(n.) That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.
(n.) A treatise on this science.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results, together with the known geometry of the enzyme, indicate that active site probes in the dodecamer are widely separated and that energy transfer occurs from a single donor to two or three acceptors on adjacent subunits.
(2) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
(3) These two latter techniques were developed in an attempt to restore normal left ventricular geometry.
(4) Those small problems which exist can be attributed to detector sampling problems, especially in the axial direction, which is a consequence of the geometry of these scanners, which are designed primarily for 2D data acquisition.
(5) In spite of the limitations arising from the complex geometry of the right ventricule, echocardiography may be the most important non-invasive technique in the evaluation of the structural and functional repercussion of hypertension on the right ventricle.
(6) In the current study, left ventricular geometry, loading conditions, and contractile state were assessed in 13 patients with nonischemic DCM with the use of simultaneous high-fidelity pressure measurements and echocardiographic recordings.
(7) The measured dose distributions at equivalent source activity and similar geometry of the applicators revealed the possibility with regard of all techniques of gynecologic irradiation utilized in our field of arriving at similar relative and absolute dose distributions by means of the Cs-137 afterloading technique.
(8) The drug orientation and the DNA orientation (reflecting flexibility) are observed to vary differently and nonmonotonically with binding ratio, suggesting specific binding and varying site geometries.
(9) In 1984 the press-fit condylar knee was first introduced and was intended to provide a condylar knee system primarily for posterior cruciate retention that addressed refinements in metallurgy, prosthetic geometry and sizing, cementless fixation, inventory management, and instrumentation.
(10) The effective electrical geometry under the conditions of control and 0.5 mM PNB sufficient to completely abolish the postsynaptic potential were determined from analyses of the membrane charging curves assuming the lumped-soma-short-cable model.
(11) The latter, which is external and solvent accessible, is associated with a distortion in the alpha-helix centered around Tyr33 which consists of a significant increase in the CO(i-4)-N(i) and CO(i-4)-NH(i) distances relative to those in the rest of the helix, as well as a significant departure in the phi, psi angles of Tyr33 relative to regular helical geometry.
(12) Fractal geometry offers a more accurate description of ocular anatomy and pathology than classical geometry, and provides a new language for posing questions about the complex geometrical patterns that are seen in ophthalmic practice.
(13) We have mapped cochlear nerve terminations in the cochlear nucleus with DiI and, using three-dimensional reconstructions, have demonstrated the topography and geometry of the cochlear input.
(14) In order to clarify the role of dialyzer geometry, the effect of hollow-fiber versus flat-sheet dialyzers and of different surface areas on C3a generation and leukocyte degranulation was investigated.
(15) The ternary complexes between enzyme, NAD+ and either Cl- or trifluoroethanol and the binary complex between enzyme and orthophenanthroline have almost identical spectral parameters which are not consistent with a four coordinated geometry, but are consistent with a five coordinated geometry.
(16) A good choice between these different approaches avoid the rare complications (ectropion and scleral show) because blepharoplasty must be considered like a "variable geometry" operation.
(17) Distances and angles between major anatomic landmarks were determined by using computer reconstructions of the serially sectioned embryos, three-dimensional analytic geometry, and Euclidean distance formulas.
(18) We tracked the unconditioned approach response paths taken by the fish and compared tracks for each of the geometries.
(19) The optimal geometry of the vascular bifurcation is interpreted on the basis of the principle of minimum work.
(20) The bone stiffness also correlates strongly with the geometry (area) and slightly with bone mass; however, an unexpectedly low correlation was found between stiffness and density.
Schematic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a scheme or a schema.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Jacob-Creutzfeldt group had a less schematic lesion pattern, without involvement of limbic areas.
(2) Goren, Sarty, and Wu (1975) claimed that newborn infants will follow a slowly moving schematic face stimulus with their head and eyes further than they will follow scrambled faces or blank stimuli.
(3) Schematic eyes, with homogeneous and non homogeneous lenses, were constructed for tadpoles, juvenile toads, and adult toads.
(4) In experiments 1 and 2, respectively, a schematic face and an asymmetrical geometric design, and a realistic face and a symmetrical geometric design were each divided into four fragments consisting of outline and three internal features.
(5) A schematic description of the correlation between various pathologies of hearing impairments and the behavior of auditory brainstem responses (ABR) is presented.
(6) Thus, snap-back molecules most likely contain a covalent linkage between or near complementary terminal sequences on the two complementary strands as schematically shown in Fig.
(7) A precise description and schematic presentation of its action is given.
(8) While some of the available evidence would suggest that typical deaf children do not read "story schematically", theirs may be a problem of lack of access to (rather than absence of) such cognitive structures.
(9) With all this information it is possible to work out a schematic table that allows the identification of Listeria strains with a remarkable certainty.
(10) The standard slices of the tympanon were schematized with the help of pictogramms.
(11) Second, for schematic faces the results revealed that the left hemisphere is more sensitive to common than to distinctive features, whereas the right hemisphere is more sensitive to distinctive than to common features.
(12) The experiment involved a 2-alternative forced-choice procedure in which observers were required to indicate during which of 2 designated intervals the reflex from a schematic eye became brighter.
(13) The results, are compared with those of ten normal women and the observed results may schematically been classified into three groups: A) Normal response.
(14) Nonparaxial raytracing studies in schematic eyes suggested that the lenses of animals of the three developmental stages tadpole, juvenile toad, and adult are not homogeneous but have a refractive index gradient.
(15) The annual movement of a hypothetical 100,000 elderly persons through the health care system is schematically diagrammed.
(16) From this survey new schematic diagrams have been drawn emphasizing the pertinent venous anatomy at the proximal, distal interphalangeal joints and eponychial levels.
(17) The schematics recalled significantly more descriptions than the aschematics, whether their self-schema was positive or negative.
(18) Schematic representations of space consolidations, intrusion and root torque are illustrated.
(19) Hardware and software are described and examples are presented to illustrate the use of software to create alphanumeric, schematic, and freeform pictures.
(20) The pharmacotherapy of first choice should be determined for each patient individually and not according to schematic prescription.