(a.) Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The herringbone pattern was associated with a more favorable prognosis than the malignant fibrous histiocytoma pattern.
(2) Modelling and conformational analysis of single chains using the virtual bond approach lead to two possible models for the crystalline helix: 'herringbone' versus 'comb-like'.
(3) Ultrastructurally, metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is marked by characteristic features such as herringbone, prismatic and tufaceous patterns which are typically encountered within oligodendrocytes of the central nervous system (CNS) and in Schwann cells (PNS).
(4) Ice structure in collagen gels consisted predominantly of long, parallel crystals in the herringbone pattern.
(5) A gentle introduction is the ride to the chapel of Saint Laurent in the neighbouring hamlet of Maâ, past typical Landais houses built in a herringbone-pattern brick, with a gently sloping roof that almost touches the ground.
(6) The actin polymer, like the thin filaments of muscle, is known to be polarized as demonstrated by the well known "HMM decoration" technique to give a "herringbone" pattern pointing in one direction.
(7) Invariant aromatic residues close-pack at the bottom of the binding-site beta-barrel with their ring planes oriented perpendicularly in the characteristic "herringbone" packing mode.
(8) The lead foil of dental x-ray film packets may cause a number of artifacts; especially well known are the "tractor treads" and "herringbone patterns" following a backward filmpositioning in the patient's mouth.
(9) In a herringbone milking parlour, teat cup liners were deliberately contaminated in turn with Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Streptococcus agalactiae and Sterp uberis.
(10) An electron microscopic examination of the accumulated metachromatic lipid granules showed various structures such as concentric lamellar, tuffstone, herringbone and hexagonal honeycomb appearances, and some ultrastructural differences between the nervous system and other organs.
(11) The characteristic storiform cellular arrangement of DFSP was replaced by long, gently sweeping fascicles of spindle cells that intersected at various angles, forming the so-called herringbone pattern.
(12) The collagen of the horns is organized into discrete bundles that are separated from one another by loose connective tissue septa, while that of the body is arranged in a "herringbone" pattern; no septa are present in the body.
(13) A processing artefact is described that is similar in appearance to the tractor-tread (or herringbone) pattern seen on an intra-oral dental radiograph that has been exposed the wrong way round in the mouth.
(14) The previous timber floors would have been removed and replaced with herringbone oak floor with inset rugs, and stone walls replaced with white Carrara marble.
(15) herringbone road marking, flashing beacon, chevron, and post delineator) were evaluated in a driving simulator.
(16) The apparatus developed to effect this back-flushing for a particular herringbone parlour is described, with details of its routine use during milking.
(17) The hairpin molecules pack in the crystal in herringbone columns in a manner that accounts well for the observed relative crystal growth rates in a, b and c directions.
(18) The solid spindle growth pattern assumed various configurations, including fascicular areas, storiform and herringbone formations, angiofibroma and hemangiopericytoma-like areas, synovial sarcoma-like areas, and neural-type palisading, thus simulating a variety of soft-tissue neoplasms.
(19) The resultant polymers showing both decorated and undecorated portions were examined and found to consist of a large majority of "spears" i.e., the added undecorated polymer extended in the direction opposite to that direction pointed by the "herringbone" pattern.
(20) Highly cellular tumors with a herringbone-pattern must be differentiated from primarily extrahepatic fibrosarcomas or myosarcomas, and highly cellular solid or medullary tumors from metastasis from a carcinoma or lymphoma.
Zigzag
Definition:
(n.) Something that has short turns or angles.
(n.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
(n.) See Boyau.
(a.) Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
(v. t.) To form with short turns.
(v. i.) To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The corresponding delta FeCO modes are identified at 574 and 566 cm-1, respectively, by virtue of the zigzag pattern of their isotopic shifts.
(2) Also, the tacos are probably delicious, and undoubtedly more authentic than the hipster joint with the zigzag taco holders and $12 margaritas.
(3) This Z-band is described as simple, since in longitudinal sections it has the appearance of a single zigzag pattern connecting the ends of actin filaments of opposite polarity from adjacent sarcomeres.
(4) Despite the fragile state of what Sir Mervyn King has called the "zigzag" economy, Osborne will repeat his mantra that there is no alternative to stringent spending cuts.
(5) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins and bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(6) Polystyrene microspheres or India ink particles adsorbed to gliding cells were actively displaced in either direction, their movement tracing either a regular zigzag or helical path along the filament surface.
(7) The helices stack in columns, zigzag rather than linear, by means of direct NH...OC head to tail hydrogen bonds.
(8) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins, bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(9) In nemaline myopathy and some cardiac muscles, the Z-band becomes greatly enlarged and contains multiple layers of a zigzag structure similar to that seen in normal muscle.
(10) She knew to bend double and run in zigzags to make herself a harder target.
(11) At the Montenvers railway turn right and zigzag easily up the extra 150m to grab great views of the pinnacles of the Aiguille Verte at 4,122m, Les Drus and the Mer de Glace (sea of ice).
(12) The detergent phase is organized thus in infinite zigzag chains parallel to the b axis of the P2(1)2(1)2(1) unit cell.
(13) For other hair types G1 and G3 (awl, auchene, zigzag) the duration of the growth period is approximately 3 days longer than in the control.
(14) EACH MUSCLE OF THE SYLLID (ANNELIDA: Polychaeta) proventriculus, the region of the gut posterior to the pharynx, contains a single zigzagging Z band, flanked on each side by a sequence of I-A-H-A-I bands defined by thick (60-90 nm) and thin (5 nm) filaments.
(15) We have developed a new surgical procedure which consists of a plantar zigzag incision, incision of the plantar aponeurosis, and microsurgical neurolysis of the interdigital nerve.
(16) The process of loss of resistance, similarly to that of its development, takes its course according to a zigzag curve, but in the opposite direction.
(17) These occurred before I began to use the zigzag incision which provides excellent exposure of the N.V. bundles ensuring their safety.
(18) Cars zigzag through dense traffic jams, cutting lanes, overtaking from the left or zipping past red lights.
(19) In 18 (82%) of 22 patients, arteriograms showed a hypovascular mass with fine wavy or zigzag (creeping-vine) neovascularity.
(20) The construction of the new type of grid is similar to a conventional one except that the lead strips are arranged in zigzag rather than linear pattern.