(a.) Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East.
(n.) The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
(n.) The countries of Asia or the East.
(n.) A pearl of great luster.
(v. t.) To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of.
(v. t.) Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(3) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
(4) The response selectivity, such as orientation and direction selectivities, of cortical cells was not affected by the depletion of ACh.
(5) We have examined the initial events in myelin synthesis, including the insertion and orientation of PLP in the plasma membrane, in rat oligodendrocytes which express PLP and the other myelin-specific proteins when cultured without neurons (Dubois-Dalcq, M., T. Behar, L. Hudson, and R. A. Lazzarini.
(6) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(7) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
(8) The central part of the system is the patient-orientated data bank.
(9) To alleviate these problems we developed an object-oriented user interface for the pipeline programs.
(10) Our data support the hypothesis that evoked and epileptiform magnetic fields result from intradendritic currents oriented perpendicular to the cortical surface.
(11) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(12) The changes are necessary to produce confident, supportive community oriented nurses.
(13) Families were randomly assigned to one of two forms of conjoint therapy: an Insight-oriented treatment (N = 10) or a Problem-Solving intervention (N = 10).
(14) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(15) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
(16) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(17) A team-oriented problem-solving procedure using management project teams was developed to improve quality of care and productivity in a private, nonprofit hospital.
(18) Orientation and lever responding were not functionally related.
(19) Circular dichroism (CD) spectra indicating different local orientation of oxazolone, when coupled to L or D side chain-terminating amino acids, support this suggestion.
(20) Economic burdens for postmarketing research should be shared jointly by the research-oriented and generic drug companies.
Reorient
Definition:
(a.) Rising again.
Example Sentences:
(1) At temperatures above the phase transition of the lipids, the addition of cholesterol causes an increase in molecular order and an increase in reorientational dynamics (= fluidity).
(2) Subsequently, unlike controls (in which the palatal shelves undergo reorientation and fusion), the BrdU-treated shelves remained vertical until term.
(3) In these subjects, the centripetal reorientation of the platelet granules, which may be early structural changes of the release reaction, failed to occur.
(4) The serotonin effects on protein carboxyl methylation and cyclic GMP could function to stimulate palate reorientation by modulating cell contractility and protein secretion.
(5) Moreover, our study demonstrates that hyperthermia interferes with post-binding MTOC reorientation, and further supports a role for microtubule in secretory processes involved in NK-mediated cytolysis.
(6) The results showed that for the elders, time for reorienting was longer than for younger subjects.
(7) Patterns of HA distribution in anterior, posterior and presumptive soft palate were examined in the secondary palatal shelves of CD-1 mouse fetuses that were 30, 24 and 18 h prior to, and at the time of, shelf reorientation.
(8) Upon removal of the field, the birefringence was rapidly restored and then it decayed with an increase of the reorientational relaxation times, relative to those observed below the critical field.
(9) In these cases, creating space with coiled spring appliances resulted in remarkable reorientation and proper eruption of ectopic, impacted teeth.
(10) A reorientation of the tyrosine sidechain, caused by the presence of a neighboring aromatic sidechain in position 3, away from the surface of the 20-membered ring is though to remove the phenolic hydroxyl group from its optimal position in the "active center" of oxytocin and give rise to the reduced efficacy of oxypressin.
(11) Much more important are very personal experiences which very often lead to a reorientation.
(12) The rate enhancement is attributed to a diffusive entrapment effect, in which a protein pair surrounded and trapped by water undergoes multiple collisions with rotational reorientation during each encounter.
(13) Changes in sperm head morphology are caused by (1) a dramatic reshaping and consolidation of the acrosome in which excess plasma membrane overlying it is sloughed as a cluster of vesicles, (2) a reorientation of the nucleus almost parallel to the axis of the tail and (3) distal movement of the droplet from its initial envelopment of the nucleus to an eccentric position on the anterior segment of the midpiece.
(14) The electrical properties of Paramecium are responsible, however, for coordinating the reorientation of cilia (either beating or paralyzed by NiCl(2)) which occurs over the entire cell in response to current passed across the plasma membrane.
(15) It has been found that formation of the enzyme complex with glutarate and protonation of the internal aldimine induce dissimilar reorientations of the coenzyme.
(16) The benefits of sending these patients in time to orthopedic units and the need of their subsequent professional reorientation are underlined.
(17) The motional model can be shown to account for the dynamic properties of the membrane system as measured by nuclear magnetic relaxation measurements, assuming that the chain isomerization occurs at a rate of approximately 10(10) s-1 and chain reorientation at a rate of approximately 10(7) s-1.
(18) A complete understanding of SP-C, especially with regard to its metabolism and function, may require a reorientation of our thinking to consider SP-C as a membrane peptide and not just as a "surfactant protein."
(19) Proton and deuterium order parameters measured for the liquid crystalline phase of unsonicated lipid bilayer membranes are interpreted in terms of two motions: (i) chain reorientation and (ii) chain isomerization via kink diffusion.
(20) A psychiatric nursing assessment tool reinforces the primary nursing care model; re-establishes nursing's input at comprehensive treatment plan meeting; reorients the staff to the total nursing needs of the client; and provides a tool for establishing nursing diagnoses.