(n.) An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the whole spine flexed, muscle activity in the cervical erector spinae, trapezius and thoracic erector spinae muscles was higher than when the whole spine was straight and vertical.
(2) This technique may minimize the required force in the erector spinae and the forces on the low-back structures.
(3) Twenty chronic back pain patients, 20 patients who suffered from temporomandibular pain and dysfunction, and 20 healthy controls were instructed to produce eight different levels of muscle contraction in either the m. masseter or the m. erector spinae.
(4) The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of two different alignments of the pelvis and three different loads on electromyographic (EMG) activity of the erector spinae and oblique abdominal muscles during squat lifting and lowering.
(5) The distribution of histochemically identified muscle fibre types was studied in biopsy samples from the two main muscles in the lumbar region of the human erector spinae, the multifidus and the longissimus, in 16 healthy subjects (nine males and seven females, age 20-30 years).
(6) The intraabdominal pressure (IAP) and the EMG activity of the oblique abdominal muscles, and of the erector spinae muscle were recorded.
(7) Lumbar muscularity was expressed by two ratios; the ratio between the Acs of the right psoas and the Acs of the intervertebral disc (P:disc), and the ratio between the combined Acs values of the right erector spinae and quadratus lumborum and the Acs of the disc (ESQL:disc).
(8) The purpose of this study was to detect any changes in the erector spinae muscles in patients undergoing surgery for lumbar disc herniation (LDH) and to analyze which factors (sex, age, the level and site of disc protrusion, and duration of symptoms) would be related to these changes.
(9) Fibres taken from erector spinae (Es), plantaris (Plt), diaphragm (Dia) and soleus (Sol) muscles of adult rabbits were pretyped as fast-twitch-glycolytic (FG), fast-twitch-oxidative-glycolytic (FOG), slow-twitch-oxidative (SO) or promiscuous (P) using a combination of histochemical staining and PAGE.
(10) Subsequently, cadaveric dis-sections indicated that the erector spinae muscles are contained within a well-developed fascial sheath.
(11) The demonstration of loss of sweating to indirect body heating, which also is usual suggests that the defect is central or on the efferent side of the reflex and a normal pilo-erector response to acetylcholine confirms this as preganglionic.
(12) In the control specimens taken from the contralateral groin, adrenergic nerves were seen in the erector pili muscles and as networks around arteries and arterioles.
(13) Intramuscular pressure in the erector spinae muscle was measured during exercise with the microcapillary infusion method in 12 highly selected patients with recurrent low-back pain.
(14) Histochemical studies of the thoracic part of the erector spinae muscles in scoliosis have shown a consistently higher proportion of Type 1 fibers on the convex side.
(15) True, a band shouldn't be judged by its name, but they sound like Fleetwood Mac (or, by their own admission, Jethro Tull); whereas with the Nipple Erectors, Slaughter & the Dogs or the Snivelling Shits, you tended to know what to expect.
(16) To evaluate the role of reflexes related to the lumbar proprioceptors in maintenance of body equilibrium, changes in equilibrium function of the eyes and body were observed after unilateral procainization of the lumbar erector muscles.
(17) This process would stabilize the pelvis and permit the erector spinae to extend the trunk more efficiently.
(18) Annulus erector motoneurons, which contain ACh and a peptide resembling FMRFamide, first developed electrical coupling when the two stumps were in contact and then, later, bi-directional chemical transmission.
(19) The erector spinae muscle was found to be heavily loaded during exercise with an average muscle contraction pressure of 175 mm Hg.
(20) Infiltration of the retroperitoneal muscles and an abscess within the erector spinae were also seen.
Telescope
Definition:
(n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
(a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
(v. t.) To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(2) But towards the end of the decade, Nasa expects to launch the James Webb Space Telescope , which has been designed to look further back into the history of the universe.
(3) However, similarly tested Keplerian telescopes exhibited significantly higher MTF's with vertical gratings.
(4) When the unmagnified peripheral visual field was unobstructed during adaptation, VOR gain increases were significantly less than when the unmagnified peripheral visual field was occluded, and were similar to those observed during adaptation without the wearing of telescopic spectacles at all.
(5) "When you live over here you see the situation from the other end of the telescope and you see things that English people simply don't."
(6) The periodontal and prosthetic treatment were carried out and 16 Konus telescope dentures were applied for 11 patients.
(7) An original apparatus and a new kind of mechanical suture were used in experiment and in clinic for the formation of telescopic anastomosis.
(8) "The E-ELT will have almost as much light collecting area as all the telescopes ever built, put together," said Professor Niranjan Thatte of Oxford University.
(9) 1) In polishing the axial surface of the inner crown of the conic telescope crown system, the milling machine with a polishing disk facilitated specular finishing without causing undercutting in the region from the occlusal surface to the dental cervix.
(10) The isolated site is home to several other facilities, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope , and has excellent atmospheric conditions for stargazing.
(11) "When I was a boy, I was doing both music and science: I belonged to an astronomy club, we built telescopes, we looked at the stars.
(12) Direct blocking by crown blocks, bridge prostheses, connecting bars and telescopes should include, as far as possible, all teeth.
(13) The bronchial anastomosis was made by the telescoping technique.
(14) Patient acceptance of the telescopic systems was 62%, and of the microscopic systems, 96%.
(15) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
(16) Telescopic spectacles are used as aids for the visually impaired in order to increase effective visual acuity.
(17) A review of 385 proximal fractures of the femur treated with a telescopic screw system revealed that in nine cases the device had cut out of the head of the femur necessitating its removal.
(18) The 3.5, 4.0, and 5.0 30-cm Storz bronchoscopes with a 3.95-mm (outside diameter) telescope lens were used in 10 mongrel dogs weighing between 8 and 15 kg.
(19) The following therapeutic proposal was adapted: On the maxilla, a three-step procedure: first step: building of metal copings on 13, 16 and 26 and metal-ceramic crowns on 11 and 21, second step: building of telescop crowns on 16 and 26 and clasps on 13, 11 and 21, third step: casting of the removable partial denture framework and soldering to the telescop crowns and clasps.
(20) Astronomer Jose Madiedo, who leads the Midas project at the University of Huelva, saw footage of the strike soon after the telescopes' software had processed the impact on 11 September 2013.