(1) The overall repeated measures MANOVA, a set of complex contrasts, and paired t tests revealed that TEP speech produced with the low pressure prosthesis was significantly different from that produced with the duckbill prosthesis on a weighted linear combination of the eight acoustic variables.
(2) In all cases the Blom-Singer duckbill prosthesis was utilized for alaryngeal voice restoration.
(3) Thirteen of 20 who had adequate follow-up developed fluent, intelligible speech using either duckbill or low-pressure one-way valves.
(4) Training focused on coordination of breath control, articulation, muscle relaxation, and proper handling and maintenance of the "duckbill" prosthesis.
(5) Tracheoesophageal voice produced with a low pressure prosthesis had greater amounts of periodic phonation than tracheoesophageal voice produced with a duckbill prosthesis.
(6) A single motion with a double-action duckbilled rongeur produces a smooth-walled, symmetrical aortotomy which varies in shape predictably according to the angle at which the rongeur is held relative to the axis of the aorta.
Paddlefish
Definition:
(n.) A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In specimens of shovelnose, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus, and Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrhynchus, and paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, evoked potentials recorded from the hindbrain and elicited by electric fields reached maximum amplitude within the DON and decreased in amplitude through the cerebellar crest.
(2) The anterior lateral line nerve (ALLN) in the chondrostean fishes (sturgeon and paddlefishes) consists of both fibers innervating ampullary electroreceptors and fibers innervating the mechanoreceptive neuromasts of the cephalic lateral line system.
(3) The Xiaonanhai Dam , to be constructed above the Three Gorges reservoir, will sever the last remaining migratory route that fish need in order to reproduce, including rare and endemic species such as the paddlefish (the biggest freshwater fish in the world) and the Dabry’s sturgeon, whose numbers have already been drastically reduced.
(4) Examples are presented concerning growth allometry in white rats, metabolic allometry in placental mammals, and size allometry in the Paddlefish, in the North American Marten and in the Painted Turtle.
(5) Bile salts of the sturgeons Acipenser guldenstaedti Brandt, Acipenser stellatus Pall and Huso huso L. and of the paddlefish Polyodon spathula Walbaum are shown to be closely similar, consisting mainly of taurocholate with minor amounts of tauroallocholate and the monosulphates of bile alcohols.