(n.) The external occipital protuberance of the skull.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frontal bossing, frontal sinus enlargement, a dense cortical calvarium, prominent inion, and proptosis secondary to extraocular muscular enlargement were findings also present in this patient.
(2) The ratio of distance between the AC-PC line and a line passing through the base of the inion (GI line) to total brain height was 0.21, as predicted.
(3) Removal of Na+ from the medium initially had no effect on amylase release although bethanechol-stimulated release by mouse cells was inion of the HCO3- or Cl- content of the medium did not affect cholinergic stimulation of secretion.
(4) Experiments have been carried out to investigate the lability of 2 brain-stem microreflexes, viz., the postauricular and inion responses to auditory stimulation.
(5) The growth rate of the human cranial base between nasion (N) - tuberculum sellae (Ts) and tuberculum sellae - internal occipital protuberance (= Twining's line (Tw)) were calculated in proportion to nasion - inion (N - I) distance and expressed in two cranial base ratios: (see formulas) The growth rate of the whole cranial base showed a notable stability and a given ratio apparently prevails through into later life.
(6) iniencephalus (IN) and in anencephalus (AN), the inion is in contact with the back.
(7) Plain craniogram of lateral view showed small posterior cranial fossa with low positioned inion and platybasia.
(8) and the sum of head circumference, nasion-inion, and intertragal distances in the age range 7 to 11 years only and not in adult age.
(9) It is demonstrated that the discrepancies between some of the size values established in individual skulls, and the skull asymmetry, recorded scopically with other measurements, are due to displacements of the anthropological points (sphenion, asterion, inion), produced by differences in growth rate and size of bones.
(10) In 20 patients with temporal lobe lesions and 10 controls, the averaged photic-evoked responses (APERs) and their dispersion pattern (DP) were investigated in inion-vertex-lead and bilaterally in inion-parietal leads (I-P3 and I-P4).
(11) The recordings were performed with a system of 14 bipolar channels, arranged in a rectangular grid with an interelectrode distance of 15% of the inion-nasion distance and centered 3 cm above the inion.
(12) Activity was depicted with 5 electrodes, the central electrode 5 cm above the inion and two on each side 5 and 10 cm apart from the central electrode.
(13) That point on the corpus callosum is characterized using simple planar geometry in relation to three anatomic landmarks in that same plane: the glabella, the inion, and the bregma (midline intersection of the coronal suture).
(14) The records were made from a horizontal array of 3 occipital electrodes, one placed in the midline 5 cm above the inion and the others 8 cm each lateral of the inion.
(15) (1) There were high correlations between PVEPs recorded from the inion and those from points Oz, Pz, Cz, and Fz in the range of 75-150 msec following pattern visual stimulation to the eyes although no correlation was found in the range 0-75 msec.
(16) These involved OML, coronal suture, parietal tubercle, inion, pineal body, midline and so on.
(17) This asymmetry was attributed to variance in the anatomy of the occipital bone and cranio-cerebral topography that cannot be predicted from location of the inion.
(18) The ratio of the peripheral measurement from the inion to the nasion to the distance between the inion and the posterior lip of the foramen magnum is presented for each case with an outline of the ventricles.
(19) Evoked responses were recorded with surface electrodes at four levels between wrist and scalp: Erb's point, seventh cervical spine, inion, and the somatosensory area of the scalp.
(20) The H-EPs were recorded bipolar in the midline 5% to 25% and unipolar 15% in reference to an earlobe electrode (inion to nasion = 100%).
Minion
Definition:
(n.) Minimum.
(n.) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favored; -- in a good sense.
(n.) An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
(n.) A small kind of type, in size between brevier and nonpareil.
(n.) An ancient form of ordnance, the caliber of which was about three inches.
(a.) Fine; trim; dainty.
Example Sentences:
(1) The latter is somewhat under the radar for the wider games industry, but Despicable Me: Minion Rush (to give its full title) is something of a mobile monster: 100m downloads in three months on iOS and Android earlier this year.
(2) At least two characters – a Minion from Despicable Me and one of the Elmos – said they had purchased their costumes, made in Peru, for about $300.
(3) For iPad , Candy Crush Saga led YouTube, Skype, Temple Run 2, BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, eBay for iPad, Despicable Me: Minion Rush, 4 Pics 1 Word and Calculator for iPad Free.
(4) A typical response was "[Bosses] will be at home enjoying his turkey while minions work their ***** off".
(5) Nor is there much sign of Thanos, the studio's go-to background baddie, though his minion Nebula turns up in the form of Doctor Who's shaven-headed Karen Gillan.
(6) The pocket-sized MinION device was developed by an Oxfordshire science company, and results published on Wednesday in the journal Nature show it was able to help identify the unique genetic sequence of the Ebola virus in patients within 24 hours.
(7) Goldiggins quarry, Minions, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall This spring-fed quarry lake is the perfect suntrap.
(8) More elephant trap than social network, Miliband (or rather his Twitter minion) entered the word "Blackbusters" in an initial attempt to express sadness at the death of former gameshow host Bob Holness.
(9) Their minions would have to negotiate hard and come back later in the week.
(10) Perhaps it's because Allen is, these days, a pampered celebrity – "everything is done for you by minions," he says of the film-making process – that celebrity is the one subject on which To Rome With Love feels authentic and personal.
(11) It is only normal that Morsi would want to get ride of Mubarak’s minions.
(12) People who have worked with her have said similar: that the constant praising of movie minions with, "You did such a good job there!
(13) Taken from a script by Bruce "Wild Palms" Wagner, Maps to the Stars is apparently about "the convoluted world of shallow, selfish celebrities and their minions, all of whom are about to be manipulated and destroyed by the young woman who literally represents the fruit of their twisted machinations."
(14) The minions in Labor's campaign headquarters have been on to the Randall comments like rodents up drain pipes since the pre-dawn.
(15) Two thousand years after Hammurabi's minions busied themselves determining the appropriate punishment for various medical misadventures, the Greek Hippocrates advocated a less complex approach to the same problem.
(16) Indeed, ALEC's minions spend much of their time establishing ways to preserve their control over the lab, rather than making any particular forward progress on other issues: of the 62 "voter ID" bills introduced in state legislatures in 2011 and 2012, over half were written or sponsored by ALEC-associated politicians.
(17) Not an accolade you’d hand to whoever greenlighted Minions , the inevitable spin-off of Universal’s Despicable Me series, the second of which got within grasping distance of $1bn worldwide in 2013.
(18) From the Hurlers car park in Minions, follow the track, which heads north on to the moor; walk past the circle and after 15 minutes bear left at the junction.
(19) While they’re fighting us on many fronts, Trump, his anti-gay vice-president, and their anti-LGBT minions are conversely vulnerable because we can fight them on many fronts.
(20) 8.16pm GMT The Catholic Church was complicit in horrible crimes in Argentina , Hugh O'Shaughnessy wrote in the Guardian in 2011: "Yet even the execution of other men of the cloth did nothing to shake the support of senior clerics, including representatives of the Holy See, for the criminality of their leader General Jorge Rafael Videla and his minions."