(n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
(n.) The lower part of the abdomen.
(v. t.) To furnish with a rim; to border.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
(2) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(3) Both adiphenine.HCl and proadifen.HCl form more stable complexes, suggesting that hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl oxygen by the hydroxyl-group on the rim of the CD ring could be an important contributor to the complexation.
(4) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
(5) But officials warned the rains may not reach the heart of the Rim fire.
(6) RIM has always struggled to explain to the authorities that, unlike most other companies, it technically cannot access or read the majority of the messages sent by users over its network.
(7) Early complications included disc entrapment against the ventricular wall in three cases, wedging of chorda between disc and valve rim in two and posterior perforation of the left ventricle in three patients.
(8) On CT scans the tumor thrombus usually appeared as an endoluminal filling defect surrounded by a rim of contrast material.
(9) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
(10) This permitted employment of cast combined crowns with wide perigingival metal rims to support the clasp dentures to make them look better when supplying 73 patients with partial removable dentures.
(11) Two patients had a second arthroscopy, and no evidence of instability of the peripheral rim was found.
(12) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
(13) Healing of rim widths to 5 mm can be obtained with these methods.
(14) In young people the basic histological pattern of clusters, composed of cores of chief cells with surrounding rims of sustentacular cells, has commonly superimposed on it prominence of the dark variant of chief cells.
(15) A hypointense vascular rim was noted on MR in seven of 13 extracanalicular acoustic tumors and in three of seven meningiomas.
(16) It was suggested that the differences in rim area were already present prior to the manifestation of the VFD.
(17) "I'm interested to see what RIM's new OS has in store, and hope I'll be able to sample some of its features on the 9900.
(18) MRI delineated discrete lesions, typical of cavernous angiomas, with a mixed hyperintense, reticulated, central core surrounded by a hypointense rim.
(19) When pointing to its importance in retention, it applies to the rim margins, its relation to the support and its role in the valve closure of the upper total prosthesis.
(20) Enhanced sonograms were classified into five patterns according to the relative changes of the echo levels between the tumor and the nontumorous parenchyma of the liver as a result of enhancement: hyperechoic change, isoechoic change, hypoechoic change with hyperechoic rim (rim sign), marginal spotty hyperechoic change, and internal spotty hyperechoic change.
Rima
Definition:
(n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
Example Sentences:
(1) This has been demonstrated from agglutination and radioimmunometric assay (RIMA) results, using ten antisera raised in rabbits against purified polymeric flagellins from ten Salmonella serotypes as immunogens.
(2) In merodiploids heterozygous for rimA, rimB, or rimD, the wild-type allele was shown to be dominant to the mutant allele.
(3) Arytenoid abduction was expressed as a left:right ratio of rima glottidis measurements.
(4) Rima, a Christian-Israeli Arab, has been branded a Roma, Romanian, "Jew whore" and "dirty Arab" by a family who have subjected her family to a slew of racist abuse and intimidation.
(5) Postoperatively all ponies were evaluated qualitatively on a monthly basis by subjective examination for evidence of abduction of the arytenoid cartilages on endoscopy and quantitatively by measurement of the cross sectional area of the left and right half of the rima glottidis.
(6) Later they targeted my two sons on social networks, repeating the racist slurs and later the real bullying began against the boys," Rima said.
(7) Jordanian ambassador Rima Ahmad Alaadeen said they had "of course … expressed our deep concerns about what took place in recent days and explicitly expressed how important … occupied East Jerusalem is."
(8) In order to evaluate their divergent effects on binding and lysis of the NCMC, rH IFN-alpha and rH IL-2 were used for the in vitro-preincubation of normal donors' PBL, which were then tested as effector cells against K562 and the long-term cultured melanoma cell line RIMA in the SCCA.
(9) The type strain of L. uli is strain VPI D76D-27C (= ATCC 49627), and the type strain of L. rimae is strain D140H-11A (= ATCC 49626).
(10) The landmarks correspond to the verteba prominens, the dimples of the posterior superior iliac spines and the sacrum point (beginning of rima ani), which are characterized by distinct surface curvature.
(11) However, against RIMA IFN-alpha additionally amplified the binding affinity.
(12) The results of the present analysis extend to Far Eastern foods our previous conclusion that no severe dietary restrictions are needed in patients treated with moclobemide, a novel RIMA anti-depressant.
(13) The reversible inhibitors of monoamine oxidase A (RIMAs) are a group of drugs that, by producing inhibition selectively of monoamine oxidase A (MOA-A), still allow metabolism of tyramine by MAO-B.
(14) The new generation of RIMAs represents a significant progress in safety.
(15) Areas of the rima glottidis and aditus laryngis were measured, using a computerized digitizer.
(16) The RIMA developed was specific for salmonellae and showed no cross-reactions with high populations of other members within the family Enterobacteriaceae.
(17) The family fled Syria two months ago – just in time, Rima says, to avoid the fate of their nextdoor neighbours, who were killed in their homes the week before we speak.
(18) The protein is referred to as RIMA, for ring membrane antigen.
(19) Rhinoscopy and radiography revealed no abnormal findings in the nasal septum, rima oflactoria, concha nasalis media, sinus ethmoidales, etc.
(20) H. bovis spiracular plates have twenty-nine to forty openings, each surrounded by a slightly raised rima.