(n.) The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The eversion technique was unreliable and probably injurious to endothelial cells.
(2) One valve displayed a fixed outward eversion of the free margin of two leaflets.
(3) This eversion persisted in affected embryos through the time that the posterior neuropore should normally close.
(4) A small bladder stone developed in only 1 (3%) of the patients, who was completely dependent on intermittent catheterization, while 4 (13%) required reoperation due to eversion of the nipple.
(5) The first case was a premature female infant who developed involuntary twist movements of the left arm, persistent plantar flexion and eversion of the left foot at age of 7 months.
(6) Various parts, differing in a number of morphological signs, have been distinguished: coronary sinus, subepicardial veins, paired sinusoid veins, sinusoids of the myocardium and endocardial eversions.
(7) A technique of stapled low colorectal or coloanal anastomosis is described, which follows eversion through the anus and stapled closure of the anorectal or anal remnant.
(8) Polyethylene glycol (PEG) and sucrose inhibited germination, first by preventing eversion of the filament, and then at higher concentrations by preventing stimulation.
(9) Their localization is predominantly in the area of venular, vein, sinusoid bifurcations and endocardial eversions.
(10) In normal bowel segment this may not pose a problem, but forceful attempts at eversion in diseased, thickened, and friable bowel may result in damage to the bowel segment.
(11) A case of bilateral primary congenital eversion of lids in a newborn black male is described.
(12) A muscle, not found in North American cervids, but well developed in muntjacs, is probably responsible for the eversion of muntjacs' preorbital glands.
(13) This traditionally has been managed by cup forceps excision or by eversion through the tracheostoma with a skin hook and blind resection.
(14) Serine protease inhibitors block disc eversion and inhibit activity of disc proteases.
(15) According to the proposed model the myoepithelial cells are the driving force in papillary eversion.
(16) The speed of anastomosis is at least as rapid as the posterior wall technique on which it is based, and it has the advantage of having fewer unused penetrations of the vessel wall and better eversion of the edges.
(17) Accurate diagnosis requires a thorough physical examination, which should include careful skin inspection underneath all clothing, palpation of all large bones, fluorescein staining of the cornea, eversion of eyelids, rectal examination, retinal examination, and thorough neurologic examination.
(18) single inversion (continuous Connell), double inversion (two rows of continuous Cushing), single eversion (continuous everted mattress), double eversion (single eversion reinforced with simple continuous) were used.
(19) The punctal stenosis, which is almost always secondary to punctal eversion, is treated by dilatation and a punctal inversion procedure.
(20) The results of this form of treatment were highly satisfactory in ten cases of eversion or inversion; there was no loss of function.
Inversion
Definition:
(n.) The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.
(n.) A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition.
(n.) A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on.
(n.) A change in the order of the terms of a proportion, so that the second takes the place of the first, and the fourth of the third.
(n.) A peculiar method of transformation, in which a figure is replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse.
(n.) A change of the usual order of words or phrases; as, "of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable," instead of, "impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices."
(n.) A method of reasoning in which the orator shows that arguments advanced by his adversary in opposition to him are really favorable to his cause.
(n.) Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc.
(n.) Said of a chord, when one of its notes, other than its root, is made the bass.
(n.) Said of a subject, or phrase, when the intervals of which it consists are repeated in the contrary direction, rising instead of falling, or vice versa.
(n.) Said of double counterpoint, when an upper and a lower part change places.
(n.) The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed.
(n.) The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose).
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(2) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(3) These data indicate that CSF levels are not inversely related to the blood neutrophil count in chronic idiopathic neutropenia and suggest that CSF is not a hormone regulating the blood neutrophil count in a manner analogous to the erythropoietin regulation of circulating erythrocyte levels.
(4) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(5) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
(6) An inverse relationship between the pumping capacity of the heart and vascular resistance was confirmed at different stages of examination and treatment of the patients.
(7) It was concluded that the detachment of the oxaloyl residue from oxaloacetate and its replacement by a proton proceed with inversion of configuration at the methylene group which becomes methyl during the hydrolysis.
(8) In both the normals and the patients, plasma ANP was inversely and significantly correlated with ejection fraction during exercise (r = -0.46, p less than 0.05, n = 21), however, not at rest.
(9) The resistance proved to be directly dependent upon the specific antisense RNA and to be inversely proportional to the multiplicity of infecting polyoma.
(10) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
(11) The cardiac output increased by 29% after hemodilution without significant alterations in cerebral perfusion pressure and showed a good inverse correlation with the Hct and the WBV.
(12) It was shown that the levels of ATP and ADP in the mycelium depended on the carbon source: the maximum and minimum ATP concentrations were found on the glucose and acetate media respectively, the maximum and minimum ADP concentrations showed inverse dependence.
(13) Abnormal synaptonemal complexes were seen in all 19 crosses of N. crassa and N. intermedia that were examined, including matings between standard laboratory strains, inversions, Spore killers, and strains collected from nature.
(14) Uterine inversion is exceptional and spectacular, although treatment is simple if diagnosed early.
(15) This paper examines fresh the evidence for an inverse relationship between smoking behaviour and Parkinson's disease.
(16) The threshold of epileptic spiking varied inversely with the area of cortical damage inflicted by the electrode.
(17) The inverse relation between PGE2 and NE for the difference in hormone concentrations between supine and sitting (r=-0.44, p less than 0.05) may be explained by an inhibitory effect of PGE2 on renal NE release, earlier observed in experiments in vitro.
(18) In pentobarbital-anesthetized rats or in perfused hind paw of rats, the potentiation induced by cocaine and tripelennamine was more marked to norepinephrine than to epinephrine, but an inverse relation between norepinephrine and epinephrine was observed in the potentiation by I and II.
(19) Overall, there was a significant inverse correlation between apo(a) mRNA size and its concentration in the liver, despite a marked interindividual variability in the relative amounts of similar-sized transcripts.
(20) At all times, a tight inverse correlation exists between ATP and IMP concentrations.