(n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
(n.) See Hoemother.
(n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(2) Hodge said it appeared that activities related to the Geneva branch of HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary were “pretty outrageous” and told Homer that tax investigators should have spoken to whistleblower Hervé Falciani, who initially obtained the list while employed as an IT worker in 2007.
(3) The agency’s current chief executive, Lin Homer, is due to face the Commons public accounts committee, chaired by the Labour MP Margaret Hodge.
(4) Armitage's stage version, commissioned for the in-the-round Royal Exchange in Manchester, a space that can encompass both the intimate and the epic, reworks The Iliad , adding an ending Homer never wrote.
(5) Aaron Hill drove in two runs with a homer and double, helping the Arizona Diamondbacks top the Chicago Cubs 3-1 and also split a four-game series.
(6) Young Commons reared and trained with Homers of the same age differed behaviorally from the Homers in a variety of ways and many fewer returned home from training and test releases, but the season for the fewer returns appeared to be more concerned with social behavior than with orientation capability.
(7) In Game Four two home runs from Jhonny Peralta and a homer apiece from Triple Crown-winner Cabrera and Austin Jackson led the annihilation.
(8) The tumor demonstrated Homer Wright rosettes, was positive for neuron-specific enolase and ultrastructurally revealed neurosecretory granules.
(9) And why did George Osborne and the Treasury sign a deal with the Swiss in 2012 which prevents the UK from actively obtaining similar information in the future?” One member of the Public Accounts Committee, said Homer should return to the committee to explain herself in light of the comments from the French finance minister.
(10) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(11) Modern knowledge of renal physiology, kidney disease, and the body fluids in American medicine was established largely by Donald D. Van Slyke, Thomas Addis, John P. Peters, Homer W. Smith, and Alfred Newton Richards.
(12) Homer and Shakespeare have this in common: neither is afraid of a catalogue, either in The Iliad or in the history plays.
(13) Keith Vaz , the chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee, which accused the former UKBA head, Lin Homer, of "catastrophic leadership failure" while she was in charge, congratulated May for "delivering the lethal injection" to the organisation.
(14) Homer himself is a collection of poets, one of many.
(15) It's also somewhat bizarre that Domonic Brown , second in the NL in homers, was passed over, not to mention Pedro Alvarez, Pittsburgh's power threat.
(16) This paper looked at Orten and Soll's runaway typology and Homer's conceptualization of runaways as "running from" or "running to" something and expanded the context to include interactions with family and professionals.
(17) Lin Homer has been announced as the next chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
(18) David Cameron and Nick Clegg have both just stuck their feet in it, insulting the stay-at-homers and egging on the go-to-workers – but why bother to take sides?
(19) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, headed by environment secretary Liz Truss, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), whose chief executive is Lin Homer, continue to refuse to ensure that all their subcontracted staff are paid the living wage.
(20) Now Pedro Alvarez, who is tied for the NL lead with 36 homers, is at the plate with a chance to add to the Bucs lead...
Vomer
Definition:
(n.) A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
(n.) The pygostyle.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of brown-tumor of the vomer in a 21-year-old woman is described.
(2) Growth between the vomer and premaxilla was recorded in every case, with growth being especially marked during the first year of life.
(3) We report a three-year-old boy who presented with an oral chord-like structure that extended from the base of the tongue up to the posterior part of the vomer.
(4) A posteriorly based readily accessible vomer flap is raised on the cleft side and used as nasal lining for the palatal mucoperiosteal flap on the non-cleft side.
(5) The surgical intervention led to the following complications: 1) deformation of the nasal septum in the vestibule area (11 patients); 2) perforation of the nasal septum of atrophic origin (15 patients); 3) saddle-like deformation of external nose (7 patients); 4) vibration of the nasal septum which occurred in most patients after total resection of the cartilage and vomer.
(6) Given that the septum plays a fundamental role in the projection of the nasomaxilliary complex, it is clear that certain surgical rules must be applied: the perichondrium must be left intact, no wide cartilaginous resections must be made, the areas of contact between the septum, the vomer, and the perpendicular lamina of the ethmoid must be reconstituted, and finally, the remodeled cartilage must be repositioned.
(7) Antero-posterior retardation of upper jaw growth became evident in all five dogs with surgically placed clefts and extirpation of the vomer within 8 weeks following surgery.
(8) The photoelasticimetric procedure and pressure load to the model were used for the determination of possible pressure tensions, if any, occurring during mastification, namely the share of the vomer in the transfer of these tensions to the base of the cranium.
(9) Removal of the vomer is an essential part of this procedure in order to open and enlarge the choanae.
(10) The vomer was resected via a palatal flap in four 42-day-old beagle pups; four unoperated dogs served as controls.
(11) Radiographically, the frontal and nasal bones dorsally and the vomer and palatine process of the incisive bone ventrally do not completely obscure the nasal septum and its covering mucous membrane.
(12) This modality defines the full anatomic abnormality of bony choanal atresia: medial bowing and thickening of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity, enlargement of the vomer, and fusion of these elements.
(13) Histological serial sections of 6 postmortem nasal cavities showed that the high laminae of the vomer prevent any caudal dislocation of the septal cartilage.
(14) Therapeutic factors associated with good outcomes were the employment of a vomer flap to close the anterior palate, and poor outcomes with primary bone grafting and with active presurgical orthopedics.
(15) Findings on CT included: thickening of the vomer, bowing of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity and fusion of bony elements in the choanal region.
(16) The growth pattern implied that a forward, downward sliding of the vomer must take place in relation to the ethmoid bone and the cartilaginous septum.
(17) The author's original approach to the early repair of cleft palate which consists in the use of the extended vomer flap is presented.
(18) Dimensions of certain parts of the orofacial skeleton and vomer were obtained by a bioanthropologic measurement for which native preparations of whole and parasagitally sawed up skulls were used.
(19) Microscopic examination of the healing wound showed granulation tissue and contractile fibroblasts, which were more numerous at the premaxilla-vomer suture than at the posterior site.
(20) The sample consisted of 51 patients and 22 of them had undergone surgical treatment which included vomer flap and pushback palatal repair, while the remaining 29 patients were treated with a routine characterized by delayed closure of the hard palate.