(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%).
Union
Definition:
(n.) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.
(n.) Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.
(n.) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union.
(n.) A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.
(n.) A large, fine pearl.
(n.) A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.
(n.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.
(n.) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.
Example Sentences:
(1) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(2) 2.39pm BST The European Union called for a "thorough and immediate" investigation of the alleged chemical attack.
(3) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(4) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
(5) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(6) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(7) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(8) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(9) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(10) Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia 20 years later.
(11) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(12) Both face and paw receptive fields are unions of a certain set of skin areas called compartments.
(13) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
(14) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(15) The values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and the respect for human rights are absolutely fundamental to the European Union.
(16) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
(17) Whatever else Scott is about, Waverley ends with a vision of Britishness and a British union.
(18) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(19) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(20) Thatcher made changes to the UK's tax system, some changes to welfare, and many to the nature of British jobs, both through privatisation and economic liberalisation – not least in her battle with the unions.