(n.) The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution.
(n.) Any return or succesion in a series.
(a.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
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.
Rotatory
Definition:
(a.) Turning as on an axis; rotary.
(a.) Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles.
(a.) Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization.
(n.) A rotifer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Outgoing from the theory of the rotatory nystagmus based on the rotation test of the human vestibular system the fundamentels are developed for a complete evaluation method of an electronystagmogram including the elimination of artefacts by the authors' own research work in this field.
(2) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
(3) Ten neurons responded only when a head undergoing rotatory movements was shown.
(4) Stimulus-induced nystagmus was combined with OKN, OKAN and per- and post-rotatory nystagmus.
(5) The rats often showed single rotatory curves affecting the thoracic and lumbar regions, although cases with multiple curves were also found.
(6) Furthermore, it is demonstrated that a thin perforated membrane fitted on the inside of the wall of a glass cylinder filled with water, will detach, with rotatory movements.
(7) The absolute stereochemistry of the three active centers was determined to be RRR by optical rotatory dispersion comparisons.
(8) In our hospital the rotatory osteotomy according to Weber proved good; in accordance with the findings it can be combined with other procedures.
(9) Anterolateral rotatory instability in 31 acutely injured knees and 31 chronically unstable knees was surgically stabilized with a previously unreported method of iliotibial band tenodesis.
(10) The cause for this condition, we think, is laxity of the ulnar part of the lateral collateral ligament, which allows a transient rotatory subluxation of the ulnohumeral joint and a secondary dislocation of the radiohumeral joint.
(11) With this program the "classical" parameters have been evaluated and the "rotatory diameter measurement" was performed.
(12) Its stability was measured by optical rotatory dispersion, differential scanning calorimetry, and trypsin susceptibility of the partially unfolded molecules.
(13) Recurrent posterolateral rotatory instability of the elbow is an apparently undescribed clinical condition that is difficult to diagnose.
(14) A series of 26 patients undergoing translabyrinthine acoustic neuroma surgery was evaluated pre- and postoperatively using rotatory vestibular testing.
(15) All fractures healed uneventfully without rotatory and angulatory malalignment.
(16) In this system, embryonic neurons are dissociated from one another and allowed to reaggregate in rotatory culture, where they resume their normal differentiation.
(17) This parameter has a smaller error associated with it than do pure translations and may aid the clinician by helping to account for the large variation in rotatory ranges of motion within the population.
(18) He also had horizontal-clockwise rotatory nystagmus in primary gaze and ataxic gait.
(19) A test for knee posterolateral instability, which is a modification of the standard posterolateral rotatory instability test, is described.
(20) There is an almost linear correlation between the rotatory stability and the difference between the respective fourth power of the external and internal diameter or, approximately, to the fourth power of the external diameter for catheters without wire reinforcement.