(a.) Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon.
(n.) A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others; also, a figure of equal sides.
Example Sentences:
(1) A significant concentration of the activity could be observed for the most part in the equilateral Lymphonoduli cervicales profundi and superficiales and for the less part also in the equilateral Lymphonoduli mandibulares and contralateral Lymphonoduli cervicales profoundi.
(2) Electron micrographs of negatively stained hexamers show a characteristic curvilinear, equilateral triangle of 12 nm in diameter (top view) and a rectangle measuring 10 x 12 nm (side view).
(3) At poles of cells, microfibrils do not terminate but pass around three equilaterally arranged points, resulting in microfibril continuity between the twelve helically wound wall layers.
(4) Microtubules capable of binding a xamimum of 4 linkers are arranged in regularly distorted hexagons and equilateral triangles.
(5) We present a configuration of 3 applicators subtended by an equilateral triangle in order to target and relocate a 'hot spot' for improved treatment of deep tumors.
(6) The Haberdasher's Puzzle is an equilateral triangle that is cut into four pieces that can be rearranged into a square.
(7) This method consists of forming two equilaterally triangular mucosal flaps on the vermilion and a small triangular skin flap in the new position of the commissure and transposing these three flaps to reconstruct the commissure.
(8) 3- and 4-year-old children and adults were asked to judge which way an equilateral triangle was pointing under different contextual conditions.
(9) Electronic subtraction of the voltage variations near the angle of the mouth from the voltage variations at the equilateral eye cancels the cardiac interference and allows a pure recording of horizontal eye movements.
(10) The ophthalmologist's management team might be likened to an equilateral triangle, the base of which consists of the personal banker and the two other parts being attorney and accountant.
(11) Visuospatial processing in alcoholics was investigated by aligning two elements along different axes of an equilateral triangle and asking subjects to report the direction the triangle appeared to point when first observed.
(12) For this purpose, an equilateral triangular flap of 2.5 cm per side was formed at the upper margin of the remaining stomach along the greater curvature.
(13) The pulmonary vein fat pad (PVFP) in the dog heart is triangular in shape with roughly equilateral dimensions of approximately 1 cm, its base extending from superior to inferior veins, and its apex extending nearly to the sinus nodal artery as it courses rostrally in the sulcus terminalis.
(14) Crucial to our approach is the creation of a net of approximately equilateral triangles from which we generate the control points used as the basis for describing the surface.
(15) We suppose that three capillaries, which are parallel to each other and have the same radius and circular section, are arranged in equilateral triangle.
(16) Clusters of three pseudopods characterized by short distances (6-9 microns) and equilateral organization (angles 40-60 degrees) were observed after a 10-min stimulation.
(17) God does not want you to eat an equilateral egg, which makes it a forbidden fruit, and there is nothing sweeter.
(18) After injection in the anterior chamber a significant concentration could be observed for the most part in the equilateral Lymphonodulus cervicalis superficialis.
(20) Based on this, a new explanatory model has been constructed, consisting of an equilateral triangle with one of the apices on a horizontal line, along which dietary and oral hygiene habits are scaled.
Scalene
Definition:
(a.) Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle.
(a.) Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone.
(a.) Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles.
(n.) A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the remaining patients congenital and acquired osseous alterations, supernumerary scalene muscle, congenital fibrous bands were the etiologic factors.
(2) Records were reviewed of 108 consecutive patients with a variety of surgically approachable malignancies undergoing scalene node biopsy as part of a preoperative staging evaluation.
(3) Patients with cervical carcinoma whose only extra pelvic site of metastases is the paraaortic modes should be considered for scalene lymph node sampling as part of their pretreatment evaluation, especially if extended-field radiation is contemplated.
(4) The expansion of the upper rib cage results from the combined actions of the scalene and intercostal muscles, in particular the parasternals.
(5) Biopsies of the epididymis and scalene nodes established the diagnosis.
(6) In 200 patients with histologically proven lung cancer, retrospective analysis of the relative diagnostic value of sputum cytology, bronchial washings cytology, bronchial biopsy, scalene node biopsy, mediastinoscopy and thoracotomy was undertaken.
(7) During asphyxic hyperpnoea the external intercostal, interchondral and scalene inspiratory activities augmented until succeeded by the apnoeic period, in which all were inhibited with the diaphragm.
(8) After isometric exercises of the scalene muscles, the mobility of the first rib was restored and the symptoms completely relieved in 13 patients.
(9) It was concluded that routine scalene biopsies are justified in the properative evaluation of cancer patients only if the nodes are clinically suspicious, except for in patients with advanced pelvic cancers, in whom the incidence of completely occult scalene metastases is 6% or more.
(10) Twenty-one patients underwent a preoperative biopsy of the scalene lymph nodes.
(11) In intact dogs changes in peak activity were greater for the scalenes and cranial parasternals than for the caudal parasternals and greater for the inspiratory thoracic muscles (ITM) than for the DI.
(12) To evaluate incidence of scalene node metastases from carcinoma of the cervix, 20 patients had scalene fat-pad node biopsy.
(13) Previous reports have attributed stress and fatigue fractures of the first rib to the forces exerted by the scalene muscles.
(14) In the less than 3% carcinomas of the cervix confined to metastases in the lesser pelvis, the scalene node biopsy is not necessary.
(15) The intercostal and scalene gasps were significantly greater than those exhibited by either the interchondrals or the diaphragm.
(16) In all patients, the diagnosis had been unobtainable by the usual diagnostic modalities of bronchoscopy, scalene node biopsy, mediastinoscopy, thoracentesis, or closed pleural biopsy.
(17) Based on these observations, a scalene node biopsy was performed, yielding a pathological diagnosis of sarcoidosis.
(18) Combined with previously reported data from this institution, 3 of 28 patients (11%) with primary cervical carcinoma and involved para-aortic nodes, and 6 of 35 patients (17%) with centrally recurrent disease had subclinical scalene node metastases.
(19) A scalene muslce block with a local anesthetic was the most useful diagnostic test.
(20) In our findings, patients with positive scalene lymph nodes had a mean survival time of 10 months after detection of the metastases in the scalene lymph nodes.