(n.) The external occipital protuberance of the skull.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frontal bossing, frontal sinus enlargement, a dense cortical calvarium, prominent inion, and proptosis secondary to extraocular muscular enlargement were findings also present in this patient.
(2) The ratio of distance between the AC-PC line and a line passing through the base of the inion (GI line) to total brain height was 0.21, as predicted.
(3) Removal of Na+ from the medium initially had no effect on amylase release although bethanechol-stimulated release by mouse cells was inion of the HCO3- or Cl- content of the medium did not affect cholinergic stimulation of secretion.
(4) Experiments have been carried out to investigate the lability of 2 brain-stem microreflexes, viz., the postauricular and inion responses to auditory stimulation.
(5) The growth rate of the human cranial base between nasion (N) - tuberculum sellae (Ts) and tuberculum sellae - internal occipital protuberance (= Twining's line (Tw)) were calculated in proportion to nasion - inion (N - I) distance and expressed in two cranial base ratios: (see formulas) The growth rate of the whole cranial base showed a notable stability and a given ratio apparently prevails through into later life.
(6) iniencephalus (IN) and in anencephalus (AN), the inion is in contact with the back.
(7) Plain craniogram of lateral view showed small posterior cranial fossa with low positioned inion and platybasia.
(8) and the sum of head circumference, nasion-inion, and intertragal distances in the age range 7 to 11 years only and not in adult age.
(9) It is demonstrated that the discrepancies between some of the size values established in individual skulls, and the skull asymmetry, recorded scopically with other measurements, are due to displacements of the anthropological points (sphenion, asterion, inion), produced by differences in growth rate and size of bones.
(10) In 20 patients with temporal lobe lesions and 10 controls, the averaged photic-evoked responses (APERs) and their dispersion pattern (DP) were investigated in inion-vertex-lead and bilaterally in inion-parietal leads (I-P3 and I-P4).
(11) The recordings were performed with a system of 14 bipolar channels, arranged in a rectangular grid with an interelectrode distance of 15% of the inion-nasion distance and centered 3 cm above the inion.
(12) Activity was depicted with 5 electrodes, the central electrode 5 cm above the inion and two on each side 5 and 10 cm apart from the central electrode.
(13) That point on the corpus callosum is characterized using simple planar geometry in relation to three anatomic landmarks in that same plane: the glabella, the inion, and the bregma (midline intersection of the coronal suture).
(14) The records were made from a horizontal array of 3 occipital electrodes, one placed in the midline 5 cm above the inion and the others 8 cm each lateral of the inion.
(15) (1) There were high correlations between PVEPs recorded from the inion and those from points Oz, Pz, Cz, and Fz in the range of 75-150 msec following pattern visual stimulation to the eyes although no correlation was found in the range 0-75 msec.
(16) These involved OML, coronal suture, parietal tubercle, inion, pineal body, midline and so on.
(17) This asymmetry was attributed to variance in the anatomy of the occipital bone and cranio-cerebral topography that cannot be predicted from location of the inion.
(18) The ratio of the peripheral measurement from the inion to the nasion to the distance between the inion and the posterior lip of the foramen magnum is presented for each case with an outline of the ventricles.
(19) Evoked responses were recorded with surface electrodes at four levels between wrist and scalp: Erb's point, seventh cervical spine, inion, and the somatosensory area of the scalp.
(20) The H-EPs were recorded bipolar in the midline 5% to 25% and unipolar 15% in reference to an earlobe electrode (inion to nasion = 100%).
Pinion
Definition:
(n.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
(n.) A feather; a quill.
(n.) A wing, literal or figurative.
(n.) The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
(n.) A fetter for the arm.
(n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis.
(v. t.) To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
(v. t.) To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
(v. t.) To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
(v. t.) Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
Example Sentences:
(1) It felt pretty amazing.” O pinions of BrewDog tend to go one of four ways.
(2) Trimming of the comb, devocalisation, trimming of claws, pinioning and caponisation of birds are procedures, which are often requested or carried out by keepers of animals.
(3) And after Eddie Mair's careful pinioning and dissection of Boris Johnson on Sunday's The Andrew Marr Show, there is a feeling out there that a new one has just graduated.
(4) At corners, Charles found his arms pinioned by one opponent while another crashed into him from behind.
(5) Soaring aloft, he exchanges a beast for a bird: Air Force One is America with wings, a mechanised version of the beaked, pinioned eagle – a predator that clutches in its claws twin bundles of peacemaking olive branches and spiky, militarised arrows – that appears on the country’s Great Seal.
(6) The assistant executioner pinions the legs, while the executioner puts a white cap over his head and fits the noose round his neck with the knot drawn tight on the left lower jaw, where it is held in position by a sliding ring.
(7) The different hinge designs studied were fixed axis, gear-on-gear, rack-and-pinion, and natural 3-D; they showed only moderate differences in forces.
(8) Fielding describes the family profession thus: "Just before the time of the execution, the executioner and his assistant join the ... prison officials outside the door of the condemned cell ... the executioner enters the cell and pinions the prisoner's arms behind his back, and two officers lead him to the scaffold and place him directly across the division of the trap on a spot previously marked with chalk.
(9) Two-dimensional echocardiography is the pinion of diagnostic procedures utilized to characterize the coronary arteries in Kawasaki disease.
(10) These problems can be exceptionally difficult in analysis and philosophical management, and are frequently pinioned between technical craftsmanship, curability, and deformity.