retraction

Examples of retracting

retracting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

That is, foot alignment pulls the rightmost foot away from the right edge, but lapse avoidance prevents it from retracting further back than the antepenult.
This, in turn, requires mechanisms for both making assumptions and then retracting them if and when they turn out not to be true.
The user wants to control the design process by retracting the design decision made by the tool.
When the tape was pulled out, a small toy was placed in the ring and pulled along by retracting the tape.
Aortic cannulation was aided by retracting the right atrial appendage inferiorly and the aorta into the field.
As in theory revision, the problem of retracting a fact, a rule, or a set of rules should be addressed too.
At retracting edges, large actin bundles were characteristically associated with prominent focal adhesions that slid during retraction (not shown).
The capacity of retracting a collagen matrix is lost by dermatosparactic skin fibroblast.
In adhesion measurements, this amounts to pulling materials apart (unloading them) by increasing the tension rather than separating them by retracting a spring.
The introduction of safety hollow-bore retracting needles would eliminate any need to recap.
When axial rotation of the proximal segment occurred as the distal segment was retracting, it created an adduction/abduction error in the frontal plane measurements.
After pinch-off of the main drop, the filament that remains sways, while elastically retracting back into the orifice, as shown in frames (d) and (e).
Before inhibition actin bundles are detected in retracting protrusions, whereas they are absent after inhibition.
The platform is supplied with retracting controlled supports.
These difficult sequences are usually resolved by reducing retroflexion, or by lowering and\\or retracting the tongue body.
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