(n.) The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem.
(n.) A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion.
(n.) A cross, set upon three steps; -- more properly called cross calvary.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the effects of such large-scale calvarial repositioning on subsequent brain mass growth trajectories and compensatory cranio-facial growth changes is unclear.
(2) Degradation was incomplete in intact calvarial preparations at all doses studied.
(3) In a study of 200 fresh adult cadavers, calvarial thickness was measured at selected points.
(4) Addition of osteoblastic calvarial cells enhanced the mineralization process, as did the addition of conditioned medium of calvarial cell monolayers.
(5) These results show that forskolin, in mouse calvarial bones and in isolated osteoblasts, in addition to directly stimulating cyclic AMP, can enhance receptor-mediated activation of adenylate cyclase.
(6) IGF-I and -II also decreased collagen degradation in calvarial cultures.
(7) Where possible calvarial autogenous bone is preferred, particularly in younger infants, but in older children especially with large defects other methods may be useful.
(8) Calvarial sodium and magnesium levels could be varied by altering the buffer concentrations of these cations.
(9) The effect of the adenylate cyclase activator forskolin on bone resorption and cyclic AMP accumulation was studied in an organ-culture system by using calvarial bones from 6-7-day-old mice.
(10) It is of importance to the history of Neurology as it contains the earliest mention in oriental literature of (a) the brain and meninges (b) calvarial and cervical vertebral injuries in details of pathology, symptomatology, treatment and prognosis and (c) functional localization in the brain and spine.
(11) Transforming growth factor-beta, prostaglandin E2, and platelet-derived growth factor BB did not alter IGF-II levels, and basic fibroblast growth factor (0.06-6 nM) for 72 h decreased calvarial IGF-II by 30-50%.
(12) Calvarial vascular grooves represent unique points of comparison when the only available premortem radiographs were obtained during childhood, especially when one is attempting to identify children (living or dead).
(13) Because of their easy accessibility beneath the scalp, split calvarial grafts to the nose are useful in various types of nasal augmentation, and the technique is offered as a practical alternative to the use of alloplastic materials.
(14) The effect of des-IGF I on collagen synthesis was independent from that on DNA synthesis, as it is known for IGF I, and both forms of IGF I were equally potent for their inhibitory effects on collagen degradation in calvarial cultures.
(15) While calvarial CSDs have been established in the rat, rabbit, and dog, further research is necessary to determine the CSD in the calvaria of the monkey, as well as the mandibles of dogs and monkeys.
(16) Calvarial abnormalities, in particular lacunar skull, were also noted at CT.
(17) Calvarial periosteum, however, was found to be less bone producing and in that respect not to be superior to the dura.
(18) Previous observations on the linearity in cerebral weight increase during corresponding periods of time points to the decisive role of neural mass growth in calvarial development in rabbits.
(19) Correspondingly, PTH-sensitive AC activities in crude calvarial membrane fractions from 25OHD3- and 24,25(OH)2D3-treated animals were obliterated.
(20) The cross-sections of bone islands formed by calvarial osteoblasts in the different types of transplants were then compared according to their maximal breadth and length.
Church
Definition:
(n.) A building set apart for Christian worship.
(n.) A Jewish or heathen temple.
(n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
(n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.
(n.) The collective body of Christians.
(n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.
(n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.
(v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
(3) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(6) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(8) Another is that the churches were in very densely populated areas and the police did not want to go in and create more damage."
(9) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
(10) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
(11) The church was the Cypriot Orthodox led by Archbishop Makarios.
(12) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(13) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
(14) Is he saying that the Orthodox church is also subject to public spending cuts?
(15) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
(16) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(17) Officers across the country are dealing with hundreds of cases involving abuse in the past in institutions including schools, churches and children's homes and a number of allegations relating to high profile people.
(18) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(19) A lot of our people had to come to make sure the church was kept safe and to get the children out safely."
(20) The incident in Aswan that sparked Sunday's protest was an attack on a church that attackers claimed was being built illegally.