(n.) That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification
(n.) A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.
(n.) The keel of the breastbone of birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) One type of short-axon horizontal cell (HC) and one type of axonless HC are described in the retina of Carinae noctua, a crepuscular bird and Tyto alba, a pure nocturnal bird.
(2) The allegations over the speeding penalty points did not emerge until after the MP's 26-year marriage ended in 2010 as a result of his affair with his PR adviser Carina Trimingham.
(3) To maintain this important bilateral bronchial circulation, it is of capital importance not to mobilize the arteries individually and to avoid large dissections around the carina.
(4) The distance between the bevel end of the tube and the carina was determined with a fibreoptic bronchoscope.
(5) Positive end-expiratory pressure increased the bronchial blood flow at the tracheal carina and both bronchial carina (p less than 0.05).
(6) We present a case of carcinoma in situ located on the carina with excisional biopsy via a fiberoptic bronchoscope and no recurrence after five years.
(7) Seven consenting patients who required thoracotomy and 1-LV were anesthetized and their tracheas were intubated with the Univent BB tube; the BB was inserted into the appropriate mainstem bronchus until the proximal surface of the BB cuff was just distal to the tracheal carina.
(8) Only five cases have been reported in children (two of a lung, one of a mainstem bronchus, one of the carina, and one of the trachea).
(9) Forty-eight patients with carcinoma, but without gross neoplastic involvement of the main carina, underwent biopsy.
(10) We opened the thorax, cannulated the trachea 1 cm above the carina and ventilated the lungs through the lower airways with a Harvard respirator.
(11) The location of the obstruction was trachea in 16 patients, carina in 24, main bronchi in 8, and distal airway in 8.
(12) But in June 2010 Huhne told his family he was leaving Pryce as a newspaper had learned of his long-term affair with his PR adviser, Carina Trimingham, 46.
(13) Anastomoses were performed, respectively, at the level of the main carina (long single anastomosis), at the midpoint between the main carina and the bifurcation of the left main-stem bronchus (short single anastomosis), and just distal to the bifurcation of the left main-stem bronchus (lobar anastomosis).
(14) Laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) and radioisotope studies using radio-labeled erythrocytes (RI) were used to measure blood flow at the donor main carina (DC) and upper lobe carina (DUC) after 3 h of reperfusion.
(15) So for the palliation of airway obstruction we inserted the silicone rubber T-tube stent from 0.5 cm above the vocal cord to 2 cm before the carina after endotracheal tumor resection with Nd-YAG laser.
(16) TBNA was positive for carcinoma in the two patients whose tracheal carinae appeared abnormal on computerized tomography.
(17) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.
(18) We measured vocal cord-carina, oral-carina, and nasal-carina distances in situ at autopsy of two groups of infants (less than 1000 and greater than or equal to 1000 g).
(19) The tracheal mucosa was studied for histologic changes in the cilia, the epithelium, submucosal reaction, and mucus production at the level of the carina.
(20) Atropine abolished tracheal constriction induced by mechanical stimulation of the carina or aerosolized histamine, showing that the responses were mediated over vagal pathways.
Keel
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To cool; to skim or stir.
(n.) A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
(n.) A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.
(n.) Fig.: The whole ship.
(n.) A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.
(n.) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.
(n.) A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.
(v. i.) To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
(v. i.) To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2007, she put the Oscars back on an even keel after poor reviews for the satirist Jon Stewart in 2006.
(2) As they were leaving, he told the court, D’Souza took charge of Keeling and asked Sagar to leave the pair alone.
(3) But before you keel over in shock she's back on form arguing that the government use the money spent on overseas aid to boost investment in prisons.
(4) In that time, MacKeown has had to endure tastleless coverage of her daughter’s drug use and sex life, and close scrutiny of her own lifestyle, and of her decision to allow Keeling to travel alone to Anjuna while the family toured a neighbouring state.
(5) Because we know how even-keeled and slow-to-anger people are during those types of situations.
(6) This bar is only a couple of miles from where the body of British teenager Scarlett Keeling was found five years ago.
(7) Another ship, called TransSpar and designed by Canada's Extreme Ocean Innovation , has a huge, deep keel for stability, giving it the shape of a seahorse, while a third is an adaptation of a Norwegian Navy minesweeping hovercraft .
(8) A silastic keel is secured between the vocal cords at the anterior commissure by means of a loop of nylon passing externally through the crico-thyroid and crico-hyoid membranes.
(9) This instrument will allow endoscopic insertion of sutures for lateralization of a paralyzed vocal cord or for fixation of endoscopically inserted stents or keels in laryngotracheal stenosis.
(10) In a rare case of simultaneous glottic and supraglottic webbing a tantalum keel, as described by McNaught, and a silcone elastomer keel, as described by Montgomery, were placed simultaneously via laryngofissure.
(11) Willetts has appointed Dame Janet Finch, a former vice-chancellor of Keele University, to sit down with academics and publishers to work out how an open-access scheme for publicly-funded research might function in the UK.
(12) Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Keeling was found bruised and half-dressed in the waters of popular Anjuna beach in February 2008.
(13) Professor Peter Styles, professor of applied and environmental geophysics at Keele University, said the find could supply the UK for decades.
(14) In chickens he found NCD (pseudo-fowlpest) and in ducklings a mortal disease which the author then called 'keeling disease' but which he many years later, recognized as virus hepatitis.
(15) Analysis of the 12-wk pooled data from both cage and floor groups indicated the occurrence of isometric growth of the shank and breast in G1 and of the breast only in G2 and allometric growth of the thigh and keel in both genotypes.
(16) An endoscopic technique using a Teflon keel which has been successful in properly selected cases is presented.
(17) Pain threshold was measured in 106 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 50 with ankylosing spondylitis, and 50 normal controls using Keele's algometer.
(18) I did not need O-levels to lead, to have judgment, to make decisions and to be decided.” Nevertheless, in later life he would serve several universities, as pro-chancellor of Keele, then chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan and first chancellor of Chester.
(19) I kept falling asleep during morning session, keeling over into the person next to me.
(20) Nonarticulated components, such as the solid-ankle cushion heel foot, have various keel designs; energy-storing variants provide springiness for walking and running.