(v. t.) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
(v. t.) Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the last three patients with unresectable adenocarcinoma of the distal part of the stomach and invasion of the intestinal mesentery, due to foreshortening of the latter, the proximal loop of the intestine would not reach the desired level of the stomach until this maneuver was performed.
(2) Therefore, abnormalities of glucocorticoid receptor mRNA, which may give rise to the synthesis of foreshortened receptors in certain mutant mouse lymphoma cells, are apparently absent from human leukemia cells.
(3) Depending on the foreshortening of the locating impulse, considerable variability of the shape of triacuspid valve movement is noted.
(4) Piaget has suggested that the reason why children find it difficult to draw foreshortened views is because they lack any conscious awareness of their own viewpoint.
(5) Not that they feel that the only solution to the situation they find themselves in is to foreshorten their life and that we don't frame a law which drives us down that road.
(6) The operative technique described emphasizes the need for foreshortening the fibrosed septum in an effort to minimize residual paradoxic motion.
(7) When contrasted with nonaddict controls, heroin addicts were clearly shown to have low SE, a foreshortened FTP, and an external LC.
(8) These views provide improved visualization of the proximal branches of the left coronary artery, the region of the crux of the right coronary artery, and the left ventricle in the left anterior oblique projection; structures which in the conventional projections are often superimposed on one another or are foreshortened.
(9) After delivery at 34 weeks, the abnormal twin was found to have the typical findings of cloacal exstrophy, myelomeningocele, bilateral lower limb anomalies, and extremely foreshortened small bowel.
(10) It results in a foreshortened face, cleft palate, defective trachea, and shortened long bones with flared metaphyses.
(11) This report concerns the successful use of full-thickness skin grafts taken from the flank overlying the iliac crest to treat vaginal stenosis or foreshortening.
(12) Post-operative care check-ups revealed that 7 patients suffered from a secondary dislocation of the fracture, in 4 instances leg length remained foreshortened by more than 2 cm.
(13) To test between these alternative proposals, 4-, 7-, and 12-year-olds were asked to draw sticks and discs in foreshortened and nonforeshortened positions.
(14) Clinical pacing foreshortened FRP relative to ERP (FRP shorter than ERP by an average 12.5 ms at nonapical sites) but this did not induce tachycardias, perhaps because FRP was still longer than the shortest V1V2 achieved conventionally (FRP was longer at nonapical sites than at the apex using clinical pacing, p less than 0.05).
(15) A precise MR diagnosis requires identification of the centrally displaced fragment because the peripheral nondisplaced component may have only a subtle truncated or foreshortened appearance that may escape detection.
(16) Our data also suggest that the shorter proximal left bundle branch action potential durations and refractory periods may be due to the proximity of the low ohmic resistance Purkinje fiber-muscle junctions on the left septal surface, effecting electrotonic foreshortening of these proximal left bundle branch parameters.
(17) Our data suggest that 3' foreshortened transcripts generated in La's absence are components of a novel transcription intermediate containing a paused polymerase.
(18) Foreshortened internodes have slightly thinner sheaths than long internodes of the same fiber caliber (Friede and Bischhausen 1982).
(19) All routine projections during coronary arteriography cause foreshortening of the left main coronary artery.
(20) Abnormal aqueducts were lined by ependymal cells which were ventrally displaced by thickening of the overlying midbrain; also the subcommissural organ was foreshortened.
Shorten
Definition:
(a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
(a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.
(a.) To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
(a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
(v. i.) To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(2) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
(3) Both systems indicated that the Kupffer cell modified endotoxin by enriching the lipid content of the molecule and shortening the length of the O-antigen.
(4) Platelet survival time in patients with Crohn's disease proved to be significantly shortened (p less than 0.001), whereas platelet turnover appeared augmented.
(5) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
(6) Rapid, on-site detection of chlamydial antigen in male FVU would shorten the infectious period by hastening diagnosis and treatment.
(7) Isometric exercise induces a significant shortening of both intervals although minor for QT so that the ratio significantly increases in comparison to baseline (p less than .001).
(8) Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model for stuying nonmuscle contraction because it is linear, slow, and repetitive.
(9) In the V fibers, APD was lengthened by F, Q, and B, and shortened by L and M. The drug-induced changes in the relation between APD and CL were as in the P fibers.
(10) The CL was also longer in the duodenum, whereas the CD was shortened, indicating a reduction of the wave movements from the stomach antrum to the duodenum in the ranitidine periods.
(11) Chloride caused a significant concentration-dependent shortening of myosin rods due to destabilization of the alpha-helical double coiled rod structure.
(12) Strong correlations were found also between postsystolic shortening and thickening measured immediately before reperfusion and systolic shortening and thickening measured after recovery at 2-3 weeks (r = 0.73, n = 28; p less than 0.001 for shortening; r = 0.79, n = 12; p less than 0.01 for thickening).
(13) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
(14) When using pair stimula, barbamil shortens the period of absolute nonexcitation and the second phase of depression in the cycle of restituted H-reflexes to the second stimula in the pair.
(15) Accordingly, RV systolic SL shortening did not rise despite the substantial augmentation in RV outflow.
(16) Chloroquine administration shortened the time taken to reach peak plasma paracetamol concentration (tmax) in five of the volunteers.
(17) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
(18) An algorithm for the treatment of cryptococcosis complicating AIDS may shorten the duration of primary intravenous AB therapy.
(19) VT returned to control levels, expiratory time shortened, and breathing frequency increased.
(20) Isotonically, peak muscle shortening was reduced in the left muscle, whereas time to peak shortening was prolonged in the right myocardium.