(n.) The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
(n.) The aspect or countenance; assurance.
(n.) The front or fore part of anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) Average exposure during angiocardiography to the forehead was 3.2 mrem., to the hand 4.2 mrem.
(2) Is there not enough material available, can neck-, breast-or forehead flaps cover the defect, although they do not fulfill the demands for a satisfactory restoration of specific function.
(3) After all those years imagining what he would look like; first his hair, then his forehead and then those blue, blue eyes gradually revealed themselves.
(4) Report on a 79 years old female patient with a giant basalioma terebrans which has been growing for 15 years at the forehead.
(5) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
(6) Traumatic endothelial rings were observed in the cornea obtained from a 4-year-old boy after a fatal gunshot wound to the forehead.
(7) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
(8) These changes comprised macrocephaly, prominent forehead, micrognathia, large fontanelle, flat nasal bridge, low-set ears, facial capillary naevi, cardiac defect and small size for gestational age.
(9) For the treatment of defects of the lateral nasal wall, in addition to the insular flap operation from the nasolabial region and the forehead, the medial frontal flap technique as described by Kazanjian is particularly recommended.
(10) When she returned she had a large bruise on her forehead.
(11) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(12) (Has anyone come across a couple who have tried this successfully, without one smashing the bottle of wine across the other's forehead?
(13) Common signs and symptoms include forehead laceration and deformity, and fracture of the frontal sinus.
(14) Large defects after Mohs' surgery for these lesions may involve the nose, cheek, forehead, and other parts of the face as well as the eyelids, medial canthus, and lacrimal drainage system.
(15) The P100 latency was measured at Oz with a forehead reference (Pz, O1 and O2 channels were also recorded).
(16) forehead for 0-3 days, chest for 4-5 days, sternum for 6 days and later).
(17) Its utility thus rivals the more commonly used medially based deltopectoral flap and forehead flap.
(18) An aneurysm of the superficial temporal artery is a rare lesion, which should be suspected after blunt trauma to the forehead that is followed by the appearance of a pulsatile cystic lesion in the region of the superficial temporal artery.
(19) Procedures included forehead and orbital repositioning, frontofacial advancement, Le Fort III and particularly Le Fort I osteotomies, as well as mandibular osteotomies and fracture repair.
(20) The detergent scrub technique was used for harvesting corneocytes from three body regions (forehead, palm, and sole) of normal persons (n = 20) under casual conditions and after thorough defattening of the skin with 70% isopropyl alcohol or petrol.
Furrow
Definition:
(n.) A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
(n.) Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.
(n.) To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.
(n.) To mark with channels or with wrinkles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The contractile ring exists from about 20 sec after anaphase to the end of furrowing activity, i.e., 6-7 min at 20 degrees C. It is closely associated with the plasma membrane at all times, and is probably assembled there.
(2) Committing to ploughing a lone furrow without international agreement will damage our economy for little or no environmental benefit.
(3) The orientations of the cleavage spindles and the corresponding furrows' positions are assumed to be correlated to the field's temporal evolution which, in turn, is determined by flows of cytoplasmic components originated by the changes in the membrane shape.
(4) Some fields had lightly furrowed brows, others deep gullies and humpbacked hills.
(5) These observations suggest that the double strands on the P-face are registered with the grooves (type I or type II) on the complementary E-face and that a row of particles on the E-face is registered with a furrow-like region between two rows in the double strands on the P-face.
(6) New work is required to identify the signals from the mitotic spindle that specify the position of the furrow.
(7) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
(8) Near the end of first cleavage, membrane of the outer, pigmented surface of the embryo and a short band of membrane at the leading edge of the furrow displayed a high silver grain density, but the remainder of the furrow membrane was lightly labeled.
(9) We report the results obtained from 18 women whose facial folds and furrows were treated with augmentation therapy.
(10) The events that lead to the cell shape changes mediating ventral furrow formation require the transcription of zygotic genes under the control of twist and snail.
(11) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
(12) During conversion of cells to protoplasts, plasma membrane invaginations were arranged end-to-end to form prolonged furrows which persisted until cell wall regeneration had been completed.
(13) 3-D-reconstructions of serial sections of human embryos show that the margin of the lip furrow band is irregular and consists of an abundance of individual epithelial excrescences.
(14) We then show that stimulatory signals of the right kind would induce furrows at the locations observed, in spherical cells as well as cells distorted by experimental manipulation.
(15) In gastrulae, spectrin accumulates near the embryo surface, especially at the forming amnioproctodeal invagination and cephalic furrow.
(16) The present observations indicate that the previous descriptions of the urodele carotid labyrinth should be corrected: a vascular ring exists around the common carotid artery and the latter shows a corresponding narrowing at the entrance to the carotid labyrinth; the vascular ring forms the most proximal part of the external carotid rete; the central chamber occupies only a part of the proximal end of the carotid labyrinth; the internal carotid rete and the external carotid rete constitute a continuous rete mirabile; and a distinct furrow exists in the boundary between these two portions of the rete mirabile.
(17) Injection of autologous adipose tissue removed via liposuction has been used clinically for facial contouring, the aging face, furrows, facial atrophy, acne scars, nasolabial folds, chin, and various other surgical defects.
(18) A cluster of facial actions comprised of brow bulging, eyes squeezed shut, deepening of the naso-labial furrow and open mouth was associated most frequently with the invasive procedure.
(19) Thus, the orientation of mitotic furrows depends on the internal polarity of the cell before mitosis.
(20) The semidominant and nonpleiotropic suppressors at four of the six loci display defective eye phenes themselves, and the phenotypically normal mutants at a fifth locus are suspected alleles of a gene represented by recessive furrowed eye mutants.