(n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.
(n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(2) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(3) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(4) A new theory for the peculiar site selection of cholesteatomas of the external auditory canal is postulated.
(5) In the anesthetized cat, the posterior canal nerve (PCN) was stimulated by electric pulses and synaptic responses were recorded intracellularly in the three antagonistic pairs of extraocular motoneurons.
(6) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(7) 5 reconstructions of the posterior bony canal wall were moderately sunk in.
(8) The parameters of the air flow in the canal of the separator are established in a graphic way.
(9) It may be explained by an ipsilateral lesion of the posterior canal pathways.
(10) Interlamellar plasmodia are limited by 2 outer unit membranes which give rise to both single-and double-membraned pincytic canals.
(11) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(12) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
(13) The cytotoxic effects on cultured rat bone cells of newly-developed root canal sealers and commercially available sealers were compared.
(14) In the external ear canal, residual water from caloric testing or any other irrigation may act to simulate a conductive hearing loss and interfere with subsequent auditory brainstem response recording leading to increased latencies and reduced amplitudes.
(15) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
(16) All the canals open independently at the surface of the cuticle and the substance deposited there is a mixture of proteins and acid mucosubstances.
(17) The crossing points were investigated in 20 patients and in most cases they existed between 2 cm and 6 cm from the anterior border of the external auditory canal.
(18) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
(19) In the series of 50 acoustic neurinomas (AN) the internal auditory canal (IAC) diameter and the diameter difference between the tumor and non-tumor side are compared with the sizes of the AN.
(20) Myelography revealed no abnormality, although magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography after myelography demonstrated a mass within the posterior aspect of the thoracic spinal canal associated with anterior displacement and compression of the spinal cord.
Fjord
Definition:
(n.) See Fiord.
Example Sentences:
(1) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
(2) KSmythe Make a splash in the cold: Bergen, Norway Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Getty Images Bergen, even when the fjords are too wet and dreary to visit, is still a relaxing destination for a winter break in Norway.
(3) Raw power Standing before a glacier in Greenland as it calves icebergs into the dark waters of a cavernous fjord is to witness the raw power of a natural process we have accelerated but will now struggle to control.
(4) The outbreak was limited to the city of Drammen and some densely populated areas on the Drammen fjord.
(5) The wall of ice that rises behind Sermilik fjord stretches for 1,500 miles (2,400km) from north to south and smothers 80% of this country.
(6) Floor-to-ceiling windows offer sublime views of the vast fjord, with Wi-Fi, spacious hot showers and a black stone bathroom scoring extra luxury points.
(7) The problem facing oceanographers and climatologists is the nature of Greenland’s intricately carved coast, which features long fjords that push, like fingers, deep into the island’s interior.
(8) He defied his religious father by becoming an artist, won scholarships to study in Paris and spent the 1890s in fevered movement around Europe, coming back, always, to Oslo and its fjord, a long, winding, tree-lined inlet.
(9) To study whether this is a unique property of these compounds or a more general characteristic of fjord-region diol-epoxides, we have synthesized the anti- and syn-diastereomers of r-9,t-10-dihydroxy-11,12-oxy-9,10,11,12-tetrahydrobenzo(c)chrysene and r-11-t-12-dihydroxy-13,14-oxy-11,12,13,14-tetrahydrobenzo(g)chrysene.
(10) You’ll climb 100 metres in rocky high mountain landscape surrounded by glaciers before descending 1,300 metres (and 33 miles) to sea (or fjord) level, past waterfalls, through forested valleys and fjord farm landscapes to the town of Flåm.
(11) Photograph: Alamy While the Westfjords’ main roads (Route 60 and Route 61) provide views along the jagged routes that rise, fall, twist and turn along each fjord, there are also activities to try: kayaking, hiking, cycling.
(12) The present use of DDT in forest nurseries does not contaminate the neighbouring fjords to a noticeable degree.
(13) Out in the fjord, a white pillar rose up before falling back over the water, like rain.
(14) According to a recent report, scientists who studied three particularly important fjords found that existing maps underestimate their depths by several hundred metres.
(15) Fiamma Straneo, an Italian-born oceanographer, is laboriously winding recording equipment the size of a fire extinguisher from the deck of a small Greenpeace icebreaker caught in huge swells at the mouth of Sermilik fjord.
(16) The fjord-region diol-epoxides of benzo(c)phenanthrene combine high mutagenic and carcinogenic activity with low chemical reactivity.
(17) Determining the numbers of salmonellae by mpn-method the canalisation of the west-side of Kiel fjord proved to be dominated by the abbatoir of Kiel-Wellsee.
(18) For us, it’s skiing in the mountains of Hemsedal, hiking by the fjords and picking berries in the forests.
(19) Relative abundance of various PAH did not change significantly in the mussels collected from the head to the mouth of the fjord.
(20) Waking in Oslo fjord is just spectacular, because, although you are on a large ship, the sides of the fjord tower above you and you get a real sense of its scale.