(n.) The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
(n.) The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite tthree resignations and his reputation as a tribal operator in the Blair-Brown wars, however, his belief in the party he joined on his 15th birthday is undimmed.
(2) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
(3) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ramzan Kadyrov is joined by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hilary Swank at his birthday party in Grozny in 2011.
(5) Later in the day, both presidents joined Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton at another Democratic luminary’s birthday party.
(6) We’ve seen a few instances recently of individuals crossing the line with their database use … looking up addresses in order to send birthday cards, checking passport details to organise personal travel, checking details of family members for personal convenience,” it says.
(7) Finicum, who was killed one day before his 55th birthday, grew up in Page, Arizona, and was an active member of the Mormon church.
(8) Now two years old, the Cameron government's reform plan for Whitehall won't reach its third birthday.
(9) By now, some MPs loyal to Corbyn had got wind of a plot to topple him that was more serious than the Hodge and Coffey no-confidence vote, with one claiming there was a Whatsapp messaging conversation among frontbenchers known as the Birthday Group.
(10) Angela Merkel , who turns 60 on Thursday, thanked a German reporter who sang the traditional birthday song at a news conference in Brussels, and revealed that other leaders had given her flowers.
(11) For her two-year-old’s birthday, a swimming trip and family lunch was planned and yet friends would ask, “Aren’t you doing anything to celebrate?” As India’s commercial capital, Mumbai has long been home to some of the richest people on the subcontinent.
(12) The game was one of many celebrations around the country as Russia was gripped with Putin birthday mania on Wednesday.
(13) Five-part drama Collision was one of several successes last year, and ITV1 was named channel of the year last night, the day after Crozier's 46th birthday.
(14) On the day, however, the Queen's 80th birthday won hand over fist against both Cameron and the huskies and Mrs Blair and the hairdressing bill .
(15) Eventually the government announced its intention to launch the scheme, which prompted them to make the switch from oil exactly a year ago, for Tony's 70th birthday.
(16) To celebrate its eighth birthday, Twitter is offering each user a respite from @Jack, and the ability to go back in time and read their own first tweet.
(17) The implication was that splashing out on a decent birthday present for your partner or having the family over for Christmas lunch could affect your chances of getting a mortgage.
(18) On Thursday afternoon, an events organiser for Mumbai’s wealthiest told me stories of children’s birthday parties in which a Bollywood celebrity was hired at huge expense to sing and dance – for a group of eight-year-olds.
(19) Forsyth said that while more children survived past their fifth birthday and attended school at the end of the 2000s than a decade before, a rise in acute malnutrition could undermine those unprecedented gains.
(20) The mean selenium level in the hair of calves which subsequently died at less than six weeks of age did not differ from selenium levels in the hair of calves matched by farm and birthday (overall mean 0.28 ppm).
Eardrum
Definition:
(n.) The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their use is indicated in large or total defects to restore the natural anatomical conical shape of the eardrum, particularly in congenital atresia.
(2) Primitively, vibrations reached the stapes mainly via the anterior hyoid cornu, but in dicynodonts, therocephalians, and cynodants vibrations passed mainly or exclusively from mandible to quadrate to stapes and the reflected lamina was a component of the eardrum.
(3) An attempt was made to answer the question whether it is justified to set an age limit for performance of eardrum reconstructions in children.
(4) A possible relationship of primary auditory and primary nonauditory blast injury was discussed, and it has been concluded that more severe rupture of the eardrum in the injured by mine explosion can suggest the presence of primary blast injuries.
(5) His back was also injured, and both his eardrums burst, he said.
(6) The nature of the acoustic coupling limits the passive energy absorption and transmission properties of the eardrum.
(7) The hierarchy illuminates some of the limitations of various simplified elements commonly used to model the middle ear and demonstrates the necessity of treating the acoustics and the eardrum as an integrated subsystem.
(8) Large variations of sound pressure along the ear canal and over the surface of the eardrum are found above about 10 kHz.
(9) The acoustical energy reflectance at the eardrum, as calculated from a model of the ear canal when terminated by the middle ear model, agrees reasonably well with experimental data up to about 12 kHz.
(10) The tubal compliance index (TCI), which is the ratio of the tubal resistance between two different air flow rates, was compared among three groups: 36 ears of children with otitis media with effusion (OME), 26 ears of adult OME patients, and 10 otherwise normal ears with traumatic perforations of the eardrum.
(11) A major part of this alteration is due to the interaction of various mechanical and acoustic resonances which are characteristic of the hearing-aid receiver and the sound transmission system linking the receiver with the eardrum.
(12) I hope I don't sound too much of fuddy-fuddy -- actually, I know I do -- but surely the point of an athletics meet is to watch athletics and see people run and throw things -- and not to have your eardrums assaulted by a booming bass beat?
(13) The present study also included gross and histopathological examinations of the eardrum and observation of fibers of the lamina propria of the transplanted tympanic membrane by means of polarizing microscopy and of vascularization by intravascular India ink injection.
(14) In cases of retraction of the eardrum, the otoemissions were present in 2 of 23 ears.
(15) However, based on calculations of anticipated leakage of H2S for a variety of eustachian tube conditions and in the absence of either medical literature or personal reports documenting H2S poisoning due to eardrum perforation, the recommendation for excluding workers with such a condition from working in or around H2S is not supported.
(16) The auditory sensitivity of the rats with cotton-stuffed ears and the pierced eardrums decreased about 10 and 20 dB, respectively.
(17) Twenty-five eardrums of 15 healthy children without past or present history of otological disease were examined using otoscopy; a photograph of each eardrum was obtained.
(18) Perforated eardrums were found in 13.9% of Aboriginal and in 0.3% of European children's ears, and this abnormality was strongly associated with low weight and height status.
(19) Revised acoustic energy reflection coefficients, at the eardrum, are obtained for 20 ears for frequencies between 3 and 13 kHz.
(20) Three children whose eardrums appeared normal upon previous examinations, one with the otomicroscope, apparently developed tympanic membrane cholesteatomas that penetrated the fibrous layer of the pars tensa.