(n.) The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
(n.) Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation.
(n.) That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
(n.) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.
(n.) The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
(n.) The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o/ sight; -- distinguished from direction.
(n.) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
(2) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
(3) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(4) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(5) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(6) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(7) Maximal aberration yields were observed for 2,4-diaminotoluene, 2,6-diaminotoluene and cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside from 17 to 21 h, eugenol from 15 to 21 h, cadmium sulfate from 15 to 24 h and 2-aminobiphenyl, from 17 to 24 h. For adriamycin at 1 microM, the % aberrant cells remained elevated throughout the period from 9 to 29 h, while small increases at 0.1 microM ADR were found only at 13 and at 25 h. For most chemicals the maximal aberration yield occurred at a different time for each concentration tested.
(8) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
(9) The erythrocyte sedimentation rate is almost always markedly elevated.
(10) Total cholesterol levels are elevated, particularly in hypopituitary women.
(11) In experiments performed to determine whether PtdIns(4,5)P2 hydrolysis induced by TRH may have been caused by the elevation of [Ca2+]i, the following results were obtained: the effect of TRH to decrease the level of PtdIns(4,5)P2 was not reproduced by the calcium ionophore A23187 or by membrane depolarization with 50 mM K+; the calcium antagonist TMB-8 did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2; and, most importantly, inhibition by EGTA of the elevation of [Ca2+]i did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2.
(12) During capillary growth when endothelial cells (EC) undergo extensive proliferation and migration and pericytes are scarce, hyaluronic acid (HA) levels are elevated.
(13) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(14) Beta-galactosidase, beta-n-acetyl-hexosaminidase, and alpha-fucosidase were sensitive indicators and were significantly elevated above control values by day 3 at both doses (P < 0.01).
(15) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
(16) Finally, it could be observed that elevated osmotic pressures reduced the lysis of isolated secretory granules when bicarbonate ions were present in the incubation medium.
(17) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
(18) Increased iron levels in basal ganglia were generally associated with normal or elevated levels of ferritin immunoreactivity, for example, the substantia nigra in PSP and possibly MSA, and in putamen in MSA.
(19) The only localized tumors known to produce elevation of CEA above the levels observed in non malignant diseases are carcinomas of the large bowel and the pancreas.
(20) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.
Octant
Definition:
(n.) The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
(n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.
(n.) An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.
(n.) One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coordinate planes.
Example Sentences:
(1) With stimulation of the octants next to the vertical meridian, this component was of large amplitude, while with stimulation of the octants next to the horizontal meridian, it was small and inconspicuous.4.
(2) The absolute configuration is proposed based on the octant rule and a biogenetic pathway for this type of homoisoflavan is briefly discussed.
(3) These criteria are: (1) the direction of the maximal spatial ST vector points either to the right-anterior-inferior or to the right-posterior-inferior octant, and (2) the magnitude of the projection of the maximal spatial ST vector is greater than or equal to 0.15 mV in the horizontal plane.
(4) The mid-temporal vectors were located in the left postero-superior octant, and the late portion of the loop was inscribed anteriorly to the right with conspicuous conduction delay.
(5) Their directions pointed either to: (1) the right-anterior-inferior, or (2) the right-posterior-inferior octant.
(6) The greatest steepening in the eyes treated with radial keratotomy compared with the untreated eyes occurred at 1.5 to 2.5 mm peripheral to the corneal apex in the inferonasal and nasal octants.
(7) Myocardial area and midwall perimeter were obtained for each octant, and wall thickness was calculated at end diastole (ED), isovolumetric systole (IS), and end systole (ES).
(8) The segmental area and its changes during the cardiac cycle were measured and calculated for each octant.
(9) Variability of sample size per octant was noted, but when averaged across entire muscles, it was in all instances greater than 33%.
(10) In this paper, circular dichroism (CD), sector projection and reverse octant rule projection of four diterpenoid dilactones and five tylophorines (two of them, 6, 8, are new compounds) are reported in which reverse octant rule projection is the first application to the configuration determination of diterpenoid dilactone.
(11) These cells were seen in the temporal half and dorsal-dorsonasal and ventral-ventronasal octants of the ipsilateral retina and accounted for 11.5% of all the labeled cells.
(12) The short-axis cross-sectional images were divided into octants and were analyzed.
(13) C18H22N4O2, Mr = 326.40, orthorhombic, Pbca, a = 19.475 (10), b = 10.435 (20), c = 8.762 (20) A, V = 1780.6 A3, Z = 4, Dx = 1.22 g cm-3, lambda(Mo K alpha) = 0.7107 A, mu = 0.76 cm-1, F(000) = 696, room temperature, 1564 reflections averaged from two octants, R = 0.044, wR = 0.050 for 669 observed reflections with I greater than sigma(I).
(14) Thirteen-channel visual evoked potentials (VEPs) to pattern-onset were recorded with stimuli restricted to individual octants of the peripheral field, to halves and to quadrants of the fovea.
(15) In patients with acute inferior-posterior and right ventricular infarction, the serial maximal spatial ST vector pointed to the right-posterior-inferior octant during the whole course of the acute stage.
(16) Stimuli consisting of checkerboard-filled octant or annular octant segments are presented as appearance-disappearance pulses at sixteen different positions in the visual field in randomized order.
(17) The locations of evoked cortical activity in the occipital, parietal and temporal lobes are represented on a Mercator projection map for each octant or octant segment stimulated.
(18) The delta vector is formed by the pre-excitation, it is oriented toward the right posterior superior, the right posterior inferior and the right anterior superior spatial octants.
(19) With upper field octants, the peak at 100 msec was surface-negative, while with lower field octants it was reversed in polarity.5.
(20) By using lactone sector rule, the olefin octant rule, allylic oxygen rule and Beecham rule with C = C-C-O and C = C-C = O chromophore, their absolute configurations were assigned.