(a.) Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.
(a.) Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.
(n.) An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
(n.) Property not attached to the soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of them, who sustained a complete membranous disruption 5 weeks ago, transluminal puncture failed because of the movable proximal urethra.
(2) Between June and October 1987, a total of 8,573 people underwent a cholesterol screening held in a movable trailer.
(3) The solid-state laser has impressive technical advantages: it contains no argon-ion gas tube that wears out and is expensive to replace; it is much more power efficient, and thus considerably smaller and compact; it is sturdier and easily movable; it does not require external cooling; it uses a 220-V monophasic alternating current; and it requires little maintenance.
(4) A 59-year-old Japanese female presented a well-limited and movable thyroid nodule.
(5) After treatment with antibiotics, the broncholith became movable, and it was removed bronchoscopically.
(6) This system involves attachment of cells to silicon collagen coated membranes which are then subjected to continuous or cyclic stretching by a motor coupled to a movable supporting frame.
(7) The elongated basilar artery is very firm and not readily movable with manipulation.
(8) The same multiple-choice questionnaire was distributed to nurses at the University of Michigan Hospitals 18 months before decentralized services were implemented (November 1982) and again after two satellite pharmacies had been established and a clinical pharmacist had begun providing first-dose dispensing services using a movable medication cart (March 1985).
(9) Rats joined in surgical parabiosis for 25 to 30 days were tested by restraining one member of the pair on a movable cart while allowing the second member to remain free to move about.
(10) movable teeth, lesions in ears, lungs, hematopoietic system, and fever.
(11) The intramolecular movable subdomains have been localized and the role of motion in substrate binding and zymogen activation is discussed.
(12) While the awake, unrestrained cat maintained a stable standing posture facing forward, stimulation was applied systematically to various points in and around the caudate nucleus with a movable stimulating electrode.
(13) The computer program was tested in vitro against data obtained from an inert spherical conductor (a bowl containing physiological saline, fitted with recording electrodes and a movable dipole) and an anisotropic conductor (a similarly equipped human skill including a simulated scalp).
(14) The auditory receptive fields of neurons in the optic tectum were measured with free-field sounds presented from a movable loudspeaker.
(15) This was tested by implanting movable and stationary wires in the medullary canal of the rabbit femora or tibiae.
(16) 4) In the group with radiation therapy, the incidence at the "sites of the movable mucosa" was significantly higher than that at the "sites of the non-movable mucosa."
(17) No difference in survival was noted between patients with no clinical adenopathy vs those with clinically involved movable ipsilateral adenopathy.
(18) On average, PEMF-treated movable implants in the femur induced 44% more bone than untreated movable implants.
(19) The exchange guide wire techique can be applied safely and effectively to coronary angioplasty and provides an additional option in the successful completion of movable guide wire angioplasty procedures.
(20) Our study confirms the low rate of lymph spread of these carcinomas: over half of the patients were N0 before treatment; only 56.7% of the patients receiving surgical treatment on the neck had histologically positive lymph nodes; there were very few neck recurrences at follow-up; the presence of suspect or frankly metastatic nodes on clinical examination, being movable and homolateral (N1), did not worsen the prognosis.
Posture
Definition:
(n.) The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude.
(n.) Place; position; situation.
(n.) State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs.
(v. t.) To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model.
(v. i.) To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.
(v. i.) Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
(2) The changes in muscle activity had the same pattern and similar phase-frequency properties to those observed under analogous vestibular stimulation during the maintenance of steady posture.
(3) Postoperatively, an independent observer assessed conscious level, crying, posture and facial expression using a simple numerical scoring system, and also recorded heart and respiratory rates over a 2-h period.
(4) Nine patients were admitted to the hospital, placed on a diet containing 150 mEq sodium, and studied for periods of 4 hours, on different days, in the following conditions: (1) supine position, (2) upright posture (UP), (3) UP after 10 mg domperidone, intravenously in bolus, and (4) UP after 3 days of domperidone, 30 mg orally.
(5) Microinfusion of the selective 5-HT1A receptor agonist, 8-hydroxy-(di-N-propylamino)tetralin (8-OHDPAT), into the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) produced a marked behavioural hypoactivity and flat body posture.
(6) The influence of preanalytical factors such as food intake, posture, use of tourniquet and freezing and storing samples is great and necessitates standardisation of specimen collection.
(7) Unexpected displacement of the endotracheal tube during anesthesia caused by postural change of the neck or passive compression by the mouth gag was investigated under transluminal fiberoptic observation.
(8) Mean arterial pressure rose in upright posture in many cases, but its changes (percentage) showed no correlation with the changes (percentage) in GFR.
(9) Lateralization may be an expression of reflex constraints bound initially to the infant's tonic-neck posture, with later development less reflex-patterned during the acquisition of more sophisticated information-processing strategies.
(10) Presence of the monosynaptic reflex during platform perturbations at normal latencies suggests that balance problems in children with Down syndrome do not result from hypotonia, which researchers have defined as decreased segmental motoneuron pool excitability and pathology of stretch reflex mechanisms, but rather result from defects within higher level postural mechanisms.
(11) A transistor radio activated by a mercury switch was used to reinforce head posture in two retarded children with severe cerebral palsy.
(12) Subjects with class III malocclusion tended to a more extended head posture relatively to those with class I or class II malocclusion.
(13) The peripheral plasma levels of aldosterone, renin activity (PRA), potassium, corticosterone, cortisol, and in some cases angiotensin II, were measured in normal subjects undergoing postural changes, acute diuretic-induced volume depletion, and alterations in dietary sodium.
(14) Seizures elicited by posture change and intraperitoneal administration of convulsants were studied ontogenetically in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus).
(15) This paper describes a system for the quantitative analysis of posture and stance in the freely standing quadruped.
(16) Later, animals exposed to lifelong 5 or 2% soy lecithin preparations were hypoactive, had poor postural reflexes, and showed attenuated morphine analgesia.
(17) Comparisons of hominoid metacarpals and phalanges reveal differences, many of which are closely linked to locomotor hand postures.
(18) A definite correlation was established between the disease and the character of work and specificity of the working postures: a long stay in a bent position aggravated by the pressure of the apron strap weighing 8-10 kg on the lumbar part of the spine.
(19) The authors study the adaptation of the blood pressure to changes in posture in 400 people, and studied the world literature on the subject.
(20) After injection of tranylcypromine (a MAO inhibitor), spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) which had been previously infused with norepinephrine (NE) for 14 days displayed stroke-related behaviour including kangaroo-like posture, seizures and death.