How To Use Oblique In A Sentence
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The superior temporal gyrus is subdivided into two or more obliquely running, short, transverse temporal gyri.
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The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
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They entered the market obliquely through the production of non-agricultural products such as barrel staves that they bartered for textiles, hardware and cheap consumer goods.
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The egg extended obliquely backward across the fly's prosternum.
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The hardships have been played down and there are only oblique references to the question of whether or not a ransom was paid.
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Miss Margland, extremely piqued, vented her spleen in oblique sarcasms, and sought to heal her offended pride by appeals for justice to her sagacity and foresight in the whole business.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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This first of many direct and oblique connections between the two poets takes considerable ballsyness on the younger Berrigan's part, but it all pays off in the end.
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Some passages can be simple descriptions; others can be almost poetic or oblique.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anytime you see a sign like that, you see this fracture, what we call an oblique fracture so it kind of spirals up, we know that he had some unbelievable force at his ankle that transmitted up through his fibula and fractured it.
T.O.
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Abdomen: with an elongate clavate petiole; the first segment with an oblique yellow macula on each side, the third with a large lateral macula at its base, and the following segments entirely yellow.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Walks are oblique approaches to difficult destinations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Obliquus abdominis - commonly known as the obliques, this muscle runs diagonally along the side of the mid-section from the lower ribcage to the pubic area.
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Once parked, walk through the twitten and we are on the other side of the road, obliquely opposite you.
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In addition, Lee designers express the theme with ‘unfinished design’ which includes handicraft style, oblique neckline and patchwork.
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Yellow; the antennæ fuscous above, also a fuscous cloud at the apex of the anterior wings, the wings hyaline with the nervures black; a spot on the scape within, and three longitudinal stripes on the mesothorax, black; the latter slightly punctured anteriorly; the metathorax smooth and shining, with three oblique carinæ on each side, and a small subovate enclosed space in the middle of the disk.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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If we attempt to make the oblique arches complete circles, as at Fig. 96, we see that they must necessarily rise higher than the cross and side arches, so that the roof would be in a succession of domical forms, as at Fig. 97.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888
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On its final page, one short sentence makes an oblique reference to the crisis ahead.
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On its final page, one short sentence makes an oblique reference to the crisis ahead.
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Buntsandstein-Hauptbuntsandstein_ (900 ft.), the bulk [v. 04 p. 0802] of this subdivision is made up of weakly-cemented, coarse-grained sandstones, oblique lamination is very prevalent, and occasional conglomeratic beds make their appearance.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Lubetkin orients the entrance on an oblique axis in order to bypass the first stair tower and arrive opposite the center of the building.
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The lingual root arises directly from the base of the lingual shelf, is slender, and extends obliquely medially as well as vertically.
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This type of training engages and increases the activation of the core muscles consisting of pelvic floor muscles, transversus abdominis, multifidus, internal and external obliques, rectus abdominis, erector spinae (sacrospinalis) especially the longissimus thoracis, and the diaphragm.
David Buer: Effects Of Training On Unstable Surfaces For Sports Performance
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Although people occasionally discussed questions of local autonomy in private, they rarely raised them, even obliquely, in public.
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With surrealism this involves, presumably, finding a way to integrate a surrealisticpresentation with one's prior conceptions of the way things are: surrealism becomes an alternative vision of the world, one that breaks from the "normal" perceptions most of us share only to portray that world just as truthfully if more obliquely.
Experimental Fiction
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The tendon of the plantaris crosses obliquely from lateral to medial in a depression in the soleus muscle.
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This week she has devised the Oblique Crunch, to strengthen abdominal muscles.
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Oblique culinary references and obscure terms go against the grain of the present climate in the culinary world.
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Charmed by his obliqueness - ‘doing’ and ‘getting’ as euphemisms for fundraising and boondoggling - I told him the name of my book.
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Quick as a flash, the little Italian was there to steal the ball and hook it into the net from an oblique angle.
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One of the oblique ways of telling what a new place is like is to see what sort of books are in the junk shop.
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This exercise strengthens the hip flexors, back extensors, obliques and core abdominal muscles.
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The mesoscale geometric and kinematic characteristics of transpressional structures formed in regions of obliquely convergent deformation are still rather poorly understood.
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He drew an oblique line form one corner of the paper to the other.
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Roman type which has vertical stems as distinct from italics or oblique which are set at angles.
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As you begin this week, you may still be hoping that you can find an oblique way of addressing complex issues with others.
