(n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.
(n.) That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
(n.) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
(v. t.) To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
(v. t.) To bend.
(v. i.) To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
(2) Brief digestion at neutral pH without reduction produced a molecule in which the Fab and Fc fragments were still linked by a pair of labile disulphide bridges, and the Fc fragment released by cleaving these bonds, called 1Fc fragment, contained a portion of the ;hinge' region including an interchain disulphide bridge.
(3) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
(4) In order to identify the specific carboxyl groups labeled by ETC, a purified cytochrome c1 preparation containing both the heme peptide and the hinge peptide was dimethylated at all the lysines to prevent internal cross-linking.
(5) The present report of a fatality from an external rearview mirror indicates the continued potential for harm from a projecting structure in spite of a hinged mounting and rounded shape.
(6) This investigation presents a commentary about two researches locating the terminal hing axis (THA) in totally edentulous people determined through the guided and not guided methods with chin compression.
(7) These variations indicate modulations of the tertiary structure, which may be due to a change of the L-hinge angle.
(8) In the alpha a and beta subunits they probably occur in the proline- and glycine-rich hinge region, which connects the head to the trunk.
(9) Roma are close to a deal for the Fiorentina winger Adem Ljajic and Tottenham's hopes of taking Lamela appear to hinge on it being finalised.
(10) This indicates that the enzyme does not affect the Ig molecule in the hinge region only.
(11) Whereas binding of monoclonal antibodies recognizing the tip and interface is abrogated or diminished, binding of antibodies to the hinge region is greatly enhanced following exposure of virus or the monomeric form of HA to pH 5.
(12) The position of NADP on beef liver catalase corresponds to the carboxyl-terminal polypeptide hinge in Penicillium vitale fungal catalase, which connects the common catalase structure to the additional flavodoxin-like domain.
(13) The popular appeal of the "School Shield" program hinges on believing in heroics; good public policy depends on preventing the need for them.
(14) However, our data also show the intron structure to be less stable than the mature tRNA domain, suggesting that the precursor may best be described as having two domains with a hinge at the junction of the anticodon and intron stems.
(15) Analysis of cysteine-containing peptides shows that the heavy chain of the IgG protein LEC has a deletion of residues 216-230, thus encompassing the entire hinge region.
(16) The time of disability (i.e., sick leave) was significantly shorter (6 weeks) with a hinged cast, but only in ACL cases.
(17) The results of a CT-anatomical correlative study of the main ligaments of the cervico-occipital hinge are reported.
(18) Neuroepithelial cells transform from spindle-shaped to wedge-shaped within the median and paired dorsolateral hinge points of the bending neural plate, but the mechanisms underlying these localized changes are unclear.
(19) This substitution may increase the flexibility of the molecule in the hinge region between the globular domain and the stalk.
(20) Although a higher salvage rate was obtained with the less-constrained prostheses, an infected hinge prosthesis did not preclude successful implant salvage.
Quartile
Definition:
(n.) Same as Quadrate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects in the highest quartile of the insulin distribution had 6.6 times the risk of developing type II diabetes as subjects in the remaining three quartiles combined (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.14-13.7).
(2) The effects of low-chromium diets containing chromium in the lowest quartile of normal intake on glucose tolerance and related variables in 11 females and 6 male subjects were evaluated.
(3) When divided into quartiles based on the central adiposity ratio, only women in the fourth quartile (those with the highest central to peripheral body fat distribution) demonstrated an increased risk for breast cancer.
(4) Although calculation of the observed heart rate as a percent of that expected at the midpoint and end of each quartile of exercise used fewer observations, it provided similar results.
(5) Children consistently in the highest BP quartile had greater relative weight and higher heart rates in all three positions.
(6) Children in the upper two quartiles of fiber intake were estimated to have a 30 per cent lower risk of appendicitis than children in the lowest quartile.
(7) The lowest quartile of AMC was found most reliably by measuring plasma methionine, histidine, leucine and isoleucine concentrations.
(8) For a score based on consumption of only the 3 specified salad items the odds ratio over the extreme quartiles was 0.12 (0.05-0.32).
(9) Infants in the third quartile were fussy at the commencement of the period and became gradually more placid from the fifth week of life.
(10) Four hundred thirty-four patients (234 men, 200 women) greater than 40 years of age were stratified by gender and then divided into quartiles on the basis of a B-mode score that was derived by summing arterial wall thickness at nine sites in the left and nine sites in the right carotid arteries.
(11) The median (25,75 quartiles) rate of muscle protein synthesis after an overnight fast was 2.03 (2.00,2.23) % days-1 when the precursor enrichment was obtained by measurement of the plasma alpha-ketoisocaproate, taken to be representative of muscle free leucine.
(12) Mortality was as high as 81% in the bottom quartile (PHDL less than 13%), with a relative mortality risk of 1.71 for subjects in the bottom quartile compared to those in the top quartile (PHDL greater than or equal to 19%).
(13) The major finding was an inverse relationship between fruit intake and risk of oral and pharyngeal cancer; individuals in the highest quartile of intake had about half the risk of those in the lowest quartile.
(14) Those in the top and bottom quartiles on intrinsic motivation were classified as either relatively task intrinsically motivated or task extrinsically motivated and were assigned to behavior regulation conditions: self-regulated reinforcement, externally imposed reinforcement, or control.
(15) Three data reduction methods are discussed: the classification with respect to frequency bands, the search for prominent frequencies, and the computation of quartiles of the frequency spectra.
(16) Tumor latency decreased with increasing dose of MNU, but the quartiles for time to detection of all tumors within each carcinogen dose group were similar irrespective of anatomical region in which the tumors occurred.
(17) This was true not only for the relation between average latencies but also for the relation between corresponding quartiles of latency distributions.
(18) Epidemiologic analysis demonstrated a fivefold decrease in risk for severe ASCAD between the lowest and the highest quartile of total testosterone.
(19) The relative risk of developing proteinuria after 4 years for those with glycosylated hemoglobin levels in the highest quartile compared with those in the lowest quartile was 3.0 (95% confidence interval, 1.6 to 5.3).
(20) Median followup period was 6.5 years, quartiles 5.5 and 8.0 years.