(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.
Ossicle
Definition:
(n.) A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
(n.) One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The second, the normal tubercle for insertion of the transverse ligament of the atlas, may look like a separate ossicle or a chip fracture.
(2) Each mastoid and epitympanum was extensively involved with chronically inflamed tissue which surrounded the ossicles and chorda tympani nerve.
(3) A case is presented in which an ossicle was evaluated acutely.
(4) A review of arthroscopic, radiographic, and clinical data of all patients undergoing ankle arthroscopy at our center provided the following diagnoses: talar dome osteochondral fractures, loose bodies, accessory ossicles, talar dome cyst with loose bodies, and chronic synovitis.
(5) Tomography of the petrous bones showed, in both cases, an upward tilt of the long axes of the bones including their auditory canals, generalized sclerosis of the petrous pyramids and enlargement of the ossicles.
(6) X-ray powder diagrams of normal ossicles were shown as a granular hydroxyapatite.
(7) There was a profound reduction in the ability of marrow to generate ossicles when transplanted under the kidney capsule as a result of the administration of either 224Ra or 239Pu, with only transient recoveries from the effects of 239Pu at 4 days and at 3 months after injection.
(8) The position, displacement and phase angle of the rotation axis of the ossicles was calculated based on the displacement and phase angle of the umbo, malleus head and lenticular process.
(9) Ossicular mobility was assessed by direct coupling of a piezoelectric ceramic vibrator to the ossicles during middle ear surgery.
(10) Increase in size of the auditory ossicles was stated to occur unevenly, every bone having certain periods of the most intensive growth.
(11) This restricted distribution of tenascin may be important in the morphogenesis of scleral papillae and scleral ossicles.
(12) Particular care should be taken with those who have both atlantoaxial instability and odontoid hypoplasia or accessory ossicles as they are at particular risk of spinal cord damage.
(13) The valve ossicle resembles that of Parechinus in its triangular valve shape and open blade form, contrasting with Echinus in these features.
(14) The ossicles were nearly always present but deformed.
(15) Two cases of ossicles in human menisci are added to the list of 18 previously reported cases.
(16) In the treatment of the various malformations of the external and middle ear (atresia of the bony canal, malformed ossicles, reduced volume of the middle ear in varying degrees, atypical course of the facial nerve), the indirect approach to the middle ear via the antrum appears to be the safest operative procedure for a tympanoplasty in cases of congenital atresia.
(17) The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences in the destruction of ossicles in chronic ear disease caused solely (monoinfection) by one of the most common three bacteria, namely Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Proteus strain.
(18) We present four patients with meniscal ossicles associated with a longitudinal tear of the medial meniscus.
(19) They recorded an auditory gain in more than half the patients (early: PORP 97%, TORP 73%, piston 52%; plasty transplants of ossicles obtained from subjects who died accidentallyĕ For preserfic Council of the Ministry of Health, Czech Socialist Republic, recommended, based on the clinical tests, the manufacture of silastic prostheses of the middle ear.
(20) A hypothesis is developed to the effect that the movement of the ossicles, necessary for lubrification and nutrition of the hyaline cartilage, is maintained by the two middle-ear muscles.