(a.) Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(2) In 1 of the 3, anterior capsular detachment was also demonstrated radiographically and confirmed surgically.
(3) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(4) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(5) A topographic relationship was recognized between the MM and the anterior thalamic nuclei.
(6) When the eye was dissected into anterior uveal, scleral, and retinal complexes, prostaglandin D2 was formed in the highest degree in all the complexes, whereas prostaglandin E2 and F2 alpha formation was specific to given ocular regions.
(7) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(8) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
(9) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(10) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(11) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(12) Anterior borderzone brachial paralysis (ABBP) is a hemodynamic ischemic syndrome of the watershed zone between the anterior and middle cerebral arteries.
(13) Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of acute (24 h) thermal stress on anterior pituitary function in hens.
(14) Histologic examination of the anterior and posterior chambers and the vitreous led to a diagnosis of endophthalmitis caused by Coccidioides immitis infection.
(15) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(16) For this purpose the blood flow velocity in the internal carotid artery, basilar cerebral artery and the anterior cerebral artery was measured by pulsed Dopplersonography before and 5-10 min after i.v.
(17) The 2A8 clone, a normal diploid rat anterior pituitary cell strain, was investigated by immunocytochemistry to determine the cell types into which the clonal cells differentiated in vivo and in vitro.
(18) Accordingly, the present studies were conducted to determine whether acute OVX-induced FSH hypersecretion can be elicited in an animal model in which the anterior pituitary gland is isolated from diencephalic chemical signals, and if so, whether the hypersecretion could be abated by the FSH-suppressing protein, follistatin.
(19) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
(20) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
Nates
Definition:
(n. pl.) The buttocks.
(n. pl.) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
(n. pl.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) The New York Times' Nate Silver does that thing he does where he uses data to explain everything you ever wanted to know about a particular subject: Support for same-sex marriage is increasing — but is it doing so at a faster rate than in the past?
(2) "We've always wanted to do something like this, but there were limitations in the past that prevented us from doing it," marketing manager Nate Weinstein told the Associated Press.
(3) 4.59pm BST "My fiancee have decided to get married in whichever country wins the World Cup so this game really has me torn," sobs Nate Philipps.
(4) "Four members of Hertha's first team squad use only one name," writes Nate Elliott.
(5) The festival programme also features Nate Parker’s new American epic, The Birth of a Nation , which won the grand jury prize at the Sundance festival at the beginning of the year.
(6) Meanwhile, there’s a core of first baseman Anthony Rizzo, shortstop Starlin Castro and outfield Nate Schierholtz, who just have to get better if there’s to be any offensive improvement.
(7) That matches a similar percentage Republicans needed to win the house before the 2010 elections, and is very similar to a curve produced by Nate Silver before the 2012 elections.
(8) The Nationals may have little choice but to lean on Nate McLouth, a former Pirates, Braves and Orioles outfielder, for whom they dropped $10.75m on over two years this past offseason for in for situations such as these - so far he's hitting .111.
(9) I guess the moral of the story is: don’t trust the polls, not even Nate Silver.
(10) On the other hand, Nate Silver, the New York Times election data blogger, could demonstrably show that a disproportionate amount of Times traffic came to him personally.
(11) Denver's Wilson Chandler scored 17 points, Nate Robinson added 16, and Kenneth Faried had a key block and transition dunk with 33 seconds left to lift the Nuggets past the Washington Wizards 75-74.
(12) Family, colleagues and MPs pay tribute to PC Keith Palmer Read more Nate Kizerian, a longtime friend, said Cochran was a vital member of the local music scene.
(13) Illustration: Nate Kitch for the Guardian Slahi’s new cell was to be structured to prevent light from shining in.
(14) I’ve lived here for 20 years and I lost count of the number of times I was stopped and frisked by the police by the time I was in high school,” said Nate Jeffrey, 32, a mechanic with the city’s transit authority.
(15) 6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione and 7-chlorokynure-nate suppressed the NMDA response but significantly less potently in cerebellar mRNA-injected oocytes than in cerebral mRNA-injected oocytes.
(16) The neonatal death nate and the incidence of IVH were significantly higher in infants weighing less than 750g than in those weighing 1,000g or more.
(17) Darryl Roberts put one in late in the 43rd minute and Nate Thornton finished the job in the 90th minute.
(18) This challenge was explaining the news , with Vox.com joining Nate Silver's ESPN-backed FiveThirtyEight site and the New York Times' The Upshot in a new wave of data-driven explanatory news services .
(19) We should have expected far more ‘shy Tories’.” Nate Silver, the man once lauded as an elections oracle for his detailed predictions, was wildly out, putting the Conservatives at “about 280 seats, Labour at about 265”.
(20) The polls swung about one percentage point in Obama’s direction shortly thereafter, Nate Silver estimated .