What's the difference between normal and tangential?

Normal


Definition:

  • (a.) According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.
  • (a.) According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.
  • (a.) Standard; original; exact; typical.
  • (a.) Denoting a solution of such strength that every cubic centimeter contains the same number of milligrams of the element in question as the number of its molecular weight.
  • (a.) Denoting certain hypothetical compounds, as acids from which the real acids are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulphuric acid and normal nitric acid are respectively S(OH)6, and N(OH)5.
  • (a.) Denoting that series of hydrocarbons in which no carbon atom is united with more than two other carbon atoms; as, normal pentane, hexane, etc. Cf. Iso-.
  • (a.) Any perpendicular.
  • (a.) A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
  • (2) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
  • (3) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (4) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
  • (5) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
  • (6) Of 19 patients with coronary artery disease and "normal" omnicardiograms, only 8 (42%) had normal ventricular angiography.
  • (7) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
  • (8) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
  • (9) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
  • (10) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
  • (11) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
  • (12) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-BarrĂ© [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
  • (13) Despite their absence, photoreceptors maintained a normal rate of OS assembly.
  • (14) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
  • (15) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (16) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
  • (17) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
  • (18) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
  • (19) In hypophysectomized rats the activity of alanine aminotransferase was increased, but its normal zonation (predominance in the periportal zone) was preserved.
  • (20) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.

Tangential


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
  • (2) These tangential fibers are in part the preterminal arborizations of geniculocortical axons, since some of them have been shown to degenerate after geniculate lesions.
  • (3) These were not observed in area 5, although here the distribution of callosal neurons waxed and waned in the tangential cortical plane.
  • (4) In 2 patients the frontally recorded SEP component P20 was lost; in one of them the activity of mainly the tangential dipole was reduced.
  • (5) The derivatives of these cells spread out tangentially over the entire fundus of the eye in a concentric manner.
  • (6) The soft, dull, malacic appearance of the center results from lack of a true surface layer of tangential collagen fibers.
  • (7) Detection of the cysts was only possible after myelographic screening of all cases of tangential trauma.
  • (8) Tangential semithin sections of demineralized tooth germ were serially cut from the enamel surface to the enamel-dentin junction.
  • (9) The distances between the test points are reduced in tangential direction, compared to the chart.
  • (10) Parameters measured from simulator films included: (a) the perpendicular distance from the posterior tangential field edge to the posterior part of the anterior chest wall at the center of the field (CLD); (b) the maximum perpendicular distance from the posterior tangential field edge to the posterior part of the anterior chest wall (MLD); and (c) the length of lung (L) as measured at the posterior tangential field edge on the simulator film.
  • (11) One-hundred patients with anterior foot pain were examined by tangential sesamoid x-rays and some by bone scan.
  • (12) The tangential force caused massive swelling and one week later bowing of the forearm was noticed.
  • (13) The ferret callosal cell distribution has a greater tangential extent in area 18 than in area 17.
  • (14) These results suggested that AcMNPV-induced depolymerization of microtubules may be a necessary event in, rather than a tangential effect of, virus replication.
  • (15) The three-field breast set-up, in which tangential oblique opposed fields are joined to an anterior supraclavicular field, has been the method of choice for treatment of breast cancer for many years.
  • (16) This report quantifies the increase of burn survival, which we believe is associated with the use of early tangential excision and grafting as opposed to conventional therapy in adult patients with burns.
  • (17) Migration and early differentiation of neurons of the tangential vestibular nucleus of the chick take place between embryonic days 5 and 8.
  • (18) Data are acquired in the stationary mode only (no wobble motion), resulting in a transaxial spatial resolution of better than 6 mm full width at half-maximum (FWHM) at the center, which degrades to 7.5 mm tangentially and 9.6 mm radially at a radius of 20 cm.
  • (19) If the tangential velocity of the spot is constant, very large and subject-specific biases emerge in the perception of the aspect ratio.
  • (20) For the latter problem, the most employed solutions are: the inclusion of IMC in the tangential fields, the use of the direct or oblique electron beam for IMC alone.