(a.) Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see the stitching in Igglepiggle's blanket; you sense (you'd be right) that the jerky Pontipines are manipulated by magnets, like the players in an old-fashioned toy theatre.
(2) Therefore, in the present study, the slow phase of CN during convergence was analyzed in 7 patients horizontal and jerky type CN.
(3) She also had contractures of hips, knees and ankles, and bilateral spasticity and jerky movements.
(4) The main form of translocation on laminin was a jerky cycle of prolonged lamellipod extension followed by rapid (approximately 200- less than 500 microh h-1) movement of the cell body into the extended lamellipod.
(5) Electronystagmographic study showed that this jerky eye movement appeared especially with changes of fixation of the eyes.
(6) When she violates his expectancy for rhythmic interaction by presenting a still, unresponsive face to him, he becomes visibly concerned, his movements become jerky, he averts his face, then attempts to draw her into interaction.
(7) In addition to the consistent neurological abnormalities described previously in this syndrome, the infant had a striking neurological constellation, absence of primitive reflexes, jerky eye movements, failure to habituate to repeated stimuli, inadequate behavior development, and absence of orientation responses to visual or auditory stimuli.
(8) This ambulatory piece of salmon jerky can offer himself up for public service and it’s treated as totally normal.
(9) Jerky nystagmus of latent typ was the most frequent form, pendular nystagmus the next.
(10) The defects included abnormal OKN (86%), jerky pursuit (76%), ocular dysmetria (57%), slow saccades (43%), abnormal VOR or VVOR (43%), and fixation instability (19%).
(11) "It tastes a bit like beef jerky; it goes well with a cold beer."
(12) The influences of lift velocity and jerky movement on lumbar stress are quantified.
(13) Seven patients (group I) developed an oculomotor syndrome in the sound eye characterized by jerky nystagmus in abduction, adduction fixation preference, and head-turn toward the side of the fixating eye.
(14) Huntington's Disease, a severe disease lasting about 10 years and involving personality changes, jerky movements, paranoia, dementia, inability to think cognitively, and eventual death, shows up between the ages of 30-50.
(15) He's still got it, and offers to fetch it from his Hampstead hallway, but he's been leaping up and down all morning chasing coffee and cakes, and every jerky movement is accompanied by a quiet groan, only half-stifled.
(16) During ECC, the pressure on the sternum was maintained for about 0.5 sec (sustained pressure technique), flow and mean arterial pressure were improved by 32 and 20%, respectively, as compared with flow and pressure obtained with a quick and more jerky compression.
(17) Spastic contractions of the striated sphincter during detrusor contraction were observed in 8 patients with an intermittent and jerky urinary stream.
(18) About half were indistinguishable from wild type; the others exhibited "jerky" or "twirly" movements instead of relatively straight paths.
(19) d-Tc increased ambulation and caused jerky side-to-side movements.
(20) Expiration is attended by a specific component of a vomiting reaction--jerky contraction of the abdominal muscles directed at evacuation of the food from the gastrointestinal tract.
Pemmican
Definition:
(n.) Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.
(n.) Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.