(v. t.) To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.
(n.) To put a tap on (a shoe).
(v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
(n.) The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.
(n.) A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the from, to bring it, or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression.
Example Sentences:
(1) After about 3 weeks of culture, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-pretreated fetal rat brain cells showed focal proliferation of neural cells on an underlayer of flat, epithelioid cells.
(2) These in vitro findings probably account for the remarkable results obtained in infections which up to now had mortality rates of 30 to 60 per cent, depending on the patient's underlaying condition.
(3) The type I + III collagen underlayer is reorganized when grafted.
(4) On the other hand, the alpha blockers might interfere with the ionic mechanisms underlaying the 4-AP effect thus, masking the removal of the noradrenergic control, due to an alpha blockade.
(5) The stromal underlayer has the typical morphological structure: its cells are compactly packed in the form of a skein with stromal mechanocytes among them.
(6) It is suggested that the motoneuron excitability changes within the interspike interval underlay the relationship between the motoneuron firing rate and effectiveness of the excitatory afferent volley.
(7) We report the anatomical and functional results of 156 myringoplasty; 134 with onlay surgical technique and 22 with underlay technique.
(8) Repair of the tympanic membrane with an underlay connective tissue graft (fascia in 90%) was successful in 97% of the ears.
(9) The small, underlayer scales, which on the flagella are shown to be arranged in 24 rows, number about 350000; larger scales of more complex construction number about 20 000.
(10) On pathological basis (simple, purulent and cholestéatomatous otitis) they used the overlay or the underlay method.
(11) A circus movement with antegrad conduction through the AV node and retograde conduction through an accessory pathway was found as the underlaying mechanism of the tachycardia.
(12) Flat cytoplasmic extensions of squamous cells underlay most of the goblet cell basal pole which therefore had only a small area on the basal lamina.
(13) In arterial walls collagen type III was detected immediately underlaying the endothelial cell layer and in the tissue between tunica elastica interna and adventitia.
(14) After dividing the posterior anulus, the flaps are rotated anteriorly, a maneuver that provides ample exposure of the middle ear and greatly simplifies underlay fascia grafting.
(15) In double soft-agar culture, colony formations of cancer cells in the overlayer were stimulated or inhibited by the presence of various kinds of fibroblast in the underlayer.
(16) Charged £2,339 in September 2005 for supply and fitting of "magnolia cavalier cavalace velvet wool carpet with cloud and cumulus underlay".
(17) These facts do not contradict our previous suggestion that the lipid-protein interactions underlay the regulative action mechanism of the natural bioactive ligands.
(18) The colony-stimulating activity of unfractionated conditioned medium was equivalent to the activity of standard peripheral blood underlayers.
(19) Transmural infarction underlay each case of ruptured ventricular septum, while in ruptured papillary muscle 11 of 20 cases showed subendocardial infarction.
(20) This problem has been solved by the layering of an intermediate D2O solution under the BSA and subsequent removal of the BSA solution and the underlaying with D2O containing glutaraldehyde.
Vertical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.
(a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.
(n.) Vertical position; zenith.
(n.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
(2) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
(3) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(4) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(5) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
(6) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(7) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(8) 3-D curves were computed with an apparent rotation around the vertical axis Z.
(9) The following oculomotor paradigms were investigated: horizontal and vertical saccades of different sizes (10-80 degrees), smooth pursuit eye movements, optokinetic and vestibular nystagmus.
(10) From a psychological-vertical aspect the group is rather a common situation in which the individual members remain in their experience separated from each other.
(11) Single vertical spin and electron microscopy analyses of these HDL subpopulations demonstrated that acid elution from the affinity columns caused no detectable change in size and density of the three subpopulation particles.
(12) 'Vertical' sections are plane sections longitudinal to a fixed (but arbitrary) axial direction.
(13) Although active head movements reversed horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflexes, vertical vestibulo-ocular reflexes in light and darkness were normal.
(14) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
(15) These observations suggest that the persistently mobile, vertically positioned unbonded cup remain stable despite the stress of significant trauma.
(16) First, the possibility of "vertical" transmission of the virus was examined, as the Papio stock in Sukhumi was genetically homogeneous.
(17) The "lazy-T" technique consists of a surgical horizontal and vertical shortening of the involved portion of the lower eyelid.
(18) The LVOR in the presence of visual targets (VLVOR) was tested by recording human vertical eye and head movements during self-generated vertical linear oscillation (averaging 2.7 Hz at peak excursion of 3.2 cm) while subjects alternately fixated targets at D = 36, 142, and 424 cm.
(19) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
(20) Accommodation measurements of nine young, emmetropic subjects were obtained with an infrared optometer while they viewed superimposed horizontal and vertical square-wave gratings at various dioptric separations.