic equilibrium.
  • (14) The backbone dynamics of Ca(2+)-saturated recombinant Drosophila calmodulin has been studied by 15N longitudinal and transverse relaxation experiments, combined with 15N(1H) NOE measurements.
  • (15) It should also be contemplated, as an alternative to elective cesarean section for a transverse lie or breech presentation of the second fetus.
  • (16) In a third, a GC----TA transversion has created a BstEII (GGTNACC) site.
  • (17) We found that the Na-Ca exchanger is distributed throughout all membranes in contact with the extracellular space, including the sarcolemma, the transverse tubules (T-tubules), and the intercalated disks.
  • (18) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
  • (19) The isointensity bands in the ischemic area on T2-weighted images showed the spared transverse fibers originating from the contralateral pontine nuclei, and this may explain the cause of the unilateral ataxia.
  • (20) Transverse imaging is important when comparison is made with CT.