(a.) Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
(2) Eight vagotomy-gastrectomy dogs were studied; 4 had a jejunal fistula, and 4 other dogs without a fistula served as controls.
(3) A state of net secretory fluid flux was induced in isolated jejunal loops in weanling pigs by adding theophylline or cholera toxin to the lumen of the isolated loops.
(4) The mean birth weight and gestational age in jejunal atresia were significantly lower than in ileal atresia.
(5) The effect of insulin on jejunal myoelectric activity was studied in conscious dogs and sheep by injection of insulin and stimulation of insulin release.
(6) The in vitro absorption by rat jejunal and ileal gut sacs of soluble antigen-antibody complexes and of antigen alone was compared.
(7) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
(8) Reconstruction of the intrahepatic biliary tree was carried out in all patients using intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomies between common segmental hepatic stomata and a Roux-en-Y jejunal loop.
(9) In purified jejunal brush-border membranes both alkaline phosphatase and sucrase activities are increased at 4 or 7 weeks but especially at 13 weeks of hypertension.
(10) It is concluded that prednisolone depresses cell proliferative rates in rat jejunal mucosa.
(11) Four patients with coeliac disease, who had shown complete mucosal recovery after prolonged treatment with a strict gluten-free diet, volunteered to consume oats in addition to their gluten-free diet for a period of one month and were studied by jejunal biopsy before and after the experimental period.
(12) From a total of 734 children with a blunt abdominal trauma admitted to the hospital in the past 15 years, 21 patients (3%) sustained an isolated injury of the bowel (8 duodenal, 9 jejunal and 4 colon ruptures).
(13) After each meal, measurements were made of the jejunal motility index, the time of reappearance of interdigestive burst activity, and overall motility patterns.
(14) Intrinsic factor-mediated uptake of cobalamin could not be demonstrated using ileal crypt or jejunal villous or crypt cells.
(15) However, for liver, duodenal, and jejunal tissue, DNA concentrations in ADLIB lambs were lower (P less than .05) than in MAINT lambs.
(16) It was therefore decided to attempt re-instillation of jejunal juices directly to the ileum using two 33 CH endotracheal tubes connected with soft chest drain tubing.
(17) The experiments were carried out in dogs and cervical oesophagus replacement was performed using a jejunal loop.
(18) Thus, although the delay in small bowel transit observed during ileal infusion of lipid can be explained by reductions in the rate and the degree of propagation of jejunal contractions, the mechanism varies according to the type of meal.
(19) Polar metabolites were also found in the portal plasma and jejunal wall 20 min after the feeding of [14C]chenodeoxycholate to bile fistula rats.
(20) Jejunal biopsies were taken from two piglets before the experimental infection, from two piglets 12 h after the experimental infection and from five piglets at the end of the experiment, 46 h after infection.
Voluble
Definition:
(a.) Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
(a.) Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue.
(a.) Changeable; unstable; fickle.
(a.) Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The populist rhetoric, proclaimed at an expensive Washington DC hotel and in light of Clinton’s own tangled relationship with Wall Street and political elites, landed somewhat flat with the otherwise receptive, voluble audience.
(2) In Tshangu, where more than 1,500 candidates are running for 15 seats, there was an equally noisy and voluble crowd who pressed what they claimed were fake ballot papers to the windows of cars carrying election observers.
(3) The last time Luis Suárez 's name was read out at the player of the year dinner the great and the good of his sport, or at least a voluble number of them, delivered an entirely different verdict to the one he is entitled to expect when the Professional Footballers' Association rolls out the red carpet for its annual event in Park Lane on Sunday night.
(4) A voluble character was rather more strident at half-time.
(5) Mann's voluble, self-confident style did not help matters.
(6) It is not, perhaps, the easiest time to become the new chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), especially with a general election on the way and the voluble, airwaves-friendly but coalition-unfriendly Clare Gerada act to follow.
(7) The government will not suffer a defeat, since Labour and the Lib Dems will vote down the motion, but a voluble and sizeable group believe the prime minister should honour pledges once made to allow a national poll on Britain's relationship with Europe.
(8) Catherine Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign and security policy, a particularly voluble critic of Israel's expansion into the West Bank, which is illegal under international law, has taken the unusual step of delegating representation at Tuesday's meeting to Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, the Cypriot foreign minister.
(9) The voluble support of Michel Platini for Qatar 2022, and the fact it was largely European votes that helped secure a 14-8 victory over the US in the final round of voting, further complicates the picture.
(10) But the person playing the understated twentysomething Englishman, used by Waugh to satirise the journalism of the 1930s, was kept a closely guarded secret, so when he finally came on stage it was certainly a surprise – the voluble middle-aged Scot, James Naughtie.
(11) EU politicians are causing us a good deal of grief because they’re responding to the voluble grief of their printed press.
(12) His critics are voluble, but it is difficult to argue with the improvement in the lives of African people who escape the scourges of HIV, TB and malaria as a direct result of the programmes that he and his aid partners support.
(13) He became a voluble proponent of higher fees for universities.
(14) In newborn with cleft lip and palate malformation real time ultrasound examinations of the position and volubility of the tongue were performed.
(15) In prose that wouldn’t disgrace the King James Bible, Paul Kelly warns of “a calculated strike by parliaments and anti-discrimination boards using the cover of same-sex justice to achieve a quantum reduction in religious freedom and a pivotal change in the norms of our society.” In early November, the attorney general, George Brandis , spoke of “an alarming emergence of intolerance of religious faith” by some of the most voluble elements in the community” when he opened the Human Rights Commission’s “roundtable” on religious freedom.
(16) The normally voluble media has been shaken by the discovery of the battered body of Shahzad, a specialist in Islamist militancy and the secretive military, in a canal in Punjab three weeks ago.
(17) Less tunefully, but equally volubly, a small group of Chinese pro-democracy campaigners from countries as far-flung as Hong Kong and Australia chanted "Free Liu Xiaobo now" and "Democracy for China".
(18) Without a visible and effective demolition of the dominant political narrative, and the thrilling and voluble creation of a new story, his party cannot generate the excitement required to turn the vote.
(19) But whereas sites without much cash flow but with growing traffic had begun to attract attention and high valuations, the Forbes business, given its past heights, was obviously shrinking at an ever-more dramatic pace, causing tensions with Elevation, whose partners came soon to speak volubly and bitterly about their investment.
(20) Meeting Padilha, a voluble and engaging figure who infects with the enthusiasm of his ideas, it’s not hard to understand why Netflix signed up.