(1) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(2) In our center, 12 patients with an average age of 3 months were operated on for interatrial baffle correction of their TGA under surface-induced deep hypothermia.
(3) During a 3 year period, 54 children aged 4 days to 5 years, including 24 infants aged 3 months or younger, underwent the baffle procedure.
(4) The contrast between these two worlds – one legal and flourishing, the other illegal and stubbornly disregarding of state lines – can seem baffling, yet it may have profound consequences for whether this unique experiment spreads.
(5) Cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used for postoperative evaluation of eight patients who underwent intra-atrial baffle procedure for surgical repair of D-transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA).
(6) And it was here, several years later, that I came looking for an answer to a question which has baffled many cynical film critics: how did a low-key prison drama, which was considered a box-office flop on its initial release, become one of the most popular movies of all time?
(7) and the frankly baffling: "Could have just started the greatest Facebook argument ever.
(8) Those against the changes include Crace, the 2011 winner Julian Barnes and Philip Hensher, who wrote in the Guardian: "It seems quite baffling to many writers that a major prize that has so successfully promoted them should move its terms so radically and for no good reason."
(9) Discrete and persitent echoes were noted within the original left atrial cavity and contrast echocardiography was used to establish that these originated from the interatrial baffle.
(10) Danziger, who flatly refused to go on an official trip to the circus, said gaining access was a daily battle, but in some cases their minders were more baffled than obstructive and couldn't understand why they wanted to meet hairdressers or fishermen.
(11) I probably should have done this three months ago, but I’ve done everything right, we’ve tried everything and everyone has been baffled.” The dilemma was obvious: whether stopping now means she will be fully recovered for the run-in to the 2016 Olympics.
(12) Mourinho has been vociferous in his complaints about the scheduling of key domestic fixtures around European ties this season and reiterated his dissatisfaction after Tuesday's goalless draw in Madrid, claiming to be baffled as to why the match at Anfield could not be played on Friday or Saturday to assist the last English club involved in European competition.
(13) Baffle leaks were found in five patients with mild bidirectional shunting.
(14) Much of late 20th-century human behaviour frankly baffled him.
(15) The lack of obvious motive baffled commentators who said the British director of Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cop II appeared to have it all: success, wealth, respect, a wife and two young children.
(16) But as she sped along the pavement in Westminster yesterday, captured on film by cameramen and baffled tourists alike, repeating the words "we won!
(17) Right to left shunts ranging from 28 to 63 percent of systemic blood flow were found at the superior vena caval-baffle junction in four children.
(18) Subsequent RAC after reoperation initially showed insignificant flow through the atrial baffle, major flow through the HAV, and no shunt.
(19) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
(20) 10.57am BST In case, like one of my younger colleagues, you were baffled by the Sam Cooke reference, this lovely song should clear it up.
Labyrinthine
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Medical treatment has several objectives: the action of water on the metabolism, action on the behaviour of the labyrinthine capillaries and the biology of neurosensorial cells, action on vestibular information and the receptivity of the nerve centres and finally on the patients' lifestyle.
(2) The fashion business is nothing if not labyrinthine.
(3) Further examination revealed a chronic lead intoxication with neurologic and labyrinthine involvement.
(4) These centres do not control the nature of the nystagmic movement that consists of a slow and a fast components, the combined movements of the right and left eyes, the direction of the nystagmus, the range and the nature marking the distribution of the maximal movement and of the most frequent movements during the action of the stimulus and the symmetry of the labyrinthine function.
(5) Morphological evidence suggests that the membrane participates in: (a) the release of mechanical energy supplied by the ossicular chain to the labyrinthine fluids; (b) an alternative route for sound energy to enter the cochlea; (c) secretion into and absorption from perilymph; and (d) the defense system of the middle and inner ears.
(6) Labyrinthine channels of arterial capillaries were found in restricted regions in the red pulp neighboring pulp arteries and veins.
(7) Downbeat nystagmus seen in bilateral labyrinthine dysfunction.
(8) Labyrinthine trepanation was performed in the majority of 16 patients with minor agenesis of middle ear involving either stapedovestibular ankylosis or absence of fenestra vestibuli.
(9) Peripheral labyrinthine abnormalities are responsible for the majority of vertiginous symptoms.
(10) Since the National Assistance Act of 1948, incremental reform and the emergence of new legislative provisions has created a labyrinthine and anachronistic legal framework that is now scarcely fit for purpose.
(11) Although this series is not comprehensive enough, it seems to indicate that interruption of the lateral semicircular duct has a possibility of diminishing labyrinthine hydrops, as in cases of Ménière's disease, without hearing disturbance, provided that complications do not develop.
(12) The relationship between the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and gaze fixation was investigated in normal adults, normal children, patients with cerebellar lesion and patients with labyrinthine dysfunction.
(13) Drilling away one or several segments realizes a trans-petrous approach which always begins by drilling away the posterior-external segment, the retro-labyrinthine segment.
(14) Unitary response to labyrinthine stimulation was characterized by excitation and inhibition of rest discharge rate.
(15) Increasingly, surgeons are using a middle fossa approach though craniotomy to reach the labyrinthine segment of the facial nerve and geniculate ganglion in patients with intact hearing.
(16) In the ODE cells, abundant labyrinthine canals appeared in the cytoplasm, and capillary vessels were found close to the outer surface of the ODE cells.
(17) Whilst we tend to imagine a wholesale collapse scenario where chaos radiates outward from Pyongyang, we might better examine the possibility of chaos farther from the bright and labyrinthine capital city – and far closer to China.
(18) Preoperative findings are discussed, as well as the prevention and treatment of labyrinthine geysers and the possibility of obtaining a functioning labyrinthine opening.
(19) Annoyed at the labyrinthine politics of amateur boxing, Fury turned pro just after his 20th birthday.
(20) An attempted facial nerve decompression did not reach the area of primary pathology in the labyrinthine and meatal segments of the nerve, which could have been exposed by the transtemporal supralabyrinthine approach.