(n.) A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.
(n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.
(n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Renewal of taste bud cells on the barbels of channel catfish was studied.
(2) On the other, a barbell bearing the weight ‘400’, his gold-winning personal best from the previous year’s state championship for Indiana’s Special Olympics.
(3) Using HRP, the relation between the barbels and specific ganglion regions was determined.
(4) The distribution of substance P-like (SP) and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-like (VIP) structures was studied using an indirect immunoperoxidase technique in the mediterranean barbel Barbus meridionalis and in the rainbow trout Salmo gairdneri.
(5) Isometric tests were performed on both the right and left forearm flexors and during forearm flexion with a barbell: the tests were continued for a 3-week post-experimental period.
(6) The taste neurons in the barbel and lip areas of the facial lobe showed variable responsiveness to chemical solutions, but those in other areas belonged generally to types I or II and did not respond to sucrose.
(7) The rostrocaudal dimensions of each of the barbel lobules correlate well with the relative lengths of the barbels.
(8) The three more medial lobules in the FL receive input (from medial to lateral) from the medial mandibular barbel, the lateral mandibular barbel, and the maxillary barbel, respectively.
(9) Ten male university student volunteers were selected to investigate the 3D articular force at the tibio-femoral joint during a half squat exercise, as affected by cadence, different barbell loads, and fatigue.
(10) The results show that fibers of these two cranial sensory nerves supplying the mandibular barbels converge centrally on the medial portion of the FL, indicating that the FL of the Japanese sea catfish is a highly differentiated center for both gustation and somatosensation.
(11) External taste buds abound on barbels of the adult catfish Corydoras arcuatus.
(12) The bile salts, chloride, sodium, potassium and nitrogen content of the gallbladder bile was studied in goat, sheep, cattle, pig, rabbit, dog, monkey (Erythrocebus patas), chicken, lizard (Lacerta ocellata), frog (Rana esculenta), trout (Salmo gardnieri) and barbel (Barbus barbus).
(13) The two shortest lobules, positioned ventral to the face-flank lobule, receive input from the nasal barbel and the pectoral fin, respectively.
(14) The experimental group (n = 12) performed sets of forearm flexion with a barbell until a 20% decline in maximal force was noted.
(15) While the overall histology of the nasal barbel is similar to that of barbels described previously, this study revealed far greater cellular complexity and variability than was previously reported.
(16) The lateral lobule received input only from the dorsal-most part of the ganglion (recurrens nerve: trunk receptors); the intermediate lobule from the rostro-lateral part of the ganglion (nasal barbel); and the medial lobule from the ventral areas of the ganglion (maxillary and mandibular barbels).
(17) Each subject was required to perform a half squat exercise with a barbell weight centered across the shoulders at two different cadences (1 and 2 s intervals) and three different loads (15, 22 and 30% of the one repetition maximum).
(18) The kinematics of the upper body segments of two male and two female subjects as well as the barbell were described using data obtained by means of an optoelectronic system (CoSTEL).
(19) Neurons in rostrodorsal portions of the nIF responded to tactile stimulation or deflection of the ipsilateral barbels, whereas neurons arranged in a dorsoventral direction in caudoventral regions of the nIF had receptive fields on the ipsilateral lips and the oral cavity, respectively.
(20) Although this latter interval corresponded to a phase of barbell deceleration, it appeared that the concomitant enhancement of the back, hip, and knee extensor activity outweighed any adverse effects.
Tongue
Definition:
(n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
(n.) The power of articulate utterance; speech.
(n.) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
(n.) Honorable discourse; eulogy.
(n.) A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
(n.) Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.
(n.) A people having a distinct language.
(n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
(n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
(n.) The lingua of an insect.
(n.) Any small sole.
(n.) That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
(n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
(n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
(n.) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
(n.) The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
(n.) The clapper of a bell.
(n.) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
(n.) Same as Reed, n., 5.
(v. t.) To speak; to utter.
(v. t.) To chide; to scold.
(v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
(v. t.) To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
(v. i.) To talk; to prate.
(v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stabilized mandible allowed suspension of the tongue.
(2) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
(3) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(4) The concentration dependences of response of frog tongue to D-fructose, D-glucose, and sucrose were almost the same, D-galactose, however, elicited a much larger response in comparison with the other sugars in the whole range of concentrations examined.
(5) A case of osteosarcoma of the tongue is reported, with microscopic findings.
(6) In the QHCl-sucrose condition components separated by the tongue's midline and those spatially mixed produced equal amounts of bitterness suppression.
(7) S. sanguis also adhered to human tongues better than the serum-requiring diphtheroid.
(8) On the basis of these studies, four of the neonates required a tongue-lip adhesion to stabilize the airway.
(9) With the aid of analysis of afferent impulse activity in the cat chorda tympani, it was shown that the effect of application of organic acids solutions of the same pH to the tongue could be represented as follows: propionic acid greater than lactic acid greater than pyruvic acid.
(10) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.
(11) Application of 1 mM BT (pH 6.3) to the human tongue statistically potentiated the taste of 0.2 M NaCl and 0.2 M LiCl by 33.5% and 12.5% respectively.
(12) The first manifestation was often extranodular (9 patients tonsil, 8 parotid gland, 8 base of tongue, 7 nasopharynx).
(13) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
(14) We report the case of an 8-month-old female with an unusual duplication cyst in the anterior two-thirds of the tongue.
(15) It represents the seventh case to occur in the base of tongue and the second to be associated with pregnancy.
(16) CR-ir was also observed in nerve fibers surrounding neuronal cell bodies in autonomic ganglia, and in nerve endings in the lip, tongue, incisal papilla, soft palate, pharynx and epiglottis.
(17) We have examined the keratin proteins in normal human oral mucosa from 6 different regions including hard palate, buccal mucosa, tongue, gingiva and floor of the mouth.
(18) Queen's speech: the day ‘psychoactive drugs’ tripped off the royal tongue Read more The first Queen’s speech of the second term should be golden.
(19) Additional documented organ involvement included liver (two of 10), rectal (three of 10), renal (two of 10), gingiva (two of 10), and tongue (one of 10), although invasive biopsies were not performed in a majority of patients.
(20) Sheet preparations of the stratum granulosum from the epithelium of the ventral surface of mouse tongue permit examination of cell replacement of this maturation compartment of the tissue.