(n .) The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
(2) Even patients with lip deformities considered too mild for a standard Abbe flap no longer need be denied lip revision when the cupid's bow is deficient.
(3) Philtrum length, philtrum shape, philtrum depth, nasolabial triangular area, vermilion thickness, Cupid's bow peak, horizontal upper lip groove, vermilion border, alar size, depth of alar groove, nasal deviation, nostril shape, nasal tip, columella height, sill shape, columella width, and facial balance of the anterior, profile, and caudal views are used as aesthetic checkpoints for the results of a cleft lip operation.
(4) It was found that Millard's technique restores nostril height and the cupid's bow more effectively.
(5) One clue is provided as to why Hitler might have owned Cupid Complaining to Venus: in 1939 a British journalist, Ward Price, noted that Hitler had a Cranach in the Munich flat, and that it had recently been given to him as a 50th birthday present by the regional commander of Thuringia, Fritz Sauckel.
(6) A lateral lip orbicularis muscle flap with white skin roll and vermilion is recommended for reconstruction of the Cupid's bow.
(7) We may be sexting, Tindering and OK Cupid-ing until our iPhones burn our palms, but when it comes to physical consummation, for many of us, sex has gone the same way as whist drives and tea dances.
(8) It reaches everywhere: the National Gallery in London has a long list of questionable provenances, including the famous panel by Lucas Cranach, Cupid Complaining to Venus , which during the second world war was in Hitler's personal collection.
(9) In 1909, the American illustrator Rose O’Neill drew a comic strip about “kewpies” (taken from cupid) – preening babylike creatures with tiny wings and huge heads, which were handed out as carnival prizes and capered around Jell-O ads (to this day, Kewpie Mayonnaise, introduced in 1925, is the top-selling brand in Japan).
(10) Most of the patients afflicted had unacceptable upper lip anatomy characterized by tightness and lack of cupid's bow and bulk.
(11) With hearts on her cheeks, kiss curls on her forehead and cupid’s bow lips, Claude Cahun stares out at us in a small black and white photograph, taken in 1927.
(12) Fortunately for the human species, wounds from Cupid's bow are much more common than any injury discussed by us.
(13) Its severity may be defined by the degree of downward depression of the nostril rim, skin striae of the upper lip, notching of Cupid's bow, and deformity of the vermilion border.
(14) However, a secondary surgical procedure is often necessary to improve the appearance and symmetry in the cupid's bow area.
(15) Richard's adaptation cannily steered a clear path through Juvenal's obsessions – fear and loathing in the Forum – revealing at every turn how weirdly contemporary it all seemed: the rampant sex, the cupidity, the triumph of mediocrity, the social injustice.
(16) The deformity of the upper lip of a congenital and acquired character is often accompanied by an alteration of the Cupid arch contours.
(17) In 2001, Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker wrote of the then-overgrown and under-threat tracks: “The High Line does not offer a God’s-eye view of the city, exactly, but something rarer, the view of a lesser angel: of a cupid in a Renaissance painting, of the putti looking down on the Nativity manger.” But Friends of the High Line, the campaign group that saved the line from demolition and is now in charge of rebuilding it, seems to be seeking a simpler reaction from the public, something closer to photographer Joel Sternfield ’s verdict upon seeing the tracks for the first time: “It’s green!
(18) There are no calls for the works of Caravaggio, for instance, to be hidden or destroyed, even though his paintings Victorious Cupid and St John the Baptist are of a naked, pre-pubescent boy, an assistant with whom Caravaggio is believed to have been having sex – which we would consider to be abuse by today’s standards.
(19) Molecular cytogenetic techniques were used to delineate a subtle chromosome rearrangement in an infant with growth and psychomotor retardation, abnormal scalp hair pattern, narrow palpebral fissures, broad nasal bridge, bulbous nose, small nostrils, thin lips in a cupid's bow configuration, bilateral simian creases, and unilateral cryptorchidism.
(20) They found him guilty of lying to his former comrades in the Scottish Socialist party about being the "unmarried MSP" who had visited Cupids and had an adulterous affair who was the focus of the first NoW exposé.
Cuspid
Definition:
(n.) One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) This brief report describes an extracted maxillary permanent cuspid tooth that is longer than any previously reported human tooth.
(2) Two documented cases involving avulsions of an incisor and a cuspid are reported.
(3) In addition, the dental age of all the permanent cuspids as seen by the eruption and tooth development suggested that the cuspids are comparable to those seen in a 13 to 14 year-old-boy.
(4) After reestablishment of a cuspid protected guidance and of a sufficient free way space and reduction of parafunctions the sensitivity estimated by means of a dental probe could be removed permanent on a number of teeth after two weeks already.
(5) A case with a firm asymptomatic nodule of 1 cm diameter on the gingiva between the left upper cuspid and first bicuspid is presented.
(6) The analysis of the scannograms obtained demonstrates that the valves of the thoracic ducts are mainly bicuspid, have a typical infundibular form, their cuspides are fused, forming a mesentery-like fold on the duct wall.
(7) The varying inclinations of the dominant laterotrusion facets in cuspid-protected or group-guided occlusion has no bearing on the angle of the mediotrusive paths relative to the horizontal plane.
(8) Occlusal interference was placed on the mandibular first molar or cuspid of the habitual chewing side in seven normal subjects.
(9) (4) In comparison of the strength of teeth positioned at various angles, the strength was decreased by slanting either labially or lingually for all the replication models except the maxillary and mandibular cuspid models.
(10) A sample of patients with palatally displaced cuspids and a sample of subjects with normally erupted maxillary cuspids were examined as far as arch dimention and tooth size are concerned.
(11) Each varnish was applied to 10 extracted human cuspid teeth.
(12) The smaller types may even be used in cuspid teeth, since they are no bigger than the American precision attachments.
(13) A case report showing the eruption of the left maxillary and mandibular permanent cuspids in a six-year-old boy, is presented.
(14) After 10 years, cuspid Ca content was higher than cervical.
(15) A case history is presented with a large periapical lesion and a perforating resorption defect on a cuspid.
(16) 13 cases of transmigration of impacted mandibular cuspids are presented, 3 of which occurred in pairs, raising the total number of teeth to 16.
(17) His aortic regurgitation was caused by perforation of non-coronary cuspid due to accident.
(18) To study the biologic response, three commercial calcium phosphate implant materials (Calcitite, Periograf, Synthograft) were implanted in cuspid root "windows" in four beagle dogs.
(19) At the age of 10 to 14 cuspid P content was reduced.
(20) Both of the root apex and apical foramen of the central incisors and cuspids were displaced distolabially from the tooth axis.