(n.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.
(n.) The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper.
(n.) A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects trained 20 minutes three times per week for at least 6 months to 70% to 85% of maximum heart rate on a treadmill, or to maximum effort for all major muscle groups on Nautilus equipment.
(2) Case patients were more likely to be men (odds ratio, 3.8; 95% confidence interval, 1.2-12.1), suffer from hay fever and asthma (odds ratio, 3.4; 95% confidence interval, 1.0-11.9); to participate in regular exercise (odds ratio, 5.9; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-30.7), especially in the use of Nautilus equipment (p = 0.02); and to use alcohol (odds ratio, 4.4; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-17.5).
(3) A rollicking maritime adventure movie about the mysterious Captain Nemo and his submarine the Nautilus, the original 20,000 Leagues featured Douglas alongside James Mason as Nemo.
(4) Twenty-six healthy, untrained females were studied to determine the effects of a low-intensity Nautilus circuit training program on resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
(5) Resistance training consisted of one set of 8-12 repetitions on 10 Nautilus machines.
(6) The story centres on Captain Nemo and his submarine the Nautilus.
(7) Fifty healthy middle-aged women (mean age, 50 years) were randomly assigned to 12 weeks of either aerobic exercise (walking and jogging) or nonaerobic strength exercise (circuit Nautilus training).
(8) Comment: Those involved decline to comment Spain Name: Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Offshore Companies: Sargasso Trustees Ltd (1996-2004) and Nautilus Ltd (1994), both registered in the Cook Is.
(9) Circuit training consisted of 12 to 20 repetitions at 30% to 40% of one repetition maximum on 12 Nautilus exercises with one-minute rests between exercises.
(10) Approximately one week after a graded exercise test (GXT), each patient's maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) was determined on seven upper-body Nautilus machines.
(11) Thus, the amino acid sequence conservation between MASH1 and achaete-scute is reflected in a parallel conservation of cell type specificity of expression, similar to the case of mammalian MyoD and Drosophila nautilus.
(12) Prior to and immediately following training, isometric knee extension strength was evaluated at 9 degrees, 20 degrees, 35 degrees, 50 degrees, 65 degrees, 80 degrees, 95 degrees, and 110 degrees of knee flexion with a Nautilus knee extension tensiometer.
(13) Resistance training consisted of one set of 8-12 repetitions on ten Nautilus machines three times per week.
(14) Trygve Wackenshaw: Nautilus Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 Aug Another New Zealand act but you won’t hear his funny voice because he doesn’t speak, it’s all physical comedy instead.
(15) The receptors are compared to cells in the rhinophore of Nautilus and the olfactory organs of coleoid cephalopods.
(16) The relatively small change seen as a result of this modified Nautilus exercise program may prevent moderate weight lifting from being a practical answer for osteoporosis, even in a highly motivated population.
(17) Strength and flexibility (SF) training consisted of 12 weeks of circuit Nautilus training with no aerobic exercise.
(18) The exercise training, which involved all the major muscle groups, was conducted on Nautilus equipment and required 45-60 min for completion.
(19) This gene, which we have named nautilus (nau), encodes basic and helix-loop-helix domains that display striking sequence similarity to those of the vertebrate myogenic regulatory gene family.
(20) Thirteen subjects who were in good health with no personal history or family history of cardiovascular disease participated in a six-week training program on the Nautilus circuit (14 exercises) and trained at 30% of maximum.
Spiral
Definition:
(a.) Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
(a.) Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
(a.) A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.
(a.) Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(2) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
(3) A great deal of information about the spiral bacteria of the stomach has accumulated in the past 5 years.
(4) Somalia has faced drought; famine; decades of conflict, now involving the Islamist rebels of al-Shabaab among other groups; the absence of an effective, central authority; and spiralling food prices.
(5) Spiral neurons, their fibers and endings as well as inner and outer hair cells express NSE in the isolated organ of Corti in culture.
(6) The binding sites were mainly located on the stereocilia, the cuticular plate of hair cells, the head plates of Deiters' cells, fibrous structures in pillar cells, in the spiral limbus and tectorial membrane and basilar membrane, plasma membranes, mitochondria and the chromatin of various kinds of cells.
(7) When normalized with respect to scala cross-section, the process of tracer movement across the spiral ligament is similar in the basal and third turns.
(8) Tangent-screen studies uncovered neurasthenic spiral fields superimposed on hysterical tubular contractions of both eyes.
(9) The phi-model also gives the noble numbers and moreover orders them in a way that establishes connections with the morphogenetic principles used in models for pattern generation; the order has to do with the relative frequencies of the spiral patterns in nature.
(10) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
(11) Spiral-like primary dendrites were found and the orientation of secondary dendrites changed.
(12) The main uterine, radial and spiral arteries were identified in all patients.
(13) In animals receiving passive (unstimulated) implants, morphometric analysis of spiral ganglion cell density showed no significant difference in ganglion cell survival between the implanted cochleas and the contralateral control ears.
(14) Later, these vacuoles were divided into numerous vesicular spiral formation-centers, producing micronemes at the apical pole of young merozoites.
(15) During more extended exposure (60 and 90 days) the changes in hair cells of the spiral organ, which included nuclear deformation and disintegration of chromatin, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum membranes, became irreversible and caused the decay of injured cells.
(16) The company's value lies in its FM licence for London, with the audience for its national AM licence spiralling downwards in recent years.
(17) The spiral reinforcement at the same time prevents compression of the vein by surrounding cicatricial tissue as well as an aneurysmatic extension of the transplant.
(18) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(19) The balance is fragile and the threat of a spiral of decline is not an idle one.
(20) They ran in a spiral pattern in the distal part of the middle cerebral artery.