Times, Sunday Times
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A kickball fell from her finespun fingers, bouncing disinterestedly away at an oblique angle, a distant shadow from a 767 drifting across its path.
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He was expected to miss camp time with a strained oblique muscle, which didn't help his chances of making the roster.
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His own compositions are mostly fragmented, mournful affairs, stuffed with bursts of folkish melodies and oblique twists.
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Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps are nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle.
Archive 2005-07-01
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He drew an oblique line form one corner of the paper to the other.
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He drew an oblique line form one corner of the paper to the other.
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Angles are either right, acute, or oblique.
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Take care where you place your camera: if you are taking pictures early in the morning try placing it at oblique angles to the sun - this will give your images strong shadows.
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It's pretty oblique, and free of some of the grotesqueries that characterize almost everything else he's done.
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[FN#137] The word sac (leg), when used in the oblique case, as it would necessarily be here, makes saki, i.e. cup-bearer.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
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I took particular pleasure in the oblique angles.
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Higher up, the petioles bend away from the pseudostem to hold the huge oval leaves at an oblique angle.
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Through humour, satire, and a range of experiments with language, the collection offers an oblique commentary on Caribbean society.
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If it has to be an oblique view then it must be an isonometric or axonometric with that slightly weird Daliesque effect.
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But within the regular outline, it is divided obliquely into two irregularly shaped parts of unequal size that descending in height towards the centre are dovetailed together.
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Many an oblique line holds it all together, and some of its messages still hit home.
Times, Sunday Times
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The receptacle of the chyle is a membranous bag, about two thirds of an inch long, and one third of an inch wide, at its superior part it is contracted into a slender membranous pipe, called the thoracic duct, because its course is principally through the thorax; it passes between the aorta and the vena azygos, then obliquely over the oesophagus, and great curvature of the aorta, and continuing its course towards the internal jugular vein, it enters the left subclavian vein on its superior part.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
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Many an oblique line holds it all together, and some of its messages still hit home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Does 'tabby' weaving have some oblique connection to tabby cats?
Silk in early England
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Fortunately, it came in at an oblique angle and skipped off his mail, ripping a huge tear in his poncho without inflicting any other damage.
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Sonia is a freak, and a picture of Sonia whose face bears the manifestations of the congenital syndrome that afflicts her oblique palpebral fissures, I have learned they are called, epicanthal folds, and a mouth that is disproportionately small will serve as a constant reminder to Dad that he created for the second time in his life a child with physical and mental imperfections.
A Traitor to Memory
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The keiretsu are the key to understanding the jimusho system, but unfortunately, this is also the most oblique characteristic of the field to measure and observe.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Jimusho System: Part Two
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The carpets placed on the floor seemed to be an oblique reference to the manner in which women are still walked all over in many parts of the world.
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Pyramids that are not right are called oblique.
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Yet it is possible to approach this problem in an oblique manner.
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From an underground, thick, oblique rhizome, the short, green, succulent stipites arise, in a tufted form, and are crinite with brown, subulate, shining scales.
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the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base
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She would have been a wacky, bohemian artist with a love of the oblique.
Times, Sunday Times
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The MRI doesn't show anything significant, but I learned a long time ago, when the word 'oblique' is mentioned, I get nervous.
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Its medial surface forms part of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity; at its upper part is a rough, uneven area, which articulates with the ethmoid, closing in the anterior ethmoidal cells; below this is an oblique ridge, the ethmoidal crest, the posterior end of which articulates with the middle nasal concha, while the anterior part is termed the agger nasi; the crest forms the upper limit of the atrium of the middle meatus.
II. Osteology. 5b. 2. The Maxillæ (Upper Jaw)
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Coastal Refraction alters the bearings, particularly when bearings are at an oblique angle to the coastline. 6.
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However, in obliquely making this point Mr. Klein unwittingly points to a flaw in the measurement of administrative efficiency.
More Stupid Administrative Efficiency Arguments
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Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Mr Golding delivered an oblique warning, talking of the danger of sudden action.
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The Left Innominate Vein (v. anonyma sinistra), about 6 cm. in length, begins behind the sternal end of the clavicle and runs obliquely downward and to the right behind the upper half of the manubrium sterni to the sternal end of the first right costal cartilage, where it unites with the right innominate vein to form the superior vena cava.
VII. The Veins. 3c. The Veins of the Upper Extremity and Thorax
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MetroNorth carriage windows are usually so maculated with filth on the outside, especially after a snow storm, that their only practical purpose is to provide many oblique reflections with which discreetly to observe passengers on the inside.
