(n.) An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.
(n.) Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.
(n.) Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.
(n.) An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.
(n.) The internal ear. See Note under Ear.
(n.) A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal.
(n.) A pattern or design representing a maze, -- often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increases were found in both nuclei and cytoplasm of trophoblast cells in the labyrinth region.
(2) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(3) C. burnetii antigen was demonstrated in decidual cells, trophoblasts, and macrophages and extracellularly within the sinuses of the labyrinth and in the uterine lumen but not in granulated metrial gland cells.
(4) Labyrinth and neck reflexes need therefore to be considered together as a single system.
(5) Complete absence of development of inner ear with labyrinth aplasia.
(6) Ach, cholinomimetics and cholinergic antagonists were therefore applied to frog isolated whole labyrinths and isolated semicircular canals.
(7) A combined morphological and physiological study on the effect of saccus obliteration on the cochlea and the vestibular labyrinth of the rat is presented.
(8) Subcellularly, the heaviest depositions of reaction product were observed lining the cytoplasmic membrane surfaces of the labyrinth of anastomosing plasma membrane tubules that ramifies throughout the chloride cell cytoplasm.
(9) On testing the peripheral vestibular apparatus of astronauts with healthy labyrinths, nystagmus was observed when flushing the ears with hot or cold water even in the absence of gravitation.
(10) Furthermore, these findings demonstrate 195mpt localization in the vestibular labyrinth and confirm previous platinum distribution studies in the organ of Corti and stria vascularis tissues.
(11) Using previously obtained data concerning the effectivity of amedin in motor and speech disorders due to muscular dystonia the drug was used for the treatment of 50 children from 3.5 months to 18 years, with motor disorders of an extrapyramidal and labyrinth nature.
(12) In an attempt to destroy selectively the affected peripheral vestibular labyrinth in patients with intractable vertigo as a result of Meniere's disease, a known quantity of streptomycin was introduced within the bony labyrinth following fenestration of the horizontal semicircular canal.
(13) The psychological effects of postviral labyrinthitis in a patient who had been undergoing intensive psychotherapy are reported.
(14) The ethmoid air cell labyrinth lies adjacent to the medial orbital wall, extending even beyond the sutures of the ethmoid bone.
(15) