(1) The calculation has shown that the rounding of one of the angles of interference rhombus and its displacement towards the centre of the picture speak about either a functional deficiency of a muscle inserted into the eye ball in this place or about displacement of the point of its insertion from the limbus along the meridian of its action; displacement of one the angles of interference rhombus from the meridian speaks about displacement of the point of efforts exertion of the corresponding muscle into the same direction.
(2) Examination of eyes in a polarized light in 108 children and 24 adults with congenital concomitant convergent squint with a vertical component has shown displacement of internal angles of the rhombus of interference pictures from the horizontal axis, this speaking about anomaly of internal rectus muscles insertion.
(3) Antemolar rhombus (the anterior part of the intermolar palate) of adult Wistar rat was employed as experimental area.
(4) n. from Pungitius pungitius is near to M. paragasterostei but differs from it by the rhombus form of the spore, by less dimension of polar capsules.
(5) The figure of tetrahedron is formed in certain species of Plectus and in Tobrilus gracilis at the stage of 4 blastomeres rather than a rhombus which is formed in most highly organized nematodes.
(6) This result is taken to mean that the equilibrium constant between the two free enzyme forms (the 'circle' and the 'rhombus') is strongly dependent on temperature.
(7) If hexokinase is mixed at 4 degrees C with glucose 6-phosphate a slow increase in fluorescence of tryptophanyl residues is observed, which indicates that the 'rhombus' conformation accumulates under these conditions.
(8) Optical diffraction analysis revealed that the morphological units of both native and self-assembled S layer were essentially identical and composed of a rhombus possessing each side of 8.1 nm and interior angle of 88 degrees.
(9) Advisers to Thatcher suggested she carry a handbag and soften her voice, while Merkel got highlights, a more relaxed hairstyle and learned to deal with the issue of how to look in control by holding her hands in a rhombus shape in front of her stomach, now her trademark gesture.
(10) A rhombus-shaped skin incision around the thigh and calf, originally described by Kotz and Salzer, led to a significant discrepancy of the circumference of the proximal and distal skin borders.
(11) In the former one there are rhombus section files and triangular section files, both more flexible than old square section files.
(12) In the Mediterranean, the parasitic copepod Lepeophtheirus thompsoni Baird, 1850 specifically infests turbot (Psetta maxima L., 1758), whereas L. europaensis Zeddam, Berrebi, Renaud, Raibaut, and Gabrion, 1988 infests brill (Scophthalmus rhombus L., 1758) and flounder (Platichthys flesus L., 1758).
(13) The analysis of the Nematoda's embryogenesis allows to conclude that tetrahedron, rhombus as well as some other figures play the role of preblastula sustaining the most expedient disposition of the first blastomers for transition to the formation of the blastula.
(14) The most manifested changes in the sinus structure are noted in waterfowl and diving birds, that spend much time in flight, in dendrocolaptidae and in day predaceous birds; in them the longitudinal sinus forms a rhombus.
(15) In the most frequently observed projection form four intensity maxima were arranged at the corners of a rhombus; a cleft along the longitudinal axis of individual protomers could often be discerned.
Trapezoid
Definition:
(n.) A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.
(n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the second metacarpal, or index finger.
(a.) Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the trapezoid ligament; as, the trapezoid line.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proenkephalin A-related immunoreactive neuronal perikarya were detected in the central gray, reticular formation, nucleus raphes, trapezoid body, nucleus parabrachialis lateralis and medialis, nucleus spinalis nervi trigemini, nucleus dorsalis nervi vagi, and in the nucleus tractus solitarii.
(2) From the tissue distribution of 800 microCi MAb E48, the absorbed cumulative radiation doses of tumour and various organs were calculated using the trapezoid integration method for the area under the curve.
(3) The responses of afferents were further studied using sinusoidal and trapezoidal stimuli aligned as closely as possible with the orientation of their response vector.
(4) The trapezoidal shape of the vertebrae and scarring of the soft tissues within the concavity made correction difficult.
(5) From plasma drug concentration-time data, best estimates for the bioavailability parameters of peak plasma phenobarbital concentration (Cmax) and time to peak concentration (tmax) were obtained by curve fitting and area under the plasma drug concentration-time curve (AUC) computed with the trapezoid rule.
(6) At low pH, it is theorized that the trapezoidal profile of the dimer is shifted to a more rectangular configuration such that flat ribbons are formed by the lateral association of dimers.
(7) DYN B cell bodies were present in nonpyramidal cells of neo- and allocortices, medium-sized cells of the caudate-putamen, nucleus accumbens, lateral part of the central nucleus of the amygdala, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, preoptic area, and in sectors of nearly every hypothalamic nucleus and area, medial pretectal area, and nucleus of the optic tract, periaqueductal gray, raphe nuclei, cuneiform nucleus, sagulum, retrorubral nucleus, peripeduncular nucleus, lateral terminal nucleus, pedunculopontine nucleus, mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus, parabigeminal nucleus, dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus, lateral superior olivary nucleus, superior paraolivary nucleus, medial superior olivary nucleus, ventral nucleus of the trapezoid body, lateral dorsal tegmental nucleus, accessory trigeminal nucleus, solitary nucleus, nucleus ambiguus, paratrigeminal nucleus, area postrema, lateral reticular nucleus, and ventrolateral region of the reticular formation.
(8) Degenerative changes in the scapho-trapezial-trapezoidal (ST) joint may occur as an isolated process or more frequently as a dominant part of pantrapezial degenerative joint affections.
(9) The majority of units were recorded in the ventral component of the trapezoid body.
(10) They can be summarized as: mesial shifting of the maxilla, dimensional increase of the mandibular body, ovoidal upper arch with a deeper palatal vault, tapering or trapezoidal lower arch.
(11) The AUC-integrated concentration was significantly higher than the AUC-trapezoid.
(12) Principal cells in the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB) are believed to be critical components in the circuit subserving sound localization.
(13) The lowest threshold values for current strength, energy and charge were observed when defibrillating the heart by means of rectangular impulses and especially by trapezoidal impulses with ascending slope.
(14) That means that rectangular or trapezoidal impulses with an ascending slope may be most conveniently used for cardiac defibrillation.
(15) Two femoral neck fractures ten years following Trapezoidal-28 THA have recently been referred to our clinic.
(16) Therefore, the velocity profile is "trapezoidal" rather than parabolic at all times during the pulsation period.
(17) Trapezoidal and triangular gradient lobe shapes are analyzed.
(18) The authors report a case of posterior dislocation of the trapezoid bone together with the second metacarpal.
(19) The wrist motion remaining after simulated arthrodeses was as follows: capitate-hamate: flexion (Flx) 98%, extension (Ext) 92%, ulnar deviation (UD) 96%, radial deviation (RD) 90%; scaphoid-lunate: Flx 97%, Ext 91%, UD 90%, RD 91%; scaphoid-trapezium-trapezoid: Flx 86%, Ext 88%, UD 67%, RD 69%; scaphoid-lunate-triquetrum: Flx 91%, Ext 82%, UD 86%, RD 70%; capitate-lunate: Flx 70%, Ext 59%, UD 89%, RD 79%; capitate-hamate-triquetrum: Flx 88%, Ext 79%, UD 88%, RD 81%; hamate-triquetrum: Flx 90%, Ext 85%, UD 89%, RD 94%; scaphoid-trapezium-trapezoid-capitate: Flx 85%, Ext 77%, UD 64%, RD 57%.
(20) The trapezoid compression frame is recommended as an alternative to conventional methods of treating unstable fractures and dislocations of the pelvic girdle.