Archive 2009-01-01
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It never strives to say anything in particular, and the backroom drama-what there is of it anyway-is so brief, oblique and elliptical that it merely provides an air of impromptu, on-the-fly context for the dance numbers.
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-- (Fig. 236.) Shell small, thick, triangular, oblique; ribs strong and crenate; umbones acute.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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The Gerund and the Gerundive are used, in the oblique cases, in many of the constructions of nouns.
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One is to enter a drama at an oblique angle to the main issue.
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Although people occasionally discussed questions of local autonomy in private, they rarely raised them, even obliquely, in public.
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The rotational action of the obliques is very important in turning the shoulders, which is vital in gymnastics, diving, wrestling, and the martial arts.
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The teeth are closely spaced and positioned so that the serrations are obliquely oriented relative to the long axis of the tooth row.
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On the oblique plane parallel to the horizon segment, the intratemporal facial nerve was completely disclosed.
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In engineering, oblique axonometric projection is useful.
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He was expected to miss at least one spring start with a strained oblique muscle, though the injury is not considered serious.
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It was an oblique way of giving praise.
Times, Sunday Times
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A gem from the superb new box set covering the enigmatic Walker brother's less oblique years.
Times, Sunday Times
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The problem of scattering of an obliquely incident plane acoustic wave from an infinite solid elastic clad rod is formulated.
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The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
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This muscle runs obliquely downwards inside the abdominal cavity.
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A. pallidus was described as having an obliquely 5-toothed fruiting calyx in the original description by Bentham, who also described the upper subulate calyx lip as the posterior lip and the other 4 oblique minute teeth as the anterior lip.
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There are only two circumvallated papillae in the posterior third of the tongue, one on each side of the midline, keeping an oblique position.
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A gem from the superb new box set covering the enigmatic Walker brother's less oblique years.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this watershed sequence, the oblique angles and edgy camerawork signal the presence of Jeffrey's gaze as his invisible aura surrounds Susan in her destitution.
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Oblique drawings have one axis along the horizontal line.
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In fact, when one considers the oblique twists, unexpected turns and apparently random decisions that have characterised his career, then a home in the Highlands village actually seems somehow inevitable.
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The plant has 45 cm high clustered leafy stems with pinnately arranged pale green lance-shaped leaflets obliquely banded with pure white.
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Where a convergent or divergent margin has a significant transform component it is appropriate to refer to it as an oblique-slip margin.
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Oblique aerial photographs show sites in the context of the landscape and can also be used for preparing archaeological maps.
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The instrumentation is acoustic guitar plus woodwinds and strings - meandering arrangements, oblique lyrics, and his vocal style is pretty full on, so right up my alley.
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The final version of this enigmatic character is in one sense an embodiment of Christian gentleness, but it is a gentleness deeply flawed by lack of self-knowledge, confused desire and passivity – an ironic picture which reflects what some would indeed see as Christlikeness, yet incorporates an oblique recognition of something like a Nietzschean critique of Christianity as dealing in unrealities and depending on the resentment of the weak.
Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist
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This exercise strengthens the obliques, quadratus lumborum, back extensors, gluteals, adductors and core abdominal muscles.
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Between these circular fibers (the cricopharyngeal muscle) and the oblique fibers of the inferior constrictor muscle there is a weakly supported point through which the esophageal wall may herniate to form the so-called pulsion diverticulum.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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When a fracture of the hook of the hamate is suspected, physicians should include the carpal tunnel and supinated oblique views.
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Hence in Roman law affinity arising from a valid marriage, whether consummated or not, constituted a diriment impediment between the affined in all degrees throughout the direct line, and to the second degree (civil method of computing) in the indirect or oblique line.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Oblique section of left intertarsal and tarsometatarsal articulations, showing the synovial cavities.
Illustrations. Fig. 360
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This maneuver adducts the fetal posterior shoulder in an attempt to rotate the shoulders out of the impacted position and into an oblique plane for delivery.
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[ECHINUS RUFFINII] "Body sub-depressed; ambulacral and interlambulacral; plates with several primary tubercles on each closely ranged, having circles of secondary tubercles surrounding their bases; rows of pores very oblique, with three pair of pores in each row, the uppermost distant from the other two.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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The teeth are closely spaced and positioned so that the serrations are obliquely oriented relative to the long axis of the tooth row.
