(n.) That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.
(n.) An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like.
(n.) The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.
(n.) One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.
(n.) The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is now a well-known fact that the human body is able to use luminous stimulation for aims other than sight; the pineal gland, though no longer directly sensitive to light as in lower animals, is nevertheless the fulcrum of a complex neuro-endocrine system which makes an interaction between light and the human body possible by means of the production of a number of substances of which melatonin is the most widely investigated.
(2) These results are consistent with the interpretation of DF as a zero reference point or fulcrum about which accommodative effort varies.
(3) The letter identified a single point, OcC point (Cervera's occlusal point), as the primary fulcrum from which to perform a correct cephalometric superimposition in order to examine the patient's anticipated growth.
(4) Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the former top adviser to Barack Obama suddenly facing a runoff for re-election, remained at the political fulcrum of a mounting campaign both on social media and the streets of Chicago, where demonstrations were planned for Saturday outside what coordinated campaigners described as mirroring a CIA “black site”.
(5) Two details distinguish this incision from other sutureless closures: the fulcrum in the crotch of the V provides easier access to the anterior chamber for instrument manipulation, and the termination of the scleral tunnel entry posterior to the cornea lessens the likelihood of corneal folds that may interfere with visualization during surgery.
(6) Their firm attachment to the ciliary epithelium and the great number of intercellular junctions known as mechanical structures lend further support to our concept that these structures function as a fulcrum in the process of accommodation.
(7) In case of occlusion, the mandible is elevated by the muscles of mastication with T. M. J. as the fulcrum point, and at this time, the masticatory force concentrated mainly on the dental arch is absorbed into the jaw bone through the periodontal tissues.
(8) The movements and the fulcrums of the prosthesis were changed by the presence of simulated retained roots posterior to the distal abutment.
(9) 10.25pm BST 56 mins Diskerud has done well to be a fulcrum of US attacking play in this half, and Donovan has drifted out to the right to find some space to run at the defense.
(10) The nitrogen of an allylic amine can serve as the fulcrum for stereocontrolled delivery of oxygen to an adjacent trigonal site, and cis-hydroxyamino sugars can thus be prepared.
(11) The shelf attachment to the main maxillary process is progressively undercut by epithelial invagination, producing a fulcrum for shelf elevation.
(12) Standing permanently on guard at the fulcrum of competing privatised arms of the state, armed with his suitcase of his rivals' commercial secrets, is a more tedious occupation.
(13) This is to be avoided because much larger levator resections are required when this ligament's support to the upper lid and the fulcrum effect for the levator are lost.
(14) Due to the superior displacement characteristics of the TMJ, the condyle does not act as the fulcrum in mandibular kinetics.
(15) However, Scholes believes it is the system, rather than the man preferred as the fulcrum of United’s attack, that is flawed.
(16) Rallying supporters at a phone bank on the eve of voting on Monday, Gardner, a congressman, called Colorado the “tip of the spear, the fulcrum of power”.
(17) The instrument differentiated between lateral and rotational parietal bone movements around the fulcrum of the suture.
(18) "Someone has to do it and the ideal would be that you chose the discrete broadcaster of a devolved nation at the fulcrum of the issue," Woodward said.
(19) It was his personality that made Heidelberg a fulcrum of a growing new scientific self-assurance that had no precedent in clinical psychiatry which no longer needed the disciplines of neuropathology and neurophysiology as pillars of support to gain recognition among the experts.
(20) Now the US build a little more inventively with Altidore as the fulcrum and ultimately the intended target of a Johnson cross.
Helve
Definition:
(n.) The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.
(n.) The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer.
(n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
(v. t.) To furnish with a helve, as an ax.
Example Sentences:
(1) When introduced into Nicotiana tabacum by leaf disk transformation via Agrobacterium tumefaciens, high levels of stable coat protein were detected which were identical in molecular weight to that of HelVS coat protein and constituted approximately 0.1-0.5% of the total extracted protein.
(2) After examinaning the vascular supply of the parietal peritoneum helved peritoneal flaps were fixed in wound dehiscent colon anastomoses.
(3) This region of HelVS, equivalent to the 1.5 kb subgenomic RNA, also produced high levels of protein when transcribed and translated in vitro.
(4) Diffuse mesangial sclerosis (DMS) has been described as a distinct morphological pattern observed in patients presenting with a congenital or infantile nephrotic syndrome (NS) leading to end stage renal failure (ESRF) before the age of 3 years (Habib & Bois: Helv.
(5) The coat protein open reading frame (ORF) sequence of Helenium virus S (HelVS) was cloned and expressed in E. coli, rabbit reticulocyte and transgenic tobacco.
(6) Some bivalent ACTH antagonists displayed much greater antagonist potency than their monovalent analogs, which supports the findings of Stolz and Fauchere (Helv Chim Acta 71: 1421-1428, 1988).