(a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
(a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
(a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
(a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
(v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(2) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(3) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
(4) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(5) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(6) In the cannulated group, significant decreases (P less than 0.05) in the area under the elimination curve (AUC), the volume of distribution at steady-state (Vdss) and the mean residence time (MRT) were observed.
(7) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
(8) The curve of mitoses peaked at the same time as that of TK activity but was only 68% as extensive.
(9) The effect of these drugs was estimated from the cell growth curve and DNA histogram determined by flow cytometry.
(10) However, there was not a relationship between the contraction curve of the gallbladder and the bile flow into the duodenum.
(11) The total "dose" to the tissue of individual metabolites was determined by the area under the curve (AUC).
(12) However, those studies used partial maximal expiratory flow volume (PMEFV) curves to assess lung function.
(13) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
(14) They were more irregularly curved and consisted of various substances.
(15) The duration of action correlated with the elimination half-life of the drug (r = 0.87; P less than 0.003) and area under the plasma concentration curve (r = 0.72; P less than 0.03).
(16) The slope of the thermal inactivation curve of enterotoxin A in beef bouillon (initial pH 6.2) was found to be approximately 27.8 C (50 F) with three different concentrations of toxin.
(17) A relatively new method of estimating that date and constructing a corresponding Kaplan Meier curve is presented.
(18) To know the relation between the signal intensity and sodium concentration, sodium concentration--signal intensity curve was obtained using phantoms with various sodium concentrations (0.05-1.0%).
(19) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.
(20) After using the OK method to obtain a distance curve for height, we introduce a new method (VADK) to derive velocity and acceleration curves from the fitted distance curve.
Vertex
Definition:
(n.) A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.
(n.) The top, or crown, of the head.
(n.) The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead.
(n.) The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.
Example Sentences:
(1) CNV1 was recorded at the vertex while CNV3 was recorded at multiple electrode sites to assess topographical differences.
(2) Preceding or during movement, maximum ERD was observed in most cases in central-vertex regions.
(3) Brain stem electric responses, recorded with external electrodes on vertex and ear lobes, are excellent for audiometry of young children.
(4) Umbilical blood-gas status at elective cesarean section with oxygen inhalation for breech presentation (25 cases) was compared with that for vertex presentation (25 cases), so as to confirm the security of full-term breech fetuses delivered by cesarean section under spinal anesthesia.
(5) An evoked brain response can also be elicited simultaneously from the vertex response is affected to the same degree by several different aspects of visual stimuli as is the corresponding occipital response.
(6) N1 and P2 to the last preceding frequent stimulus, the rare (attended target) stimulus, and the following two frequent stimuli were evaluated using 6 reference-independent measures: latency (time of maximal potential range between any two locations), amplitude of maximal potential range, global field power, vertex (Cz) current source density, location of extreme potential, and location of potential centroid.
(7) AEPs were recorded to an "oddball" paradigm from vertex and left and right temporal electrodes.
(8) The MRBPs had earlier onsets during the first runs of skill acquisition than during later training sessions; they occurred earlier when they preceded a stimulus train than when they preceded a single stimulus; the onset was earlier over the vertex than over the premotor area.
(9) In addition, careful parametric baseline studies were performed in each cat to strengthen the evidentiary linkage between wave A as recorded from the vertex in these experiments and previous studies describing the origin and trajectory of wave A in the brainstem reticular formation and several regions of thalamus, including the intralaminar nuclei.
(10) Responses were recorded between needle electrodes placed on the vertex and the ipsilateral ear, with ground at the interorbital line.
(11) A model of sleep phasic events such as vertex waves, K complexes, delta waves and sleep spindles is proposed.
(12) The enhancement results have been confirmed for central brain vertex stimulation using the Sheffield magnet.
(13) Anodal stimulation at the vertex produced complex corticospinal volleys that could be recorded at both sites, with multiple waves analogous to the D and I waves documented in animal experiments.
(14) N140 and P190 (the "vertex potentials") are probably generated bilaterally in the frontal lobes, including orbito-frontal, lateral and mesial (supplementary motor area) cortex.
(15) An otherwise healthy five-year-old girl presented for evaluation of a large patch of erythematous scaling alopecia on the vertex of her scalp.
(16) Oxygen extraction in the breech (Mean: 49.0%) was higher than that in the vertex (32.9%).
(17) As it is quite unlikely that P3 generating sources are strongly active during the processing of the frequent stimulus, this effect is possibly due to a component overlap from the vertex potential.
(18) The frequency of congenital anomaly was also studied in 8,863 infants delivered by breech and vertex presentation.
(19) Carbon particles entering the subarachnoid space over the vertex of the cerebral hemispheres drained along selected paravascular and subfrontal pathways in the subarachnoid space to the cribriform plate and thence into nasal lymphatics and cervical lymph nodes.
(20) As it was not possible to collect sufficient material for valid conclusions on a series of patients with similar uterine activity, fetal size, uterine volume, cervical resistance, and lower uterine segment development; only women in normal labor without disproportion and delivered of infants in the occipitoanterior vertex presentation were included in the study.