How To Use Flexure In A Sentence
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The surgeon incises the peritoneum lateral to the colon and mobilizes the descending colon and splenic flexure.
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a flexure of the colon
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Of a truth he is the tenderest as well as the youngest, and also he is of flexile form; for if he were hard and without flexure he could not enfold all things, or wind his way into and out of every soul of man undiscovered.
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Flexure galvanometers and low-noise servo drives offer improved performance in applications requiring smooth scanning with low jitter.
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Flex Sig if done to the splenic flexure or about the 40 cm. levelat best may be 60 to 70% as sensitive as colonoscopy.
New ACS colon cancer guidelines-moves CT screening up
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The only irregularities are small east-dipping flexures over deep-seated faults.
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Approximately one third of polyps and one half of colorectal cancers occur proximal to the splenic flexure.
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Of a truth he is the tenderest as well as the youngest, and also he is of flexile form; for if he were hard and without flexure he could not enfold all things, or wind his way into and out of every soul of man undiscovered.
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Head testaceous, face transverse; antennæ testaceous, third joint elongate-conical; arista bare; abdomen blackish blue, second segment very large, third and following not visible; legs testaceous; wings limpid, with four transverse pale brown subcostal streaks; discal transverse vein parted by less than half its length from the border, and by less than its length from the flexure of the præbrachial; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Along with characterizing a plastic's bending properties, flexure can be used to evaluate aging and sterilization effects on a product.
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It ascends through the right lumbar and hypochondriac regions to the under surface of the liver; it here takes a bend, the right colic flexure, to the left and passes transversely across the abdomen on the confines of the epigastric and umbilical regions, to the left hypochondriac region; it then bends again, the left colic flexure, and descends through the left lumbar and iliac regions to the pelvis, where it forms a bend called the sigmoid flexure; from this it is continued along the posterior wall of the pelvis to the anus.
XI. Splanchnology. 2h. The Large Intestine
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Thus wishing to preserve the entire seed, he enclosed it in a stone-like casing, inserting joints, and using in the formation of them the power of the other or diverse as an intermediate nature, that they might have motion and flexure.
Timaeus
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The details of a manufacturing process to make an alloy that has superior strength and flexure properties (and could be used as a spring in a chip-clip) is very valuable to the public.
Two Kinds of Innovation
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University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (Lawrence, Kan.) - Investigators will evaluate the effectiveness of the volume curvature seismic tool to assess reservoirs and features such as sags, flexures, and fractures.
U.S. Department of Energy - Press Releases
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That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime, than the twingle twangle of a Jews-harp; that the delicate flexure of a rose-twig, when the half-blown flower is heavy with the tears of the dawn, was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than the upright stub of a burdock; and that from something innate and independent of all associations of ideas; - these I had set down as irrefragable, orthodox truths, until perusing your book shook my faith.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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By the forward growth and flexure of the head the pericardial area and the anterior portions of the primitive aortæ are folded backward on the ventral aspect of the fore-gut, and the original relation of the somatopleure and splanchnopleure layers of the pericardial area is reversed.
V. Angiology. 3. Development of the Vascular System
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Crossed-flexure pivot galvanometers are generally used in fixed-frequency application.
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The mica does not everywhere present this coarsely crystalline appearance, but in flexures and lines of union with the quartz and orthoclase is degraded to a mica schist upon whose surfaces appear uranates of lime and copper (autunite and torbernite), and in which are inclosed garnet crystals of considerable size and beauty.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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Three main processes are essential to the understanding of mechanisms of large-scale subsidence and uplift: thermal perturbations of the lithosphere, isostasy (mass balancing), and flexure.
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The shroud or wrap (14) is positioned adjacent the first body portion (24) and has a peripheral extent at least equal to the peripheral extent of the balloon flexure region (24).
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The sigmoid may lie in the abdomen just inferior to the splenic flexure of the transverse colon, or in the right iliac fossa.
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A left humerus of which the upper-third is wanting, and which is so much slenderer than the right as apparently to belong to a distinct individual; a left 'ulna', which, though complete, is pathologically deformed, the coronoid process being so much enlarged by bony growth, that flexure of the elbow beyond a right angle must have been impossible; the anterior fossa of the humerus for the reception of the coronoid process being also filled up with a similar bony growth.
On Some Fossil Remains of Man
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No antick screws men's bodies into such strange flexures, and you would think them here senseless, to speak sense to their bowl, and put their trust in intreaties for a good cast.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime, than the twingle twangle of a jew's-harp: that the delicate flexure of a rose-twig, when the half-blown flower is heavy with the tears of the dawn, was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than the upright stub of a burdock; and that from something innate and independent of all associations of ideas; -- these I had set down as irrefragable, orthodox truths, until perusing your book shook my faith.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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Tumors or polyps that develop proximal to the splenic flexure carry a poorer prognosis than those that arise more distally.
