(n.) An organ in insects and crustaceans covering the upper part of the mouth, and serving as an upper lip. See Illust. of Hymenoptera.
(n.) The external margin of the aperture of a shell. See Univalve.
Example Sentences:
(1) They stress that beside the demonstration of rotator cuff injuries the examination of the surrounding muscles and the labrum glenoidale should not be forgotten either.
(2) Damage to the anterior glenoidal labrum was seen in all the younger patients and in 75% of the older ones.
(3) The capsule is reattached to the boney rim of the anterioinferior glenoid deep to and lateral to the torn cartilagenous labrum, thus excluding the labrum from the joint anteriorly.
(4) Arthroscopic operative procedures include the inspection of a torn glenoid labrum and certain lesions of the biceps tendon, viewing a torn rotator cuff, locating loose bodies in the shoulder, surgery for recurrent dislocations, and division of the coracoacromial ligament.
(5) On anatomic specimens in which the classic Putti-Platt technique was used, lateral rotation could not reach neutral without disruption of the lateral stump from the labrum.
(6) Configuration of the joint recesses and the glenoid labrum are also evaluated.
(7) MR imaging was less effective in the prediction of tears of the superior labrum, with a sensitivity of 75%, a specificity of 99%, and an accuracy of 95%.
(8) They also recall the usefulness or the arthroscan in the diagnosis of lesions of the labrum glenoidale.
(9) Exploration of the hip for recurrence revealed disruption of the posterosuperior acetabular labrum with formation of a pouch between the posterior acetabular wall and the short rotator muscles.
(10) Abnormalities shown on CT images included glenoid labrum attenuation and tears, glenoid fractures, loose joint bodies, intracapsular staples, intra-articular screws, adhesive capsulitis, rotator cuff tears, peritendinitis calcarea, biceps tendon tears, and capsular abnormalities.
(11) All but one of the tears were located on the posterosuperior portion of the labrum, and, in the acute cases, vascular dilatation around the tear was observed.
(12) These included total or partial detachment of superior segments of the labrum, and anterior labral tears at the midglenoid level.
(13) In 35 of these patients a lesion of the capsule and labrum was demonstrated, indicating glenohumeral instability; in three patients this was shown primarily by CT arthrography.
(14) There has been a tendency in the past to overestimate the role of the glenoid labrum in stability of the shoulder joint.
(15) Seven shoulders were examined: a total of five in three healthy asymptomatic volunteers, one in a symptomatic patient not suspected of having a lesion of the glenoid labrum, and one in a patient with recurrent shoulder dislocation and surgical proof of an extensive tear of the labrum.
(16) The arteries supplying the periphery of the glenoid labrum come from the suprascapular, circumflex scapular, and posterior circumflex humeral arteries.
(17) In these cases arthrography revealed that closed reduction was impossible due to narrowing of the joint capsule (hour-glass shape) and the interposition of a capsular fold including the acetabular labrum.
(18) MR imaging examinations of two patients with type II lesions showed globular high signal interposed between the superior part of the glenoid labrum and the superior portion of the glenoid fossa.
(19) Arthroscopic repair of the rotator cuff or stapling of the labrum are more questionable regarding successes, complications, and recurrence.
(20) It appears that the labrum of Phlebotomus argentipes, the vector of kala-azar in eastern India, is only just long enough for obtaining a blood meal in normal human skin.
Roof
Definition:
(n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.
(n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.
(n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
(v. t.) To cover with a roof.
(v. t.) To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
(2) The horizontal portion of the intracavernous ICA as well as the whole aspect of the aneurysm could be exposed as a result of the extended opening of the cavernous roof anterior to the posterior clinoid process.
(3) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(4) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
(5) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(6) For the roof, different odorants produced different activity patterns, which had profiles not simply described as regions of maximal and minimal responsiveness.
(7) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
(8) They were about to put the roof on it,” Hickman said.
(9) Just one problem (apart from the old roof falling off): it's 60 miles from my desk.
(10) On it rests the small village of Dholera – a cluster of houses with thatched roofs, muddy roads, and acres of flat, fertile land surrounding them.
(11) I have to put a roof over my son’s head.” Junior doctors will be balloted to decide whether to strike over a radical new contract imposed on them by the Department of Health, which redefines their normal working week to include Saturday and removes overtime rates for work between 7pm and 10pm every day except Sunday.
(12) Hydrogen sulfide poisoning from inhalation of roofing asphalt fumes is a rare but devastating injury.
(13) The keratinocytes of the blister roof showed aggregation of the tonofibrils at the periphery, and vacuolization of mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum.
(14) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
(15) Glasgow Central station was also closed to the public after flying debris shattered part of the building's glass roof.
(16) Berkeley has launched a new design called the Urban House, a three-storey house with a private roof garden instead of a back garden.
(17) Now the fabric of the school is visibly crumbling: roofs leak and skylights are broken; the estimated cost of repairs is £1m.
(18) I went inside, and the sound of the rain on the roof and the darkness inside made me very afraid.
(19) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(20) The operative method involves removal of portions of the orbital rim, orbital roof, and sphenoid bone.