(n.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.
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Tuba
Definition:
(n.) An ancient trumpet.
(n.) A sax-tuba. See Sax-tuba.
Example Sentences:
(1) agents from tuba with, conversely, frequent isolation of these agents (34.7%) from cervical swabs.
(2) In children with recurrent secretory otitis media (SOM) a mechanical malfunction of the Tuba Eustachii (by adenoids, myogenous palatotubal insufficiency, persistent cartilaginous collapse of the tube) should be taken into consideration as well as immunological factors of the lymphatic structures of the pharynx which may influence the tubotympanal mucosa.
(3) Topographical relationships and size of the arteries of the mesovarium and mesosalpinx were evaluated from the point of view of their usefulness in microsurgical operations on the oviduct (tuba uterina).
(4) The conclusion drawn out is that it does exist a correlation between the kind of register and the forced aperture of the ostium tubae.
(5) The numbers of patients admitted to the Public Health Service Indian Hospital, in Tuba City, Arizona, with deficits in weight for their chronological ages, marasmus, and kwashiorkor were compared during two 5-year-periods, 1963 to 1967 and 1969 to 1973.
(6) Patulous Eustachian tube (tuba aperta) is a distressing condition for the patient with such symptoms as autophony and a sensation of fullness in the ear.
(7) It was the Poetry Society that awarded Tempest the Ted Hughes poetry prize in 2013 for Brand New Ancients, a narrative work that told a tale of everyday heroics, false gods and fierce hopes in modern-day London over tuba, violin, drums, electronics.
(8) This often stressed symptom of amber discharge or hydrops tubae profluens could not be elicited in any patient.
(9) "And my stomach was churning with the sound of the low tuba."
(10) Our findings that the ventilation of the ear is in most cases blocked at the diaphragma and not at the tube leads to questions on the one hand regarding the function of diaphragma and to the opinion on the other that the ventilation system of the middle ear is divided in two sections by the diaphragma: An anterior section including tuba and hypomesotympanon and a posterior including epitympanon, aditus, antrum and the pneumatic cells of mastoid and pyramid.
(11) If the adhesions include the proximal end of the tubae, the contrast pooling may be absent.
(12) "Perhaps the Premier League could pay Stewie Griffin to follow him around with a tuba."
(13) Included are measurements of distances of the Ostium pharyngeum tubae auditivae to the Canalis palatinus major and the upper surface of the Palatum molle.
(14) The level of tubA transcript remains the same throughout the cell cycle.
(15) Macroscopical and microscopical examinations revealed a hernia-like prolaps of a part of the wall of the tuba uterina across a hole in the myometrium of the fundus uteri.
(16) Because of high rates of acute pharyngitis in Tuba City, AZ, at the Navajo Indian reservation, the use of rapid diagnostic test was prospectively evaluated.
(17) Molecular disruption of tubA results in a block in nuclear division whereas in tubB it gives rise to abnormal cell and nuclear morphology.
(18) The national anthems: Flower of Scotland is given a nice plodding bassline on parping tuba, while the Georgian is a close-harmony affair, a bit like the theme to Eurovision, plus a couple of chord changes which throw the casual listener.
(19) We have isolated and analyzed the tubA and tubB alpha-tubulin genes of Aspergillus nidulans.
(20) The epithelium of the ampulla tubae of the Texel ewe was studied during the oestrous cycle by light microscopy.