(n.) A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar.
(n.) A part of a psalm or other portion of Scripture read by the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar.
(n.) An anthem or psalm sung before the Communion service.
(n.) Any composition of vocal music appropriate to the opening of church services.
Example Sentences:
(1) The non-pathogenic aerobic bacteria in 97 quantitative introital cultures from 11 women with documented recurrent bacteriuria were compared statistically to those in 100 quantitative introital cultures from 10 control women with no history of bacteriuria.
(2) Reported is a patient with long standing vulvar pain and severe introital dyspareunia whose symptoms were cured by removal of a glomus tumor of the vulva.
(3) The treatment's effectiveness can be explained by two features of the two antibacterial agents involved: both reach high bactericidal concentrations in the urinary tract and induce no (or minimal) resistance in the introital gram-negative bacterial flora.
(4) Third, it has been observed that bacteriuria in female patients is preceded by colonization of the introital mucosa of the vagina and urethra with Enterobacteriaceae from the rectal flora; it is at these sites that oral antimicrobial agents can determine the character of subsequent reinfections of the urinary tract.
(5) We conclude that bacterial vaginosis, or an altered vaginal microflora as reflected by an abnormal gas-liquid chromatographic pattern characteristic of bacterial vaginosis, is associated with E coli introital colonization and acute symptomatic urinary tract infection in women who use diaphragms.
(6) Fifty-eight percent of children with more than one encounter had a vaginal introital diameter greater than 4 mm as compared to 29% in those with one encounter (chi 2, p less than .006).
(7) The criteria for diagnosis include introital dyspareunia, absence of active infection, erythema around orifices of the minor vestibular glands and exquisite tenderness to point palpation with a cotton-tipped applicator over these glandular openings.
(8) The mean introital pH during application of the placebo and buffer was 4.87 and 4.61, respectively (p less than 0.01).
(9) Family history revealed consanguineous parents and a mentally retarded elder sister who had anorectal atresia with introital fistula and perineal ectopic stenotic anus.
(10) In a logarithmic regression analysis, the greatest proportion of children with a vaginal introital diameter greater than 4 mm was observed in the penile-vaginal contact group (chi 2, p less than .00003).
(11) In this study we introduce a non-invasive sonographic method called "introital sonography" which enables concomitant urodynamic measurements for evaluating the bladder function.
(12) Hence, there is introital or entry dyspareunia, vestibular erythema of varying degrees, and localized tenderness confined to the vulvar vestibule.
(13) There was no difference in introital carriage of enterobacteria before during or after tetracycline therapy.
(14) Introital colonisation was heavier and more frequent in the patients than in the control subjects.
(15) To determine if antibiotics used in the treatment of urinary infections alter introital gramnegative carriage after termination of therapy we analyzed 254 cultures obtained between episodes of bacteriuria in 14 women with recurrent urinary infections.
(16) Escherichia coli introital colonization and urinary tract infection were both significantly more frequent among women with a high vaginal fluid pH, an absence of vaginal lactobacilli, or an abnormal vaginal fluid gas-liquid chromatographic pattern characteristic of bacterial vaginosis.
(17) A vaginal introital transverse diameter of greater than 4 mm was more prevalent among children in Group I (94%) than in Group II, (5%); or in Group III (0%) (chi 2, p less than .001).
(18) We therefore studied 242 females, ages 1 through 12 years, to determine if the vaginal introital diameter is useful in evaluating a child for sexual abuse.
(19) Eighty-eight percent of children who complained of penile-vaginal penetration had a vaginal introital diameter greater than 4 mm as compared to 18% of children with no penetration (chi 2, p less than .001).
(20) Two women complained of a vaginal discharge due to hair at the vaginal vault, two women developed postoperative haematomas and one experienced introital stenosis.
Psalm
Definition:
(n.) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
(n.) Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.
(v. t.) To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises.
Example Sentences:
(1) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
(2) The congregation of the Old South Church, founded in 1669 in Boston, has voted to sell one of their two copies of the Bay Psalm book, first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and which is known as America's first book .
(3) Among other things, we asked them to identify the first book of the New Testament from a choice of Matthew, Genesis, Acts of the Apostles, Psalms, "Don't know" and "Prefer not to say".
(4) Obama read from Psalm 46 - "God is our refuge and strength" - after a minute's silence was held at 8.46am to mark the instant the first plane went into the North Tower.
(5) Earlier he tweeted a verse from the Bible: "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted," from Psalm 34:18.
(6) While one group recited the Psalms, another chanted: “Death to terrorists.” Among the crowd milling close to the entrance of the synagogue was Akiva Pollack, a paramedic who was one of the first on the scene, who told the Guardian that upon entering the building he had been confronted immediately by an individual covered in blood.
(7) "This is potentially the last time that the Swiss Psalm heard today will feature at a World Cup," he reports.
(8) A few minutes before the public was admitted to the plaza where Sharon's coffin lay on a black marble plinth, members of the Knesset guard laid wreaths at its base as two army rabbis read from the book of psalms.
(9) A wide range of somatic and psychological vocabulary was found, especially in the Psalms and other poetic literature.
(10) She wanted a poem by Anne Dillard, and the 23rd psalm.
(11) This gave us further opportunity to share the experience of our dioceses and, within a context of daily Eucharist and prayer, to hear again God’s calling in Scripture and in Creation (Psalms 104, 148, 24) and to discern ways forward.
(12) According to this rule, Psalms (120:5), Isaiah (6:5), Jeremiah (4:31), and Ophelia should have cried out, "Woe is I," and the cartoon possum Pogo should have reworded his famous declaration as "We have met the enemy, and he is we."
(13) The book, which takes as its full title The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, has been valued at $20m (£12.5m), according to reports.
(14) There was the reading of Psalm 23 by the episcopal pastor Kathleen Adams-Shephard: "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil."
(15) At the last memorial service, the former Everton striker Graeme Sharp read Psalm 23.
(16) After bowing his head to listen to Psalm 80, he smiled at the congregation as he made his way towards the cathedral altar.
(17) "Let us now consider man in the free spirit of natural history," the chapter begins, echoing the Psalms Wilson read as a boy.
(18) Billy Joel’s Allentown and Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA sang the psalms of this disempowerment.
(19) In 23rd Psalm (1966), he contrasted scenes of his tranquil life in rural Colorado with footage of the second world war.
(20) "God judgeth the righteous," it says in Psalms 7, "and God is angry with the wicked every day."