(p. p. & a.) Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue.
(p. p. & a.) Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane.
(p. p. & a.) Bent out of a perpendicular position, or into a curve with the convex side uppermost.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
(2) Such early specialization produced men with orthopedic inclinations.
(3) The conclusion is that the inclined method can be used and interpreted by the clinician in the same way as the classic Westergren method.
(4) The poll – which sets the stage for a tense and dramatic run to referendum day – suggests that, among the undecideds, more are inclined to vote Remain than Leave.
(5) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
(6) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
(7) If Abbott changes his formulation, he could risk an outbreak of ill-discipline within his own ranks, because these days the conservatives are more inclined to public outbreaks off-script than the moderates.
(8) This ranged from heads inclined at a slight angle to the tail through to complete flexure.
(9) A second set of experiments which involved the injection of E2 into senescent male as well as female rats indicated that there were no sex differences in improvements in inclined screen performance, and that once the E2 injections were discontinued, performance returned to preadministration levels.
(10) The base orientations are characterized by a substantial inclination and propellor twist.
(11) The survey also found that Osborne's currency union veto made 30% more likely to vote no with only 13% more inclined to vote yes.
(12) Loss of the righting response was not associated with any gross reduction in skeletal muscle tone (inclined screen and wire grip tests) and it was proposed that the animals were not anaesthetized but instead could be placed on their backs because flurazepam had enhanced the cataleptic effect of THC.
(13) The paper presents a quantitative study of the trajectories of rat granulocytes (PMNs) migrating on a glass surface inclined at various angles, i.e.
(14) The obliquity of the joint line was measured in positive degrees (medial inclination) and negative degrees (lateral inclination).
(15) In a second experiment schizophrenics were significantly different from the depressives in showing less inclination to select a metaphorical meaning to an ambiguous adjective in a sentence.
(16) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.
(17) For his part, the Russian president will be aware of the economic damage that even limited sanctions are doing and so be inclined to put quiet pressure on the rebels in the Ukraine to co-operate with the international investigation at the crash site.
(18) Why would disaffected Liberals be inclined to give their protest votes to a Labour party that has abused them at every turn since last May?
(19) Over the next five weeks the horses were trained at near maximal speeds (that is, up to 14.5 m s-1) with no incline of the treadmill.
(20) The influence of the parameters' inclination and curving of condylar guidance, intercondylar distance, Bennett angle, distance of the plate, and position of the recording pencil are studied.
Prone
Definition:
(a.) Bending forward; inclined; not erect.
(a.) Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.
(a.) Headlong; running downward or headlong.
(a.) Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.
(a.) Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
(2) Moreover, the mucoid substances of the sensillum lymph are probably involved in water conservation, since sensilla are prone to water loss, because the overlying cuticle must be permeable to the chemical stimuli.
(3) Analysis of mice injected with helper-free P90A virus stocks demonstrates that the variants are generated during viral replication in vivo, probably as a consequence of error-prone reverse transcription.
(4) The effects of chronic dietary salt-loading and nifedipine therapy on hypertension-prone (SBH), -resistant (SBN) and parental (SB) Sabra rats were investigated.
(5) The major behavioural assessment was the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS) designed to measure the coronary-prone behaviour pattern (Type A).
(6) In 25 patients we evaluated the efficacy of the prone position to counter these technical difficulties and found that the prone position offers visualization superior to the supine, especially in obese and uncooperative patients and those with abundant bowel gas.
(7) However, nonsuppression in the dexamethasone suppression test was not specifically associated with the pain-prone disorder, which was further characterized by the factor models of the Hamilton Depression Scale.
(8) Advancing age was associated with a reduction in cell proliferative responses to PHA in both substrains, although the rate of decline was significantly more rapid in the senescence-prone animals.
(9) Surviving cells show such cancer-prone genetic consequences.
(10) Aneurysms enlarge rapidly when coupled with infection and are prone to rupture, thus requiring extensive surgical repair.
(11) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
(12) Using a biopsy procedure, splenic pancreas was removed from both 65 and from 80 day old diabetes prone BB rats.
(13) However, DIO-prone [3H]PAC binding was only 14-39% of DR-prone levels in 9 areas including 4 amygdalar nuclei, the lateral area, dorso- and ventromedial nuclei of the hypothalamus, median eminence and medial dorsal thalamic n. Although it is unclear whether this widespread decrease in [3H]PAC binding implicates brain alpha 2-adrenoceptors in the pathophysiology of DIO, it does correlate with a phenotypic marker (increase glucose-induced NE release) which predicts the subsequent development of DIO on a high-energy diet.
(14) The effect of varying amounts of dietary magnesium in conjunction with potassium (K) on hypertension and stroke mortality in hypertensive stroke prone (SHRsp) rats was studied.
(15) The results indicate the beta-globin domain is a mosaic of aggregation-resistant and aggregation-prone regions with the latter being associated with H1 and H5.
(16) Under the influence of immunosuppression cutaneous hyperkeratoses more rapidly evolve into squamous-cell carcinoma, multiple skin cancers occur in some patients, and keratoacanthoma is not only more frequent but also prone to early recurrence.
(17) This chromosome region in T cells is unusually prone to develop breaks in vivo, perhaps reflecting instability generated by somatic rearrangement of T-cell receptor genes during normal differentiation in this cell lineage.
(18) These data suggest that the error-prone repair pathway participates in mutagenesis by quercetin and its metabolites.
(19) The City is rife with gambling addicts whose habits contribute to a risk-prone culture of the sort which helped Kweku Adoboli lose UBS £1.5bn, according to one London trader.
(20) The spontaneously diabetic BB rat syndrome is associated with a marked lymphopenia, which affects all members of litters of diabetes-prone rats, and may be a necessary condition for the development of the disease.