What's the difference between nappe and vertical?

Nappe


Definition:

  • (n.) Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and some have two.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The published data relating to the clinical evaluation and use in Europe of oral controlled-release morphine tablets (MST Continus, [MST] Napp Laboratories, United Kingdom) in the treatment of chronic cancer pain are reviewed.
  • (2) In Czapek medium containing citrus pectin, pectin lyase (PL; EC 4.2.2.10) was produced faster and at higher amounts than in a medium containing NaPP as the sole carbon source.
  • (3) Ian Napp, a British former chef, had been photographed with an inflatable dingy in a field "just in case" there was a tsunami.
  • (4) However, no reduction of thrombogenicity was found in PCC preparations manufactured in the presence of NaPPS.
  • (5) As pH increased or decreased from 7.5, Hill coefficients (napp) and Vmax for cAMP decreased.
  • (6) All four of these models are capable of yielding Hill plots with average slopes greater than 1, and napp values that decrease with increasing protein concentration (in agreement with published data).
  • (7) The clinical picture showed well circumscribed roundish areas free of erythema, simulating normal skin (" nappes claires").
  • (8) Thus, assay pH affects both catalytic (Vmax) and allosteric (napp) properties.
  • (9) The napp determined from the steady state accumulation represents, therefore, a lower limit.
  • (10) Incubation at high (9.0-10.0) pH did, in assays at pH 7.5, markedly increase hydrolysis of 0.5 microM [3H]cAMP and reduce Kmapp and napp.
  • (11) These results indicate that (1) the increase in pharyngeal cross-sectional area with application of NAPP during wakefulness is smaller in OSA than in normal subjects in the region of the soft palate and (2) changes in upper airway muscle activity may accompany changes in upper airway size and configuration.
  • (12) This value of Napp indicates the possibility of four mercury binding sites in the PSII complex.
  • (13) The external gamma radiation and the indoor air Rn (222Rn) concentration were measured in 55 houses of the South East Grisons, the Urseren valley, and the Upper Rhine valley (crystalline subsoils) and in 39 houses of the Molasse basin and the Helvetic nappes (sedimentary subsoils).
  • (14) Thirty healthy volunteers were recruited into a study to determine the effects on the gastrointestinal mucosa of 3 different delivery systems of oral potassium supplementation associated with diuretic therapy (Diumide-K ContinusR tablets, Napp; Lasikal tablets, Hoechst; Lasix and Slow-KR tablets, Hoechst, Ciba).
  • (15) Twenty-four hour steady state serum theophylline concentration-time profiles of one Uniphyllin Continus 400 mg tablet (Napp Laboratories) every 12 h were measured in 15 patients.
  • (16) To clarify the mechanism of the increase of hepatic protein synthesis observed in the obstructive jaundiced rats, hepatocellular protein synthesis (HPS) and secretory protein synthesis (SPS) were estimated in the rats with obstructive jaundice and the contents of the following in the peripheral blood were determined in 21 patients with obstructive jaundice before and two weeks after percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD): interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF alpha), endotoxin (Et), acute-phase protein (APP) and negative acute-phase protein (NAPP).
  • (17) At pH 5.5, the relationship between the initial rate of uptake and medium [MTX] was sigmoidal, suggestive of a positive cooperativity, with napp of 1.8.
  • (18) NaPP, which induced production of PG, repressed Cx production.
  • (19) Negative cooperativity was observed for the binding of all ligands as measured by the change in polymerization of the enzyme, with an average Hill coefficient (napp) of 0.5.
  • (20) Ninety-five patients, with symptoms of nausea and vomiting due to a variety of oesophageal or gastric disorders, were recruited into a randomised, double-blind, three-part, parallel-group comparative study of controlled release metoclopramide 15 mg (Gastrobid Continus tablets, Napp Laboratories) given twice daily, and domperidone 10 mg or 20 mg given three times daily.

Vertical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.
  • (a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.
  • (n.) Vertical position; zenith.
  • (n.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
  • (2) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
  • (3) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
  • (4) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
  • (5) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
  • (6) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
  • (7) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
  • (8) 3-D curves were computed with an apparent rotation around the vertical axis Z.
  • (9) The following oculomotor paradigms were investigated: horizontal and vertical saccades of different sizes (10-80 degrees), smooth pursuit eye movements, optokinetic and vestibular nystagmus.
  • (10) From a psychological-vertical aspect the group is rather a common situation in which the individual members remain in their experience separated from each other.
  • (11) Single vertical spin and electron microscopy analyses of these HDL subpopulations demonstrated that acid elution from the affinity columns caused no detectable change in size and density of the three subpopulation particles.
  • (12) 'Vertical' sections are plane sections longitudinal to a fixed (but arbitrary) axial direction.
  • (13) Although active head movements reversed horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflexes, vertical vestibulo-ocular reflexes in light and darkness were normal.
  • (14) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
  • (15) These observations suggest that the persistently mobile, vertically positioned unbonded cup remain stable despite the stress of significant trauma.
  • (16) First, the possibility of "vertical" transmission of the virus was examined, as the Papio stock in Sukhumi was genetically homogeneous.
  • (17) The "lazy-T" technique consists of a surgical horizontal and vertical shortening of the involved portion of the lower eyelid.
  • (18) The LVOR in the presence of visual targets (VLVOR) was tested by recording human vertical eye and head movements during self-generated vertical linear oscillation (averaging 2.7 Hz at peak excursion of 3.2 cm) while subjects alternately fixated targets at D = 36, 142, and 424 cm.
  • (19) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
  • (20) Accommodation measurements of nine young, emmetropic subjects were obtained with an infrared optometer while they viewed superimposed horizontal and vertical square-wave gratings at various dioptric separations.