(a.) Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.
(v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.
Example Sentences:
(1) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(2) Eight adolescents were followed 3-8 years after primary suture of a substance rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.
(3) In 1984 the press-fit condylar knee was first introduced and was intended to provide a condylar knee system primarily for posterior cruciate retention that addressed refinements in metallurgy, prosthetic geometry and sizing, cementless fixation, inventory management, and instrumentation.
(4) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(5) However, at angles of flexion of 30 degrees or less, the amount of posterior translation after section of only the lateral collateral ligament and the deep structures was similar to that noted after isolated section of the posterior cruciate ligament.
(6) 88% of the Norwegian surgeons prescribed a cast for six weeks after surgery, while only 15% of the surgeons in the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Study Group prescribe immobilization for more than four weeks.
(7) The MRI scan is a highly accurate, noninvasive modality for documentation of meniscal pathology as well as cruciate ligament tears in the knee.
(8) Lateral ligament tear is often associated with anterior cruciate ligament tear.
(9) A new portable model of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) instrumented clinical knee testing apparatus and the KT-1000 knee arthrometer were used to measure anterior laxity in normal and anterior cruciate absent knees.
(10) To determine whether the serum keratan sulfate (KS) concentration reflected the status of degenerating articular cartilage in a commonly used model of osteoarthritis (OA), serum KS levels were measured in 9 dogs prior to transection of the anterior cruciate ligament, 4 weeks later, and when the dogs were killed 8-14 weeks after surgery, at which time mild OA was present.
(11) The knee model is based upon a four-bar linkage comprising the femur, tibia and two cruciate ligaments.
(12) Meniscal injury is common in acute or chronic anterior cruciate ligament insufficiency.
(13) The purpose of the present investigation was to examine and describe the osteoarthritic changes that chronic, partial or complete anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) insufficiency causes to the knee joint.
(14) The populations of cells labelled following phrenic and thoracic injections overlapped, primarily at the lateral edge of the cruciate sulcus.
(15) All patients were treated by replacement of the anterior cruciate ligament with the medial third of the patellar tendon as a free graft, supplemented by an extra-articular MacIntosh lateral reconstruction.
(16) This technique, called selective magnetic resonance imaging, yielded excellent visualization of the posterior cruciate ligament, medial meniscus, and lateral meniscus in all patients.
(17) Gait of 11 patients with bilateral paired posterior cruciate-retaining and cruciate-sacrificing total knee arthroplasties (TKA) was studied preoperatively and two years postoperatively on walking and stair climbing.
(18) A high association of Segond fractures with tears of the anterior cruciate ligament was confirmed, and MR imaging signs of a Segond fracture may therefore be used as indirect evidence for tears of that ligament.
(19) It has become indispensable to proper assessment of injuries of the menisci, cartilage, synovial folds, and plicae and for suspicion of isolated cruciate knee ligament rupture.
(20) The postoperative function of anterior cruciate ligament deficient knees has been quite satisfactory.
Cruciform
Definition:
(a.) Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synchronized cells (doubly arrested by serum starvation and aphidicolin) displayed a biphasic distribution of the number of cruciforms over the first 6 h after release from synchrony with maxima at 0 and 4 h after release.
(2) The results indicate that the optimal cruciform loop size is four bases, with loose 'breathing' at the first base pair at the top of the cruciform stem at 37 degrees C, and little or no opening of base pairs at the four-way junction.
(3) These sequences adopt cruciform geometry when the DNA helix is torsionally strained by negative supercoiling.
(4) Analysis of the products of the cruciform cleavage reaction by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels under denaturing conditions revealed that the cruciform structure was cleaved at either of two sites present in the stem of the cruciform and was not cleaved at the end of the stem.
(5) To determine whether the me3-psoralen might itself be disrupting cruciform structures, cruciforms were first produced in isolated Tetrahymena rDNA by heat treatment and then crosslinked in vitro.
(6) The other inconstant supports of the digital sheaths are systematically recorded indeed (C1 to C3), but only in exceptional cases they exist of cruciform fibers (Lig.
(7) We conclude that transcriptionally driven negative supercoiling provokes cruciform formation in vivo.
(8) These and other data implicate a linear rather than a cruciform conformation of the oriS palindrome in the initiation of HSV replication.
(9) Nonenzymatic glycosylation resulted in formation of cross-links and alterations of the cruciform shape of laminin molecules; these alterations were dramatic when high concentrations of glucose were used.
(10) A cruciform structure occurring at the pT181 replication origin in vitro is greatly enhanced by the binding of the plasmid-encoded initiator protein RepC.
(11) The C. fasciculata bent helix is neither cleaved by S1 nuclease nor modified by bromoacetaldehyde under conditions in which other unusual DNA structures (such as cruciforms or B-Z junctions) are susceptible to attack by these reagents.
(12) A plasmid encoding the gene for a temperature-sensitive Eco RI methylase (MEco RI) was cotransformed with different plasmids containing inserts that had varying capacities to form left-handed helices or cruciforms with a target Eco RI site in the center or at the ends of the inserts.
(13) We infer that RecBCD enzyme molecules must enter the termini of duplex DNA and approach the cruciform from more than one direction in order to cleave it into recombinant products.
(14) The cruciform cleavage enzyme was able to cleave the Holliday junction present in bacteriophage G4 figure-8 molecules.
(15) The B-Z junction is preferentially protected as compared to the cruciform, which in turn is more protected than other minor S1-sensitive structures present in pPst-0.9.
(16) We found that in both cases, induction of transcription by IPTG leads to the transition of the d(A-T)16 stretch into a cruciform state.
(17) High resolution mapping experiments reveal that Rh(DIP)3(3+) cleaves at a specific AT-rich site neighboring the stem of the minor cruciform on pBR322.
(18) Transcription itself has been shown to induce supercoiling, but the requisite negative supercoiling for cruciform extrusion by (AT)n in oocytes was not generated in this way since the characteristic P1 cutting pattern was retained even when RNA polymerase elongation was blocked with alpha-amanitin.
(19) The repeat units of the three minor variants are defined by identical 14-bp G + C-rich inverted repeats that might form cruciforms.
(20) Open regions and cruciform structures are also allowed for in the model.