(a.) Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
(n.) An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, they were tested with dichotic listening for correct reports of consonant-vowel syllables.
(2) There is recent evidence that children naturally divide syllables into the opening consonant or consonant cluster (the onset) and the rest of the syllable (the rime).
(3) A rise in lactate dehydrogenase levels consonant with the amount of hemolysis is observed.
(4) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(5) Test items in each of the 4 groups therefore contained different amounts of information regarding the nature of the following vowel, due to coarticulatory influences of the vowel on the preceding consonants.
(6) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
(7) Coarticulatory effects of the vowel on the aperiodic portion were found to (1) occur early in the aperiodic portion, (2) vary with consonant and vowel, and (3) vary with vowel feature.
(8) Three male and 2 female subjects produced six repetitions of 12 utterances that were initiated and terminated by vowels and consonants of differing phonetic features.
(9) This repeated analysis should reassure physicians that isoniazid chemoprophylaxis for tuberculin skin test reactors is beneficial to the individual and consonant with public health policies.
(10) The perception of voicing in final velar stop consonants was investigated by systematically varying vowel duration, change in offset frequency of the final first formant (F1) transition, and rate of frequency change in the final F1 transition for several vowel contexts.
(11) Empowerment may be found through a moral economy grounded in use value appropriate to advanced industrial society that is consonant with Gramsci's new hegemony.
(12) The changes observed following exposure of HUVEC to heparin are consonant with the view that glycosaminoglycans may affect endothelial production of fibrinolytic components.
(13) Two reading passages, one with nasal consonants and one without, were tape-recorded for 72 subjects: 34 selected as having precise articulation and 38 selected as having imprecise articulation.
(14) Unlike intact acidotic and glucocorticoid-supplemented ADX acidotic rats, glutamine extraction was disassociated from the delivered glutamine load consonant with the role of glucocorticoid in coupling cellular glutamine transport to its metabolic utilization.
(15) The major findings were as follows: (1) no significant difference was found in consonant identification scores between aperiodic, aperiodic + vocalic transition, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; (2) consonant identifications from vocalic transition + vowel segments in VC syllables were significantly greater than those from vocalic transition + vowel segments in CV syllables; (3) no significant difference was found in vowel identification scores between aperiodic + vocalic transition, vocalic transition + vowel, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; and (4) vowel identifications from aperiodic segments were significantly greater in CV syllables than in VC syllables.
(16) Minimal pairs differing only in the voicing feature of the initial consonant were produced by four SLI and four language-matched NL children.
(17) Variation of the reaction rate with substrate concentration suggests a diffusion-limited process, consonant with the fact that enzyme and substrate are associated with particles of enormous sizes (the fat cell and the lipid droplet, respectively).
(18) The implant provided information about the amplitude envelope of the speech and the estimated frequency of the main spectral peak between 800 and 4000 Hz, which was useful for consonant recognition.
(19) Generalization data indicated that the child learned 16 word-initial consonants following treatment of only three sets of maximal opposition contrasts.
(20) Acoustic information about the place of articulation of a prevocalic nasal consonant is distributed over two distinct signal portions, the nasal murmur and the onset of the following vowel.
Dorsum
Definition:
(n.) The ridge of a hill.
(n.) The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lactobacilli were found in saliva, on teeth, and on the dorsum of the tongue, the vestibular mucosa, and the hard palate in humans.
(2) The condition usually discovered on routine clinical examination, appearing as an asymptomatic, ulcer-like region on the dorsum of the tongue.
(3) Pain on injection was the only noteworthy complication, particularly when propofol was injected via a small vein in the dorsum of the hand.
(4) Fourteen men with deep dermal burns of the dorsum of the hand treated by early excision and primary skin grafting are presented.
(5) Dorsum of tongue had the highest density of LC per mm epithelial surface length (28.3 cells per mm) which was significantly greater (P less than 0.05) than buccal mucosa (25.2) which in turn had significantly more cells (P less than 0.05) than lip (22.4).
(6) A teflon coated-aluminum chamber was implanted in the dorsum skin of animals.
(7) A previously healthy 47-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with septic shock five days after a small dog bite on the dorsum of her hand.
(8) The evoked spinal electrogram (SEG) in man was recorded from the epidural space, applying the technique of continuous epidural block, and compared with cord dorsum potential (CDP) in wakeful rabbits.
(9) In floor of mouth, lip, lateral border and dorsum of tongue the cells were found along the length of the epithelium.
(10) It was suggested that the dorsum of the tongue may function as a nidus for periodontopathic micro-organisms.
(11) Based on 25 years of experience (1960-1984) with 188 cases, six approaches to thumb reconstruction are categorized as follows: pollicization using the index finger; pollicization using a finger stump; free transplant of a toe to reconstruct the thumb; reconstruction of the thumb by bone grafting and free flap transfer from the great toe with the nail; reconstruction of the thumb by turning up the skin over the dorsum of the stump and lengthening with bone grafting, and reconstruction of the thumb with bone grafting and tubular skin grafting.
(12) A 62-year-old white woman was seen initially with a 4-month history of swelling over the dorsum of her wrist and thumb pain at the basal joint.
(13) Animals received three consecutive daily applications of various concentrations of the test chemical on the dorsum of both ears.
(14) Craniogram demonstrated deep sella of slightly increased volume and unaltered dorsum sellae.
(15) Tests (1) and (2) were applied to the dorsum of the hand and foot and test (3) to the pulp of the fingertip and toe.
(16) The tumor promoter dissolved in a 0.8% sodium carboxymethyl cellulose solution was injected into a subcutaneous air pouch preformed on the dorsum of rats.
(17) A case of cryptococcosis in a guinea pig with lesions confined to the dorsum of the nose is described.
(18) Scarring of the dorsum of the hand is described, often severe and apparently permanent.
(19) An allergic inflammation was induced in the preformed air pouch in the dorsum of the sensitized rats by injecting the antigen dissolved in a 2% sodium carboxymethyl cellulose solution into the air pouch.
(20) The most important reason for the resorption are mechanical factors; this has been shown by comparing the load of implanted tissue on the columella and on the dorsum of the nose.