(n.) The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
(a.) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.
(a.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder.
(adv.) In an overhand manner or style.
Example Sentences:
(1) The enzyme was capable of ligating phi X174 (+) strand DNA to double-stranded oligonucleotides that contained 5'-overhang, 3'-overhand, or blunt ends.
(2) Eight kindergarten classroom teachers with high generic teaching skill competence taught a 6-week overhand throwing unit to the children in their intact classes.
(3) In summary, performance status of the overhand throw by preschool age children can be improved beyond maturational expectations through guided instruction.
(4) Three beam-walking tests (the beam at different heights and angles) and the overhand throw comprised the criterion measures used for assessment of program effectiveness in stability and object projection.
(5) Ulnar neuritis at the elbow is a common entity affecting the athlete especially those involved in overhand sports.
(6) When he snapped Groves’ neck back with a thudding overhand right early in the ninth, it appeared the Londoner was in trouble.
(7) The structure is dominated by a left-handed four-helix bundle with an unusual topology comprising two overhand connections.
(8) These data indicate that the helices of interleukin-4 are arranged in a left-handed four-helix bundle with two overhand connections.
(9) In the first task, darts were thrown overhand at a stationary target.
(10) Using accessible surface contact area as a criterion, the most suitable structures were right handed all antiparallel four-helix bundles with two overhand loop connections.
(11) The young athlete involved in overhand sports is at risk for injury, and must be clinically evaluated and treated differently from the rest of the population.
(12) A depression of the exercised shoulder was found among highly trained tennis players, and in other athletes employing the overhand motion.
(13) I should have got the knockdown but I didn’t.” From the opening bell the fighters circled one another clockwise trading jabs to the head and body, but Jack connected with a sharp right hand upstairs that hurt Groves then followed it up moments later with a heat-seeking overhand right that dumped the Englishman to the canvas.
(14) Stability measures were distance divided by time, and object projection scores were determined by velocity of the overhand throw.
(15) 131 deaf boys and girls were evaluated on development of the overhand throw.
(16) Post hoc tests revealed that for the overhand throw, the IVD and TD groups were superior to the SD group but not different from each other.
(17) Shoulder pain in the overhand or throwing athlete can often be traced to the stabilizing mechanisms of the glenohumeral joint.
(18) Analysis by age and by sex showed a significant difference in the performance of the Overhand Throw.
(19) The helices are arranged in a left-handed antiparallel bundle with two overhand connections.
(20) A depression of the exercised shoulder was found in skilled tennis players, and in other athletes employing the overhand motion.
Superiority
Definition:
(n.) The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) Intravesical BCG is clearly superior to oral BCG, and controlled studies have demonstrated that percutaneous administration is not necessary.
(3) This is an easy, safe, and rapid alternative for the emergent treatment of superior vena caval syndrome.
(4) The insertions of the sternocleidomastoid, the splenius capitis, the longissimus capitis and the obliquus capitis superior muscles were measured.
(5) Long term follow up of extracapsular extraction showed visual results superior to those previously reported for intracapsular extraction.
(6) The guanethidine treatment resulted in an 86% absolute reduction in cell number in the superior cervical ganglia of 15 day old rats.
(7) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
(8) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(9) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
(10) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
(11) Superior results have been achieved utilizing alternative regimens that include VP-16, the most effective new agent.
(12) Both SUC and CIM were superior to placebo (p less than .001).
(13) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
(14) In this study, the overall effect of amiodarone on ventricular arrhythmias following MI was shown to be superior to that of propranolol.
(15) This early elevation in IOP was significantly more pronounced in bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomized (BG) rabbits.
(16) Key therapeutic questions are whether beta-lactams can safely replace aminoglycosides for the treatment of gram-negative pneumonia, and whether monotherapy or aminoglycoside and beta-lactam combination antibiotic treatment is superior.
(17) Thus, the decreased hyperemic response after arrest suggests a reduced energetic debt with CSC compared with ARC and may indicate superior myocardial protection with CSC.
(18) Donor organs were anastomosed parallel to the recipient's heart and right lung, and the superior vena cava inflow was directed into the transplanted heart-left lung block after ligation of the recipient's superior vena cava proximal to the caval anastomosis.
(19) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(20) The normal anatomical position of the point of junction of the superficial cerebral veins with the superior sagittal and transverse sinuses of the rat was studied with an analytical mathematical method.