(n.) A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.
(n.) That which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar.
(n.) See Speculum.
(v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the concentration of thrombin or fibrinogen was altered systematically, mu T and mup were found to mirror each other except when the fibrinogen concentration was increased at low thrombin concentrations.
(2) The results mirrored clinical improvements in 209 patients (97%).
(3) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(4) These differences in central connectivity mirror the reports on behavioral dissociation of the facial and vagal gustatory systems.
(5) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
(6) Application of a mirror at the serosal surface opposite to the probe, resulted in an average increase of the output signal by 50% using the large fibre diameter probe, whereas no increase was observed with the small fibre probe.
(7) Regions of interest representing the angioma, perifocal and remote tissues, contralateral mirror regions, and standard brain regions were analyzed.
(8) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
(9) Seven patients had usual atrial arrangement and 1 had mirror-image arrangement.
(10) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
(11) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
(12) The hypothesis that this instability would lead to more errors and longer decision times for distinguishing left-right mirror-image figures was not supported.
(13) Taken together, her procedural memory on learning tasks, such as "Tower of Hanoi" and mirror drawing, was intact.
(14) However, the external muscle fibers of the ventricles ran clockwise from base to apex toward the center of the vortex, which had a striking resemblance to the normal rather than the mirror image pattern.
(15) Mr Murdoch joined News Corp in 1994, starting his career cleaning presses at the Mirror newspaper in Sydney.
(16) "Sometimes it's just a practical matter of not having anyone around to shoot you and that's why I always took my own pictures in mirrors for WIWT.
(17) Paul Vickers, the legal director of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, said the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) – announced on Monday – was being fast-tracked in an attempt to kill off accusations that big newspaper groups are conspiring to delay the introduction of a new regulator backed by royal charter.
(18) In a third experiment, animals were trained 16 days in the same maze configuration and at day 17 they were exposed to the mirror image of the radial maze.
(19) One person’s snapshot can be another’s distorting mirror.
(20) Her behaviour with her European counterparts mirrored her treatment of the Tory grandees.
Specular
Definition:
(a.) Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination.
(a.) Assisting sight, as a lens or the like.
(a.) Affording view.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a prospective study begun in March 1986, specular-microscopic endothelial cell photographs were taken in non-selected patients with primary, chronic, open-angle glaucoma who had not had intraocular surgery.
(2) This structure corresponds in distribution to the skin along the back of the fetus and likely represents a specular reflection from the skin surface.
(3) The effects of osmotic stress on corneal endothelium were investigated by exposing rabbit corneas to anisosmotic conditions, and then perfusing the corneas with isosmotic glutathione bicarbonate Ringer solution for 4 hr at 35 degrees C. During the perfusion, endothelial function was assessed by measuring corneal thickness with a specular microscope.
(4) Specular microscopic examination of the endothelium after the application of iodoacetamide showed progressive degradation of the integrity of the cellular structure; after 6 hr, there were no discernible cell borders.
(5) We developed an apparatus for automated morphometry of the corneal endothelium, which was photographed through a specular microscope connected to a video camera, and the images were stored on a video tape.
(6) Endothelial specular photography during an attack reveals dramatic changes: large black nonreflecting areas between quite normal-looking hexagonal cells.
(7) 1) In polishing the axial surface of the inner crown of the conic telescope crown system, the milling machine with a polishing disk facilitated specular finishing without causing undercutting in the region from the occlusal surface to the dental cervix.
(8) The specular photomicrographic characteristics were similar to those of fibroblast-like cells and foreign-body giant cells, which had been shown on the surfaces of extracted implanted intraocular lenses by the lens implant cytology technique.
(9) Excellent photographs of corneal endothelial cells may be obtained during clinical examinations with the specular microscope.
(10) Specular microscopy and computer-assisted morphometry was used to quantify central and peripheral endothelial cell density (ECD), coefficient of variation (COV) and the mean and standard deviation of the shape factor (S) over an 18-month period.
(11) We present applications to speckle reduction, detection of specular reflectors, attenuation estimation and ultrasound imaging.
(12) An off-specular peak, located at an angle of reflection considerably different from the angle of incidence, was observed to have an intensity comparable with that of the specular reflection peak.
(13) While some deep corneal opacities are easily diagnosed clinically, the nature of others may be difficult to determine and specular microscopy is a valuable aid in such cases.
(14) This synergistic combination did not alter donor human corneal morphology under specular microscopy, nor did it inhibit rabbit corneal endothelial cell division preserved and propagated in antifungal supplemented MK medium.
(15) In cases with pseudoprecipitates examination of the corneal endothelium with the specular microscope does not reveal any specific findings, only an edema of the corneal endothelium (so-called cornea pseudoguttata).
(16) An original system of grading of the corneal endothelial specular reflection, as assessed with a Haag-Streit 900 slit-lamp biomicroscope, has been shown to have a very highly significant relation to the endothelial cell density measured by contact specular photomicroscopy.
(17) Specular microscopy provides a level of magnification and differentiation of detail which approaches that of a histological examination, and has the advantage of being a noninvasive procedure.
(18) The resins characterized for Black patients had a higher degree of specular reflectance and were more opaque than resins for Caucasians.
(19) Endothelial repair was then studied using specular microscopy, histological staining, pachymetry, and autoradiographic analysis of the incorporation of tritiated thymidine into nuclear DNA.
(20) Observations were made with the aid of several microscopic techniques: light and specular microscopy, transmission and scanning electron microscopy.