What's the difference between covering and tegmen?
Covering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cover
(n.) Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(3) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
(4) Five patients have been examined by defecography before and four after closure of a loop ileostomy performed to cover healing of the pouch and ileoanal anastomoses.
(5) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(6) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(7) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(8) The degree of infection and incidence of different genera covering the same period were identical in both series.
(9) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(10) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(11) As to complications they recorded in one case mucosal bleeding after gastrofiberoptic polypectomy and in one case a covered perforation of the sigmoid at the site of colonoscopic polypectomy.
(12) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(13) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
(14) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(15) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(16) This hydrostatic pressure may well be the driving force for creating channels for acid and pepsin to cross the mucus layer covering the mucosal surface.
(17) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
(18) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(19) The study covered 500 children from Warsaw's primary schools--250 children aged 6-8 years and 250 aged 13-15 years.
(20) The smaller interfaces cover about 700 A2 of the subunit surface.
Tegmen
Definition:
(n.) A tegument or covering.
(n.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.
(n.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera.
(n.) Same as Tectrices.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frequently the tegmen assumes a more inferior (low lying) position than normal.
(2) Spontaneous cerebrospinal otorrhea (SCSFO) from tegmen or posterior fossa defects is uncommon.
(3) This is the first reported case of a congenital meningocele through the tegmen in a child.
(4) The contributing elements to boundaries of the round window niche are superiorly the tegmen fossula fenestra rotunda (roof support), inferiorly the fustis (depth) and area concamerata, anteriorly the sustentaculum (support) and postis anterior (anterior pillar), and posteriorly the postis posterior (posterior pillar) and the subiculum (underlying supporting structure).
(5) A patient with a dural cavernous angioma of the middle cranial fossa eroding the tegmen tympani and causing an isolated palsy of the facial nerve is presented.
(6) In the first stage, the middle fossa dura was exposed iatrogenically in 38 ears and pathologically in eight ears through a defect at the tegmen.
(7) The lack of cholesteatoma in this region is mostly due to a ridge of bone extending inferiorly from the tegmen tympani, just anterior to the cochleariform process.
(8) In this study the inner and middle ear was kept intact except for two small holes in the tympanic tegmen.
(9) 34 per cent were found to have defects in the tegmen and petromastoid segments, resulting in communications between the cranial cavity and the middle ear cleft.
(10) The etiologic factor was felt to be previous surgery in twenty-six cases, head trauma in four cases, chronic otomastoiditis in four cases, congenital dehiscence of the tegmen in one case, and subdural empyema in one case.
(11) This group of 33 cases of SCSFO from tegmen or posterior fossa defects is characterized by certain clinical features.
(12) When performing a middle fossa approach, the superior semicircular canal, the greater petrosal nerve, and a window through the tegmen tympani into the attic are useful guideposts.
(13) To address King's claims, the two characters in question (regarding the tegmen tympani and ramus inferior of the stapedial artery) are documented here for Pteropus.
(14) In the patient with a cholesteatoma and an eroded tegmen tympani on CT, MRI is indicated to rule out brain herniation into the middle ear.
(15) Technological advances in neuroradiology and the development of skull base surgery in neurotology have improved diagnosis and management of lesions eroding the tegmen tympani.
(16) The mastoid approach for repair of tegmen defects from below with the use of homologous cartilage or autologous cortical bone is advocated.
(17) In this unique form of tension pneumocephalus, air from the middle ear must have penetrated into the brain parenchyma and later on into the ventricular system through pre-existing congenital defects in the bony tegmen tympani and the covering dura mater.
(18) A thin bony plate extending down from the tegmen tympani was found to be located in front of the malleus head.
(19) Postsurgical and posttraumatic encephaloceles of the tegmen tympani and tegmen mastoideum are well-recognized occurrences.
(20) We studied a 14-year-old girl who suffered fractures of her mandible and tegmen following a fall from a balance beam.