(a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
(a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
(a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
(a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
(a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
(a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
(a.) To efface or remove.
(a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
(3) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(4) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(6) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
(7) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(8) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(9) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
(10) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(11) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(12) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(13) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
(14) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(15) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
(16) The resistance is a complex function of the perfusion pressure and the cross-sectional area of the stenosis and cannot be accurately predicted from a single plane angiographic image.
(17) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(18) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(19) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(20) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.
Stellation
Definition:
(n.) Radiation of light.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(3) On the right side these nerves consist of a very small right stellate cardiac nerve, a recurrent cardiac nerve, a group of craniovagal nerves and a group of caudovagal cardiopulmonary nerves.
(4) Astrocytes nearer the optic disc showed the stellate shape characteristic of mature cells.
(5) Distribution of neurons, forming cardiac nerves of the cat stellate ganglion, has been investigated.
(6) Some of the parallel fibers, which display presynaptic vesicular grids, established synaptic contact with stellate cells and the dendritic spines of the few Purkinje cells that survived the treatment.
(7) Light and electron microscopic analysis showed a high concentration of this enzyme in stellate cells, particularly heavily distributed under the organ capsule and scattered in the parenchyma, where they form a widespread three-dimensional network.
(8) By Western blot analysis we found that cultivated liver stellate cells secreted RBP into the medium.
(9) Coagulation factors II, V, VII and X (FII, FV, FVII and FX) were detected in a huge number of cells showing spindle-shaped or stellate morphology.
(10) Type II cells are angular or stellate and contain numerous secretory granules averaging 200-220 nm in diameter.
(11) Despite the pleomorphism and the variation of cell components, it is suggested that the stellate, intermediate and physaliferous cells, constitute the same cell at different stages of maturation.
(12) The cell shape varied greatly and included dendritic, stellated and strap-shaped forms as well as multinucleated giant cells, similar to those of juvenile melanomatas.
(13) Treatment of astrocytes with dibutyryl cyclic AMP induced stellation and increased the maximum rate of ascorbate uptake by 53%.
(14) Parenchymal cells accounted for about 75-80% of the total hepatic content of these two enzyme activities, with the rest located in stellate cells.
(15) Rat TSH cells were ovoid or angular to stellate, and contained granules ranging in size from 60-175 nm.
(16) Pigeon Type I horizontal cells are Cajal's "brush-shaped" cells, and their axon terminals resemble Cajal's "stellate" cells.
(17) Its effect on neuroblastoma cells is slightly different from that observed after serum deprivation, as a significant proportion of stellate cells, with short and branched neurites, is observed.
(18) The ansae subclaviae, T3 and T4 rami, and stellate ganglion were also examined by electron microscopy for the extent of Wallerian degeneration.
(19) Such cells invariably had a stellate morphology; in many cases, they appeared quite similar to the starburst cholinergic amacrine cells described in rabbit and rat (Vaney, 1984; Voigt, 1986).
(20) With the exception of five neurons, only those neurons that were responsive to electrical stimulation of the left stellate ganglion were tested for responses to these stimuli.