The body generally is marked by the median line, from the vertex to the perinaeum, into corresponding halves.
Or if the body fall from a height upon its cranial vertex, then the propelling force will take effect at the junction of the spine with the cranial base, whilst the resisting force will be the ground upon which the vertex strikes.
The passage of the trunk through the pelvis follows, as above-mentioned, as far as the head: this enters the brim with the occiput in advance, and vertex towards one or other ilium.
Hair shaved on top, back and sides of head, and in median strip from vertexto forehead.
Hair shaved on top and sides of head, and in median strip from vertex to forehead.
Colour yellow, with a black vertebral stripe; a black bar across the end of the snout; a large black blotch covering the vertex and the parietals; belly white.
With them, the eye is situated so far from their vertex that they can scarcely take cognizance of what goes on at that extremity of their frame.
It is certain that the appearance of this meteor does affect the needle in a way not to be mistaken, and (although not invariably) the vertex of the luminous arch will usually conform to the magnetic meridian.
The bow brightened and faded simultaneously with the aurora, and respected the vertex of the auroral bank, being apparently concentric with it.
From the image northward of the sun there issued a cone of light, the vertex of which was directed from the sun.
Their success might, and probably would, have forced the evacuation of Ypres and affected the Picardy salient with its vertex near Amiens, forcing the evacuation of Arras.
All polar-triangles which have one side in common have also the opposite vertex in common.
If we combine both we have-- The two lines which bisect the interior and exterior angles at one vertex of a triangle divide the opposite side internally and externally in the same ratio, viz.
If we proceed in the same manner with the base b, setting it off n times, we find that the area of the triangle on the base nb equals n[beta], the vertex of all triangles being the same.
Each face is a regular polygon, hence the angles of the faces at any vertex must be angles in equal regular polygons, must be together less than four right angles (XI.
Similarly, in an hyperbola a vertex is nearer to the directrix than to the focus.
Each of these small planets "moves approximately in a vertex of an equilateral triangle that it forms with Jupiter and the sun.
The child places a piece of an inset in such a way that the vertex of the angle touches the middle of the diameter and one of its sides rests on the radius marked 0 deg.
The genus Berardius[250] differs from Mesoplodon by its rather more symmetrical skull, of which the vertex is formed by the nasals.
The mesethmoid is ossified as in Mesoplodon, but the nasals joined together form the vertex of the skull.
It was in this time of religious stress and civil discord that Saint Isidore of Seville began his labours.
There was hard fighting, but the Governor, Abdelmelic, preserved the city and drove away the foe.
The uncini have the posterior process very short, rounded at the end, much shorter and more slender than the neck, which is rather strongly curved; vertex high and narrowly rounded; beak not strongly depressed.
The snout and vertex may be uniform or bear some symmetrical dark spots, or in some males be entirely black, the black involving the apex of the [V]-shaped marking.
Pressing pain in the head, extending from the vertex toward the forehead as if something would come out.
On touching the vertex the skin pains as if it were suppurating, in the afternoon.
Slight headache in vertex and occiput in forenoon, over the eyeballs about noon,^1.
Toward six in the afternoon, griping and cutting internal to the umbilicus with nausea, afterward vomiting of acid water and at the end a little food, with twisting pains in the vertex and temples; dryness of the mouth with much thirst.
At 9 o'clock in the morning there comes a pain in the left side of the vertex as if a nail were being driven into the head, with extension of the pain to the left lower jaw.
With the aid of the square we find the point corresponding to the vertex of the head and with the millimetric measure we obtain the distance on the wall between this point and the plane of the bench.
It is the distance between the plane on which the individual is seated and the vertex of his head.
To look at a cranium according to the vertical norm means to let our glance fall perpendicularly upon the vertex of the cranium.
A = vertex of triangle; B B' = extremities of base, corresponding to the two nipples.
This diameter cannot be measured directly excepting on a skull; in the case of a living person its projection is taken, which, though far from accurate, is given by the distance between the vertex and the external auditory meatus.
Starting from the vertex of the cranium one line slants toward the forehead and another toward the occiput, which is very massive.
The most important among these and among all the abnormal forms is the trigonocephalic cranium, having the base of the triangle toward the occiput and the vertex toward the forehead.
She had periods of depression and vertex headache, which latter gave place to sick headache, often attended with rheumatoid phenomena.
Profound depression with sleeplessness and frequent vertex headache are early symptoms.
As the load travels, the shear at the head of the train will be given by the ordinates of a parabola having its vertex at A, and a maximum F{max.
In geometry, the altitude of a triangle is the length of the perpendicular from the vertex to the base.
As the part situated at the vertex of the above-mentioned figure, and lying almost entirely under the torrid zone, is inaccessible, we speak of it from conjecture, and therefore cannot say what is the greatest breadth of the country.
This is the description of the country from Alexandreia to the vertex of the Delta.
In short, Egypt, from the mountains of Ethiopia to the vertex of the Delta, is merely a river tract on each side of the Nile, and rarely if anywhere comprehends in one continued line a habitable territory of 300 stadia in breadth.
The spot at the vertex of the triangle has the same appellation, because it is the beginning of the above-mentioned triangular figure.
For it branches off into the interior, not far from the vertex of the Delta.
The angle at the vertex is an angle of a triangle.
The coast closely resembles an obtuse angle, one side reaching to the Strait of Sicily, the other to the Pillars, the vertex being Narbonne.
Tenderness was found at the upper cervical vertebrae, pressure on any of them exciting severe pain in the vertex and brow; but none in the eye or jaws, where it is never felt except at night.
Still, though this may be true, it is clear that large bodies cannot be seen well or distinctly, unless at the vertex of a cone, where the rays from the object meet at some distance from the eye.
We see to what a height the flames rise in great conflagrations; for as the base of the flame becomes more extensive, its vertex is more lofty.
All flame, therefore, is pyramidal, having its base near the source, and its vertex pointed from its being resisted by the air, and not supplied from the source.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vertex" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
