(a.) Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study examined four methods of condensation (brush with vibration, ultrasonic vibration, spatulation, and noncondensation) to evaluate their effects on porosity and color.
(2) The results indicated that the Whip-Mix vacuum mechanical spatulator produced significantly superior results to the Columbus system centrifugal mechanical spatulator, and that among the four alginates hand mixed, the Jeltrate impression material gave better results.
(3) Four disinfectant solutions--iodophor, neutral glutaraldehyde, phenol, and sodium hypochlorite--were spatulated with sterilized Type IV stone and vibrated into the intentionally contaminated impressions.
(4) Arteriograms showed good flow except for slight narrowing in one SA which, on postmortem exam, was seen to result from a fibrous band which extended from the spatulated segment to the opposite wall.
(5) The cytoplasm of light choroid epithelial cells seemed more electron-dense than in young adults and the microvilli were long and slender in contrast with the short, spatulate microvilli seen in young mice.
(6) Prevention of fistulae appears to be assisted by spatulation of the ureter rather than by its bevelled section, and the maintenance of a long ureteral loop to avoid traction.
(7) The male genitalia of Dermatobia hominis L. is described morphologically by the use of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and compared, under light microscopy, with other Cuterebridae D. hominis differes from Metacuterebra apicalis (Guérin-Méneville) because it has longer gonopods, shorter parameter, a small crest and spines on the distiphallus a bellshaped gonopore with a prominent external outline, and surstyli with a spatulate distal region.
(8) The main differences are the way the submucosal tunnel is prepared, the resection and spatulating of the terminal ureter and a new concept of suturing the ureter to the bladder mucosa.
(9) Spatulate villi were found in the cecal neck region, low ridges in the region where the neck expands, protruding collarlike structures in the mid cecal pouch, and flattened collars in the distal portion.
(10) Other growth cones having vermiform, lanceolate, spatulate, and bulbous forms were observed throughout the optic pathway at all stages examined, although the longer (up to 70 micrograms) wormlike structures appeared only in the optic tract during the early period of outgrowth.
(11) The viscosity measurement of the mixture of Thiokol LP-2, lead monoxide, and di-butyl phthalate was performed at the rates of shear ranged from 10(1.5) to 10(3.9) sec-1 at 20 degrees C. The viscosity of the mixture progressively increases after spatulation of the materials but yield value does not appear for the time being before setting, that is, the infinite network forming via the pendant SH groups could not take place until the most of SH groups were consumed, attributed to low concentration of poly-functional prepolymer in the liquid polymer.
(12) In the "Y" anastomosis, both ureters are spatulated and joined together to form a single tube which is anastomosed to the proximal end of the ileum.
(13) Sperm heads were examined by light microscopy and assigned to one of five classes: A. normal and near-normal, B. triangulate and oblate, C. spatulate, D. elongate, and E. filamentous.
(14) Spatulated anastomosis (SA) was compared to end-to-end anastomosis (EEA) with small arteries (3-4 mm) in nine conditioned dogs (22-30 kg).
(15) Scanning electron microscopy revealed the worm of spatulate appearance with rake-shaped tegumental spines.
(16) Eleven patients with ureteral lacerations underwent spatulated, interrupted anastomoses of absorbable suture and placement of Silastic double-J ureteral catheters and had prompt resolution of urinary drainage and normal urograms post stent removal.
(17) Pastes were made by spatulating a hydroxyapatite powder into triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA) that contained benzoyl peroxide.
(18) (2) The use of impression materials in syringing applications should not be precluded simply because the substances are thick or heavy during spatulation.
(19) Anastomoses were spatulated and sutured in an interrupted fashion.
(20) In the bloodmeal, amastigotes (1) transformed into stumpy promastigotes (2) which rapidly multiplied, resulting in spatulate-shaped nectomonad promastigotes (3) and elongate nectomonad promastigotes (4).
Taper
Definition:
(n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
(n.) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
(a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
(v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
(v. t.) To make or cause to taper.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) The cases of S-type were changed to those of ST-type, which emphasized the Tapering type factors.
(3) The former possess a variety of spines, axonlike processes and sometimes an unmyelinated axon, and are presumably interneurons, while type IIB cells show a thick tapering axon that is probably myelinated.
(4) He presents measures for the management of withdrawal symptoms and relapse, focusing on the use of a slow taper over 3 to 6 months.
(5) In the experiments which covered exposure time from 4.5 to 17.0 s, we found that it started slowly, the reflectance increased rapidly once the surface temperature of the lesion reached approximately 90 degrees C. After this rapid rise, the reflectance began to taper off until no change in reflectance was recorded.
(6) During the 3-month tapering-off period eight initially improved patients (36%) in the cyclosporin group worsened, as did six (55%) in the placebo group.
(7) Special complications included postoperative renal deterioration, especially after tapering of megaureters.
(8) Yes, at the 2010 Conservative conference the party announced a similar cliff-edge at the higher rate tax threshold as a way of effectively means-testing child benefit payments, but that was eventually removed and replaced with a less egregious taper at the 2012 budget.
(9) Myocardial fibers were elongated and thinner (tapered) in the tips of papillary muscles.
(10) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(11) Bad pun aside, investors are concerned that the company's high growth-rates are tapering.
(12) In addition, after incubation in ATP, they are intermingled with, and converge onto the surfaces of, thick, tapered filaments, which we have tentatively identified as of myosin-like nature.
(13) The spheroids grew exponentially with a volume-doubling time of approximately 24 h up to a diameter of approximately 580 microns and then the growth rate tapered off, more for spheroids grown at the low than at the high oxygen tension.
(14) The tapered tubes and constricted tubes are of special importance.
(15) It involves the deep white matter symmetrically, tapering off toward the cortex.
(16) Those on antihypertensive medication prior to enrollment without documented diastolic hypertension had their medication tapered and discontinued, and then met BP criteria (33% of cohort).
(17) It has not yet been possible to enumerate these tapered rods by culture methods, but as judged by visual appearances in the histological sections, they seemed to outnumber all other bacteria in the cecum and the colon by a factor of as much as 1000.
(18) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
(19) The imaging system consists of a ZnS(Ag) screen, two tapered fibers, an image intensifier, and a Polaroid film.
(20) The micropyle canal measures 8 microns at the opening and tapers to 3.6 microns as it penetrates the membrane.