(n.) Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.
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.
Space
Definition:
(n.) Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.
(n.) Place, having more or less extension; room.
(n.) A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.
(n.) Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time.
(n.) A short time; a while.
(n.) Walk; track; path; course.
(n.) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.
(n.) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books.
(n.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.
(n.) To walk; to rove; to roam.
(n.) To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) The extrusion of granules into the intercellular space via exocytosis is frequently observed.
(3) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(4) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.
(5) The supravesical portion showed a cystic appearance with a capsule in the space of Retzius.
(6) These and other results suggest that the experimental agents do not provide protection against alloxan inhibition by preventing the entry of alloxan into the intracellular space of the islet.
(7) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
(8) The findings indicate that these spaces were lined by a lipid monolayer which formed bilayered lamellae under certain conditions.
(9) However, cimetidine did not show any effect on the proliferation of collagenous fibers in the interstitial space of the mucosa.
(10) Closure of both cleft spaces by orthodontic means was achieved in 20 of the 21 patients in the first group, and in 14 of the 20 patients in the second group.
(11) By measurement and analysis of the changes in carpal angles and joint spaces, carpal instability was discovered in 41 fractures, an incidence of 30.6%.
(12) We therefore conclude that widely spaced (and unknown) parts of the protein chain are required for the intersubunit interactions that eventually lead to functional assembly of the receptor.
(13) In the case of the latter, it show either a more or less typical appearance of radicolography only or, more rarely, a picture which combines opacification of the epidural space with the subarachnoid passage of the contrast medium.
(14) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(15) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(16) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
(17) On histopathologic examination there were microabscesses in the inner choroid and subretinal space, disrupting the outer retina but sparing the inner retina.
(18) Immediately prior to and at maximal workloads, carbon monoxide shifted into extravascular spaces and returned to the vascular space within five minutes after exercise stopped.
(19) Fluid movement out of the ICF space attenuated the decrease in the ECF space.
(20) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.