(n.) The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
(2) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(3) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
(4) A forty-four-year-old woman with Takayasu's arteritis and involvement of the aortic arch and its main branches complained of precordial pain on effort.
(5) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(6) Global 'abnormality', hunching (rigid arching of back), hindlimb abduction, forepaw myoclonus, stereotyped lateral head movements, backing, and immobility occurred significantly only in drug-treated rats.
(7) Between March 1986 and September 1988, 38 patients underwent extended aortic resection (aortic valve, ascending aorta, and arch) for acute type-A aortic dissection with aortic valve insufficiency; deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest were used.
(8) Other associated malformations were an interrupted aortic arch and an atrial septal defect.
(9) The sucker, covered with basal lamina, has a constant volume; its layer of muscles resists deformation and supports the stability of the arch.
(10) In the anaesthetized dog the carotid sinuses and aortic arch were isolated from the circulation and separately perfused with blood by a method which enabled the mean pressure, pulse pressure and pulse frequency to be varied independently in each vasosensory area.
(11) The data presented in this paper confirm the need for stimulation of the pudendal reflex arch to achieve physiological conditions.
(12) This article describes the application and efficacy of the lipbumper used in the lower arch.
(13) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
(14) The most commonly associated lesions were ventricular septal defect (50%), hypoplastic aortic arch (45%), patent ductus arteriosus (41%), transposition of great arteries (22.7%) and other intracardiac lesions comprised 30%.
(15) This malformation was demonstrated in alcian-blue- and alizarin-red-stained fetal skeletons by measurements of the distance between the cartilaginous ends of each vertebral arch.
(16) No correlation was found between aortic arch size and the size of the left-to-right shunt in cases of DAP.
(17) After 48 hours in culture, all specimens were examined at 6x magnification for defects in the facial arches, head fold, and neural tube fusion.
(18) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(19) Although different dimensions of the face and head and the upper dental arch width were found to be significantly correlated in children with normal occlusion, this relationship is not found to be strong enough in children with different categories of malocclusion.
(20) We suggest that incomplete development of the bones of the dorsal neural arches of the upper sacrum may be a marker of incomplete neurogenesis of the sacral nerves.
Cleverness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.
Example Sentences:
(1) With such improvements, and possibly even with more clever use of therapy that already is available, wider and more complex use of liver transplantation will be possible.
(2) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
(3) The name suggests it is a clever but funny channel that it's OK to like.
(4) Rather, the two participated in a clever spoof of the show’s overly serious and die-hard tone.
(5) That’s plain wrong, has been for decades, and a clever chap like Nelson should know it.
(6) A clever political strategy would be to exploit these tensions.
(7) James Cleverly, MP for Braintree, who supported Johnson’s aborted leadership bid before backing May, said joking about him risked undermining the foreign secretary.
(8) But she describes Manafort as a “clever hire” by Trump.
(9) The destruction of climate science expertise in Australia’s premier research organisation is not clever, innovative, or agile.
(10) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(11) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
(12) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(13) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
(14) She is fantastically clever and when she's on about ideas she is astonishing.
(15) He strikes me more as a clever man - oh, very clever - than a necessarily charming man; for there's a distance, an aloofness.
(16) He is an innately optimistic character as well as a clever one, and a man who needs to persuade his party not to despair.
(17) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
(18) The PPP was one of those oh-so-clever schemes devised by government supposedly to attract private sector investment for infrastructure and avoiding such schemes ending up on the government's balance sheet.
(19) As I wrote then: "This clever, comprehensive-educated granddaughter of a miner served in government for more than a decade but retained the ability to speak human – a rare quality among New Labour politicians."
(20) That left her accelerating towards Karen Bardsley but, reacting well to the danger, Bardsley raced off her line, cleverly narrowing the angle.