Sentence examples for contiguous bodies from inspiring English sources

The problem, of course, is that Descartes has defined motion as a change of contiguous bodies, and then proceeds to define body as that which moves (translates, transports).

Descartes attempts to distinguish his "proper" conception of motion, as a change of the "neighborhood" of contiguous bodies, from the common or "vulgar" conception of motion, which is change of internal place (Pr II 10 15, 24 28).

That is, if there is nothing in the moving body that differs from its neighborhood of contiguous bodies (see Pr II 30), then a body's motion is not due to it possessing a special property that its neighborhood lacks.

If we have three contiguous bodies and the one in the middle is destroyed in an instant, we will, Cordemoy claims, be left with an empty space between the two remaining bodies (that is, the two would not instantaneously rush together).

Disease onset in ALS is typically anatomically localized, with subsequent spread into other, usually contiguous body regions.

Seven patients developed new distant lesions: three developed lesions on a non-contiguous body part; 2 of these involved single lesions on alternate limbs (one on the left foot with an original on the right foot, and one on the left lower leg with an original on the right arm) and one developed 2 lesions on the right buttock after an original lesion on the ipsilateral calf.

Lumbar spine BMD was also evaluated after exclusion of the dominant vertebral body when there was a difference higher than 1 SD between two contiguous vertebral bodies.

There are three radiologic criteria for the diagnosis of OALL: osseous bridging of at least four contiguous vertebral bodies, preservation of intervertebral disc height, and absence of sacroiliac or apophyseal joint ankylosis [3].

10 Utsinger proposed criteria requiring three contiguous vertebral bodies but added the presence of extraspinal ossification.

Freshwater planarians do not exhibit larval dispersal stages or forms resistant to desiccation; these individuals thus require contiguous freshwater bodies to survive and disperse [ 16, 17].

Structurally, the IVD is an avascular tissue composed of an inner nucleus pulposus (NP) surrounded by an outer annulus fibrosus (AF), and sandwiched between the cartilaginous endplates of contiguous vertebral bodies.