(a.) Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
(a.) Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.
(a.) One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.
(a.) One of the Oblati.
Example Sentences:
(1) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(2) From the relaxation times and the orientation mechanisms, the nucleosome may be assimilated to an oblate ellipsoid of dimensions about 140 x 140 x 70 A, and the DNA superhelical axis is parallel to its shorter axis.
(3) R. of less than 2.6 were oblate and exhibited no significant changes in asymmetry or aggregation number with changes in the amount of solubilized water.
(4) n. were analysed and a line of succesively improving approximations of the molecule shape was found: by oblate ellipsoid a:b:c = 1:10.63, by continuous cylinder and hollow cylinder with H = 50 A, 2R = 76 A, 2r = 8A.
(5) Assuming constancy of surface area and approximating red cell shapes by both prolate and oblate ellipsoids of revolution, values are determined for cell shape factor and volume under a variety of conditions.
(6) The electrical shape effect for erythrocytes is consistent with an oblate ellipsoidal particle with a diameter-to-thickness ratio of 4.
(7) With the oblateness of dose efficiency distribution towards the axis of source with the "line-shaped" 192Ir-source an improvement of dose distribution occurs in intracavitary irradiation with the lower and more balanced exposure of fundus uteri, especially in irradiation of the endometrial carcinoma.
(8) Upon shrinking, more vesicles became oblate, the halo was obliterated and the electron-density of the matrix increased.
(9) The energy barrier to adsorption, present at sufficiently large surface pressures, was found to be higher for smaller surface hydrophobicities, larger surface pressures, larger size molecules, and oblate orientation of an ellipsoidal molecule.
(10) All the experimental data can be explained by the same basic model, consisting of three oblate-shaped domains arranged in a sandwich-like structure.
(11) The pronostic is excellent because the quite easy gallbladder oblation brings a quick recovery without after effects.
(12) Models that fit the data over the range of scattering angles from 0 to 30 mrad are: prolate ellipsoid with axial ratio 2.3, major axis 12 nm; and oblate ellipsoid with axial ratio 0.4 and major axis 10 nm.
(13) The shapes include discs, oblate spheroids, spheres and spindles.
(14) A model composed of four oblate ellipsoid monomers in a tetrameric rose arrangement is proposed for the shape of the dopamine beta-hydroxylase molecule.
(15) The enzyme may be assumed to be an oblate ellipsoid of revolution with dimensions of about 170 X 170 X 70 A.
(16) Sperm heads were examined by light microscopy and assigned to one of five classes: A. normal and near-normal, B. triangulate and oblate, C. spatulate, D. elongate, and E. filamentous.
(17) Although the disordered carbohydrate and the complexity of five disulfides in a 126-residue sequence have hampered the complete tracing of the peptide chain, two-thirds of the molecule has been accounted for in the form of an unusually oblate ellipsoid of about 15 X 30 X 35 A.
(18) Consequently, the 11S globulin molecule was also an oblate ellipsoid from beta.
(19) The production process of the coating sheet (oblate) was also studied.
(20) Furthermore, antibodies directed at mouse TNF but not against murine IL-1 alpha or murine IL-6 were able to oblate the enhanced target cell lysis of unfixed, as well as paraformaldehyde fixed (metabolically inactive) Kupffer cells.
Oblite
Definition:
(a.) Indistinct; slurred over.
Example Sentences:
(1) No signs of significant obliterative arterial changes were found.
(2) Hepatic fibrosis with obliterative lesions of the small hepatic veins occurred in a three month old infant with fatal congenital leukaemia treated with cytostatic drugs.
(3) This demonstrates the low incidence of obliterative lesions (4 cases throughout the world) which are always associated with collateral vascularization.
(4) In most patients there was an oblitering angiopathie of digital type, stage II to IV, confirmed by angiography.
(5) The angiographic hallmark of allograft arteriopathy is an extensive, diffuse, obliterative process that primarily involves distal, small, subendocardial arteries.
(6) The frequent occurrence of adhesive and obliterative pericarditis with loculated effusions suggests the need for pericardiectomy rather than pericardiocentesis in the patient with rheumatoid arthritis and symptomatic pericardial involvement.
(7) The process of atherosclerosis as a cause of the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells in complicated by ulceration, parietal and obliterative thrombosis as well by intramural hemorrhages.
(8) The role of the parasite in the production of obliterative arteritis in this fatal case of haemorrhagic enteropathy is discussed.
(9) Defibrotide (D) a polidesoxyribonucleotidic derivative provided with fibrinolytic and antithrombotic activity has already proven effective when administered by parenteral route in patients with peripheral obliterative arterial disease (POAD).
(10) Peripheral deposition of 99m Tc-DTPA was uniform in normal subjects and patients with CFA, but patchy in patients with obliterative bronchiolitis, possibly resulting from altered patterns of ventilation associated with patchy distribution of bronchiolitis within affected lungs.
(11) We examined a 26-year-old woman with biopsy-proven Crohn's disease who developed a severe bilateral, obliterative retinal arteritis and phlebitis, leading to a marked loss of vision.
(12) This study of 41 cases of young patients with obliterative arterial disease treated surgically, with follow-up for 6 and a half years, used the standard classification.
(13) According to these findings we see the decisive mechanism for the pathogenesis of all stenosing, obliterative arteriopathies in a disturbed interaction between vessel wall and arterially circulating blood.
(14) The overall risk of soft tissue organ failure caused by the obliterative sickle vasculopathy (including stroke, renal failure, chronic lung disease with cor pulmonale, leg ulcers, and young adult death) was increased threefold in those with a CAR haplotype and was decreased in those with a Senegalese chromosome (p = 0.003).
(15) By means of a polarographic method, the peculiarities of blood distribution in the tissues of the lower extremities in 34 patients with obliterative atherosclerosis and in 29--with obliterative endarteritis after sympathectomy were studied.
(16) These findings indicate that pulmonary vascular disease begins at or soon after birth with abnormal pulmonary vascular remodelling which leads to obliterative pulmonary vascular disease.
(17) Since obliterative bronchiolitis may be reversed by early recognition and treatment of rejection, we have aggressively used bronchoscopy with transbronchial lung biopsy and bronchoalveolar lavage for surveillance of both rejection and infection in our recent patients.
(18) Regional hemodynamics in the lower limbs was studied in 250 patients (480 lower limbs) with obliterative lesions of the abdominal aorta and lower limb arteries.
(19) Angiographic diagnosis and therapy are discussed in relationship to the indications and follow-up of radiological interventions in patients with obliterative atherosclerosis located in the arteries of the pelvis and lower limbs.
(20) Patients with peripheral obliterative arterial disease, ischaemic cardiopathies and cerebrovascular insufficiencies show a diminution in blood fluidity during spontaneous or provoked ischaemic conditions which disappears after reperfusion of the tissue.