(n.) That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; -- sometimes called vis inertiae.
(n.) Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; want of energy; sluggishness.
(n.) Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
Example Sentences:
(1) During follow-ups ranging from 23.2 to 26.7 months, six of eight patients with colonic inertia failed to improve compared with only one of seven with distal slowing.
(2) An analysis involved a 4-element substitute model of vascular system which included: compliance, inertia, vascular resistance, and peripheral resistance.
(3) The differential component force Fm - Fa provides the ventricular impulse needed to overcome the inertia of the system due to (1) the mass of the blood, (2) the geometrical constriction of the outflow tract as one moves downstream (Bernoulli effect), and (2) the moving ventricular walls.
(4) In these phases, it was necessary to compensate for sway induced by body inertia.
(5) The Saudis and other Gulf states still support rebel fighting formations – as much because of inertia and hostility to Iran as anything else – but western backing is on a downward trajectory as concerns mount about the risks of blowback from al-Qaida-linked groups.
(6) The elongate and slim shape of the trunk provides great mass moments of inertia and that means stability against being flexed ventrally and dorsally by the forward and rearward movements of the heavy and long hindlimbs.
(7) The 4 functional failures were observed in patients with associated anorectal disorders (anismus, colon inertia).
(8) Graphic: theguardian.com Senior special operations officials have cited the detentions policy inertia as contributing to the tacit preference for killing terrorism suspects instead of capturing them.
(9) in experiments of car-crash simulations), as well as in the calculation of inertia values using computerized tomography images.
(10) A technique of cephalic perforation and fetal bone screw application is described in 9 cases of severe abruptio placentae complicated by intra-uterine fetal death and uterine inertia.
(11) Response is dependent upon the external impulse plus system inertia, damping and stiffness.
(12) Such a coalition could break through the inertia and subterfuge now deadlocking the negotiations.
(13) There’s just inertia and a lack of looking into ourselves to find the solutions.” Recently, Buck had told her brother about fuel money for ambulances being diverted.
(14) Perceived orientation was found to be dependent on the eigenvectors of the object's inertia tensor, computed about the point of rotation in the wrist, rather than on its spatial orientation.
(15) Only a part of the patients who present with chronic obstipation have colonic inertia which is characterized by a slow transit through the entire colon.
(16) The data suggest an economy in motor control in simple agravitational movements, whereby relatively simple transformations of an underlying representation can accommodate large changes in movement amplitude and moment of inertia.
(17) After cesarean section she developed uterine inertia and acute hemorrhagic anemia complicated by sepsis, disseminated intravascular coagulation and total anuria for 4 weeks.
(18) Using the Farnsworth D-15 panel, as an example, we specify how to determine CDVs and demonstrate the benefits of calculating a moment of inertia for the analysis of these vectors.
(19) Results indicate that admitting patterns are explained primarily by convenience and inertia processes characteristic of consumer behavior.
(20) Moments and products of inertia about the segment mass centroid were calculated and the principal moments and axes determined from the ellipsoid of inertia.
Mass
Definition:
(n.) The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.
(n.) The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition; -- namely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei, besides sometimes an Offertory and the Benedictus.
(v. i.) To celebrate Mass.
(n.) A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water.
(n.) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.
(n.) A large quantity; a sum.
(n.) Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
(n.) The principal part; the main body.
(n.) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume.
(v. t.) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(2) Blood samples were analysed by mass spectroscopy and gas chromatography.
(3) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(4) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(5) The clinically normotensive cases had greater left ventricular mass than the normotensive controls (p less than 0.02).
(6) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(7) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(8) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(9) The groups were matched with regard to sex, age and body mass index.
(10) Based on the deduced amino acid sequence, rpL8 has a mass of 28,605 Da, a pI of 11.97, and contains 9.6% Arg and 11.9% Lys.
(11) All masses had either histologic confirmation (n = 11) or confirmation with other imaging modalities (n = 4).
(12) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
(13) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(14) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
(15) This can be achieved by sincere, periodic information through the mass media.
(16) However, the effects of such large-scale calvarial repositioning on subsequent brain mass growth trajectories and compensatory cranio-facial growth changes is unclear.
(17) Ether extracts were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and various chlorinated and non-chlorinated compounds were detected, e.g.
(18) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
(19) Variability (CV = 0.7%) in body volume of a 45-year-old reference man measured by SH method was very similar to variation (CV = 0.6%) in mass volume of the 60-1 prototype.
(20) The masses were solitary and located in the retroperitoneum (five cases), mediastinum (one case), and axilla (one case).