(n.) Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc.
(n.) A reflecting telescope.
(n.) A device for reflecting sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) A changed position of the mirror-reflector in the Rubin-2 thermovision unit as well as the use of an improved model of the couch-chair and a special cassette for electrochemical paper reduce the labour input and raise the information value of the method.
(2) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
(3) We present applications to speckle reduction, detection of specular reflectors, attenuation estimation and ultrasound imaging.
(4) The likelihood for men to remarry is approximately five to six times higher and can be best interpreted as a reflector of the distribution of sexes on the "remarriage market", rather than as an expression of any differential priorities or attitudes between sex groups.
(5) It is estimated that about 30% of scintillation light can be collected at one end of such a counter, with a non-uniformity not greater than 10%, if magnesium oxide is used as the external reflector at all other surfaces.
(6) In this paper, it is demonstrated that the presence of a cepstral peak depends on the form of the probability density function (pdf) of the separation between reflectors.
(7) The data indicate that pharmacological stimulation of the peripheral arterial chemoreceptors by almitrine bismesylate in normoxic healthy humans causes reflectorically a slight renal vasoconstriction and a long-lasting inhibition of renal tubular sodium reabsorption.
(8) Therefore, the Doppler signal from a strong reflector distant from the center of the sample volume may mask the signal of a weak reflector located within the center.
(9) Moreover, strong echo-reflectors, such as calcification or prosthetic heart valves, create large acoustic shadowing effects behind which obtaining an ultrasound signal is difficult if not impossible.
(10) An even bigger motorcade collected us at the airport, security men in reflector shades jumping out and opening doors as our cars slowed down.
(11) Environmental noxious agents initiate hyper-reflectoric reactions of the mucosa, which seems to be the most impressive factor causing the change in rhinological diseases nowadays.
(12) The model includes magnitude and position of specular echoes, a random description of echoes from diffuse reflectors, and a parametric characterization of attenuation.
(13) Buried in the berm will be radar reflectors, magnets and a “Storage Room”, constructed around a stone slab too big to be removed via the chamber entrance.
(14) The use of levels of plasma HVA as a noninvasive reflector of DA function provides a research strategy for longitudinal studies of neuroleptic effects in schizophrenia.
(15) Reverberation produces a set of equally spaced artifactual echoes distal to the real reflectors.
(16) The shock wave ellipsoid reflector position is adjusted to the stone with a computer assisted positioning device.
(17) Four reflectors are fixed on the face of subject; two others are fixed on a metallic system that is glued on the buccal face of inferior canines.
(18) The manual therapy enables the treatment of the reflectoric expression of these disturbances.
(19) Disturbance of muscle coordination by reflectoric afferences from cervical or shoulder regions.
(20) On the other hand, extreme reflectoric muscle contractions, caused by a rotational trauma can cause chondromalacic lesions in the femoro-patellar joint, broadening the syndrome of the "unhappy triad" to an "unhappy tetrad".
Vehicle
Definition:
(n.) That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.
(n.) That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy.
(n.) A substance in which medicine is taken.
(n.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it.
Example Sentences:
(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).
(3) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
(4) A group of rats raised on D-P++ for 4 weeks were fed D-P- for 7 days after which they received 500 pmol of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D3; SUPP] or an equal volume of the vehicle (ETH).
(5) Neonatal treatment with a low dose of the estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) had no significant effect on adult estrogen binding within the assayed vaginal compartments; however, this treatment caused a 2-fold increase in the level of cytosolic progestin binding in the vaginal FMW over that in vehicle-treated mice.
(6) Each subject applied a vehicle cream containing 0.075% capsaicin (Axsain, GalenPharma Inc.) to a 4 cm2 area of skin on one volar forearm and vehicle alone to an identical treatment area on the other forearm, according to a double-blind procedure.
(7) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
(8) Controls were injected in the same manner with vehicle and microspheres.
(9) Sympathetic nervous system function was blocked in developing male SHR by treating pups from days 0 to 14 with: (1) guanethidine, (2) combined alpha- and beta-receptor antagonists (prazosin and timolol), or (3) vehicle (5% sucrose).
(10) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
(11) Thus, the lymphoid population containing cell-mediated anti-idiotypic responsiveness served as a vehicle of resistance.
(12) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
(13) Future studies will need to carefully evaluate the vehicle used and the strength of topical CsA employed.
(14) The Calspan 3-D Computer Simulator of a Motor Vehicle Crash Victim was used to provide estimates of the head and neck response to be expected for the very specific deceleration profiles simulated.
(15) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(16) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(17) Vehicle administration had no effect on pulmonary function.
(18) The best was the oral version of the Symbol Digit Modalities test, which by itself accounted for 70% of the variance of the full-sized-vehicle driving score.
(19) II with melatonin instead of 25.9% in the corresponding vehicle controls.
(20) Twenty-four h prior to the measurement of 45Ca2+ uptake, the cells were transferred to serum-free medium ([Ca2+], 1.0 mM) containing 1.0 nM 1,25(OH)2D3 or vehicle.