(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.
Labialize
Definition:
(v. t.) To modify by contraction of the lip opening.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the pattern in the central nervous system (CNS) and mesoderm is further restricted; the major expression located in the labial neuromere of the CNS and the mesoderm of the first thoracic segment.
(2) It was treated by the method of free autogenous gingival graft on the labial side and gingivectomy by flap on the palatal side.
(3) Class V cavities were prepared on the labial surfaces of the canine teeth of 18 male ferrets.
(4) The classical form most commonly observed on the buccal, palatal and labial mucosa shows a fine lacework of white papules and lines.
(5) This case implies the significance of detecting diabetes mellitus as a contributory factor for labial adhesions.
(6) The labial periodontal ligament, on the other hand, contained less numerous NFP-positive nerves, these terminating among collagen fibers as free endings.
(7) Both larval stages had an inner circle of 6 labial papillae, an outer circle of 6 labial papillae and 4 somatic papillae, and lateral amphidial pits.
(8) Because foscarnet showed an antiviral effect when applied to infected human skin, the lack of effect of foscarnet in clinical studies on recurrent genital or labial herpes may be due to differences in the pathogenesis of the primary and recurrent infections.
(9) Furthermore, in labial glands there was a significant correlation between numbers of 17-109 and G6 idiotope reactive cells (r = 0.61; P less than 0.02), reflecting the known association between these H and L chain CRIs in RF IgM paraproteins.
(10) Labial adhesions have been found commonly in children.
(11) Both labial salivary gland and gingival biopsies were taken from 19 patients with clinical findings suggestive of secondary amyloidosis.
(12) Almost any forms of complete clefts require a rhinoplasty in spite of good primary results with modern methods of operation in the labial region.
(13) In addition, we also report the effects of ectopic expression of the homeotic genes labial (lab), Deformed (Dfd), Scr, Antp or Ubx on the normal development of sensory organs in the embryonic PNS.
(14) The majority of T cells constituting the focal lymphocytic infiltrates in the labial minor salivary glands of patients with Sjögren's syndrome bear the helper phenotype (CD4); activation is expressed by class II (HLA-DR) MHC products.
(15) The labial cleft is continued in the sulcus papillae palatinae.
(16) This article describes a study of determining blood flow of labial and palatal mucoperiosteal flap with radionuclide Xe-133 clearance technique before and after anterior maxillary osteotomies.
(17) This observation can be expressed numerically by the "labial index", which in mongoloids was found significantly lower.
(18) The resulting data reported on labial enamel thickness of anterior teeth may offer guidance in the preparation of laminate veneers.
(19) In laboratory experiments, progressive transversal jaw expansion with screw plates was simulated and the resulting increase in labial archwire force and deflection (autoactivation) was analysed.
(20) The relationships between changes in upper and lower lip positions, naso-labial angle, and labiomental fold with those in the underlying dento-skeletal elements were examined.