(n.) A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.
(n.) A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 6-month-old Appaloosa colt had a deviation of the premaxilla and nasal septum as well as a dorsal hump of the nasal bone and maxillomandibular malocclusion.
(2) One of the most annoying complications of rhinoplasty is the supra-tip hump (pollybeak).
(3) The visible rib humps from 30 scoliotic patients were measured in the form of plotted curves by a group of paramedical and medical staffs.
(4) (3) The nucleus centralis lateralis receives fibers from most parts of the nucleus lateralis including the "dorsolateral hump".
(5) After exposure to fast neutrons the yield of translocations follows a humped curve with a maximum of chromosome exchanges after exposure to 100 rad.
(6) The medialmost D0 projects onto the dorsolateral hump; D1 projects more laterally onto the main, magnocellular part of the ND, and D2 projects ventrally onto the parvicellular subdivision of the ND.
(7) During the restitution of S2, an early biphasic upward hump was present at short DIs.
(8) The corticonuclear fibers to the dorsolateral hump and lateral nucleus originate from the medial and lateral portions of the lateral cortex, respectively.
(9) Successively: correction of the dorsum (resection of the bony hump) with incorrect nasofrontal angle, residual hump, "saddle nose"; lateral osteotomy and bony step; transversal and paramedian osteotomy with possibility of "open roof" so as residual deviation.
(10) To test the hypothesis that a curve with two peak values (double hump) recorded by laser Doppler flowmetry over the skin of the lower limb during postocclusive hyperaemia reflects pathological vascular resistance in the aortoiliac segment.
(11) An ongoing controversy is whether the I gamma hump component triggers calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum or arises as a consequence of the release.
(12) A prospective study to investigate changes in the rib hump or rib deformity after correction of the lateral curvature in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is reported.
(13) A small step or hump nearly coincident with S1 was observed in 10 of these 16 patients.
(14) Rabbits with experimental acute serum sickness (AcSS: Group I) had focal proliferative and exudative glomerulonephritis with immune deposits, scattered subepithelial electron-dense deposits (humps), mild and transient proteinuria, normal creatinine clearance and slightly increased production of IL-1 and TNF from isolated glomeruli.
(15) In 7 normal healthy Egyptian one-humped camels aged 3-4 years, the relationships were studied between enzyme activities of lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), creatine phosphokinase (CPK), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), acid phosphatase (ACP), and cholonesterase (CHE) of serum and organs as well as between ACP and ALP and between LDH and CPK.
(16) This fused unit is permanently altered when the hump is removed.
(17) Adipocytes in the UMN and HUMP also became more numerous relative to those in the other depots following both moderate and strenuous exercise.
(18) The dose-response curves were superficially the same shape, with a peak yield of cells containing a multivalent at 4 Gy, although only in the pachytene data was there any statistically significant hump.
(19) A quantitative analysis of Ca2+ and current signals during the hump suggested that the luminal membrane contained high densities of K(+)- and Cl(-)-selective channels, roughly 10 times higher than those found in the basolateral domain.
(20) Only the rib hump of thoracic and thoracolumbar are correlated with evolutivity.
Jump
Definition:
(n.) A kind of loose jacket for men.
(n.) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
(v. i.) To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.
(v. i.) To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.
(v. i.) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with.
(v. t.) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.
(v. t.) To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.
(v. t.) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
(v. t.) To join by a butt weld.
(v. t.) To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
(v. t.) To bore with a jumper.
(n.) The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
(n.) An effort; an attempt; a venture.
(n.) The space traversed by a leap.
(n.) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
(n.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
(a.) Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.
(adv.) Exactly; pat.
Example Sentences:
(1) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(2) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
(3) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(4) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
(5) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(6) Analysis of this mutant illustrates that indirect flight muscles and jump muscles utilize different mechanisms for alternative RNA splicing.
(7) By 2014-15 that number had jumped to 16,500 and a rate of 345 per 100,000 people.
(8) The deal will also be scrutinised to see if its claims of new billions to jump start world economies prove to be inflated.
(9) The effects of Urocalun and jumping exercise upon the passage of calculi were studied.
(10) Godiya Usman, an 18-year-old finalist who jumped off the back of the truck, said she feels trapped by survivor's guilt.
(11) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
(12) Asked if France had “jumped the gun and didn’t tell us”, Fox said he was notaware of anyone in government who knew about the impending airstrikes.
(13) The intracerebroventricular injection of Tyr-Phe-NHOH alone (0.17 mumol, 60 micrograms) does not significantly modify the jump latency time as compared to the control.
(14) Abrupt withdrawal jumping behavior in morphine-dependent mice is accompanied by a decrease in brain dopamine turnover and an increase in brain dopamine level which parallel strain differences in jumping incidence.
(15) Another military veteran, Brett Puffenbarger, 29, said: “I jumped on Trump train fairly early on.
(16) In type V, dysrhythmic nystagmus develops and the visual line often jumps over several targets without fixation.
(17) Poor preparation of the jump may have contributed to the accidents.
(18) injection of phenylbenzoquinone, (6) forepaw licking and jump latencies on a hot plate.
(19) For direct measurement of the ESR signal of superoxide anion (O2-) produced in biological samples, O2- generated at a physiological pH was trapped in alkaline media instead of by a rapid freezing method, and then its signal was measured by ESR spectroscopy at 77 K. A reaction mixture for O2- generation, such as xanthine oxidase-xanthine and neutrophils, was incubated at a physiological pH (pH 7.0-7.5) for a suitable reaction period (30s), then an aliquot (300 microliters) was pipetted out and squirted into 600 microliters of 0.5 M NaOH to stabilize O2- (pH-jump).
(20) The treatment effects of continuous bite jumping with the Herbst appliance in the correction of Class II malocclusions have been analysed in previous investigations.