(n.) The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea. See Larynx.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, an association of tiapride-corticoids was effective in treating post-anaesthetic spasm of the glottis.
(2) The values of dysphonic patients with incomplete closure of the glottis are significantly different from the other two groups.
(3) This reinforces our initial findings that it is indeed feasible to pace vocal cord abduction in bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis with resultant return of physiologic normality to the glottis.
(4) Subglottic stenosis is a disorder characterized by narrowing of the airway below the glottis or apposing edges of the true vocal cords.
(5) It was concluded that incomplete glottal closure of the posterior parts of glottis should be regarded as normal primarily in women and that loudness should be taken into consideration when studying glottal closure and breathiness.
(6) With this procedure, the new glottis is pressed strongly to the tongue base during swallowing and aspiration is avoided.
(7) Nervous outflow to the muscles of the glottis, diaphragm, abdominal wall, tail and rear legs changed as would be expected from both the postural changes and the increases in intratracheal and intra-abdominal pressure.
(8) In the last five years of the period, the 5-year local control rate for stage I and II carcinoma of the glottis, excluding verrucous-like carcinoma, reached 90% with 10 MV X-rays combined with 60Co gamma-rays.
(9) The posterior glottis is an area of the larynx previously referred to by the terms 'posterior commissure' and 'interarytenoid'; these are poorly defined and a new definition of this unique area of the larynx is provided.
(10) The smallest laser bronchoscope is usually too large to pass through the glottis.
(11) The results indicate a firm and relatively long closure of the glottis during overtone phonation.
(12) Larynx resistance changes have been studied in the dog by means of in situ isolated glottis technique.
(13) One hundred ninety patients with T2 and 70 patients with T3 carcinoma of the glottis were treated by definitive radiation therapy at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1952 to 1978; the results were analyzed.
(14) This article examines benign lesions of the glottis and adjacent structures commonly encountered in clinical practice.
(15) To determine the role a competent glottis played in improving gas exchange, we anesthetized seven rabbits and inserted central venous and carotid artery catheters.
(16) The reflex effect elicited by mechanical stimulation of the glottis has been studied in dogs.
(17) The glottis was closely observed and photographed from above and below in three conditions: neutral, adduction, and abduction.
(18) The posterior glottis acts as a "weir" between the pharynx and larynx and so is intimately involved with diseases as they affect one area to the other.
(19) The cancer spread may superiorly involve the epilarynx, the vallecula, the base of the tongue, and the pyriform fossa; however, inferiorly, the invasion of the glottis is quite exceptional (1 percent of cases); therefore, supraglottic laryngectomy is the operation of choice.
(20) 2) This difference was presumed to be due to (1) vocal cord phase differences in horizontal and vertical components, (2) the location of the light source and that of photosensor from the glottis, and (3) ULG beam width in relation to vertical movements of the vocal cords.
Stop
Definition:
(v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
(v. t.) To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
(v. t.) To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
(v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
(v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
(v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
(v. t.) To make fast; to stopper.
(v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
(v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action.
(v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
(n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
(n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
(n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
(n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
(n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
(n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
(n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
(n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
(n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
(n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(2) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
(3) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(4) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(5) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(6) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(7) There are no oceans wide enough to stop us from dreaming.
(8) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
(9) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(10) She stopped working only when the pain made it hard for her to get to work.
(11) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(12) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(13) Control measures were introduced rapidly, effectively stopping the epidemic.
(14) Both strong-stop DNAs are made early during in vitro reactions and decline in concentration later, consistent with postulated roles as initiators of long minus- and plus-strand DNA.
(15) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
(16) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(17) Bacteria can stop or lessen antibodies synthesis process.
(18) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
(19) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
(20) Thirteen of the dogs treated with various drug regimens lived for 90 days, after which time treatment was stopped; 10 of the dogs eventually rejected the grafts, but three had continued graft function for 6 months or longer and may be permanently tolerant.