What's the difference between flat and hyoglossus?

Flat


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
  • (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
  • (superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
  • (superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
  • (superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
  • (superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
  • (superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
  • (superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
  • (superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
  • (superl.) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
  • (adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
  • (adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.
  • (n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
  • (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
  • (n.) Something broad and flat in form
  • (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
  • (n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
  • (n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
  • (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
  • (n.) The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
  • (n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
  • (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
  • (n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
  • (n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
  • (n.) A homaloid space or extension.
  • (v. t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
  • (v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
  • (v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
  • (v. i.) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
  • (v. i.) To fall form the pitch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
  • (2) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (3) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
  • (4) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
  • (5) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (6) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
  • (7) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (8) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
  • (9) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
  • (10) Here we present images of polydeoxyadenylate molecules aligned in parallel, with their bases lying flat on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and with their charged phosphodiester backbones protruding upwards.
  • (11) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
  • (12) We investigated the mechanism by which retinoic acid causes growth arrest and flat reversion of SSV-NRK, simian sarcoma virus-transformed normal rat kidney cells.
  • (13) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
  • (14) After about 3 weeks of culture, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-pretreated fetal rat brain cells showed focal proliferation of neural cells on an underlayer of flat, epithelioid cells.
  • (15) In order to determine an histological high-risk group, we chose cases with preneoplastic conditions (60 CAG, 10 biopsies of gastric remnants, 3 flat adenomas and 55 gastrectomies by cancer or ulcer).
  • (16) During inspiration, the velocity was greater and the shape of the flow profile throughout diastole tended to be flat.
  • (17) The following relationships were found: Round nuclei have higher rates of DNA synthesis than flat ones.
  • (18) The individual micelles are relatively flat, ring-shaped structures, the center offering space for one of the two bulky sugar chains of the saponins.
  • (19) Microinfusion of the selective 5-HT1A receptor agonist, 8-hydroxy-(di-N-propylamino)tetralin (8-OHDPAT), into the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) produced a marked behavioural hypoactivity and flat body posture.
  • (20) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.

Hyoglossus


Definition:

  • (n.) A flat muscle on either side of the tongue, connecting it with the hyoid bone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These experiments demonstrate a spatial organization of hypoglossal motoneurons that reflects the anatomical and functional organization of tongue body muscles: motoneurons innervating the transversus and verticalis muscles are located in medial hypoglossal nucleus regions, motoneurons innervating the genioglossus are located in intermediate hypoglossal nucleus regions, motoneurons innervating the hyoglossus and inferior longitudinalis are located in ventrolateral hypoglossal nucleus regions, and motoneurons innervating the styloglossus and superior longitudinalis are located in dorsolateral hypoglossal nucleus regions.
  • (2) Six occupied the longitudinalis inferior, one the hyoglossus, and one the genioglossus.
  • (3) Its medial portion, into which the genioglossus is inserted, moves in relation to its lateral portions, into which the styloglossus and hyoglossus are inserted.
  • (4) The lingual myoplasty consists of two steps, the first is the same with frenectomy, and the second is the procedure of re-equilibrium of extrinsic tongue muscles mainly between genioglossus muscle and hyoglossus muscle.
  • (5) ceratoglossus and hyoglossus anterior and obliquus.
  • (6) The sublingual gland may be removed to broaden access to the muscular hiatus of the mylohyoideus and hyoglossus muscles.
  • (7) Acetylcholin, injected in the lymph vessels to avoid its effect on the heart, does not contract the hyoglossus.
  • (8) On one side four hundred and sixty-six muscle spindles were counted in seven muscles, the superior longitudinal muscle containing 159 spindles, the genioglossus 80, the transverse 79, the styloglossus 75, the hyoglossus 37, the inferior longitudinal 22 and the vertical 14.
  • (9) Tongue width and width of the hyoglossus and genioglossus muscles were measured.
  • (10) We have registered contraction of the frog's hyoglossus which is essentially slow.
  • (11) The axial widths of the tongue and the genioglossus and hyoglossus muscles were measured by CT.
  • (12) The tongue retractor muscles (styloglossus and hyoglossus) always discharged in synergy with the suprahyoid (geniohyoid) and jaw (anterior digastric and medial pterygoid) muscles.
  • (13) Electromyographic activities were recorded from the following 7 muscles in the head region (the presumed "snapping"-related muscles): M. depressor mandibulae, M. temporalis, M. sternohyoideus, M. geniohyoideus, M. genioglossus, M. hyoglossus, and M. submentalis.
  • (14) Widening of the narrow gutter between the mylohyoid and hyoglossus muscles in one scan level is a prominent feature.
  • (15) Its internal wall consisted of the mylohyoid muscle and it comprised the hyoglossus muscle as well when the gland was very elongated.
  • (16) On the anterior edge of the hyoglossus muscle the relationship changes so that, looking from the top down, we have: Wharton's duct, the lingual nerve, the anterior processus of the gland and the hypoglossus nerve.
  • (17) Injections into the hyoglossus muscle label neurons in dorsal regions of the hypoglossal nucleus in middle and rostral nucleus levels.
  • (18) On the contrary, by exciting electrically the hypoglossus nerve, which commands the hyoglossus, we have observed that this mono-ester abolishes the neuro-muscular transmission, as in the curare intoxication.
  • (19) The action of beta-adrenergic blockers on neuromuscular function has been reexamined using a recent beta-blocker pindolol (Visken), along with propranolol and procaine, on three isolated skeletal muscle preparations from the same species, frog: hyoglossus muscle stimulated through hypoglossal nerve, rectus abdominis and hyoglossus muscles using acetylcholine as an agonist.

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