(a.) Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
(v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
(v. i.) To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
(v. i.) To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
(v. i.) To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(2) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
(3) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
(4) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(5) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(6) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
(7) The adherence of 51Cr-labeled platelets to rabbit aortae everted on probes rotated in platelet-red cell suspensions has been measured.
(8) We have used a modification of the rotating-frame imaging technique to measure PCr-to-ATP ratio non-invasively in human heart.
(9) Experimental evidence suggested that nucleosome rotational positioning is determined by the DNA sequence itself.
(10) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
(11) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
(12) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
(13) Based on our experience with the mark I prosthesis we have designed and developed a mark II model which has freedom of axial rotation of the saddle.
(14) The reported study demonstrates that performance asymmetries between normal or reflected letters presented in the right and left visual field favors the right visual field when stimulus patterns are blocked and rotated 90 degrees clockwise and favors the left visual field when they are blocked and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
(15) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.
(16) 3-D curves were computed with an apparent rotation around the vertical axis Z.
(17) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(18) This suggests that S1 is a flexible protein with at least two domains that can rotate independently.
(19) Per-rotational nystagmus was recorded in rabbits with unilaterally narrowed vertebral arteries or following unilateral cervical sympathectomies.
(20) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.
Splay
Definition:
(v. t.) To display; to spread.
(v. t.) To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
(v. t.) To spay; to castrate.
(v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
(a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
(2) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
(3) The lipomas in this study demonstrated this tendency to splay apart and infiltrate the cranial nerves, with the fatty tissue adjacent to the nerves invariably containing portions of the cranial nerves.
(4) In vitro tests demonstrated approximately sevenfold greater filter length shortening (a measure of filter splaying) for the titanium GF in response to a given applied load.
(5) This rudimentary accessory ray caused a splay foot deformity that made it difficult for the patient to walk comfortably in shoes.
(6) At three to four days there was splaying and tortuosity of the loops of Henle.
(7) In his final fight, against the journeyman boxer Kevin McBride, he was a pitiful figure - slumped in a corner, legs splayed, unable or unwilling to stand himself up.
(8) Such loosening, when it occurs at microtubule ends, results in protofilament-like splaying and end-wise depolymerization.
(9) Hindlimb splaying was apparent in the 200-ppm males by wk 4; less severe splaying appeared in the 100-ppm group at wk 8.
(10) The behavior of the animals appeared splaying of the contralateral extremities, circling around counterclockwise and in a comatose motionless state.
(11) First, this idea that these men have "no choice" but to sit with their legs splayed, dominating-alpha-style.
(12) Time of use, the individual user, and bristle composition were found to have the strongest influences on splaying, and brush design was found to have the least influence.
(13) A novel feature is accurate compensation for 'smile' or 'frown' profiles as well as for the possible splay or curvature of lanes.
(14) It depicted the bird's splayed legs and, the critic went on to say, its "cunt".
(15) One of the most consistent features found was splaying of the roots of teeth adjacent to the lesion.
(16) After watched the video through splayed fingers, I can report that it's grim – kind of "Confessions of a supermodel and a New York indie band, both equally desperate for attention".
(17) The main differences compared with adult measurements were in the following dimensions: temple width, head width, bridge height, projection, splay angle and front to bend.
(18) In patients with GFR values below 15 ml per minute, increased splay was observed, and below a GFR of 10 ml per minute, the splay was very marked.
(19) The battery consisted of measures of grip strength, locomotor gait and landing splay, sensory sensitivities during conditioned avoidance performance, the action potential of the ventral caudal nerve, and the brainstem auditory evoked response.
(20) The 26 boys sharing the rite of passage sat naked on their blankets, legs splayed in front of them.