(a.) Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined.
(a.) A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:
(a.) A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.
(a.) An Athenian; an Athenian author.
Example Sentences:
(1) A clinico-pathological study of 10 cases (including histopathology) indicates that occult cholesteatoma is neither a congenital cholesteatoma nor an epidermoid cyst, originating in the attic through a melaplastic process of middle ear mucosa behind an intact tympanic membrane.
(2) The first group represents cases treated with the conventional conservative technique for attic and middle ear surgery.
(3) I’ve lived in rooms in attics, and I worked till I was 70.
(4) This technique is very convenient for adult cholesteatomas developed in a sclerotic mastoid with an extension limited to mesotympanum and attic, to the children cholesteatomas developed in the mesotympanum with a sclerotic mastoid, for the correction of retraction pockets after a closed technique, rehabilitation of radical mastoidectomies, fibroadhesive otitis and some idiopathic glue tympanic membrane with a large cholesterol granuloma.
(5) Depending on the clinical background and on the aggressivity of the pathology, the posterior tympanotomy can be closed, and the attic and aditus cavities of the middle ear separated by a bony fragment leaving the protympanum open upwards to enable normal ventilation towards the attic, the aditus and the antrum, or much more rarely, these cavities can be completely closed.
(6) The mastoidectomy cavity in all the cases of simple suppurative otitis is totally aerated and that in over 60% of the cases of adhesive otitis, attic type cholesteatoma and adhesive type cholesteatoma is obliterated by a soft tissue density mass.
(7) Serous effusion occurred in the attic space within 2 days after surgery, whether or not the middle ear cavity (MEC) was artificially ventilated.
(8) It also helps if you have a house that neatly divides – a top floor or attic room with its own bathroom, for example.
(9) Procedures that use the posterosuperior chain approach the apex from the sinodural angle, the base of the zygomatic arch, the attic, or through the arch of the superior semicircular canal.
(10) He cooked it in his attic flat for a friend, an editor for the gourmands' bible Cuisine et Vins de France .
(11) Considerable attention should be paid to the configuration of the attic-antrum area, and in particular the presence or absence of Körner's septum (the petrosquamous suture).
(12) The second group represents cases on which the concept of 'radical attic and middle ear surgery' has been applied and an en bloc homograft has been used for reconstruction.
(13) Labelled the Caravaggio in the attic, France has put an export ban on the painting to stop it leaving the country while investigations are carried out.
(14) The only part of my house that can be easily rented out is the attic conversion, which comprises a separate bathroom and my bedroom.
(15) These results indicate that blockage of the ventilatory passages is not essential for formation of an attic cholesteatoma.
(16) Collections of this tick were associated with bat roosting sites in attics of houses.
(17) From rodent nesting materials found in the walls and attics of cabins where cases had occurred, infective Ornithodoros hermsi ticks were recovered.
(18) The epitympanum coincides with the attic (epitympanic recess).
(19) We're going to fob you off with some old jumble from the attic."
(20) No improvement in attic retraction was achieved by insertion of a ventilation tube.
Loft
Definition:
(n.) That which is lifted up; an elevation.
(n.) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.
(n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.
(n.) A floor or room placed above another; a story.
(a.) Lofty; proud.
Example Sentences:
(1) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
(2) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
(3) It found that on average, loft insulation decreases home gas consumption by 1.7%, cavity wall insulation by 7.8% and a new boiler by 9.2% (median figures were slightly higher).
(4) This miscalibration, in turn, generates the orientation bias observed for deflector-loft birds.
(5) Toure then lofts a very neat ball over the defence and, though two City players are offside, Aguero is on.
(6) As well as 20 bedrooms there are a couple of loft-style apartments.
(7) Or take a free elevator ride to the roof of the old Sears Roebuck building ( southsideonlamar.com ) which is now loft housing.
(8) We are also embarking on the Great British Refurb; by regulating the energy companies we are insulating 6m homes between 2008 and 2012, with every suitable loft and cavity being insulated by 2015.
(9) Lofts it into the box and Barthez fumbles, gathers, then releases Henry.
(10) In addition, the cleaning of furniture and carpets cost £571.05, new loft insulation cost £546.75, and two claims for a chimney sweep were £43 and £75 respectively.
(11) I remember when Ornette moved into Manhattan to a loft on Prince Street in SoHo in the late 60s – he was ahead of the game on that front as well.
(12) He could only squirm in the stands as Robbie Keane lofted the clearest chance of the game into the face of Mark Schwarzer, who also foiled Kuyt and Torres.
(13) In his forthcoming book on the property market, All That is Solid , Danny Dorling describes how all those extensions and loft conversions means that at least a third of bedrooms in England and Wales – 22m – are "empty on any given night".
(14) In Britain, 10m (43%) of all lofts remain unlagged or very poorly lagged, and 8m houses with cavity walls (42%) have yet to be insulated.
(15) American, socialist and proud: meet Bernie Sanders's supporters Read more It’s 8pm on a Wednesday and in a Brooklyn loft, a Bernie Sanders screen-printing event is in full swing.
(16) He had already come close when, gifted the chance by a weak Julian Speroni punch, he lofted a shot into the unguarded net towards the end of a first 45 minutes that had tended to meander.
(17) Inexplicably, instead of rolling or walking the ball into an empty net, Giggs lofted a shot over the bar.
(18) He said he was strongly expecting the energy companies not to pass on the cost of the energy efficiency, or lag the loft, programme announced by Gordon Brown last month.
(19) Further, radio tracking revealed that the in-flight behavior of the hippocampal lesioned homing pigeons was characterized by numerous direction changes and generally poor orientation with respect to the home loft.
(20) All it took was Cesc Fàbregas’s lofted pass, arcing over Taylor, to open them up again.