(n.) That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.
(n.) The zodiac; also, the equator.
(n.) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
(n.) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
(n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
(v. t.) To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
(v. t.) To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
(v. t.) To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(2) 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.
(3) Two cases of Tikhor-Linberg resection for rhabdomyosarcoma and malignant chondromyxoid fibroma and two cases of scapulectomy for metastatic disease of the shoulder girdle are reviewed.
(4) Weakness and amyotrophy of shoulder girdle were noticed.
(5) It is stated that the clavicle contributes significantly to the stability of the shoulder girdle, and that in man the presence of this bone represents an increase in the degree of freedom of the upper extremity mobility pattern, dependent on the transversal shape of the thoracic diameter.
(6) (2) It is suggested that the boundaries of the bipolar limb system lie in the girdle skeleton and at the distal end of the limb, respectively, and that it is the apical epidermis of the growing or regenerating limb which defines the distal boundary conditions.
(7) The author investigated postural change of respiratory function in 12 patients with myotonic dystrophy (MYD), and 7 patients with limb-girdle dystrophy (LG) and overnight polysomnography was performed on 10 patients with MYD and 5 patients with LG.
(8) There thus exists a passive control, of ligamentous origin, of movements of the shoulder-girdle.
(9) Repetition strain injury of the supraspinatus muscle is not an isolated event, but rather a form of microtrauma that affects the entire shoulder girdle.
(10) This procedure is manifested in the region of system-immanent weak spots of the positional and locomotor system and, in the pelvic girdle region by tipping of the pelvis in ventral direction, with consecutive evasive shifts of the vertebral column and extremities.
(11) The girdle epidermis of adult Mopalia muscosa secretes several types of structures, including calcareous spicules and innervated hairs.
(12) Unstained fibers were observed in mitochondrial myopathies, in Becker, Emery-Dreifuss, limb-girdle, facio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophies, muscle infarction, polymyositis, motor neuron diseases and neuropathies.
(13) Thirteen were located within or between muscles of the limbs, limb girdles, and head and neck.
(14) In the remaining two patients, one with limb girdle dystrophy and the other with dystrophia myotonica, cardiomyopathy was present in addition to the conduction disturbance.
(15) Although fractures of the humerus, scapula, and clavicle are common throughout life, most problems encountered between the ages of 15 and 60 are related to the ligaments, tendons, and muscles of the shoulder girdle.
(16) In 95 fresh and fixed anatomical preparations, peculiarities of topographic-anatomical relations and morphometric indices of magistral arteries and their large branches have been studied in the pelvic girdle and a free hind extremity in mongrel dogs according to the type of their habitus.
(17) Other unusual features included the absence of muscle cramps at any stage, asymmetrical wasting of the shoulder girdle muscles and calf hypertrophy.
(18) This phenomenon was observed, though to a lower degree, in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
(19) Downward migration of shoulder girdle and muscle variations are analyzed.
(20) His symptoms consisted principally of parasthesias and proximal weakness of both upper and lower extremities with atrophy of the shoulder and pelvic girdles.
Succinct
Definition:
(a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
(a.) Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this article is to review many of these points in a succinct and practical fashion for the nurse who may be considering such a move.
(2) The basic question about the future of media perhaps becomes clearer and can more succinctly be asked: will Facebook be earning more from its multitude of users in 10 years – when there are no more users to be had – or will Comcast?
(3) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
(4) A number of applications of the various methods are included, with examples of succinct summary displays.
(5) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
(6) Last Wednesday, at a parliamentary round table, paediatrician Dr Ingrid Wolfe, one of the co-authors of Why Children Die published in May, gave a succinct and shocking analysis of why the UK has the second worst mortality rate for children in western Europe.
(7) His appraisal of Argentina’s current squad is succinct: “Alejandro [Sabella]has shown he isn’t closed in on a single idea of how to play, having tried many variables and combinations,” he says.
(8) Human fibroblast interferon, obtained by chromatography on concanavalin A-agarose, was stable for at least a month in 30--50 per cent ethylene glycol at 4 degrees, --20 degrees, and --70 degrees C. The succinct point of the present finding is that human fibroblast interferon may be stabilized by ethylene glycol alone without the addition of bovine serum albumin and 'back-contamination' of the interferon preparation.
(9) Perhaps the most significant problem in prosthodontics today is the need to succinctly define the parameters of prosthodontic practice in order to provide guidelines for assuring that such practices are limited to the defined specialty.
(10) Prospects for preventing and treating AIDS have been succinctly summarized.
(11) But his Olympic monument seems to lack the pith and succinctness with which he usually engages people.
(12) The fourth premise is expressed succinctly in the 11 principles outlined in the 1983 AAMC monograph "Preserving America's Preeminence in Medical Research," which places important responsibilities for the collective success of the U.S. research program on all of the various components of society.
(13) As Lauren Laverne, the BBC6 Music DJ, succinctly put it, it was Seeger's destiny to be "loved and hated by precisely the right people".
(14) Mohammed Samy's message was a succinct model of blind adulation: "Fairouz is my life."
(15) We consider this tonic pain model indeed offers a succinct empirical paradigm to study human pain responsivity in general.
(16) Cameron's reply was succinct: "She may be many things, but she's not a Cherie."
(17) In the TE ORFs there are no indications of selection for the codons prevalent in the other D. melanogaster genes, but rather codon usage can be succinctly summarized in terms of the base composition at silent sites.
(18) People magazine succinctly summed up Sade's enduring appeal as "the voice of comfort to the wounded heart".
(19) Bill Black, the wise sage of the sport who coached Team GB's men in Sydney, puts it succinctly.
(20) Peter Scheer, director of the First Amendment coalition, explained the consequences of the Gawker case succinctly: Say five years from now, if Trump loses and people are writing critical postmortems, will they have to worry that Trump will turn around and sue them?