In a search for mutant mice that might be missing the gene, Banfi and colleagues came upon a strain called head slant.
Consistent with this, all mouse mutants lacking otoconia (such as tilted, head slant, and head tilt mice) have severe balance deficits [20], [21], [22], [23].
The boy, head slanted, stared fixedly at my feet.
Every detail has purpose here: the way a woman tilts her head, the slant of light as one exits the subway, the repetition of a phrase.
Clinical features of the disorder include short stature, smallness of the head, obliquely slanted eyes, a flattened face, wide hands with a single transverse palmar crease, short digits, and weak muscles.
Posts, carved at the top with rudimentary human forms, including heads with slanting eyes, wide mouths, and chevron-shaped brows, were parts of fences.
In 1978 he appeared with Nathan Lane in a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that had, he said, shaking his head, a "disco slant".
But before he was quite recovered, or quite himself, while he was still holding his head at a slant, he met her eyes.
It also involves some physical abnormalities (including low muscle tone, small stature, flatness of the back of the head, an upward slant to the eyes) and some increased health risks (of heart defects, childhood leukemia and Alzheimer's disease).
We would come back with local gossip and a day-old newspaper, and my father-in-law would listen to our excited tales of the greater world with a tilted head and a slant smile that let us guess he wasn't hearing a word.
Even Hawking's iconic body slant, head tilt and smile, common byproducts of muscle wasting with ALS, were effectively recreated by Redmayne's portrayal.
