(a.) Shaped like the Greek / (delta); delta-shaped; triangular.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-one patients received 4.5 mg. per kilogram of intramuscular lidocaine and 25 patients received placebo in the deltoid muscle within 14 hours of the onset of symptoms.
(2) They were 102 males and 208 females which, on the basis of previous criteria, were inoculated with plasmatic vaccine (MSD) in the deltoid muscle.
(3) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
(4) There was a high correlation between the percentage of type I fibers and the citrate synthase activity within the vastus lateralis (r = .760) and deltoid (r = .610) (P less than 0.05) but not the gastrocnemius (r = .200).
(5) Deltoid muscle biopsy documented scattered basophilic regenerating myofibers and focal atrophic fibers with focal increases of endomysial connective tissue, small endomysial foci of inflammatory cells, and occasional perimysial, perivenular lymphocytic infiltrates.
(6) The nasal reconstruction in 8 patients and cheek reconstruction in 1 using a free flap from the deltoid region has been successfully undertaken in our department since August 1987.
(7) At least eight centimeters of the posterior aspect of the proximal region of the humeral diaphyseal cortex can be exposed through the interval between the lateral head of the triceps and the deltoid muscle.
(8) The deltoid muscles of the same patients had a rather even mixture of type I and II fibers.
(9) Two cases of winged scapulae due to fibrosis of the deltoid muscle are reported.
(10) The size of the peaks led to estimates of the underlying excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSP) amplitude of 5.5 mV for the deltoid and 2.2 mV for the pectoralis motor units.
(11) Signal amplitude increased in the trapezius, the deltoid and the infraspinatus, but was constant in the biceps brachii.
(12) A lightweight fiberglass spica has proven to be useful after repair of the deltoid origin, repair of complete rupture of the rotator cuff, and shoulder arthrodesis.
(13) The electromyograms produced by the prime mover muscles (sternal portion of pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, long head of triceps brachii) achieved maximal activation at the commencement of the ascent phase of the lift and maintained this level essentially unchanged throughout the upward movement of the bar.
(14) A decrement of the proximal muscles at rest was demonstrated in 116 (80%) of the patients and the deltoid muscle was most sensitive.
(15) It is suggested that a probable factor determining the differences of the enzyme activities of glycogenolysis, glycolysis and alpha-glycerophosphate oxidation between brachial biceps, deltoid and anterior tibial muscle, might be the pattern of impulse activity in the motor nerves of these muscles.
(16) Samples from the deltoid and the vastus lateralis muscles from 126 subjects, aged 20-80 years, were studied by light microscopy.
(17) In this preliminary report, two groups of children were vaccinated with subcutaneous BCG, one on the deltoid area and the other one on the area between the spine and the scapula.
(18) The possible causes of the deeply decreased enzyme activities of glycogenolysis, glycolysis and alpha-glycerophosphate oxidation, as well as the causes of the unchanged oxidative enzyme activities and of the increased hexokinase activity after denervation in the human brachial biceps, deltoid and anterior tibial muscle, are discussed.
(19) Postoperative function and muscular strength of the shoulder joint were studied in five patients who had undergone extirpation of the deltoid muscle because of a soft tissue tumor.
(20) Deltoid, biceps brachii and quadriceps femoris muscles are mostly used and specimens are usually obtained by an open biopsy.
Triangular
Definition:
(a.) Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
(a.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(2) Based on a limited experience we have found that triangular flap ureteroplasty is a worthwhile means of repeat reimplantation of the obstructed ureter and perhaps provides a better alternative than transureteroureterostomy.
(3) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
(4) Accurate rotational osteotomy is especially difficult in a triangular bone such as the tibia.
(5) Findings at surgery included chondromalacia of the ulnar head (19), tears of the triangular fibrocartilage complex (11), and excessive mobility of the ulnar head (10).
(6) Standardized steps or criteria for designing a triangular flap do not always fit for all types of cleft lip repair.
(7) The characteristic triangular face, stubby nose, peripheral pulmonic stenosis, a history of prolonged neonatal jaundice and evidence of hepatic parenchymal disease were present as well as bilateral small kidneys and delayed puberty.
(8) Each contained four triangular boluses of different widths and of a specific iodine concentration.
(9) Dilated, triangular cisterns are often seen at the points of interconnections between longitudinal and transverse elements.
(10) We have investigated whether a correlation exists between the quality of graft epithelialisation and three types of suture: triangular sutures, continuous and interrupted sutures.
(11) This paper describes the external ear anomalies found in this syndrome: short wide pinnae, often cupped and asymmetrical; distinctive triangular concha; discontinuity between the antihelix and antitragus; and 'snipped-off' portions of the helical folds.
(12) The first type included large multipolar neurons with triangular or polygonal perikarya and typically 3-5 dendrites emerging from the poles of each cell.
(13) Transverse loading tests demonstrated that the triangular fibrocartilage is less stiff in neutral forearm rotation.
(14) Silver-Russell's syndrome is a condition characterized by pre- and postnatal growth retardation, a triangular face, clinodactyly of the 5th finger, café au lait patches and hemihypertrophy.
(15) Analytic, functional and traumatological study of the medial compartment of the wrist, showing the role of cohesion of the triangular ligament and its radialis and ulnaris fibrous expensions.
(16) England had started with some well-executed set piece moves, a triangular formation in midfield initially foxing Australia, but it was the Wallabies’ ability to react in open play that marked them out: Foley’s first try, after Israel Folau, otherwise subdued on the night, ran through Robshaw, came after he noticed Ben Youngs had drifted too wide and cut inside the scrum-half and Joe Launchbury before wrongfooting Brown.
(17) Similar to previous cases in the literature this girl presented with proportionate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, normocephaly, triangular face with bulbous nose, long eyelashes, short upper lip, small vermilion border of upper lip, dorsally rotated ears, deep nuchal hair line, hirsutism, and clinodactyly of little fingers.
(18) While the arteries show a long stretched spinle or lancet like form they change over blunt, oval, triangular or rhomboid forms into polygonal cells with spiked border lines at the venules.
(19) The histological examination and microangiogram after combined coaxial exposure of CO2 and Nd: YAG lasers revealed triangular avascular or oligovascular zones in the edematous tissue, in which the surviving vessels were narrowed.
(20) It is concluded that the physical performance of sedentary people, athletes and patients with impaired cardio-pulmonary function can be more precisely qualified in quantitative terms by means of computer assisted rectangular-triangular ergospirometry.