epistrophic

Example Sentences

• "The union of the atlas and epistropheus is described in this section because (1) there is often a direct communication between the synovial cavity of the transverse epistropic and the occipito-atlantal joints; (2) the rotatory movements of the head take place around the dens (odontoid process); and (3) important ligaments from the dens pass over the atlas to the occiput."
• "The apostrophic or epistrophic arrangement is the result of complicated laws dependent on the action of light; very strong irritation of light causes the chlorophyll-grains to collect into one or two lumps, a phenomenon for which Schimper proposes the term systrophe."
• "The accompanying diagram shows all the information I have been able to collect regarding the plant's epistrophic interval."
• "The epistropic interval varies in position and in extent in different species."
• "Trump's stock phrase "believe me" might be considered one example of a larger pattern in his rhetoric, which I refer to as epistrophic punctuation, or the repetition of short phrases, often ones that convey an affective or epistemic stance, that appear at the end of rhetorical units in his speeches."
• "Epistrophic conversion provides a model much better suited to the demands of the modern politics of the self because it is always framed as a revelatory embrace of a preexisting self."