(n.) The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.
Example Sentences:
(1) The possibility that some form of contractility provides the motive force for filament flection and particle transport is discussed.
(2) The system frequently detected obstruction of blood flow due to flection of the forearm during sleep and by other causes, thereby preventing clotting of the arteriovenous shunt flow.
(3) The most important feature of this new fiberscope consists of a tip of 5 cm size which is capable of being directed by flection up to 120 degrees in any direction and the tip up to 30 cm possessing a fishing-rod-like flexibility and elasticity by means of a special spiral spring.
(4) It is based on a new principle since it does not act as a four-point bending system like long rod instrumentations but it is a two-point fixation system and it is stable in flection by itself.
(5) In SEM study, flection and interruption of capillaries and compressed phenomenon of veins were most remarkable on the compressed side.
(6) We discuss an algorithm that obtains the three-dimensional configuration of a polyhedral vertex up to a relief transformation (a similar transformation to the one that maps object to image space in paraxial optics), in the presence of arbitrary flections of the edges, from the projection and the instantaneous-movement parallax.
(7) The authors report the cases of two identical male twins, 6 months old, with flection spasms.
Flexed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Flex
Example Sentences:
(1) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
(2) Pharmacological actions on the nociceptive flexion flexes of the hindlimb were investigated in 14 normal subjects.
(3) But Wawrinka, who seemed to be flexing his knee a moment ago, is making more mistakes.
(4) 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.
(5) 'Squeeze' with the left hand followed by 'flex' with the right elbow.
(6) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
(7) This paper examined the mobility of intervertebral joints in axial rotation in a neutral and in two flexed positions.
(8) When the hair is maintained flexed its sensory neurone discharges tonically (Fig.
(9) The elongate and slim shape of the trunk provides great mass moments of inertia and that means stability against being flexed ventrally and dorsally by the forward and rearward movements of the heavy and long hindlimbs.
(10) On admission, his right hand and all of right fingers were flexed.
(11) These tendons pass dorsally from the median nerve through the carpal canal, where the nerve is subject to pressure when the tendons stretch whilst the wrist is flexed.
(12) For a nation that has begun to flex its military muscles, its presence on another world perfectly demonstrates its national prowess.
(13) An extended position proved to be more successful in demonstrating that finding than the flexed one.
(14) Blood pump diaphragms are required to be biocompatible and must be capable of long-term flexing without failure.
(15) As the earliest treatment the fixation of the shoulder joint in abduction and external rotation with flexed elbow on a splint as prevention of further stretch on the plexus and contractures seems to be the most important masure; later on a physio-therapy and mobilisation of the joints is of essential importance.
(16) At approximately 70% of the fracture load for the 90 degrees flexed knee, nearly 35% of the contact area was exposed to pressures greater than 25 MPa.
(17) A separation between the femur and the tibia of 1.3-3.8 mm was found in 3 knees which were slightly flexed during the traction.
(18) Cholesterol and stigmastanol are largely buried in the hydrocarbon part of the membrane, distinctly restricting the flexing motions of the fatty acyl chains whereas the conformation of the phospholipid headgroups is little affected.
(19) After ingesting even a small amount of sucrose, the fly begins making frequent, tight turns, flexes its front tarsi to bring more chemosensory hairs into contact with the substrate and repeatedly extends and retracts its proboscis.
(20) Another case confirmed that an abduction force on the flexed hip can produce anterior dislocation of the hip.