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TEST CIRCULAIRE [3 records]

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Record 1 2012-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
DEF

An instrument used in testing for anomalies of color vision by having the subject match mixed spectral lines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
DEF

Instrument destiné à l’examen de la vision des couleurs.

OBS

Il est constitué d’une plage circulaire dont une moitié est éclairée en jaune alors que l'autre l'est par un mélange de rouge et de vert. [...] Le test consiste pour le sujet à tenter d’égaliser les couleurs des deux demi-plages.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumental médico
DEF

Instrumento empleado para detectar las anomalías en la visión de los colores.

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Record 2 1991-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Foraminifers of the family Discocyclinidae have a] Test circular or stellate, thin or inflated, composed of equatorial layer with lateral chambers on each side; [the] megalospheric generation with [a] subspherical initial chamber partly or completely embraced by [a] larger second chamber; microspheric generation with initial coil of small chambers; equatorial chambers [are] rectangular to faintly hexagonal in plan; radial chamber walls, when present, [are] arranged in annuli; equatorial chambers [are] connected by annular and radial stolons with adjacent chambers in [the] same annulus and with adjacent chambers in [the] next inner and next outer annulus; intraseptal and intramural canal system present ... "Paleoc. - Eoc.".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Foraminifères de la famille des Discocyclinidae ont un] Test mince ou discoïde, circulaire ou en étoile; [un] embryon constitué par une protoconque subsphérique entourée partiellement à totalement par la deutéroconque; juvenarium B planispiralé; une couche de loges équatoriales disposées en cercles concentriques, arquées ou bien annulaires divisées en logettes rectangulaires ou légèrement hexagonales; loges reliées par des stolons radiaux et annulaires; logettes latérales petites et nombreuses. Il existe un système de canaux intraseptaux fins et simples, radiaux et annulaires, peut-être aussi entre des logettes latérales [...]

Spanish

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