(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.
Wheel
Definition:
(n.) A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc.
(n.) Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel.
(n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.
(n.) An instrument of torture formerly used.
(n.) A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering.
(n.) A potter's wheel. See under Potter.
(n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.
(n.) The burden or refrain of a song.
(n.) A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
(n.) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
(n.) A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
(v. t.) To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood.
(v. t.) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.
(v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate.
(v. i.) To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right.
(v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.
(v. i.) To roll forward.
Example Sentences:
(1) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(2) From the standpoint of breakeven facts and resource efficiency the minicenter and clinic-on-wheels were similar and superior to the other two.
(3) Among the improved patients, eight became ambulatory and independent in activities of daily living (ADL), eight became independent from a wheel-chair level, and eight returned home or to the community.
(4) This is where he would infuriate the neighbours by kicking the football over his house into their garden; this is Old Street, where his friends would wait in their car to whisk him off to basketball without his parents knowing; Pragel Street, where physiotherapists spotted him being wheeled in a Tesco shopping trolley by friends and suggested he took up basketball; the Housing Options Centre, where he sent a letter forged in his father's name saying he had thrown 16-year-old Ade out and he needed social housing.
(5) The chicks were individually placed in running wheels for 2 x 1 hr, 24 hr before testing.
(6) A total of 60 male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned at 6 weeks of age to a sedentary control group (n = 22) or to a group with unlimited access to a running wheel (n = 38).
(7) The relatively conservative behavior of these mice in selecting between multiple sources of food and water and different types of activity wheels suggests the need for careful experimental design in free-choice studies with inexperienced animals.
(8) Of course, if the wheels are falling off the regime, people will try to find a way out, but it is much more likely that they will simply defect, rather than try to pull off a coup and then negotiate a deal for the regime.
(9) The pressure sore resulted from the commonly practised habit of grasping the upright of the wheel chair with the upper arm in order to gain stability.
(10) Blinded female reats were placed in running-wheel cages to monitor the phase of their activity cycle.
(11) Cells have been injected iontophoretically with the calcium sensitive metallochromic dye arsenazo III and changes in differential absorbance have been measured using a spinning wheel microspectrophotometer.
(12) Motor vehicle occupants may suffer severe cervical airway injuries as the result of impaction with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, backseat, and seat belt.
(13) The 2008 financial crisis saw countries adopt extreme measures to keep the economic wheels turning, for example by reducing interest rates to record lows , pumping billions into the system through quantitative easing in the US, Japan, the UK and the euro-area, and striking trade deals to open markets further.
(14) The causes of barotrauma were: 1) Undue length of the tube pressed by machine's wheel which connect the ventilator to the anesthesia machine.
(15) The role of steering wheel design in maxillofacial trauma is discussed and new solutions briefly reviewed.
(16) For US allies, trying to follow Washington’s lead over the past four months has been akin to trying to drive in convoy behind a car swerving violently at high speed, as the competing factions inside lunge for the steering wheel.
(17) Last month, neighbours watched in silence as her bloodstained body was wheeled out of the front door of the small house she shared with her two daughters on the outskirts of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.
(18) This tends to push buyers behind the wheel of a diesel, which usually produces less CO2 than an equivalent petrol.
(19) Towards the end, as entire eras wheeled past in a blur, I realised the programme itself would outlive me, and began desperately scrawling notes that described the broadcast's initial few centuries for the benefit of any descendants hoping to pick up from where I left off.
(20) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.