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It ascends obliquely in the groove between the Biceps brachii and Pronator teres and crosses the brachial artery, from which it is separated by the lacertus fibrosus; filaments of the medial antibrachial cutaneous nerve pass both in front of and behind this portion of the vein.
VII. The Veins. 3c. The Veins of the Upper Extremity and Thorax
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But you clearly believe, bizarrely, that the 'googly' is something which equalizes the field - when it is the 'googly' that in fact disguises a simple question in condensed, oblique language, and therefore is only a further advantage thrust at the well-prepared girl or boy who has had such strangely codified questions fired at them for months, who know 'googlies.'
What did the Romans wear under their togas?
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They include the lack of dentary symphyseal splaying around the canines and the lack of an obliquely oriented lower tooth row.
Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea
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Through humour, satire, and a range of experiments with language, the collection offers an oblique commentary on Caribbean society.
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The new species differs from it in being narrower and higher at a comparable growth stage and in having less oblique auricles.
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The oblique crest tends to be parallel to the lingual border.
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The ground-floor windows are carefully placed so they look obliquely at the neighbours' back gardens or between the windows of the opposite homes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plant that Frank had obliquely advised me to spray looked the worse for neglect.
BETTER THAN THIS
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He was, it seems, referring obliquely to the haze created by all those mind-expanding drugs the beautiful people popped, mainlined and smoked.
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[GONIOCLYPEUS SUBANGULATUS] somewhat pentangular; posterior or anal orifice lateral, or upon the superior face; interambulacral area grooved, with the continued area beneath projecting; interambulacral areas sub-angulated; mouth rather narrow or small, central; peristome angular, and surrounded by five angular prominences, which terminate in the interambulacral areas, between which is a rosette, perforated by seven pairs of pores, with three odd ones at the end of each petal; ambulacra petaloid and closed; the prolonged zone provided with alternating pores as far as the base; pores connected by oblique grooves; interambulacral wide; plates large, and nine or ten in a column.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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It can be comminuted (insert number of fragments), compound, angulated (insert degree of angulation), spiral, oblique, transverse, epiphyseal (four main types), diaphyseal or other things.
Expanding Medical Codes to 140,000 Is Rx for Futility
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The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
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The extension was built at an oblique angle to the house.
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The outer branchia is attached to the mantle throughout its whole length, and is obliquely truncated anteriorly; the inner branchia is not united to the foot.
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Where a convergent or divergent margin has a significant transform component it is appropriate to refer to it as an oblique-slip margin.
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He referred only obliquely to their recent problems.
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Fore wings with white veins towards the base, and with an exterior oblique white band, which is narrower hindward, and ends at some distance from the interior border.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Is it okay to suggest however obliquely that whoever came up with these figures should have their heads examined?
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Body broadly ovate, elevated and truncate posteriorly; back oblique; dorsal impression lanceolate; scutab area very slightly excavated; ambulacral spaces broad, triangular, depressed; interambulacral spaces slightly convex; anteal furrow broad and shallow, sides slightly gibbous; sub-anal impressions broadly ob-cordate; post-oral spinous space broadly lanceolate.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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Each poem was a small portrait contained in a narrative which obliquely offered a philosophical observation.
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The muscle is swung around and sutured to the caudal portion of the defect at the pectoralis major's origin and at the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle.
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The freshest specimens have the griseous margin of the elytra, which parts from the base under the shoulder, obliquely and angularly ampliate interiorly towards the middle, where it reaches the second stria.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Instead of a rationalist rectilinearity, he enriched the Case House with oblique lines and diagonals, a trademark of his mentors'approaches to composition.
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The subject nominal is in the oblique form and the verb phrase lacks tense and agreement markers.
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She uses the archive as an oblique way of talking about serious issues: 'I see it as an unspoken sharing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yellow; the antennæ fuscous above, also a fuscous cloud at the apex of the anterior wings, the wings hyaline with the nervures black; a spot on the scape within, and three longitudinal stripes on the mesothorax, black; the latter slightly punctured anteriorly; the metathorax smooth and shining, with three oblique carinæ on each side, and a small subovate enclosed space in the middle of the disk.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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He had been sidelined for almost a month by a strained left oblique muscle that was causing persistent pain in his side.
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The lawyers and henchmen obliqued off to the sides.
Space Viking
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But what you're now facing is more complex and requires a more oblique approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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So it's perhaps not surprising he traded the overtly political for a more oblique approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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This curves obliquely forward and expands into a broad aponeurosis, which is inserted, in front of the Gracilis and Semitendinous, into the upper part of the medial surface of the body of the tibia, nearly as far forward as the anterior crest.