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The shroud or wrap (14) is positioned adjacent the first body portion (24) and has a peripheral extent at least equal to the peripheral extent of the balloon flexure region (24).
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Approximately one third of polyps and one half of colorectal cancers occur proximal to the splenic flexure.
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The surgeon then uses the ultrasonic scalpel to mobilize the hepatic flexure by dividing the attachments.
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We next observe a flexible chain (artificially wrought for the sake of flexure) communicating the action of the spring from the box to the fusee.
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At the joints he diminished the flesh in order not to impede the flexure of the limbs, and also to avoid clogging the perceptions of the mind.
Timaeus
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Speed, and its derivatives, acceleration and flexure, are based on measured time.
Destiny Narrowly Avoided
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In wild-type hermaphrodites, germ cells at the dorsoventral flexure exit the pachytene stage of the first meiotic prophase and proceed to diakinesis.
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In the Ebro basin, flexure of the crust was produced mainly by the Pyrenean load, but also by the emergent thrust sheet of the Aragonese Branch.
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At a distal end of the head support arm, there is a flat portion with a swage hole for connection of the flexure assembly.
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An enema shows a normal sized rectum and small caliber sigmoid and descending colon with a transition zone in colonic caliber occurring at the level of the splenic flexure.
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The mica does not everywhere present this coarsely crystalline appearance, but in flexures and lines of union with the quartz and orthoclase is degraded to a mica schist upon whose surfaces appear uranates of lime and copper (autunite and torbernite), and in which are inclosed garnet crystals of considerable size and beauty.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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In crawling infants the forearms, extensor aspects of the knees, and the ankle flexures are often the most affected.
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It is impossible to behold such effects of reiterated local movements, all of post-Tertiary date, without reflecting that, but for the accidental presence of the stratified drift, all of which might easily have been missing, where there has been so much denudation, even if it had once existed, we might have referred the verticality and flexures and faults of the rocks to an ancient period, such as the era between the Chalk with flints and the
The Antiquity of Man
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Flex Sig if done to the splenic flexure or about the 40 cm. levelat best may be 60 to 70% as sensitive as colonoscopy.
New ACS colon cancer guidelines-moves CT screening up
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The whole region has been subjected to many displacements, both flexures of the monoclinal type and faults.
The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198
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An enema shows a normal sized rectum and small caliber sigmoid and descending colon with a transition zone in colonic caliber occurring at the level of the splenic flexure.
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The transformation and stress of the flexure hinges are analyzed with ANSYS software package.
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Some are twisted like phone cords; others have sharp flexures from buckling.
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Flexures provide quasilinear translation without stiction and friction, but flexure-based-translational motion is inherently arcuate.
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The basin is separated from the craton by a major tectonic flexure known as the Redstone arch.
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The testing results about the use of new rail joint was introduced, which include the dynamic flexure stress of upper limb and lower margin of joint bar, shearing stress of horizontally neutral axis.
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Even stranger, a strong S-shaped flexure in the cervical series (not obvious in live animals because of pectoral air sacs) means that the anterior part of the neck can be rapidly retracted into the thorax.
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A fold of peritoneum, the phrenicocolic ligament, is continued from the left colic flexure to the diaphragm opposite the tenth and eleventh ribs; it passes below and serves to support the spleen, and therefore has received the name of sustentaculum lienis.
XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen
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It is caused by the expansion of bottom crevasses and tidal flexure along grounding lines, supported by water pressure in the crevasses.
Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
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An enema shows a normal sized rectum and small caliber sigmoid and descending colon with a transition zone in colonic caliber occurring at the level of the splenic flexure.
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_expand and open out from each other_, some bending round and terminating their action on the upper surface of the hemisphere, and others meeting, as it were, above in their progress outwards, uniting their forces to give an increased charge to the carrier ball, at an _increased distance_ from the source of power, and influencing each other so as to cause a second flexure in the contrary direction from the first one.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
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In the study proximal colon cancers included the cecum, ascending colon, up to the point of the hepatic flexure, which is the point where the colon makes a turn to become the transverse colon.
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Malignant masses of the stomach or splenic flexure of the colon are sometimes palpable in the splenic area.
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To add to the problem, Barbara had a lengthy, tortuous colon, and - despite turning, twisting, and compressing her - barium and air would not pass proximal to the hepatic flexure.
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When using the datagloves, tracker sensors attached to them determine the location and orientation of each glove, while the gloves themselves measure the flexure of each finger.
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By the forward growth and flexure of the head the pericardial area and the anterior portions of the primitive aortæ are folded backward on the ventral aspect of the fore-gut, and the original relation of the somatopleure and splanchnopleure layers of the pericardial area is reversed.
V. Angiology. 3. Development of the Vascular System
