(v. i.) Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.
(v. i.) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.
(v. i.) To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.
(v. i.) To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.
(n.) The act of gaping; a yawn.
(n.) The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) During juvenile and adult life stages, the process becomes somewhat removed from the fenestra for obvious reasons, but at a gape of about 40 to 50 degrees it inevitably must touch the "inferior tympanic membrane" and possibly also the tympanic ring.
(2) The data from this study suggest that modulation of wound gape during healing of RK wounds may involve transformation of the corneal keratocyte to a myofibroblast-like cell and the subsequent formation of intracellular stress fibers composed of f-actin, nonmuscle myosin, and alpha-actinin.
(3) This was similar, particularly given that, after all their early endeavour, an amateurish mistake undermined them before the half-hour mark as Aldo Simoncini tripped over his team-mate Luca Tosi’s foot in the six-yard box to allow Phil Jagielka to loop a free header into the gaping net.
(4) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.
(5) Given the pressure on MP’s time, they tend to specialise on one or two countries if they pay any great attention to foreign affairs – only a very few, like the excellent Mike Gapes, can talk authoritatively about foreign policy across the piece.
(6) Brazil’s Roberto Firmino should have equalised 13 minutes into the second half but he skied a golden chance over the bar with the goal gaping.
(7) The venules showed gaping of the interendothelial junctions and lamination of the basal lamina.
(8) The empty shelves, as the library users want to demonstrate, represent the gaping void in their community if Milton Keynes council gets its way.
(9) The responses to salty, sour, and bitter solutions shared the same hedonically negative upper- and midface components but differed in the accompanying lower-face actions: lip pursing in response to sour and mouth gaping in response to bitter.
(10) The jaw gape was measured by means of an optical motion analysis system and calibrated at the level of the first molars.
(11) Rafa then spoons a volley long with an gaping court in front of him to bring up set point for Dimitrov.
(12) For ten subjects, ACF resulting from an axial load of 50 N and second molar gapes of 10 mm, 14 mm, 18 mm, and 22 mm were measured.
(13) The retropubic approach favors the gaping pubic symphysis.
(14) I am the sort of person who could walk past the gaping jaws of a lion without noticing.
(15) This protraction was produced by contraction of the geniohyoid and anterior digastric muscles, and occurred during the intercuspal (minimum gape) and opening phases of the masticatory cycle.
(16) They will also show signs of breathing problems including gaping beaks, coughing, sneezing and rattling wheezing.
(17) Winnowing by embiotocids is characterized by premaxillary protrusions repeated cyclically with reduced oral gape.
(18) These modifications include 1) decrease in the horizontal excursions of the mandible at the power phase, 2) decrease in the maximum gape, 3) insufficient occlusion at the power phase (or increase in the minimum gape), 4) irregular patterns of jaw movements, 5) facilitation of the chewing rate, 6) increase in the number of chewing cycles in a masticatory sequence (the process from acceptance of food to swallowing), and 7) decrease in jaw-closing muscle activities.
(19) The latter had collected Stephen Ireland’s pass beyond Palace’s back-line and wriggled round Wayne Hennessey, the open goal gaping, only to sky his finish horribly over the bar.
(20) The first parasitic diseases to receive attention were usually those with distinctive characteristics as well as serious consequences, such as "gapes" and lousiness.
Nape
Definition:
(n.) The back part of the neck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Total length, nape-rump length and tail length were recorded for each embryo and hatchling.
(2) Cooling the nape of the neck is said to induce reflex constriction of the mucosal vessels of the nose, but there is no general agreement in the literature on the benefit of an ice pack as an adjuvant treatment of epistaxis.
(3) Down's syndrome diagnosis is presently evaluated by some more specific ultrasonographic signs such as fetal nape or femur length measurements and by new biological parameters such as hCG assay.
(4) A pinch to the nape of the neck of mice, by application of a noxious clip, produces analgesia and immobility.
(5) Thus, low analgesic doses of local anesthetics injected into the nape of the neck prevented noxious clip from inducing analgesia but immobility was still evident.
(6) There are typical arsenic melanisms on the forehad-temple-rim where the hair begins to grow, on the nape of the neck, on the shoulders, chest, arms, and on the back of the hands which pass into precanceroses and carcinomas.
(7) The following electrode arrays were evaluated (1) vertex-neck, (2) forehead-ear canal (Enhancer I), and (3) vertex-nape.
(8) A case is reported of a man with a deep nape stabwound completely severing the medulla of the spine.
(9) A heat-stable factor (HSF) purified from the spleen of a patient with Gaucher's disease significantly increased the sensitivity of the rat liver beta-glucosidase to all of the NAPE derivatives.
(10) Passing subcutaneously, the catheters then emerged at the nape of the neck and were sealed by heating.
(11) The binding of chlorophenoxyisobutyric (CPIB), tibric (TA) and nicotinic (NA) acids and CPIB ethyl ester (Clofibrate), TA and NA isopropyl esters (TAPE and NAPE) to human lipoproteins of low density of different classes (LDL2, LDL1 and VLDL) and high density (HDL) were studied by equilibrium dialysis and Sephadex gel filtration.
(12) Intraoperative unilateral occipital artery ligation, with extensive undermining to the nape of the neck on only one side, can minimize the risk of postoperative scalp necrosis or telogen effluvium.
(13) On CT scan a round low dense lesion with clear margin was found in the nape.
(14) However, the vertex-neck and vertex-nape combinations are best for estimating auditory sensitivity because they gave the largest wave V amplitudes and 10-dB lower electrophysiologic thresholds.
(15) An exaggerated unilateral foot-nape posture is held responsible for a complete obstacle to parturition.
(16) The second patient suffered avulsion of the entire scalp as well as the forehead skin and nape of the neck.
(17) Since his second year, the papulonodular lesions have gradually merged into large confluent plaques, particularly on the face, nape, and axillae.
(18) A morphologic abnormality was seen of the nape which could not be interpreted.
(19) The toxoid was injected subcutaneously at the nape of the neck at dose levels of 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 ml in Groups II, III, and IV, respectively.
(20) This study tested the generalizations that cutaneous pressure will elicit immobility, that there is a relationship between the intensity of cutaneous pressure and the duration of immobility, and that the localization or body surfaces, particularly the upper dorsal area or the nape of the neck, is more susceptible to immobility.