IV. Myology. 8b. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Thigh
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Some of them said it obliquely; some of them said it directly.
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The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
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Objective:To evaluate the accuracy of cervical pedicle screw pilot holes placement by bilateral oblique X-ray films with the spiral wires as the guide pin.
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It lies between the plain and the sea at an oblique angle to the coastline.
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The lowest bed is an obliquely laminated, blackish, indurated mud, with distinct traces of vegetable remains.
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The cul-de-sac enclosed between the limbs of the U lies behind the left atrium and is known as the oblique sinus, while the passage between the venous and arterial mesocardiai. e., between the aorta and pulmonary artery in front and the atria behindis termed the transverse sinus.
V. Angiology. 4a. The Pericardium
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The greatest tentacle length in a bryozoan lophophore known to us is 1.2 mm, reported by Cook from a highly obliquely truncate lophophore in a colony of the ctenostome Flustrellida hispida.
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Throughout the article the members made both direct and oblique references to the English heritage on Long Island.
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Their compatriots understood that they had to take time to counsel them and approach the subject much more obliquely than would the Western professional.
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The city was gloriously clean, its classical columns and pediments and its baroque scrolls and volutes now clearly delineated by the shadows cast by an oblique sun on their pale surfaces.
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A cylinder is right, if its generatrices are perpendicular to its base; otherwise, a cylinder is oblique.
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His biggest drawback is his lack of symmetry, a sticking point that you can see in the overdeveloped obliques that hinder his ability to convey a classic V taper.
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The letter bears no signature and no address; it's at once passionate and oblique, fervent and cryptic.
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The hardships have been played down and there are only oblique references to the question of whether or not a ransom was paid.
Times, Sunday Times
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The final phase of this procedure is to perform an oblique incision along the anterior border of the sternal colloid mastoid muscle down to the super sternal notch.
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They had approached each other obliquely and addressed each other by implication.
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The abdominals include: the rectus abdominis, external and internal obliques, and transverse abdominis.
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Those cars then have to get back out at an oblique angle across two opposing lanes of traffic creating - yes you've guessed it - more traffic-flow difficulties.
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Yet these do their job, along with the oblique references to the farm's isolation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oblique angles are of two kinds, acute and obtuse.
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This exercise strengthens the obliques, quadratus lumborum, back extensors, gluteals, adductors and core abdominal muscles.
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Transfer function for reduction to pole can be used to reduce directional oblique magnetic anomaly to vertical magnetic anomaly in frequency(or wavenumber)domain.
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Others, descending from on high, take root as soon as their extremity touches the ground, and appear like shrouds and stays supporting the mainmast of a line-of-battle ship; while others, sending out parallel, oblique, horizontal and perpendicular shoots in all directions, put you in mind of what travellers call a matted forest.
Wanderings in South America
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From ancient Egypt to the Renaissance, from one-point, two-point, and five-point perspective, to orthographic and oblique projections, McNaughton lays out the basics.
Jane Chafin: Andy Warhol, Killer of Art? / Small Books, Big Ideas
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Palpi rather long and slender, not pilose, obliquely ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex; third joint elongate-conical, less than half the length of the second.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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When they lack force, tyrannical natures are characterized by simulation and their behaviour by obliqueness.
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Running obliquely downward and medialward from the tubercle is the intertrochanteric line (spiral line of the femur); it winds around the medial side of the body of the bone, below the lesser trochanter, and ends about 5 cm. below this eminence in the linea aspera.
II. Osteology. 6c. 3. The Femur
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But within the regular outline, it is divided obliquely into two irregularly shaped parts of unequal size that descending in height towards the centre are dovetailed together.
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The instrumentation is acoustic guitar plus woodwinds and strings - meandering arrangements, oblique lyrics, and his vocal style is pretty full on, so right up my alley.
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In the hypothesis of acute angle, we can, find a perpendicular and an oblique to the same straight which never meet.
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The teeth are closely spaced and positioned so that the serrations are obliquely oriented relative to the long axis of the tooth row.
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The avenue, very steep and narrow, and causewayed with large round stones, ascended the side of the precipitous bank in an oblique and zigzag course, now showing now hiding a view of the tower and its exterior bulwarks, which seemed to rise almost perpendicularly above their heads.
Old Mortality
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These work the oblique muscles at the side of the waist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let ABC {Fig, 2.) be an oblique aneled Trjangle giveoy whofe Bafe is 15.4, and the Perpendicular
The Complete Measurer: Or, The Whole Art of Measuring. In Two Parts. The First Part Teaching ...
