Rare obscuration of a major blood vessel, usually on the upper pole.

The beam struck the upper pole of the sphere.

A hole appeared in the featureless armor near the upper pole of the sphere.

She cast a bolt of energy through the old man's heart, starting at the upper pole, where normally the contraction would begin.

A tiny red indicator shone in the upper pole of the bladder-mine: it was armed.

"Open the hatch at the upper pole as soon as Freyt's men are ready for the transfer.

The upper pole of the breast remains untouched, leaving the breast itself to maintain the natural soft curves.

The eight-foot-long double rack that lines the bedroom wall - the upper pole for him, the lower one for her - is filled to capacity.

The necessary input data were obtained from the upper pole cupola where comparative measurements were continually recorded automatically.

The larva is barrel-shaped with rings of cilia running round the body, and a tuft of sensory hairs at the upper pole.

At the upper pole, all hues meet in white; at the bottom pole, all hues meet in black.

At 10-days, the upper pole of the auricle (ear) had expanded; at the 6-month follow-up examination, the ear correction remained expanded.

The mouth was at the upper pole of the body, with the opposite end attached to the substratum, often by a stalk, although some stalkless species did exist.

Superior attachment: The anterior and posterior layers fuse at the upper pole of the kidney and then split to enclose the suprarenal gland.

Resultantly, the implant is partially beneath the pectoralis major muscle in the upper pole, while the implant's lower pole is in the subglandular plane.

The upper pole (whichever it was) became visible, with turbulence in a large circular region around it, while the lower pole retired behind the bulge of the sphere.

The co-ordinated bars of light on the adjustment scale indicated clearly that the powerful directional antenna on top of the upper pole cupola was pointing to Terra.

Such protrusion usually is evenly distributed around the posterior conchal wall, however, the cephalad part of the concha can protrude disproportionately, another cause for a protruding upper pole.

Hence, the tissue volume of the pedicle flap is essential for establishing the adequate projection of the upper pole of the breast, where the breast originates from the chest.

The tumours can be located at upper pole, lower pole and mid-hilar region of the kidney; they are circumscribed and encapsulated, tan pink, with possible cystic and hemorrhagic foci.

Selective angiography and adrenal venography may be helpful in identifying smaller lesions and for distinguishing tumors of the adrenal gland from tumors of the upper pole of the kidney.

The appendix testis (or hydatid of Morgagni) is a vestigial remnant of the Müllerian duct, present on the upper pole of the testis and attached to the tunica vaginalis.

The latters' bulging rings around the equators of the spheres, which no doubt housed the propulsion engines, were at the same height where the upper pole cupola of the Imperium class battleships ended.

The upper pole of the sphere is the centre of the inversion and the increasingly small stars that approach it correspond to the increasingly large stars lying at greater and greater distances on the plane.