"diameter" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Contraction of this muscle aids in exertional expiration by decreasing the transverse diameter of the thoracic cage.
- In this way, the transverse diameter is expanded and the lungs can fill.
- Cardio-thoracic ratio is the "transverse diameter of the heart, as determined by x-ray examination, compared with that of the thoracic cage, used to help determine enlargement of the heart."
- It is somewhat cuboid in form, but its transverse diameter is greater than its antero-posterior (front to back).
- The biparietal (9.5 cm), the greatest transverse diameter of the head, which extends from one parietal boss to the other.
- It is the more prominent and is the broader both in its antero-posterior and transverse diameters.
- It is broader, and extends farther upward, on the volar than on the dorsal aspect, and is longer in the antero-posterior than in the transverse diameter.
- In defining an ellipse, the short (vertical) diameter is known as the conjugate diameter, and the long (horizontal) diameter-perpendicular, or "transverse", to the conjugate-is the transverse diameter.
- The transverse diameter of the pelvic inlet measures 13.5 cm.
- Anthropoid: the widest transverse diameter is less than the anteroposterior (obstetrical) diameter.
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