(n.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) (Bolognesi, M., Coda, A., Frigerio, F., Gatti, C., Ascenzi, P., and Brunori, M. (1990) J. Mol.
(2) Beyond the director himself, the coda to the Clinton email inquiry has exposed the FBI as a politicized agency, a development with serious repercussions over the next several years.
(3) Following narrow defeat at the All England Club, Murray provided a glorious coda in the early hours of Tuesday morning with a US Open victory in his fifth grand slam final.
(4) Even the rabbis, though, fail to squeeze much in the way of laughs out of the coda to Noah's story.
(5) Treiman (1983) and others have argued that spoken syllables are best characterized not as linear strings of phonemes, but as hierarchically organized units consisting of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (the vowel and any following consonants) and that the rime is further divided into a peak or nucleus (the vowel) and a coda (the final consonants).
(6) It may feel a little like we have a reached a coda, but that is not the case.
(7) The present study employed a new computerized system, CODA-3, which locates small prismatic markers and computes by triangulation their three-dimensional position at 100 Hz.
(8) Roars appeared sonographically like prolonged barks composed of a pulsated preface, a long legato climax and a brief, fractionated and at times pulsated coda; each part varied internally to the ear and in acoustic structure.
(9) It made a colourful and pleasing coda to the sound and fury of new hardware doing battle.
(10) Though his heart's in the right place, connubially and ecologically, Walter is no less flawed than the other characters, and his fanatical campaign, in the novel's coda, to have his neighbours keep their cats indoors so as to save the local bird-life, is comic as well as sad.
(11) Pluto was demoted to a "dwarf planet" in 2006, but it continues to shine in concert halls where Matthews's beautifully crafted movement is frequently performed as a coda to Holst's work.
(12) Coda: today, economic security is something those under 20 cannot conceive of, like life before the internet.
(13) In the context of his career, his final weekend at Fenway is something of a coda.
(14) Although it is obviously unusual, Bishop is not the first to be posthumously nominated for the Costa awards, joining excellent company including Ted Hughes, who won book of the year for Birthday Letters in 1998 and Simon Gray, shortlisted in 2009 for his post-Smoking Diaries memoir, Coda.
(15) But in the Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations – launching in London today – a working group of current and ex-judges, advocates and professors, drawn from each region of the world, argue that any new international agreement will just be a coda to obligations already present, pressing and unavoidable in existing law.
(16) The treatment of Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company offers just as chilling a coda.
(17) A strange coda: suggestions of bad blood between the brothers ignore one extraordinary fact.
(18) The Inbetweeners Movie was originally planned as a coda to the third and last series on E4 in 2010.
(19) Soon to be published is Coda, which tells the story of his last months, and is, it is said, wonderful.
(20) The narratives were analyzed for the use of abstracts, orientations (background information), and codas.
Coxa
Definition:
(n.) The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.
Example Sentences:
(1) This disorder associated coxa vara, large terminal phalanges, bilateral cataracts and severe mental deficiency.
(2) The high frequency of coxa magna in these patients and its possible role in the development of degenerative arthritis indicate that transient synovitis of the hip should not be considered a harmless disease until further epidemiologic studies are available.
(3) Thirty-two of the affected calves had macroscopic lesions in the coxae.
(4) In 5 cases the involved bone was resected, in 6--edge resection with homoplasty and in 7--segmental resection with automoplasty were employed, in 4--amputation, in 1--exarticulation in the coxa.
(5) The structure of scutum, organs of gnathosoma and coxae, chaetotaxy of idiosoma and gnathosoma were used for differential diagnosis.
(6) Preferred anatomic host beds for transplantation were the coxa, arm, and vertebral column.
(7) Posteriorward horizontal deflection of the femur-trochanter relative to the coxa (at right angles to the normal plane of movement) produced a strong excitation of the group 1 sensilla.
(8) Interneurons are demonstrated in which membrane potential oscillations mirror the leg position or show correlation with the motoneuronal activity of the protractor and retractor coxae muscles during walking.
(9) By measuring the longitudinal and cross-sectional lengths of both the femoral heads and necks, we felt that "coxa magna" should be defined as the condition with enlargement of all of these parameters.
(10) This is of interest because residual coxa vara following a hip fracture in an adult is a deformity in which there is little if any corrective remodeling.
(11) This leg was connected with two sets of coxae by a irregular-shaped bone considered the vestigial vertebrae and ribs.
(12) In 2 children with cysts in the upper end of the femur, there were 3 complications: coxa vara, avascular necrosis and osteochondritis dissecans.
(13) From the roentegonological viewpoint for fair were considered the findings without persisting subluxation and dislocation with the spheric head (the asphercity on the Moose template did not exceed 2 mm) and without evident shape deformities of the proximal end of the femur (coxa vara, overgrowth of the greater trochanter).
(14) Coxa vara worsens as it evolves, and is often accompanied by other femoral deformities, such as hypometria, axial knee deviations, and rotational deformity.
(15) The ipsilateral mesothoracic coxa-femur (CF) joint extended for all wind angles.
(16) The B. japonicum cycM and coxA mutants were able to fix nitrogen in symbiosis with soybean (Fix+).
(17) Larva differs from I. trianguliceps in longer setae of alloscutum, longer ventrolateral tooth of 1st palpal joint and longer medial tooth of coxae I.
(18) In the femora, the main curve was anterolateral with some medial rotation and coxa vara.
(19) The authors noted a number of peculiarities and positive moments in case of application of hip joint transosseous access after Kulish with 87 patients, aged 14-64 years, with deforming coxarthrosis, femoral head aseptic necrosis, coxa vara, congenital hip dislocation and femoral head epiphyseolysis.
(20) In 54 female patients deformities in the region of 68 mammary glands were eliminated simultaneously during surgical procedures for cicatricial contractures of the brachial joint, coxa and neck.