(a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The wire consists of a flexible, 49-strand, stainless steel cable connected on one end to a short, malleable, blunt leader with the opposite end connected to a small islet.
(2) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
(3) The use of a malleable curved disposable suction cautery for the control of any persistent bleeding at the conclusion of adenoidectomy in over 1000 cases has prevented any primary postoperative hemorrhages from the nasopharynx, and obviated the need for post-nasal packing.
(4) These results indicate that the Nh genome is extremely malleable and large portions may be non-essential for growth in culture.
(5) Collectively, these findings indicate that the malleability of learned behavior is not simply a function of initial associative strength but is dependent on path during initial acquisition.
(6) In an attempt to minimize operating time and donor-site morbidity--as well as obtain a more malleable graft--we used liposuction to obtain our fat grafts for sinus obliteration.
(7) British law on photographing people in public places is still quite malleable.
(8) These changes in laminar distribution resemble the laminar specific decay of neuronal malleability and parallel the developmental redistribution of 1,4-Dihydropyridine-sensitive Ca channels.
(9) The plates show considerable advantages over existing small plate systems in their size, malleability and consequent ease of handling.
(10) These modifications include decreased width and thickness of the metal skeleton for easier application and increased malleability, respectively.
(11) These deformities can usually be corrected by appropriate splinting in the neonatal period, a time when estrogen activity is increased and the ear is very malleable.
(12) I look forward to what the least biblical of biblical films will do with this most malleable of texts.
(13) The goal of this study was to determine whether the use-dependent malleability of visual cortex functions which is particularly pronounced in 4-week-old kittens correlates with enhanced susceptibility to kindling.
(14) In order to verify these effects, the authors devised a multi-electrode, malleable plaque (63 electrode sites) that could be secured at the AV junction during venous occlusion in the open-chest, anesthetized dog.
(15) The pelvic-reconstruction plate is malleable and is more easily contoured in the operating room than a dynamic-compression plate.
(16) The facts do not support this assertion, and I will show, using examples from among the arthropods, that appropriate experiments often reveal competition, feedback, and prolonged periods of malleability much as they do for the vertebrates.
(17) Furthermore, they suggest as a possible reason for the decline of malleability towards the end of the critical period the reduction of NMDA receptors.
(18) The government’s desire for a more malleable Senate – one of its key reasons for calling a double dissolution – has backfired badly, with a similarly-sized, and likely equally recalcitrant, crossbench set to take seats on the red benches.
(19) It would seem important to further examine malleable and critical periods of development in a broader array of developmental contexts and species to determine whether malleable periods for atypical or abnormal development and critical periods for species-typical or normal development always coincide.
(20) The low incidence of sepsis is attributed to the use of the curved malleable Hodgkinson tibial nail which requires no reaming, renders the operation less difficult and traumatic, and interferes minimally with bone vascularity.
Shaped
Definition:
(imp.) of Shape
(p. p.) of Shape
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(3) A J-shaped relationship with a dip at the middle SBP (140-149 mmHg) was recognized between treated SBP and CVD.
(4) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(5) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
(6) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(7) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
(8) The heterogeneity of obesity may be demonstrated by the shape of fat distribution and the prolactin response to insulin hypoglycaemia.
(9) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
(10) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
(11) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(12) The drop in endosome pH increased and the shape of the distribution changed when the time between FITC-dextran infusion and kidney removal was increased from 5 to 20 min.
(13) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(14) The complex problems have been successfully managed with novel guiding catheter shapes and ultralow profile balloons.
(15) Thus obtained body shape variables were used in discriminant analysis in order to obtain unbiased classification probabilities of individuals having the MBS or being normal.
(16) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(17) Models of the VMT nuclei were constructed to compare their size, shape and disposition across species.
(18) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
(19) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(20) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.