(superl.) More remote; more distant than something else.
(superl.) Tending to a greater distance; beyond a certain point; additional; further.
(adv.) At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.
(adv.) Moreover; by way of progress in treating a subject; as, farther, let us consider the probable event.
(v. t.) To help onward. [R.] See Further.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the next 5 years 9 more states followed and 3 others went even farther by allowing unrestricted abortion during early pregnancy.
(2) It is also shown that the solutions from the theory go much farther, giving a detailed account of the deformation and interaction of the fluid and solid phases in the tissue.
(3) Even a lot farther west sheep and cattle farmers are short of grass and animals are struggling to find enough to eat.
(4) Over the past three months, US-Russia relations have plummeted farther and faster than at any time since the 2008 Russia-Georgia War .
(5) This realignment farther away from Edgcote House and its grounds avoids the site of a Roman villa and the possible location of the historic Edgcote Moor battlefield."
(6) Underlying many criticisms of medical ethics is the failure to realize that medical ethics as such is not a reform movement or an effort to inspire moral behavior, that it is not and cannot be a specialist's body of esoteric knowledge, that it requires facts and conceptual analyses from other fields to do its work, and that value arguments can be carried farther than one generally expects.
(7) They could continue the relation with the school but farther help on the pedagogic level, which showed that they could share.
(8) Cases from ethnic groups in which the stigma of leprosy was high travelled farther for treatment.
(9) Clinicopathological correlation suggests that the sensory thalamocortical radiations must lie farther posterior in the posterior limb of the internal capsule than the corticospinal motor fibers, and that they probably lie adjacent to the thalamus.
(10) Whilst we tend to imagine a wholesale collapse scenario where chaos radiates outward from Pyongyang, we might better examine the possibility of chaos farther from the bright and labyrinthine capital city – and far closer to China.
(11) Independently on the presence and concentrations of ethidium bromide in the gradient, nucleoids from FdUrd treated cells sedimented farther than those from untreated cells.
(12) Blum's (1954) interpretation of psychoanalytic theory leads him to predict that Ss will defend against a threatening stimulus which is just below a recognition threshold and be vigilant toward the same stimulus when it is farther below the same threshold.
(13) By now the King Jacob was some distance away, and every time Mbalo put in a burst to try to reach it, he felt as if the waves pushed him even farther away.
(14) Mural trophectoderm cells close to the ICM divide faster than those farther away, indicating that cells may retain a 'memory' of ICM contact for some time after leaving the ICM.
(15) This DNA fragment contains a cis-acting control element with at least three functional domains: a putative promoter, an inhibitory domain upstream from the promoter that blocks its function, and a TCDD-responsive domain still farther (1265 to 1535 base pairs) upstream of the promoter.
(16) Above, in the north of the city we can see the runways of the Helsinki airport, while farther west, the large, dark green area is Nuuksio national park.
(17) When they were requested to indicate which was easier to categorize, they selected the alternative that was farther.
(18) The authors also show that almost all of the "new" hair-bearing scalp gained by the tissue expander is a result of stretching the scalp over the expander and its close surroundings and that only a very minute portion is gained by migration of the scalp from farther away.
(19) After the war Kühne carried his explorations farther west, eventually reaching the quarries at Bridgend in Glamorgan, Wales, where he not only found more triconodont teeth in some quantity (Kühne 1958) but also a symmetrodont tooth (Kühne 1950).
(20) By crossed-immunoelectrophoresis (CIE) of plasma, using anti-inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor (ITI) immunoglobulins, beside native ITI, related components are visualized as an heterogeneous peak migrating farther than ITI.
Gullet
Definition:
(n.) The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.
(n.) Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions
(n.) A channel for water.
(n.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
(n.) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.
Example Sentences:
(1) The incidence of sarcocysts was investigated microscopically after 0.25% trypsin action in the muscles of bovine gullet and diaphragmal columns of pigs.
(2) It was a speech that might well have stuck in the gullet of any Greeks or Spaniards who happened to be watching.
(3) It can be placed at the time of original surgery and is also workable in patients who have had radiation and extensive radical surgery with total reconstruction of their gullet.
(4) Concomitant with the outbreak, the supermarket implicated in the outbreak purchased an unusually large quantity of beef (7,000 pounds) from a nonregular supplier in Nebraska, which had reportedly instituted the practice of trimming gullets (a procedure that removes the muscles from bovine larynx for beef) about three months earlier.
(5) The essential part of this technique consists of the construction of a tracheo-esophageal shunt using only the remainder of the trachea obtained at the time of laryngectomy to reestablish an air communication between the trachea and the gullet.
(6) To give a true representation of vitamin amounts actually consumed, different forms of calculating losses on the way from harvesting or producing foods to the gullet have been applied.
(7) Esophageal carcinomas are visualized endosonographically as localized thickenings of the gullet wall with disruption of its echo-layers.
(8) Sometimes adjective-rich tributes to the great departing rather stick in the gullet.
(9) While there was nothing disgraceful about the behaviour of Mr Finegold, it had "stuck in his gullet" for Mr Livingstone to apologise.
(10) As an alternative to this, staple closure of the gullet has been growing in acceptance and implementation as a mucosal eversion technique.
(11) There is no cytotoxic effect on animal (kidney of monkey) and human (carcinoma of the gullet) cellular cultures.
(12) In patients with oesophageal corrosive stricture which needs operation, both a by-pass procedure and resection can be adopted, but it should be pointed out that malignancy may develop even years after the operation in the remaining part of the gullet.
(13) First, the mucosa is sufficient to restore a new gullet.
(14) Traditionally, gullet closure that is done after a laryngectomy has been accomplished with tedious and time-consuming suturing procedures.
(15) Bovine thyroid tissue had been introduced into the neck trimmings inadvertently during the process of "gullet trimming," a procedure that harvests muscles from the bovine larynx.
(16) More than 50% of the complains are of the nose-gullet which decrease with the increase of the length of service, while the objective changes in the mucous membrane of the nose raise high.
(17) Defective relaxation of the cricopharyngeal muscle (cricopharyngeal dysfunction) is radiographically demonstrated as a posterior impression into the pharyngo-esophageal segment of the gullet in patients with dysphagia.
(18) Manometric testing showed that no swallowing pressure was produced in the reconstructed gullet; therefore, bolus propulsion at the pharyngeal stage occurs mainly by gravity.
(19) The follow up in 19 patients over the last four years showed that the pectoralis major flap is a good alternative for partial reconstructions of the upper gullet, provided that a mucosal strip of 2 cm can be preserved and that secondary shrinkage of the muscle pedicle is allowed for.
(20) Compared with the other two groups of patients studied the patients with cricopharyngeal dysfunction were found to have a slightly wider gullet above and below the cricopharyngeal muscle.