(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.
Noggin
Definition:
(n.) A small mug or cup.
(n.) A measure equivalent to a gill.
Example Sentences:
(1) He then delivered an inch-perfect cross to the back post and who was there to give it a floggin’ with his noggin but Kaká.
(2) He gets a boot on the noggin for his trouble, Vlaar the culprit, but it's accidental as the pair battled for the ball.
(3) The layman might think they'd been looking at Captain Pugwash or Noggin The Nog cartoons.
(4) Again the set-piece finds a France noggin, Benzema on this occasion, but again the effort is off target.
(5) Fletcher can't quite get his noggin to the blistering ball.
(6) Although noggin transcript is not localized in the oocyte and cleavage stage embryo, zygotic transcripts are initially restricted to the presumptive dorsal mesoderm and reach their highest levels at the gastrula stage in the dorsal lip of the blastopore (Spemann organizer).
(7) Therefore, we have named the cDNA noggin, noggin cDNA contains a single reading frame encoding a 26 kd protein with a hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence, suggesting that it is secreted.
(8) In the neurula, noggin is transcribed in the notochord and prechordal mesoderm.
(9) "I don't want this …" It becomes clear that "this" refers not only to a bashed noggin but to the settled routine Abby's life has become.
(10) Once it arrives there, it is met by the noggin of Forrest (who also has acres of space) but his header is aimed right at Mokin who does the necessaries.
(11) Never mind Pizzagate: in the 1960s the Spurs players showed that – yes, folks – you don't have to dislike someone to toss oven-prepared savoury snacks in the direction of their noggin .
(12) The activity of exogenous noggin RNA in embryonic axis induction and the localized expression of endogenous noggin transcripts suggest that noggin plays a role in normal dorsal development.