oblique+direction
121sagittal slice fracture — fracture of a vertebra breaking it in an oblique direction; the vertebral column above is displaced horizontally, usually causing paraplegia …
122Didiйe projection — a rare type of radiographic projection for evaluation of an unstable or repeatedly dislocating shoulder that may have a subtle condition such as the Hill Sachs lesion; the patient lies prone and the central ray enters the shoulder from a lateral… …
123inclination — n. 1. Inclining, leaning, slope slant. 2. Trending, verging, oblique direction. 3. Disposition, predilection, predisposition, bent, bias, proneness, proclivity, tendency, leaning, aptitude, propensity, penchant. 4. Desire, wish, partiality,… …
124slope — [[t]sloʊp[/t]] v. sloped, slop•ing, n. 1) to have an inclined or oblique direction or angle, esp. with reference to a horizontal plane; slant 2) to move at an inclination or obliquely 3) to cause to incline from the horizontal or vertical 4) to… …
125athwart — /əˈθwɔt / (say uh thwawt) adverb 1. from side to side (often in an oblique direction): transversely. 2. perversely; awry; wrongly. 3. Nautical at right angles to a ship s keel. –preposition 4. from side to side of; across. 5. in opposition to;… …
126glance — I. /glæns / (say glans), /glans / (say glahns) verb (glanced, glancing) –verb (i) 1. to look quickly or briefly. 2. to gleam or flash. 3. to go off in an oblique direction from an object struck: the blow glanced off his chest. 4. to allude… …
127slope — [slōp] n. [ME < aslope, sloping (mistaken as a slope) < OE aslopen, pp. of aslupan, to slip away < slupan, to glide: see SLOOP] 1. a piece of ground that is not flat or level; rising or falling ground 2. any inclined line, surface,… …
128oblike — Oblique Ob*lique , a. [F., fr. L. obliquus; ob (see {Ob }) + liquis oblique; cf. licinus bent upward, Gr. le chrios slanting.] [Written also {oblike}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from,… …
