What's the difference between locomotive and metrograph?
Locomotive
Definition:
(a.) Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
(a.) Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.
(n.) A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Platelet-activating factor (PAF-acether), an inflammatory mediator with a wide range of biological activities including neutrophil aggregation and chemotaxis, was studied for its effect on human eosinophil locomotion (chemotaxis and chemokinesis).
(2) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
(3) When the organisms are free-swimming this is seen as the reversed locomotion of Jennings' "avoiding reaction."
(4) In naïve mice, i.e., mice with intact stores of DA, both the selective D1 antagonist SCH23390 and the selective D2 antagonist spiperone blocked the locomoter stimulation produced by (+)-amphetamine.
(5) With respect to the mechanism of the delayed invasion, it was suggested that the IFN-gamma might inhibit the adhesion of the cells to extracellular matrices (ECM) and the subsequent locomotion.
(6) During normal locomotion, SA-m exhibited a single burst of EMG activity per step cycle, during the swing phase.
(7) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
(8) One hypothesis to account for intercellular invasion proposes that a necessary condition for a cell type to be invasive to a given host tissue is that it lack contact paralysis of locomotion during collision with cells of that host tissue.
(9) The failure of agents which inhibit motility to inhibit capping of the normal lymphocytes suggests that active locomotion is not a direct prerequisite for capping.
(10) The average speed of the cells, as well as the proportion of neutrophils showing locomotion, is increased.
(11) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
(12) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
(13) Locomotion and general activities were typically unchanged over days.
(14) While executing the latter movements no forward locomotion occurred at all; the cats solely executed lateral fore- and hindlimb movements opposite to the direction in which the cylinder rotated.
(15) In addition, this drug slightly reduced locomotion and more markedly rearing in a free exploration procedure.
(16) Animals injected with DZP, NPC 12626, CPP or buspirone spent at least 1.4 of the 4 post shock minutes locomoting.
(17) injection of bremazocine, an opiate kappa-receptor agonist, suppressed spontaneous locomotion but not CRF-induced locomotion.
(18) Without shocks, apomorphine-treated rats displayed stereotypy with locomotion and biting of various objects.
(19) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
(20) reversed the increase in locomotion and elevation of multiple squeak thresholds in the bilaterally kindled rats.
Metrograph
Definition:
(n.) An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inter- and intra-arch linear measurements of the resultant study casts were made using a Reflex Metrograph.
(2) The impressions were cast in dental stone and digitized using the Reflex Metrograph.
(3) The 3-D measurement with the Reflex Metrograph showed marginally better precision in the measurement of the treatment changes examined.
(4) The second method consisted of measuring the same casts using a reflex metrograph (Dm), where the co-ordinates of the points relative to two axes were recorded and the distances between various points were calculated.
(5) The reflex metrograph was used to measure arch width from study models at the start of treatment, end of treatment including retention, and at least 1 year post-treatment.
(6) In the third method, reflection holograms of the casts were made, and the same distances were measured on the holographic images (Dh) using the reflex metrograph.
(7) At defined pretreatment, post-treatment, and post-retention stages, records were collected and the study casts quantitatively measured using a reflex metrograph and an occlusal analysis programme.
(8) An investigation of these effects is described using a mannikin head fitted with an optician's trial frame, with measuring by the reflex metrograph.
(9) Two- and three-dimensional incisor angulations are compared in 40 patients using lateral radiographs and direct dental cast measurement using the Reflex Metrograph coupled to a computer.
(10) The Reflex Metrograph was used for a three-dimensional cast analysis, and an H.P.
(11) Reproducibility of the system in cephalometrics is assessed and compared with that obtained with the reflex metrograph.
(12) The Reflex Metrograph tends to undermeasure by 0.67% or by up to 2.00 mm per 300 mm and is very slightly less accurate in the vertical plane.
(13) The Reflex Metrograph is an optical plotter which is linked directly to a microcomputer and allows direct three-dimensional measurements of irregular shaped objects up to 300 mm maximum dimension without contacting the object.
(14) A retrospective investigation of the study casts of 23 subjects, treated by Fixed Appliances and the extraction of four premolars, using the Reflex Metrograph showed a general trend for a reduction in mean arch dimensions both during and following treatment.