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Between the major transform faults are sections of spreading centres many hundreds of kilometres long but still typically trending obliquely to the spreading direction.
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The wall of the canal presents an anterior and a posterior longitudinal ridge, from each of which proceed a number of small oblique columns, the palmate folds, giving the appearance of branches from the stem of a tree; to this arrangement the name arbor vitæ uterina is applied.
XI. Splanchnology. 3d. 3. The Uterus
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Whilst considering the other end of the road I have noticed that at the roundabout there you find broken lines crossing the carriageway at an oblique angle.
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Since the triangle ABC has an oblique shape, as the first step, the triangle is redefined to a shape where the integration basis remains same as ABD.
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A gem from the superb new box set covering the enigmatic Walker brother's less oblique years.
Times, Sunday Times
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The terminal cell is always solitary, very often attached to the one next it, which is generally single, obliquely placed, occasionally looking like the dimidiate calyptra capping a young seta.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Transverse fractures are often harder to align and immobilise than apparently more serious oblique or spiral fractures.
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Then, to roll the eye round and round, there are two little muscles, one above and one below, which run "crosswise" of the orbit, called the upper and lower _oblique_ muscles.
A Handbook of Health
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Shell dark brown; half ovate; broad obliquely truncated, and scarcely notched behind; covered with close regular very thin denticulated concentric lamina, forming a paler external coat.
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
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In late Paleogene, the collision between the Indian and the Eurasian plates led to oblique compression and dextral strike-slipping in SW Yunnan, inducing the transpressional basin.
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A thrust joint or tie joint or toe joint_, Fig. 268, is one in which two beams meet at an oblique angle, one receiving the thrust of the other.
Handwork in Wood
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In summer-time, sunlight beats down directly over one hemisphere and the beams fall more obliquely over the other hemisphere.
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Eye movement revealed limitation of superior rectus, lateral rectus, and inferior oblique muscles of left eye.
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Palace trees screen the boundary opposite the hotel and much of the Tudor buildings, which lie at a distance downstream at an oblique angle to the hotel.
Times, Sunday Times
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It starts below the hypochondriac region, runs obliquely downward, then transversely around the waist like a belt.
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Alternatively, the gynoecium of a zygomorphic flower can be on the median plane of the flower, but the entire flower can be oblique to the axillary plane.
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Despicable villains insinuate themselves into the MacDonalds 'homes, and a coven of strange old hags straight from Shakespeare's Scottish play enter stage left to spin oblique prophesies.
Susan Fletcher's "Corrag," reviewed by Ron Charles
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The shell is cylindrical, dense and heavy; the spire is short, with channelled sutures, and the aperture long and narrow; the anterior part is notched; the columella is callous and striated obliquely.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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So it's perhaps not surprising he traded the overtly political for a more oblique approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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It only becomes recognisable when viewed from a very oblique angle, by standing practically alongside the left-hand edge of the painting.
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Like his immediate predecessors, he was for the most part uninterested in assertoric syllogisms and moves on quickly to temporal, oblique, variation, and modal syllogisms, though this does not prevent him from making some original contributions to the theory of the assertoric syllogism.
The Statue of a Writer
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This title raises, obliquely, some of the deep questions that come up in the book.
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Those weapons which graze the bone obliquely are less apt to fracture, contuse, or depress the bone, even when the bone is denuded of flesh; for in some of those wounds thus inflicted the bone is not laid bare of the flesh.
On Injuries Of The Head
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Based on the hydraulic model test of an oblique inlet passage, the hydraulic loss coefficient and distribution of the outlet velocity of the inlet passage are obtained in the paper.
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On the right superciliary ridge is observable an oblique furrow or depression, indicative of an injury received during life. 56 56
Essays
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Shell solid, surface marked by numerous concentric lines of growth, obliquely cordate; posterior margin produced; anterior short; umbones recurved, lunule cordate; pallial line sinuated; margin crenulated.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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He struck out four and walked one in his first outing since June 22, when he strained his left oblique muscle.
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Record the scores of abdominal withdrawal reflex(AWR) and electromyogram of abdominal external oblique muscle on colorectal distensions irritation.
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Riccitiello had previously hinted at the title obliquely in a July VentureBeat interview, saying "Go look at Dead Space and imagine playing that game with a wand and ...
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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As you begin this week, you may still be hoping that you can find an oblique way of addressing complex issues with others.
Times, Sunday Times
