(n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.
(n.) The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
(n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.
(n.) The barbs of a perfect feather.
(n.) Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.
(n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(2) The radius is estimated to be around 1.7 nm, which shows a moderate degree of hydration.
(3) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
(4) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(5) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
(6) From the different shapes of the scattering curves of the native phosphofructokinase at pH 7.5 in the presence of 15 mM ATP and of the cross-linked tetramer or octamer, it can be inferred that the shapes of the protomers are different: in the presence of ATP the protomers are elongated, having an axial ratio of 1.8 to 2.0; the cross-linked state reveals a spherical protomer of radius 33.0 A, similar to that of the native enzyme at pH 7.5 in the presence of fructose 6-phosphate or fructose 1,6-bisphosphate.
(7) The radius of curvature was shorter in the former than in the latter.
(8) Fluid flow increased approximately 50% for each gauge catheter when the height was raised from 0.91 to 1.75 m. Flow rates increased linearly with increasing catheter radius.
(9) The effect of increasing acetylcholine concentration can best be explained by postulating an increase in the effective channel radius of the water secretion pathway from 0.40 nm to 0.45 nm together with a small increase in the fraction of the total water flow passing through larger non-selective pores.
(10) Recently recovered hominid postcrania from Member 1, Swartkrans Formation include the proximal and distal ends of a right radius attributed to a single individual of Paranthropus robustus.
(11) The binding protein has a Stokes radius of 2.49 nm when saturated with cobalamin and 2.61 nm when unsaturated.
(12) The brace extended from the proximal radius and ulna to the level of the radial styloid and allowed a full range of movement at the radiocarpal joint.
(13) During a period of almost ten years with 280 cases, experience has been gathered in connection with the immobilisation of radius fractures, in the vicinity of the wrist, by means of the fixateur externe.
(14) A report is given on a small-for-date male infant showing the following symptoms: bilateral aplasia of humerus, radius, and ulna, shortened femora, bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, stigmata of dysmorphism, and notably; simple helix formation of the ear, simian crease, clinodactylia, bilateral clubfoot deformity, hypospadia, thrombocytopenia, micrognathia, and contractures in the knee joints.
(15) The radius of the spheres depends upon the suspending medium and the hematocrit.
(16) The modulus of elasticity was derived by combining the velocity of ultrasound measurements and photon absorption (Norland-Cameron method) in human cortical bone (proximal radius) in vivo.
(17) The particle exhibits a Stokes radius of 43 A, which, together with the calculated particle volume, indicates an axial ratio close to 1.
(18) A single pore radius of 40 A and a pore density of 600 cm-2 were satisfactory.
(19) We have compared BUA in 24 female subjects with the separate measurement of trabecular and cortical bone in the distal radius using quantitative computed tomography (QCT).
(20) The proximal radius grew 3.5 cm, and the ulna grew 3.4 cm.
Ulnar
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(2) The anesthesiologist assessed the degree of neuromuscular blockade intraoperatively prior to pharmacologic reversal either by the standard method of visually counting the number of evoked thumb twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the ulnar nerve (i.e., thumb train-of-four count), or by an alternative method such as 1) visually counting the number of evoked orbicularis oculi muscle twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the facial nerve, or 2) observing the patient for clinical evidence of partial recovery (e.g., swallowing or attempts to breathe).
(3) The growth in the revascularized bone grafts has been compared to that in heterotopic, nonvascularized ulna transfers and to normal ulnar growth.
(4) One patient with the disease localised to the eyelid had normal EMG responses when monitored on the hand with ulnar nerve stimulation.
(5) The technique includes the soft tissue correction of the ulnar deviation.
(6) The mean values of radial and ulnar components for each pair of homologous fingers separately are also compared.
(7) We undertook this study to determine the incidence, time of onset, and outcome of clinical and subclinical ulnar neuropathies.
(8) We also observed one case of ulnar nerve compression.
(9) In the 18 asymptomatic diamond assorters, electrophysiological studies revealed an ulnar neuropathy in two (again in the hand used for holding the eye-glass).
(10) Motor nerve conduction study along the entire length of the ulnar and tibialis posterior nerves was carried out in 30 diabetics compared with 30 uremic patients and 30 control subjects.
(11) Findings at surgery included chondromalacia of the ulnar head (19), tears of the triangular fibrocartilage complex (11), and excessive mobility of the ulnar head (10).
(12) There were no radial or ulnar nerve injuries, nonunions, infections, or hypertrophic scars.
(13) The thoracic extremity skeleton lesions are revealed as an ulnar type of distal ectromelia, or axial ectromelia.
(14) The more serious sequelae must be ascribed either to rotary deformity or to ulnar angulation at the fracture-site.
(15) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
(16) Motor nerve condition velocity of both the nerves and amplitude of sensory response of ulnar nerve were significantly decreased in even moderate protein calorie malnourished (PCM) group of monkeys.
(17) Between January 1980 and March 1988 twenty-two patients with compression neuropathies of the ulnar nerve in the Guyon's canal were treated.
(18) Healing time for the ulnar fractures ranged from eight to 20 weeks, with an average of ten weeks.
(19) Subluxation and luxation of the ulnar nerve are normally congenital and can result in not only an irritation of the nerve but also sensory loss and motor weakness.
(20) There was no significant difference in ulnar variance between Japanese with normal wrists and those affected by Kienböck's disease, when the effects of sex and age were taken into account.