(a.) Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.
(a.) Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body.
(n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inhibition was not seen in longitudinal muscle without myenteric plexus.
(2) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
(3) This longitudinal study compares the accuracy of self-assessments of 22 students across four examinations during their first 2 years of medical school.
(4) Bone age has been analyzed mixed-longitudinally in a subsample of 370 patients (660 observations) and showed a slight retardation at all ages between 6 and 13 yr. Development of pubic hair of 91 subjects analyzed cross-sectionally was definitely retarded when compared to adequate reference data.
(5) Normally, the small longitudinal (arterioles to venules) gradient of microvascular and perimicrovascular pressures is not a major concern, but in nonuniform disease processes, such as microembolism, longitudinal inhomogeneity, and parallel inhomogeneity are dominant.
(6) In the longitudinal direction, however, spatial resolution of under slice thickness could not be obtained.
(7) A longitudinal study of iron deficiency and of psychomotor development was carried out in 147 children followed between the ages of 10 months and 4 years in 2 well-baby out-patient clinics in Paris area.
(8) Based on the findings of our recent longitudinal study on the abnormalities of the dentition in cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD), a hypothesis has been proposed, which makes it possible to predict time of onset of formation of supernumerary teeth and their location in the jaws.
(9) There were 407 participants enrolled in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.
(10) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
(11) Recordings were made from secondary vestibular axons in the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) of barbiturate-anesthetized squirrel monkeys.
(12) Two other patients were subjected to a longitudinal follow-up.
(13) A peculiar emphasis is given to the microarchitecture and functional significance of longitudinal muscle columns as a prevalent structural component of branch pads.
(14) The relationship between intraluminal pressure and volume was determined in the cervical tracheal segments positioned firstly under normal longitudinal tension and secondly in hyperextension.
(15) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
(16) To perform this technique, it is necessary to expose only a longitudinal segment on the anterior aspect of the aneurysm to permit a ventriculotomy parallel to the anterior descending coronary artery 4-5 cm away.
(17) The effect of p-nitrophenylphosphate (p-NPP) on the release of acetylcholine evoked by drugs and ionic environments known to inhibit Na+, K+-ATPase was studied in isolated cortical slices of rat brain and longitudinal muscle strip of guinea-pig ileum.
(18) A patient with hypertensive heart disease, in whom atrial premature beats with a decrease in the amplitude and widening of his bundle potential, prolongation of the H-V interval, and right bundle branch block pattern suggested intrahisian longitudinal dissociation, is described.
(19) 'Vertical' sections are plane sections longitudinal to a fixed (but arbitrary) axial direction.
(20) In 10th district of Budapest a longitudinal, epidemiological examination was started in 1975 with the aim of analysis of the objective factors influencing the population screening and determination of possibilities of screening effectiveness.
Sleeper
Definition:
(n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
(n.) That which lies dormant, as a law.
(n.) A sleeping car.
(n.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
(n.) A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
(n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
(n.) Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
(n.) One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece.
(n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
(n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
(n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(2) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.
(3) Thirteen sleep-onset insomniacs and nine good sleepers were selected to differ only in their sleep-onset latencies as confirmed by polysomnography.
(4) Deutsche Bahn, the German rail provider, confirmed this month that its City Night Line sleeper trains on the Climate Express route would cease from 1 November, while the night train that connects Paris to Berlin, Hamburg and Munich will be stopped from December.
(5) Individuals complaining of disturbed sleep that was verified by polysomnographic indices (objective DIMS) and a group with complaints of disturbed sleep in the absence of objective findings (subjective DIMS) were compared with normal sleepers.
(6) Nets and sleepers were rotated between huts on different nights, the design being based on a series of Latin squares and conducted double-blind.
(7) A significant difference was observed in the sleep pattern of the patients with nocturnal attacks (who were good sleepers and received no anticonvulsants) and healthy controls.
(8) Fifty-six poor sleepers, aged from 20 to 30, were compared with 46 good sleepers of the same age regarding objective sleep parameters and personality.
(9) Despite claims of being "light" sleepers who are easily awakened by noise, poor sleeper auditory arousal thresholds were the same as those of good sleepers.
(10) However, when the distribution of body movements through the night was considered, the dynamic of nocturnal motor activity typified poor sleepers with affective symptoms.
(11) The team of regional advisers and rough sleeper and youth specialists which have provided councils with expert guidance on meeting statutory homelessness duties since 2007 will be disbanded just as the bedroom tax comes in.
(12) "In any strike, Iran would likely retaliate against US soldiers and assets in Afghanistan and Iraq, and might activate sleeper cells to launch al-Qaida-like attacks against the US homeland and in Europe."
(13) Pull it off and the sport could become a sleeper hit of the summer – as well as making its leading men and lady genuine box office.
(14) As a test of the hypothesis that consistent short sleepers tend to be less reflective and more conformist in their thinking than long sleepers, the I-E scale scores of 15 short and 15 long sleepers were compared.
(15) According to the differential decay interpretation, a sleeper effect occurs when message and discounting cue have opposite and near-equal immediate impacts that are not well-integrated in memory.
(16) She acquired British nationality through marriage before travelling to the US to join a network of sleeper agents.
(17) 13 chronic primary insomniacs and a matched group of normal sleepers were studied in terms of their level of novelty-seeking, ability to fantasize, and cognitive rumination.
(18) Two groups of good and poor sleepers were compared (15 subjects aged 22-26 years in each).
(19) Young, H. Wallberg-Henriksson, M. D. Sleeper, and J. O. Holloszy.
(20) Clinical and clinimetric properties of the PSQI were assessed over an 18-month period with "good" sleepers (healthy subjects, n = 52) and "poor" sleepers (depressed patients, n = 54; sleep-disorder patients, n = 62).