(n.) The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.
(n.) The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis.
(n.) An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end.
(n.) Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.
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.
Predilection
Definition:
(n.) A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predilection of localization of epidermoid and small cell carcinomas in the upper lobes suggests a possible relationship to tobacco smoke inhalation as these regions have been shown to be more affected by the smoke.
(2) A striking predilection was noted for recurrent lesions to be located in the internal carotid artery near the origin, but still within the confines, of the original endarterectomy site and suture line.
(3) There was no gender predilection and the average age at diagnosis was 41 years.
(4) In the pediatric age group, this malformation is notable because of the marked sex predilection in males (70%) and an unequal topographic incidence in the circle of Willis, where carotid artery (39.3%) and anterior communicating artery lesions (30%) predominate.
(5) If the same mechanisms apply in humans they could be important in determining the HLA-DR haplotype associations and the predilection of rheumatoid arthritis for females.
(6) Beyond Donovan of course, the surprise is not so much Klinsmann's well established predilection for throwing youth into testing situations, but the critical mass of inexperience he has gone with.
(7) Ankyloglossia, three times as common in males, was the one trait to exhibit a significant predilection by gender.
(8) It mostly affects children of under 8 years old without special sexual predilection.
(9) Both organisms are opportunistic pathogens with a predilection for patients with foreign bodies in place.
(10) Three types of small cardiac lesions were described and illustrated: (1) focal type of papillary muscle fibrosis, evidently a healed infarct of the papillary muscle present in 13% of autopsies, is a histologically characteristic lesion associated with coronary artery disease and healed myocardial infarction, (2) diffuse type of papillary muscle fibrosis, probably an aging change present in almost half of the autopsies, is associated with sclerosis of the arteries in the papillary muscle, is identifiable histologically, and apparently is not associated with any cardiac abnormality, and (3) focal cardiac myocytolysis, a unique histologic lesion, usually multifocal without predilection for any area of the heart, is associated with ischemic heard disease, death due to cancer complicated by nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis and microthrombi in small cardiac arteries as well as with other diseases.
(11) We found that foods such as snails and eggs have a strong predilection for the bronchial tree as the shock organ.
(12) We have clarified the predilection sites of intracerebral hemorrhage and the advancing direction of the hematoma by studying autopsy cases.
(13) The TH+ amacrines were deleted randomly from the retinas without any peripheral-central predilection.
(14) The predilection of rectal stricture and its proposed precursor, salmonella ulcerative proctitis, for the middle third of the rectum was attributed to a normally precarious arterial supply which renders the rectum unusually susceptible to ischemic injury and decreases its reparative capacity.
(15) Only cats had a sex difference in the occurrence of nasal neoplasms, with a male predilection.
(16) Mycosis fungoides (MF) and Sézary syndrome (SS) are malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, characterized by the proliferation of helper type T lymphocytes with a predilection for the skin.
(17) Two hundred human breasts removed for clinical cancer by radical mastectomy were analyzed to determine whether apocrine metaplasia and apocrine cysts have predilective sites in the four mammary quadrants.
(18) Predilectional areas also have lower fold indices and higher RWR in younger subjects prior to any intimal thickening development.
(19) Most of the primary tumors (80%) were visible by bronchoscopy, which showed predilection of trachea for cylindromas, left-sided for mucoepidermoid carcinomas and right-sided for carcinoids.
(20) These unusual tumors have a predilection to involve the facial nerve, usually at the geniculate ganglion, internal auditory canal, or middle ear.