(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.
Segment
Definition:
(n.) One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.
(n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.
(n.) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.
(n.) A segment gear.
(n.) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
(n.) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
(v. i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
Example Sentences:
(1) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
(2) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(3) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(4) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(5) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(6) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
(7) The active agents modestly improved treadmill exercise duration time until 1 mm ST segment depression (3%), and only propranolol and diltiazem had significant effects.
(8) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(9) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(10) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
(11) The family comprises at least three variable (V) gene segments, three constant (C) gene segments, and three junction (J) gene segments.
(12) The reducing equivalents could be donated by formate or NADH through some segment of the membrane respiratory chain.
(13) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.
(14) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
(15) [125I]AaIT was shown to cross the midgut of Sarcophaga through a morphologically distinct segment of the midgut previously shown to be permeable to a cytotoxic, positively charged polypeptide of similar molecular weight.
(16) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(17) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(18) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
(19) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
(20) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.