Example sentences for: scalene

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  • As if the preceding were not enough, I also noticed, assuming that the program did not stop and offer choices if the word was in its memory, that oligopsony is in, but psychoneurotic is not; Winston is in, Churchill is not; isosceles is in, scalene is not.

  • In the scalene muscle, an accessory muscle of inspiration, of emphysematous hamsters, an increase in IIa fibers and a decrease in IIx fibers has been demonstrated with the use of anti-MHC monoclonal antibodies.

  • Aristotle says that Democritus conceived atoms—the word means unsplittables (Greek a- , not-, plus tomos , a cut, section)—as being particles at variance with one another which tend to get ensnarled and interlocked... fit snugly and so catch firm hold of one another, for some bodies are scalene while others are sharply hooked, some are concave, others convex...

  • Although increased activities of citrate synthase [ 7 ] and SDH [ 2 3 ] have usually been demonstrated in the diaphragm in animal models of emphysema, fiber type has generally not been found to be significantly altered [ 1 2 3 7 ] . Only in one recent paper was a shift in MHC in emphysematous diaphragm demonstrated, but the histochemical technique used precluded the separation of IIb and IIx fibers [ 10 ] . Another study has shown increased expression of IIa at the expense of IIx MHC in emphysematous hamster scalene muscle with the use of MHC monoclonal antibodies, but there were none of the expected physiologic changes accompanying the shift [ 11 ] .


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