(1) Male volunteers for mass radiography examination, aged 40 or more, were questioned about their sputum production, smoking habits, and, when applicable, their method of smoking cigarettes.Of 5,438 cigarette smokers 460 (8.4%) smoked their cigarettes without removing the cigarette from the mouth between puffs ("drooping" cigarette smokers) whereas the rest smoked in the normal manner.Persons who admitted to producing sputum from their chests on most days of the year or on most days for at least three months of the year for a minimum of two years were classified as chronic bronchitics in the absence of other causative disease.The rate of chronic bronchitis among the "drooping" cigarette smokers (41.5%) was considerably greater than that among those smoking cigarettes in the normal manner (33.6%).
(2) Miliband's pedestrian, drooping delivery did no justice to the ambition of his argument, leaving the packed conference hall sometimes flat.
(3) One side of my face was drooped, I had hearing loss, and just having the worst headache of my life.
(4) The patient has a typical saddle nose and drooping auricles.
(5) The local minimum tumour temperature is explicitly estimated from the power required to maintain each member of an array of electrically heated catheters at a known temperature, in conjunction with a new bioheat equation-based algorithm to predict the 'droop' or fractional decline in tissue temperature between heated catheters.
(6) Your knees creak, your back aches and your fleshy bits droop more than they used to.
(7) They ranged from tail droop to complete lower limb paralysis.
(8) Shoulder droop may induce thoracic outlet syndrome and may simulate scoliosis in the athlete.
(9) In laterally recumbent dogs the lower kidney glides craniad, whereas the upper kidney tends to droop, yielding radiographs in which the upper kidney is often clearer and more bean-shaped than the lower.
(10) A decay that continues rapidly spreads downwards throughout the stalk and the affected plants soon droop.
(11) The pqp mutants display zygotic (spread and drooping wings, cross-vein defects, extra bristles) and maternal (embryonic lethality) recessive phenotypes.
(12) Get with the programme or your ratings will continue to droop like the sad features of a basset hound.
(13) The nose tip should be prevented from drooping by means of columellar supporting grafts.
(14) The author stresses the importance of columellar sensation, nasal tip sensation, and the role of the nasalis muscles in determining the postoperative results of corrective rhinoplasty, especially as these have an influence on the "drooping tip" and the columellar base.
(15) I mean, I don't think I ever wore a bra to prevent droop (ain't got nothing to droop, honey) or backache.
(16) Five normal and 12 droop-winged fledglings were captured, killed, and examined.
(17) The excretory urogram showed a left hydronephrotic lower pole with a "drooping flower" and no opacification of the upper pole.
(18) The clinical signs were characterised by ear drooping, lip commissural paralysis, sialosis, and collection of food on the paralysed side of the mouth.
(19) Symptoms of intoxication in the form of convulsions and tendency of circling in one direction with drooping ears were observed alongwith corneal opacity 40 weeks after the experiment.
(20) Complications included oral wound dehiscence (3 dogs), shifting of the mandible toward the operated side (6 dogs), and drooping of the tongue (2 dogs).
Pendulous
Definition:
(a.) Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging.
(a.) Wavering; unstable; doubtful.
(a.) Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.
Example Sentences:
(1) The intrauterine source can effect pendulous displacements in linear or non-linear patterns without preparatory dilatation.
(2) The 'pendulating' or 'inspiratory abdominal' respiration and the sinistro- or dextrocardia are often diagnostic.
(3) She presented to the antenatal clinic at 31 weeks' gestation in distress because of a large, pendulous abdomen and preterm labor.
(4) Breasts reconstructed in this manner have remained pendulous structures.
(5) Recovery of spermatozoal production was also observed following spontaneous cure of chorioptic mange lesions in a ram whose scrotum had become severely thickened and pendulous due to long-standing chrorioptic mange.
(6) The morbid adenoid with atelectatic eardrum was differentiated from the large posterior type of adenoid of the healthy eardrum, by the pendulous projection over the choana especially in swallowing.
(7) It is reported about an own observation of an endobronchial, pendulous, polypoid chondrolipoma (hamartoma) which is located near the tracheal bifurcation.
(8) Can a breast-shaped skin envelope that is pendulous be formed through the use of a shaped expander?
(9) The endothelium over intimal plaques was not as pendulous as endothelium surrounding plaques.
(10) A technique for repair of fossa navicularis and distal pendulous urethral strictures includes elevation of a ventral flap of penile skin, which is inverted and interposed into a distal urethrotomy.
(11) Our experience consists of 81 patients with 89 operations with 302 anastomoses of lymphatic vessels blocked by some disease or surgical resection of benign tumors or consequent to plastic surgery (abdomen pendulous, resection of lipomas of the inguinal region of the thigh, plastic surgery of the thigh), orthopedic operations on the knee or to the stripping of varicose veins.
(12) The left and right ventricular sacs are alternately pumped by the pendulous moving actuator, with the left sac attached to the actuator and a free right ventricle.
(13) Results appear to be excellent when the procedure is used for strictures of the pendulous urethra.
(14) "G osh," gasps Lucy Worsley, peering intently at Edward I's pendulous swags.
(15) Surgical removal of adipose tissue is a widely practised form of plastic surgery most often aimed at correcting cosmetic defects after extreme weight reduction such as a pendulous abdomen.
(16) In all the patients with P pulmonale chest x ray showed a low cardiothoracic ratio, a considerably depressed diaphragm, and a pendulous heart.
(17) We talk some more about Mad Men , about: "The swirl and sound and fury of it… For a show that is as dour and moody and pendulous as ours, we have fun."
(18) The urethra can be divided into both anatomic (prostatic, membranous, bulbar, and pendulous) and functional (anterior and posterior) segments.
(19) A 23-year-old male with clinically diagnosed Lowe syndrome had bilateral cataracts, glaucoma, pendulous nystagmus, severe mental and growth retardation, hypotonia, areflexia, joints hyperextensibility, proteinuria, aminoaciduria, and metabolic acidosis.
(20) One of the great advantages of autogenous reconstruction over implants is that the breast remains soft, supple, and warm, improving with time as the scars begin to fade and becoming more natural and pendulous.