(n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only.
(n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.
(n.) Same as Acroterium.
(n.) Same as Crossette.
(n.) Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention.
(v. t.) To take in with the ears; to hear.
(n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.
(v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.
(v. t.) To plow or till; to cultivate.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
(2) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(3) Circuitry has been developed to feed the output of an ear densitogram pickup into one channel of a two-channel Holter monitor.
(4) Bipolar derivations with the maximum PSE always included the locations with the maximum PSE obtained from a linked ears reference.
(5) There were no statistically significant increases in ABR thresholds for irradiated ears vs. control ears.
(6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
(7) In the study group 43 (64%) children had a confirmed bacterial AOM and 24 (36%) showed no bacterial growth from middle ear fluid.
(8) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
(9) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(10) Fascia TM grafts atrophied in 35 of 43 ears (80%), and perichondrium atrophied in 8 of 20 ears (40%).
(11) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
(12) Recurrent respiratory infections occurred in 17 (38%), and chronic recurrent middle ear effusions were noted in 33 (73%).
(13) The observed staining indicated that the epithelium of the external auditory meatus has a pattern of keratin expression typical of epidermis in general and the epithelium of the middle ear resembles simple columnar epithelia.
(14) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
(15) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
(16) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
(17) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
(18) A 56-year-old man was admitted because of left facial palsy and hearing loss of bilateral ears.
(19) Bamu also beat him, taking a pair of pliers and wrenching his ear.
(20) Most symptoms come from the ciliated airways (nose, paranasal sinuses, and bronchs) and from the middle ear.
Eir
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We have surveyed the rates at which clinicians in the U.K. and Eire withdraw antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in patients with active epilepsy.
(2) Estimates of the entomological inoculation rate (EIR) ranged from 0.00006 to 0.005 in different samples and vectorial capacity (VC) was 0.0005 for the 1990 sample.
(3) In the fracture group, 2 patients suffered spinal fractures which is noteworthy in that neither were wearing back protectors which as yet are not compulsory safety equipment in Eire.
(4) Their beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity (beta-EIR) was assayed in plasma before and immediately after running.
(5) The FT, which also increased its price twice last year, had an average daily circulation of 122,286 in the UK and Eire, 61.97% of which were sold at full rate.
(6) To this end the following receptor model system consisting of two receptors was co-expressed in NIH 3T3 cells: a kinase inactive human insulin receptor (HIR K1018A) and a chimeric (EIR) receptor corresponding to the extracellular and transmembrane domains of the human EGF receptor and the cytosolic domain of the human insulin receptor beta subunit.
(7) In contrast to our previous studies on the submersion of scuba divers in a state of neutral buoyancy, neither plasma beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity (beta-EIR) nor affective feelings were significantly changes in scuba divers by mimicking diving pressures of 2 feet (0.6 m) and 50 feet (15.2 m) for 20 min in a hyperbaric chamber.
(8) Plasma beta-EIR was measured by radioimmunoassay in male scuba divers before and immediately after remaining motionless 10 ft under water in a state of neutral buoyancy.
(9) The gustatory information on early insulin response (EIR), reported by Steffens (1976), is supported by the electrophysiological observations.
(10) In a multi-centre trial of mazindol ('Teronac'), a new anorectic agent unrelated to amphetamine, 274 male and female patients were treated by 53 investigators in Eire.
(11) The result is a joint effort of the original eight participants and invited professors from Italy and Eire as well as from five non-EC countries (Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland).
(12) Described herein is the preliminary physicochemical characterization of one such regulant, that being the EIR responsible for the Lyt-2+ T cell-dependent expression of FcR epsilon and secretion of an IgE-binding factor (IgE-BF) which can potentiate IgE synthesis; the former activity has been denoted EIRT for its selectivity of action on T cells, and the latter activity has been termed enhancing effector molecule (EEM) for its presumed potentiating influence on IgE antibody synthesis.
(13) The findings of this study demonstrate that normolipidemic patients with CAD may have marked abnormalities in th eir LDL composition and these anomalies are present in both diabetic and nondiabetic patients.
(14) Entomological inoculation rates (EIR) averaged 0.82 infective bites per man per night inside houses in Kisian and 0.65 in Saradidi.
(15) A questionnaire and telephone survey was carried out in April 1991 of all 31 academic departments of general practice in the United Kingdom and Eire; 30 departments responded.
(16) Nine viruses of the Kemerovo serogroup (orbivirus genus; family, Reoviridae) isolated from seabird ticks (Ixodes uriae and Ornithodoros maritimus) from eight different geographical locations (four from Scotland, two from Morocco, one from Eire, one from England, one from the Faeroes Islands) were examined.
(17) A blood sample received from a field case of redwater in Eire caused simultaneous infections of Babesia divergens and Ehrlichia phagocytophila when inoculated into a splenectomised calf.
(18) During the course of these studies, clues as to the physicochemical nature of other EIR activities was obtained.
(19) glucose injection, especially in early insulin release (EIR) and the lesser known post EIR suppression of insulin levels below basal, or acute insulin decrement (AID).
(20) Venipuncture and scuba breathing out of the water did not alter beta-EIR levels.