(n.) An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
(n.) Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
(n.) Show; appearance; cast.
(n.) A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
(n.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
(n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.
(v. t.) To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
(v. t.) To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
(2) In addition, intravenous injection of complexes into rabbits showed optimal myocardial images with agents of intermediate lipophilicity.
(3) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(4) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(5) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
(6) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(7) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(8) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
(9) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(10) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(11) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
(12) In 14 of the patients the imaging results were checked against the histological findings of a subsequent thymectomy, which revealed four thymomas and (with the exception of one normal thymus) hyperplastic changes in all the others.
(13) Although MR imaging can accurately show high-grade chondromalacia patellae, it is less accurate in the detection of low-grade disease.
(14) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
(15) All masses had either histologic confirmation (n = 11) or confirmation with other imaging modalities (n = 4).
(16) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(17) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(18) This survey reviews three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging machines and 3D medical imaging operations.
(19) This method provided myocardial perfusion images of high quality which were well correlated with N-13 ammonia images.
(20) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
Photomechanical
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cutting the optic nerve blocks all structural changes, both endogenous and photomechanical.
(2) The photomechanical response of the vertebrate iris sphincter pupillae isolated from irises of many species of vertebrates contract when light is shined on them.
(3) Spontaneous activity was recorded in irides towards the end of the second postnatal week just prior to the time of normal eye opening, and may reflect the onset of photomechanical coupling.
(4) It is felt that cone photomechanical responses are minimal.
(5) Upon adaptation from light to dark, the most striking photomechanical response is a proximal broadening of the cone cells, which results in a 38-fold increase in cross-sectional area of the aperture.
(6) Several laboratories have suggested that melatonin may be involved in photoreceptor outer segment disc shedding, photomechanical movements, and neuromodulation, but the cellular location of the retinal synthesizing enzymes has not been determined yet.
(7) It appears that the cell membranes of the constituent smooth muscle cells contain rhodopsin which triggers the photomechanical response (PMR) when bleached.
(8) Laser dosimetry for photothermal and photomechanical interactions is outlined.
(9) Photomechanical changes with adaptive state could be identified.
(10) The retinae of lower vertebrates undergo a number of structural changes during light adaptation, including the photomechanical contraction of cone myoids and the dispersion of melanin granules within the epithelial pigment.
(11) Rods and perhaps also cones are capable of photomechanical movements.
(12) Daylight induces photomechanical movements, enhancing the endogenous daytime changes that decrease photon catch.
(13) Rod and cone contributions to the fast P III response were separated by taking advantage of photomechanical movements of the photoreceptors to produce "all-rod" and "all-cone" retinae.
(14) The time courses of isometrically recorded photomechanical responses of isolated sphincter pupillae of Rana pipiens can be accurately predicted by a set of differential equations derived from phosphorylation theory of smooth muscle contraction.
(15) Histophysiological responses such as photomechanical or retinomotor responses are influenced by temperature.
(16) This supports the hypothesis that melatonin plays an important role in the regulation of the photomechanical changes of eye pigmentation, an important element in the control of light sensitivity and acuity in the eyes of vertebrates.
(17) In a comparison of photomechanical responses of albino and normally pigmented axolotls, similar time courses and maxima of force development were found.
(18) In non-tapetal locations a few melanosomes are present that do not appear to undergo photomechanical movements.
(19) These observations would indicate that a number of morphological changes take place within the RPE cells of this species in addition to be obvious movement of melanosomes and that these changes should perhaps be included in descriptions of photomechanical or retinomotor movements.
(20) When the photoreceptors are differentiated and capable of photomechanical movement, the Müller cell in Poecilia bears a cilium situated vitreally to the external limiting membrane.