(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.
Lock
Definition:
(n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
(n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.
(n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
(n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
(n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
(n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.
(n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
(n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
(n.) A grapple in wrestling.
(v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.
(v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.
(v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.
(v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
(v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
(v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
(v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.
Example Sentences:
(1) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
(2) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(3) In contrast, 1:1 phase locking characterized the electrical correlates of the duodenal activity front.
(4) When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks?
(5) The commonly used line-to-line reaming technique was compared to an underreaming technique using both four-fifths and one-third porous-coated anatomic medullary locking (AML) implants.
(6) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
(7) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(8) One top Republican official told the Guardian the party has for months been locked in secret talks with TV networks about how – or whether – it will fit all the candidates onstage for the primary debates.
(9) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
(10) On Wednesday, managing director Mike Devereux also flagged that the company's future in the country was not certain if government funding was not locked in over a long period.
(11) The violence led to the temporary suspension of the council's monthly meeting with some staff at one stage locked in rooms to ensure their safety.
(12) There have been reports of difficulties with the seating and locking of the vaporisers which can cause a leak and failure of vapour delivery.
(13) Such mutations lead to a major reduction in the rate of GTP hydrolysis by the complex of ras p21 and the GTPase activating protein (GAP) and lock the protein in a growth-promoting state.
(14) He was a fixture at Trump rallies, where he met chants of “Lock her up” against Hillary Clinton with a smile.
(15) No doubt New Labour ministers would regard such moves as protectionism, locked as they are in a discredited free-market mindset.
(16) So-called "structured" savings accounts promoted heavily by banks and building societies promise savers extra interest if they lock their money away for at least five years.
(17) Palmer sought to clarify his statements on Tuesday, and said they were aimed at the company he is currently locked in a dispute with, and not the broader Chinese population.
(18) Foveal exposures that did not produce an immediately visible lesion did not produce measurable changes in VEP response lock-in time.
(19) Scream Queens is the kind of show where you discover a secret locked room in the basement in one scene and then we find out exactly what is in the room three scenes later.
(20) In a group of the MS-DB units with stable background theta bursts the typical response consisting of entrainment of the phase-locked theta cycles was changed neither by physostigmine, nor by cholinergic-blocking drugs (scopolamine and atropine).