(n.) The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90¡, or one subtending a right angle at the center.
(n.) One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.
(n.) An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of 90¡, with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights, and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical or horizontal direction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Left ventricular synchrony was assessed from regional volume curves derived by dividing the global ventricular region of interest into four quadrants.
(2) The authors report the clinical case of an 18-year-old patient who presented with a symptomatic mass in the left upper quadrant 6 months after having infectious mononucleosis.
(3) One patient required evacuation and open packing of the right upper quadrant and lower right hemithorax.
(4) Following this combination procedure the patients were relieved completely of obstructive jaundice and right upper quadrant pain, leaving only small trocar insertion scars made during the short course of hospitalization.
(5) The axons of 12 SRT cells were located in the ventrolateral or ventral quadrants of the upper cervical spinal cord.
(6) Double ballooning is recommended for cases with retinal detachments with 2 ruptures up to 2 disc diameters in length, located at a distance of 2-3 disc diameters from each other within one quadrant or in different quadrants of the fundus oculi.
(7) The dendritic-field diameters of parasol cells within the nasal quadrant of the retina are not fully brought into line with those of cells lying elsewhere in the retina.
(8) Lymphatic tumor emboli were observed in quadrants in 18 or 2.0% of the cases.
(9) Four cases of right lower quadrant abscess, each a clinical diagnostic dilemma, were recognized as abscesses surrounding a perforated viscus by application of the "coffee bean" sign on sonographic examination.
(10) However, 9 months later, while still asymptomatic, routine physical examination revealed a recurrent right lower quadrant tumor.
(11) The case of a 15-years-old female patient is presented, who referred pain and presence of a mass in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen.
(12) The two patients were women, one a 45-year-old who consulted for pain, epigastric discomfort and melenas, and the other a 76-year-old who consulted for paraneoplastic syndrome and a palpable mass in the right lower quadrant.
(13) A 58-year-old man complained of dull left lower quadrant pain and constipation.
(14) Presenting symptoms included: crampy right upper quadrant pain, jaundice, pruritus, cholangitis, pancreatitis, hepatomegaly, and elevated liver function tests.
(15) Cellular abnormalities were demonstrated in 90.4% of women having scrapings of visible lesions and in 88.1% of women studied by 4-quadrant vaginal scrapings in the absence of clinical disease.
(16) A persistent elevation of the level of serum alkaline phosphatase or more overt clinical manifestations, such as pain in the right upper quadrant, hepatomegaly, obstructive jaundice or weight loss, would all indicate the need for further investigations.
(17) The factors found to influence the postoperative outcome adversely include (1) association of severe blunt trauma (P less than 0.05), (2) anterior proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) involving two or more quadrants (P less than 0.01), and (2) retinotomies (P less than 0.007).
(18) The most frequent side effect was temporary pain in the right upper abdominal quadrant.
(19) Following cardiac excision, three adjacent 80-mg tissue samples were taken from the subendocardial, mid-wall, and subepicardial layers of quadrantal left ventricular (LV) segments of the basal and midventricular cardiac slices, and from one segment of the apical slice, totaling 81 samples per LV.
(20) When the frozen or paraffin section diagnosis of a generous excisional biopsy was noninvasive breast carcinoma, there was a substantial risk that foci of the same type of noninvasive carcinoma were also present in other quadrants.
Quadrilateral
Definition:
(a.) Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
(n.) A plane figure having four sides, and consequently four angles; a quadrangular figure; any figure formed by four lines.
(n.) An area defended by four fortresses supporting each other; as, the Venetian quadrilateral, comprising Mantua, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnano.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 33 patients an external quadrilateral frame system was applied primarily, and in the remaining nine within 1-2 weeks.
(2) Attempts have been made to avoid the fallacies with the introduction of quadrilateral and Wits analyses.
(3) The purpose of this case report is to 1) briefly describe the traditional above-knee (AK) quadrilateral socket, 2) describe the contoured adducted trochanteric-controlled alignment method (CAT-CAM) socket, 3) describe the management of a patient with a temporary CAT-CAM prosthesis, and 4) explain how the CAT-CAM prosthesis approach has resolved a medically complex clinical problem.
(4) Moreover, the impression has been created that they are not governed by the basic biomechanical rules identified by Radcliffe as affecting the quadrilateral socket.
(5) Axisymmetric 8-node quadrilateral element for arbitrary loading was used for the analysis.
(6) Successful ligation experiments include the oligomerization of individual three-arm and four-arm junctions, the assembly of a quadrilateral from four junctions with different sticky ends, and the recent construction of a molecule with the connectivity of a cube.
(7) This paper applies the more abstract and inclusive concept of "embodiment" from the phenomenological movement in philosophy to the life history of a 35-year-old American woman born with quadrilateral limb deficiencies.
(8) On Tuesday the finance ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland branded quadrilateral Brexit talks with the chief secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke, as disappointing, accusing him of failing to provide enough information on how exiting the EU would affect their nations.
(9) Craniofacial structure was described with DiPaolo's quadrilateral measures.
(10) Analysis showed that a pair of parallel sides of a quadrilateral were viewed as parallel to the viewer's forehead when the sides were horizontal in the image plane and were seen as slanting in depth if they were slanted in the image plane.
(11) Septal deformity is of two kinds, which may occur independently, or together: 1) anterior cartilage deformity of the quadrilateral septal cartilage, caused by direct trauma or pressure at any age; and 2) combined septal deformity involving all the septal components, caused by compression across the maxilla from pressures occurring during pregnancy or parturition.
(12) In this patient, entrapment of the axillary nerve by fibrous bands in the quadrilateral space caused shoulder pain with paresthesias in the upper extremity.
(13) An axisymmetric element of quadrilateral cross-section is developed and applied to the mechanical test problem of a cylindrical specimen of soft tissue in unconfined compression.
(14) The primary treatment was conservative with cast immobilization in 86 patients, external fixation by a quadrilateral system in 14, and open reduction and internal fixation in four.
(15) The two danger zones are the zygomatic arch which is crossed by the frontal nerve trunk and a quadrilateral area between the hairline and the tail of the eyebrow and a vertical line 1.5 cm lateral to the lateral canthus of the eye.
(16) In healthy children younger than 5 years of age, the thymus had a quadrilateral shape and biconvex lateral contours.
(17) Five, rehabilitated, unilateral above-knee amputees (average age, 34.4 years) using quadrilateral sockets were converted to Contoured Adducted Trochanteric-Controlled Alignment Method (CAT-CAM) sockets to determine the effect on ambulatory function.
(18) The quadrilateral did not appear to be rectangular when viewed in peripheral vision even though the rectangular viewing condition was used.
(19) We consider the CAT-CAM prosthesis an improvement over the quadrilateral socket for increasing ambulation independence in the individual with AK amputation and other medical complications.
(20) He also criticised the UK for not showing more imagination Updated at 11.36am GMT 11.12am GMT The leaders of Sweden , Finland , the Netherlands and Denmark have been holding talks ( a quadrilateral-meeting? )