(n.) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.
(n.) A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.
(n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
(n.) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
(v. i.) To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
(v. i.) To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
(v. i.) To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
(v. t.) To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pentamidine aerosol was administered with an MA2 jet nebulizer.
(2) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
(3) It was found that there was a substantial increase in mortality rates in the area under the jets where there was large noise radiation.
(4) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
(5) Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory , and that the pilots had parachuted out.
(6) It's been a busy free-agency period for the Eagles, with Michael Vick going to the New York Jets and Mark Sanchez moving in the opposite direction .
(7) In all cases, the maximal velocity of the tricuspid regurgitation jet was measured by continuous wave Doppler ultrasound and the systolic pressure gradient between right ventricle and the right atrium was calculated by the modified Bernoulli equation.
(8) High-frequency two-way jet ventilation was achieved by adding reverse jet pulses inside the trachea through an intratracheal reverse jet system to the expiratory phase of common high-frequency jet ventilation.
(9) He knew how to shmooze Middle East clients and his al-Yamamah deal - under which jets were sold to Saudi Arabia - was the mid-1980s contract which secured his later position as executive chairman at BAE Systems .
(10) Angiographic features felt to indicate valve tearing were present following 17 of 25 procedures and included increased excursion or straightening of leaflets, localized change in leaflet motion (flail leaflet), and the presence of an additional contrast jet through the valve.
(11) The spatial distribution of simulated regurgitant jets imaged by Doppler color flow mapping was evaluated under constant flow and pulsatile flow conditions.
(12) Both intraobserver and interobserver correlations were excellent for mitral regurgitant jet areas (r = 0.97 and r = 0.93, respectively).
(13) Correlation of all Doppler color flow measurements with angiographic grades of mitral regurgitation were comparable, maximal jet area being closest at r = 0.76.
(14) The design of motor cycle helmets has been changing over the years and at the present time there are two basic types in popular use: "full-face" and "jet" helmets.
(15) He says that two dozen Delta Force commandos, Black Hawk helicopters, drones and fighter jets were involved in the rescue, adding “but we weren’t there”.
(16) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(17) The main damage mechanisms are plasma formation and expansion, emission of acoustic transients, and cavitation with jet formation.
(18) The 777 has enjoyed one of the safest records of any jetliner built.” Besides last year’s Asiana crash, the only other serious incident with the 777 came in January 2008 when a British Airways jet landed 305 metres short of the runway at London’s Heathrow airport.
(19) The researcher is completing a PhD on the superyacht scene and says the vessels are unique among prestige assets: unlike private jets they are not a useful mode of transport; unlike art and property, they always depreciate in value.
(20) IDC high-frequency jet ventilation and high-frequency, conventional mechanical ventilation produced nearly identical histologic injuries.
Spicule
Definition:
(n.) A minute, slender granule, or point.
(n.) Same as Spicula.
(n.) Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria.
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost nothing is known about nature and timing of the embryonic cues which induce or initiate spicule formation by these cells.
(2) X-ray examination disclosed a spicule formation surrounding the osteolytic focus in the mandible.
(3) Bone spicule pigmentation increased in 41 of 76 patients for whom we could make comparisons over a three-year interval (54%).
(4) In morphology it is similar to D. bargusinica Skrjabin 1917, D. campanae Anderson 1959, D. dollfusi Anderson 1959, and D. epsilon Johnston and Mawson 1940, but can be separated from these species by combinations of trident size and spicule size and morphology.
(5) Characteristics features of this species (only males were found) are the small size of body, size and type of spicules, shape of tail and arrangement of caudal papillae.
(6) Two different types of spicules in male Enterobius were also observed in Korea.
(7) The border was assessed for a smooth, irregular, or spiculated margin.
(8) The authors had under observation 21 patients with diastematomyelia--a rare congenital disease marked by the formation of a bony spicule in the vertebral canal, which splits the spinal cord and its meninges.
(9) In both studies, the poikilocytes were identified as echinocytes, spiculated erythrocytes, and schizocytes.
(10) The girdle epidermis of adult Mopalia muscosa secretes several types of structures, including calcareous spicules and innervated hairs.
(11) Deposits consisted of dense aggregations of randomly entangled spicules spreading within bundles of collagen fibrils.
(12) From the above results, it was evident that both the matrix vesicles derived from functioning osteoblast, and the vesicular structures derived from the degenerated or dead cells concurrently phagocytosing spicules and collagen fibrils were involved in the initial calcification process of the membranous bone in vitro.
(13) We present the first two cases of vertebral metastases from prostatic carcinoma with spicule formation giving rise to osseous spinal stenosis and neurological deficits, best demonstrated by CT.
(14) Their dendrites also bear fine spicules and usually reach the tectal surface.
(15) Methylmercuric chloride produced an irregularity of cell shape with spicules including the final stage of spherocytes.
(16) Three male siblings, born of nonconsanguineous parents, manifested the characteristic paravenous bone spicule accumulation typically seen in pigmented paravenous chorioretinal atrophy.
(17) They differ from D. ramachandrani in their location in the host, the tail length, the shape of the spicules, and in the number of caudal papillae.
(18) At the same time the red cells became crenated and developed thorny spicules (echinocytes).
(19) We believe that these spicules correspond to the reorganization of the stroma along the edges of the corneal incision.
(20) Despite the variability of some characters such as length of tail and spicules, arrangment of caudal papillae, these species are well characterized by a set of elements, the two most important of which are the female cuticle and the anatomy of the microfilariae.