| visual-spatial agnosia | The inability to localise objects or to appreciate distance, motion, and spatial relationships; caused by lesion in the occipital lobe. Compare: simultanagnosia. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| spatial | Relating to space or a space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatial acuity | The detection of the shape of a test object; e.g., perceiving polygons of the same size but with different numbers of sides. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatial behaviour | Reactions of an individual or groups of individuals with relation to the immediate surrounding area including the animate or inanimate objects within that area. (12 Dec 1998) |
| spatial filter | <radiobiology> Device consisting of a lens pair and a pinhole aperture stop. Intensity fluctuations over the spatial extent of a laser beam are removed by passing the focused beam through the aperture stop. The pinhole must be placed in a vacuum to prevent air breakdown by the focused beam. These filters are used to counter the effects caused by self-focusing. (09 Oct 1997) |
| spatial formula | A chemical formula in which the arrangement of the atoms or atomic groupings in space are indicated. Synonym: spatial formula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatial localization | The reference of a visual sensation to a definite locality in space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatial sensing | Mechanism of sensing a gradient in which the signal is compared at different points on the cell surface and cell movement directed accordingly. Translocation of all or part of the cell is not required. See: temporal gradient sensing, pseudospatial gradient sensing. (18 Nov 1997) |
| spatial vector | A cardiac vector represented in more than one plane simultaneously; two-or three-dimensional orientation of a vector. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatial vectorcardiography | Three-dimensional vectorcardiography in which vector loops are inscribed in frontal, sagittal, and horizontal planes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| active length-tension curve | The relationship between active isometric tension and preload (rest length) for a contracting muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amplified fragment length polymorphism | <technique> Invented by KeyGene, a Dutch biotech company based in Wageningen, Holland. The technique is now merchandised under licence agreement by Perkin Elmer. Selected markers are amplified in a PCR, which makes amplified fragment length polymorphism an easy and fast tool for strain identification in agriculture, botany, microbiology and animal breeding. Acronym: AFLP (05 Feb 1998) |
| arch length | The amount of space required for the permanent teeth as measured from the mesial aspect of the first molar on one side to the mesial aspect of the first molar on the opposite side, as measured through the contact points along an imaginary line of the dental arch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arch length deficiency | The difference between the available circumference of the dental arch and that required to accommodate the succedaneous teeth in proper alignment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| available arch length | <dentistry> The amount of space available for the permanent teeth around the dental arch from the first permanent molar on the left to the first permanent molar on the right. (05 Mar 2000) |