(n.) Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the most common pattern is for the right coronary artery to bifurcate at the crux giving the posterior descending (posterior interventricular) artery, a branch may arise before the crux, either as an aberrant acute marginal artery or as an early posterior descending artery, crossing the diaphragmatic surface of the right ventricle.
(2) Kafala sponsorship system At the crux of the debate over how Qatar and its Gulf neighbours treat migrant workers, human rights groups have long called for the kafala system that ties workers to their employers to be abolished.
(3) The crux of the trisection strategy is to restrict attention to the smallest block of ordered loci among which the new locus can fall and to divide this block into thirds for the next comparison.
(4) Bidirectional continuous turbulent Doppler signals were detected in the proximal portions of the dilated right and left coronary arteries, in the distal portions of the fistulas around the crux and in the right atrium.
(5) The crux is that the culling proposed by the government is very different to that in the earlier £50m RBCT.
(6) But the crux of the rift among Republicans is what to do about the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US.
(7) That said, yeah, I think both public and private perception that big powerful game consoles are still somehow the crux or core focus of videogames will go away over the next few years, but even with the Vita TV and iPad Whatever and Steamboxes, I don't see these cannibalising enough of the existing console audience to actually make these things go away.
(8) These views provide improved visualization of the proximal branches of the left coronary artery, the region of the crux of the right coronary artery, and the left ventricle in the left anterior oblique projection; structures which in the conventional projections are often superimposed on one another or are foreshortened.
(9) The Mistake Creek Massacre, an indigenous painting at the crux of Australia’s culture wars.
(10) The septum which separated it from the main chamber was directed to the crux of the heart.
(11) I would say take it out, but it forms the crux of the call and is VERY funny.
(12) "We've won it," came the crux of Tenenbaum's translation.
(13) The crux of Muñoz Marín’s ridiculously illogical argument – one cannot achieve “political freedom” and be “deadset against colonialism” when one is not “demanding independence” or “asking for statehood” – illustrates how the island’s mostly white, male and affluent political class never had a real vision for Puerto Ricans or Puerto Rico , even from the outset of Muñoz Marín’s failed “commonwealth” experiment that he sold his fellow boricuas .
(14) In other words, the crux of this tale isn't Toronto city council's softness, it's Toronto voters' wildcard craziness.
(15) Cynics may ask: “If it is that simple, why can it not happen all the time?” That for me is the crux of the matter.
(16) The mass media campaign was important, but the party says the crux of its strategy was face-to-face meetings, conversation-by-conversation.
(17) The crux of the matter is whether the virus recovered from or detected in the cornea is 1) truly latent in cell populations that are nonneuronal; 2) resident in the cornea, replicating at a slow rate; or 3) newly arrived in the cornea following ganglionic reactivation.
(18) ", the memo said: "In typical fashion, while the government of Libya's public criticism has comprised pseudo-populist rhetoric against "the forces of Zionism", the crux of the matter is in fact about personal relations and politics."
(19) Because estimates of recombination are different in each set of data, the crux of the problem is to present scores that provide a close approximation to the true likelihood away from maximum likelihood (ML).
(20) Finally, the distribution of blood vessels within the retina formed a watershed pattern with its crux centered on the ridge of this horizontally oriented high-density zone.
Transitional
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(3) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(4) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(5) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(6) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(7) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(8) Biotin-avidin immunoperoxidase analysis for hCG was performed on all paraffin blocks containing carcinoma-in-situ, grade I, grade II, and grade III transitional cell carcinoma.
(9) The growth of transitional epithelial cells with different growth media and growth supports was examined.
(10) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
(11) The B cell epitopes included regions of transition between the more hydropathic (including the N-terminal end of the F1 and F2 protein) and hydrophilic sequences.
(12) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(13) In addition, transitional macrophages with both positive granules and positive RER, nuclear envelope, negative Golgi apparatus (as in exudate- resident macrophages in vivo), and mature macrophages with peroxidatic activity only in the RER and nuclear envelope (as in resident macrophages in vivo) were found.
(14) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
(15) Sialosyl-Tn antigen expression also was observed in intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and in transitional mucosa adjacent to the colorectal carcinoma, which are considered to be cancer-related lesions.
(16) Refolding was observed by injection of denatured protein into columns having isocratic concentrations in the transition and native base-line zones.
(17) The mutant ribosomes prepared from the transition-phase cells have much lower activity (below 60%) for poly(U)-directed polyphenylalanine synthesis than those in exponentially growing or resting stationary-phase cells.
(18) Aside from typical nuclear spheroids, irregularly shaped nuclei were frequently seen, associated with increased nuclear folds, transitional stages between nuclear folds and nuclear spheroids were also present.
(19) The surface film transition is especially noted in the pressure-area curve of the surfactant and approximates in two dimensions the broad thermotropic phase transition of the bulk phase surfactant.
(20) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.