(n.) Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.
(n.) The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
(2) Unrecognized flexion injuries of the cervical spine may lead to late instability and neurologic damage.
(3) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
(4) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
(5) Physiotherapy for 4 to 12 weeks produced improvement, but in four cases early operation for excision of fibrous tissue and lengthening of the triceps was necessary to restore adequate flexion.
(6) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(7) Five cases of bilateral abduction contracture of the shoulder in adults including the first case of bilateral abduction contractures of shoulder and hip plus bilateral flexion contracture of elbow and extension contracture of a knee are reported.
(8) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.
(9) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.
(10) Flexion of the knee beyond 40 degrees progressively diminished viability of the edges of the wound, particularly the lateral edge.
(11) Intertester reliability for measurements obtained with a goniometer was .90 for flexion and .86 for extension.
(12) In these three patients, laxity of the knee in flexion was so severe that posterior instability could not be corrected merely by patellar relocation.
(13) X-ray study of this region in lateral projection was did, in neutral position and flexion-extension of the neck.
(14) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(15) Although the entire cohort of neck patients, regardless of group assignment, improved significantly on all the outcome variables over the 6-week period, patients receiving intermittent traction performed significantly better than those assigned to the no traction group in terms of pain (P = 0.03), forward flexion (P = 0.01), right rotation (P = 0.004) and left rotation (P = 0.05).
(16) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
(17) By placing the thigh in external flexion-rotation the deep femoral artery can readily be approached downstream the first perforating artery.
(18) Whereas in flexion stress all methods showed a sufficient stability, the rotation tests proved, that in case of a dorsal instability of the lower cervical spine, posterior interlaminar wiring or anterior plate stabilization showed no reliable stabilization effect.
(19) In severely impaired limbs, there was a marked shift in both the peak EMG angle and the angular domain of EMG activity for both biceps and triceps muscle groups, away from the normal elbow flexion-extension axis towards external humeral rotation and shoulder girdle elevation.
(20) On physical examination the patients complained of pain on both passive flexion and internal rotation of the hip, and when the thigh was pushed backwards at 90 degrees of flexion.
Reflexion
Definition:
(n.) See Reflection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other pathological processes are usually imaged by their hyperecho-characteristics: brain oedema has an increased reflexion compared to normal brain tissue; all brain tumors are diffusely echogenic, the image allows preliminary grading e.g.
(2) Deficiencies in explicit ethic reflexions and empiric research for coping with such problems led to interdisciplinary medico-ethical work groups and journals over the last years.
(3) Human blood serum has been analyzed by X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy utilizing the effect of background reduction by total reflexion of the incident X-ray beam on an optical flat as sample support.
(4) We have made a general reflexion on the problems aroused by this very common al condition, which has an imprevisible, some times severe, outcome.
(5) A short visit to a medical consulting room as it may have looked one hundred years ago, illustrates some aspects of medical practice of this time, outlines in scraps and fragments an idea of this medicine and tries to encourage reflexions about contemporary and timeless problems of medical practice.
(6) The reflexion coefficient of sucrose (and therefore the osmotic effect) is larger than that of KCl.
(7) This brief analysis is concluded by some reflexions from the clinical, social, couple and individual points of view.
(8) The diffraction intensities associated with these reflexions originate from the axial period of 39 nm attributable to the repeat of troponin-tropomyosin on the thin filament.
(9) When active muscle was stretched by 7% at a constant speed of 0.03-0.70 muscle lengths s-1, the intensity of the meridional reflexion decreased progressively as the tension increased continuously during the stretch.
(10) Teeth that had been left without toothbrushing for 24 hours showed statistically significant (p less than 0.05) lower light reflexion values than those recorded immediately after the teeth had been brushed with a toothpaste.
(11) The mean figure of merit mean value of m, for the 1106 reflexions used was 0.70.
(12) The results show that the retina is the main centre of mass reflexions which disappear in polarized light.
(13) On the other hand, light-reflexion rheography and photoplethysmography can measure only the duration of the refilling period.
(14) These heuristic reflexions open the way to further investigations.
(15) On increasing the relative humidity to 84% a second phase with a layer-line repeat of 1.65nm is obtained with the reflexions indexing on a triclinic unit cell similar to that obtained previously (Nieduszynski & Atkins, 1973) for pig mucosal heparin.
(16) The structure has been solved and refined to a final R of 0.068 for 1838 independent reflexions with I greater than 2 omega (I).
(17) Observations of the microscope image of the smooth muscle cells in the walls of these vessels indicate that there is little intercellular compliance in this preparation, and that the mechanical properties of the activated preparation are a reflexion of the mechanical properties of the individual smooth muscle cells.
(18) Upon activation of the frog striated muscle, the two reflexions underwent biphasic time courses of the intensity changes.
(19) There were also some late peaks due to reflexion of the antidromic action potentials from the ganglion cells.7.
(20) The transient increase of small myelinated fibers may be a reflexion of myelinated fiber regeneration during the progressive degenerative process of the motor neurons.