(n.) A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.
(n.) A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.
(n.) A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13.
Example Sentences:
(1) If anyone should have been briefed on Prism and Tempora, it should have been the NSC.
(2) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(3) In Britain, the European election is overwhelmingly seen through the prism of domestic politics.
(4) Prism fixation disparity curves were determined in three different experimental situations: the routine method according to Ogle, a method to stimulate the synkinetic convergence (Experiment I, with one fixation point as sole binocular stimulus) and a method to stimulate the fusion mechanism (Experiment II, with random dot stereograms).
(5) The authors do not recommend the use of vertical prisms with a power of 9 and 10 pdpt, as mentioned in their preliminary publication.
(6) The averaged anesthetized alignment pertained to the whole group of 6.2 prism diopters of esotropia, which correlated poorly with the preoperative deviation.
(7) Essentially, the slide suggests that the NSA also collects some information under FAA702 from cable intercepts, but that process is distinct from Prism.
(8) Matched, binocular displacing prisms were mounted over the eyes of 19 barn owls (Tyto alba) beginning at ages ranging from 10 to 272 d. In nearly all cases, the visual field was shifted 23 degrees to the right.
(9) Patients with macular dysfunction were given spectacle lenses with prism and a control group of similar patients were assessed without prism.
(10) Binocular single vision was restored after buckle removal and strabismus surgery in three further patients (20%), one requiring a prism in addition.
(11) The program requires experimental retention data with three quaternary solvent mixtures to calculate the optimum solvent composition using a geometric model of a prism.
(12) Hyperphoria of over 1 prism diopter was extremely rare.
(13) The treatment of eye muscle palsies in principle consists in: 1. medical treatment (local and general), 2. optical treatment (glasses, occlusions, prisms etc.
(14) This paper is a review of the research work that has been carried out over the past few years investigating the ability of the oculomotor system to adapt to prism-induced heterophoria.
(15) In the investigation, the arcade-shaped prisms typical of recent mammals were first seen in material from the Cretaceous period.
(16) The front surface slab-off and bicentric produce base-up prism in the lower section of the lens.
(17) It also diminished the efflux of radioactive choline that had accumulated in the prisms during preincubation with a very low concentration of tacrine, when the prisms were subsequently incubated with 4-aminopyridine.
(18) By appropriate multivariate statistical analyses, about 95 per cent of the variance in results of surgery (expressed as change in deviation from preoperative to the postoperative time in prism diopters per millimeter of surgical correction) could be accounted for.
(19) Twenty heterophoric and 10 heterotropic patients with long standing severe visual symptoms were corrected with prisms for permanent wearing using the full-correction method of H.-J.
(20) This image can be used during surgery to perform a variety of maneuvers that would otherwise require a contact prism, high-minus contact lens, or handheld indirect ophthalmoscope lens.
Prismatically
Definition:
(adv.) In the form or manner of a prism; by means of a prism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The crystals have a rhombic prismatic habit and belong to the orthorhombic space group C222(1) with unit cell dimensions a = 130 A, b = 213 A and c = 216 A. X-ray structure determination is underway.
(2) The dipole can be accurately localised in the prismatic container.
(3) Nevertheless, the prismatic effects of intraocular lenses could account for the difficulties met in examination of peripheral fundus.
(4) Their cells were cuboid at fry stages and prismatic in juveniles and adults.
(5) The channel spaces were lined with a successive arrangement of belt-like intercrestal surfaces of prismatic enterocytes and variously sized processes on the crests.
(6) The thick prismatic plate crystals belong to space group P2(1)2(1)2 with unit cell dimensions of a = 177.42 A, b = 37.36 A and c = 73.30 A.
(7) In a previous study, it was found that oblique gaze and the prismatic effect inherent in dynamic aniseikonia combine to affect the ability to fixate centrally.
(8) Physico-chemical investigations of enamel from deciduous teeth of a small number of children with and without pre-natal fluoride supplementation (PNF) exhibited the following differences between the PNF and non-PNF enamel, with the former showing: (a) more homogeneous and less extensive patterns of acid-etching; (b) denser crystal populations in intra-prismatic regions; (c) larger prism dimensions; (d) greater total mineral density (wt%ash); (e) higher degree of crystallinity; (f) smaller a-axis dimensions; and (g) more fluoride and less carbonate contents.
(9) At later stages, the epithelium becomes highly prismatic and forms folds which are lined by a mesenchyme and blood vessels.
(10) Experimental determination of the strain distribution in prismatic, square cross-section bars of human compact bone in torsion disclosed nonclassical effects associated with the microstructure.
(11) It may be subdivided into a pair of copper atoms with histidine ligands whose ligating N-atoms (5 NE2 atoms and one ND1 atom) are arranged trigonal prismatic.
(12) The prismatic orientation, diameter, and density were found to be normal.
(13) Assuming the contact lens to remain stationary and the eye behind the lens to rotate, it is shown that the theoretical effect on ocular rotation of prismatic contact lenses is practically equal to their prismatic effect in air.
(14) All four patients completed therapy with almost total alleviation of symptoms and elimination of full-time prismatic correction.
(15) However, the larger apatite crystal size and loss of prismatic structure in crazed and cratered areas may partly explain previous observations of reduced rates of subsurface demineralization in lased enamel.
(16) Ultrastructurally, metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is marked by characteristic features such as herringbone, prismatic and tufaceous patterns which are typically encountered within oligodendrocytes of the central nervous system (CNS) and in Schwann cells (PNS).
(17) Perceptual adaptation to a 30 or 45 degrees visual tilt was induced in human subjects by means of prismatic spectacles worn for 5-7 days.
(18) In most mitochondria the matrix contained a paracrystalline material which had a characteristic prismatic shape with a regular internal lattice structure.
(19) In 19 patients with normosensoric esotropia, the squint angles measured with the alternate cover test were compared with those after prolonged prismatic correction of the squint angle and with those after prolonged occlusion of one eye.
(20) The decline was a linear function of prismatic power.