(a.) Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.
(imp. & p. p.) of Belly
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
(2) A case of "Prune Belly" syndrome, its sonographic diagnosis, from the 15th week and its monitoring by sonography and biochemical exams of fetal urine for study of renal function is described.
(3) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
(4) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(5) With an incidence of between 1 in 30,000 and 1 in 50,000 births, prune-belly syndrome (PBS) is a rare malformation syndrome.
(6) She walked around her Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in a crop top that showed her belly button ring; she also established herself as a hard- working MP for that area.
(7) and Isospora belli because they can be responsible for severe chronic enteritis in immunodeficient patients.
(8) We report the clinical findings, diagnostic problems and treatment of a 1-year-old Coloured child (with classic 'prune belly syndrome') in whom the spleen had undergone torsion, thus simulating an intra-abdominal abscess.
(9) She mentions the show at the Baltic in Gateshead in 2007, when one of her photographs, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing , owned by Elton John, was removed from the exhibition on the grounds that it was pornographic .
(10) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
(11) Treating the catheters with an organo-silane preparation, protecting the catheters against dislodgement, and use of a belly bandage to minimize damage to the external parts of the catheter may have prolonged catheter life in this experiment.
(12) Isospora belli infection is the most frequent coccidiosis after cryptosporidiosis in AIDS patients.
(13) The main features of the operation include identification of the facial nerve in all cases, division of the posterior belly of the digastric muscle and styloid apparatus, and excision of the styloid process.
(14) The posterior bellies of the digastric muscles were normal.
(15) By analogy with the comparable glands of the yellow-bellied toad and the grass frog, these are called the toxic, lumpy, mucous, callous, and small glands.
(16) The five-year project will see farmers in the eastern region implement measures to try to encourage the reproduction of the Great Hamster of Alsace, which can grow to 25cm (10in) long, has a brown and white face, a black belly, white paws and little round ears.
(17) Pregnant Muslim women had their bellies slit open with knives, and the foetuses pulled out.
(18) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
(19) The tail butt, esutcheon, belly, dewlap and to a lesser degree neck and ear were all very suitable sites on which to find cattle ticks.
(20) The activity of the left masseter, left temporalis, and both bellies of the anterior digastric muscle was studied by this double registration technique.
Bulbous
Definition:
(n.) Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vague denture complaints and complaints about a bulbous face were related to "neuroticism".
(2) We followed up 48 patients operated on for bulbous or penile strictures caused by inflammation or by urethral irritation following endoscopic manipulation or catheterization.
(3) Similar to previous cases in the literature this girl presented with proportionate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, normocephaly, triangular face with bulbous nose, long eyelashes, short upper lip, small vermilion border of upper lip, dorsally rotated ears, deep nuchal hair line, hirsutism, and clinodactyly of little fingers.
(4) However, the bulbous part was considerably blunter and the "U"-shaped part much larger in circumference in comparison to the lower incisor.
(5) Using a new sample of 16 human brains (F = 8, M = 8), it was found that the splenial portion of the corpus callosum was larger and more bulbous in females than in males.
(6) Since 1979, 12 patients with obliterated urethras (ten membranous, two bulbous) have been treated by direct vision urethrotomy using a second cystoscope or sound passed through the previously placed suprapubic tract as a guide.
(7) In Rhinolasius, one receptor possesses a short bulbous cilium without a rootlet, with a septate desmosome of the pleated sheet (comb) type and a weakly developed electron-dense band beneath it.
(8) The filaments did not taper and had large bulbous irregularities at the ends.
(9) This is a reasonable first procedure for restoring continuity of traumatically obliterated membranous and bulbous urethras.
(10) Women tended to have 1) a smaller cross-sectional callosal area (CCA); 2) a larger fraction of CCA in the posterior fifth of the CC; 3) more slender CCs; and 4) more bulbous splenia.
(11) Two types of bulbous projections were observed in the ventricular lumen close to the ependymal surface.
(12) The cell processes contained cytoplasmic varicosities at various intervals along their lengths; and their endings often expanded into bulbous, vesicle-filled process terminals.
(13) The inner ends of the cells project into the ventricular cavity as bulbous or apical protrusions which contain many organelles, especially MVBs.
(14) In addition, the prosthecae of these fusiform caulobacters do not have crossbands, they are somewhat wider than the stalks of Caulobacter and the pseudostalks of Asticcacaulis, and they terminate in a bulbous tip.
(15) The prominent finding in the amygdaloid complex of SDAT was that swollen and bulbous TH-immunoreactive neurites were found in association with neuritic plaques, which have not, rarely if any, been found in controls.
(16) Observations made with a scanning electron microscope confirm the binding of the stereocilia to a matchhead-like bulbous terminal at the apex of the kinocilium in frog saccular receptor cells.
(17) Due to the bulbous shape of the stump prosthetic fitting of modern appliances no longer presents problems.
(18) Some meandering evaginations were also observed as, rarely, were small spherical or bulbous projections.
(19) The immunoreactive cells consisted of two subtypes; the rod-dominant ON-type with a large soma and a large bulbous axon terminal, and the cone-dominant ON-type with a small soma and small axon terminal.
(20) Three papillary tumors as large as a grain of rice or a pea were found in his fossa navicularis, besides on panendoscopic examination, a small papillary tumor was found on the bulbous urethra.