(n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.
(n.) An orb or ball.
(n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.
(n.) The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(2) The nature of the putative autoantigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (Go) remains an enigma but the sequence similarity between thyroglobulin (Tg) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) provides a rationale for epitopes which are common to the thyroid gland and the eye orbit.
(3) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
(4) Computed Tomography was used to demonstrate the increased retro-orbital fat.
(5) A microdissection of the orbital nerves of the cat was made paying particular attention to the accessory ciliary ganglion.
(6) As with alloplastic orbital implant extrusions in enucleated sockets, autogeneous dermis fat grafts can be useful in managing extrusions in previously eviscerated sockets.
(7) Orbital hypertelorism, strictly defined as an increase in bony interorbital distance, is not itself an isolated syndrome, but is instead an anomaly that may occur as either part of a syndrome or malformation sequence.
(8) In several other cases, MR provided information beyond that obtained with CT. MR has the advantage of providing exquisite anatomic detail in multiplanar images, and it appears to be more sensitive than CT in detecting small, subacute and chronic hemorrhage within soft-tissue masses in the orbit and in detecting ischemia of the globe.
(9) We describe here two essentially different patterns of behavioral recovery following selective lesions of the dorsolateral and orbital prefrontal cortex.
(10) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
(11) Bacterial orbital cellulitis is a feared complication of paranasal sinus infection.
(12) The procedure appears to relieve papilledema by filtering small quantities of cerebrospinal fluid into the orbit.
(13) Comments on the symptomatology, exploratory means and differential diagnosis with other sinusal or orbital conditions.
(14) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
(15) Active palpebral occlusion was retained by means of the orbital portion of the orbicularis muscle.
(16) Complications due to orbital or intracranial development of the osteoma are rare and demand neurosurgical treatment.
(17) A review of 104 patients with acute orbital cellulitis during the past decade showed that the frequency of hospital admissions for this disease has increased recently.
(18) Techniques borrowed for the correction of congenital craniofacial deformities and acute traumatic reconstruction have improved the quality of secondary post-traumatic orbital reconstruction.
(19) Follow up consisted of clinical investigation, laboratory evaluation with detailed thyroid function tests and complete ophthalmological assessments including A and B scan ultrasound and computerized tomography (CT) of the orbits.
(20) The advances in lid and orbital surgery are due to the improvements made in diagnostic equipment and to technical refinements.
Sphere
Definition:
(n.) Rank; order of society; social positions.
(n.) A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.
(n.) Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
(n.) The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
(n.) In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.
(n.) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
(n.) Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.
(n.) An orbit, as of a star; a socket.
(v. t.) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.
(v. t.) To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
(3) The relation between genetic counseling and the procreation sphere among the studied families is presented.
(4) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(5) I care far more that women are absolutely essential to political life, influential at every level, and are leading dynamic conversations in the public sphere around social and cultural change.
(6) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.
(7) The yolk spheres, which were free of precipitates, gave the characteristic signal of the nitrogen K-edge.
(8) In family therapy, the analysis of secret implies not only to define the network of the concerned persons, but also the definition of the bonds between the secret and loyalties, the distribution of power, the alliances and the definitions of the private sphere (proper to each family) and of the protective function of the secret.
(9) The sphering agent lysolecithin is less effective in reducing red cell deformability, when the external calcium-concentration is kept low.
(10) The magnitude of changes in both energy interaction and intensity were used to explore the degree of outer and inner sphere coordination, incidence of covalency and the extent of metal 4f-orbital involvement in chemical bonding.
(11) Ultrastructurally, hemolytic concentrations of tributyltin can be visualized in the electron microscope by osmium staining during fixation as electron-dense spheres penetrating the lipid bilayer of the erythrocyte plasma membrane.
(12) In the present paper the images produced by spheres of varying diameter (d = 4,6,8,10 mm) embedded in a homogeneous substance of varying densities (H' = 3,48,93,137 Hounsfield units) as produced by computer tomography were studied.
(13) The typical elements of risk (tobacco, age, socio-professional sphere) reappear in this study.
(14) Our results showed that a lower percentage of normal subjects and a lower percentage of constipated patients were able to pass a 1.8 cm incompressible sphere compared with a 50 ml deformable balloon, although constipated patients found it more difficult than normal subjects to expel both types of simulated stool.
(15) A transient 5-coordinate intermediate might play a role in the mechanism of action of carbonic anhydrase by facilitating ligand exchange reactions within the inner coordination sphere of the Zn(II) ion at the active center.
(16) The expression of WAP appears to be dependent upon the formation of the alveoli-like spheres: prevention of sphere formation by fixation or drying of the matrix abolishes the expression of WAP.
(17) The SAR patterns in birds, however, varied markedly from those obtained from spheres of comparable mass.
(18) The depth of FAD incorporation into the enzyme molecule as calculated according to the outer sphere electron transfer theory is 6.1 A.
(19) For the hard-sphere model used in these calculations, it was found that current helix-coil transition theory does not predict the correct perturbed dimensions.
(20) These questions are the points of collision of two immensely important spheres of interest in our everyday life.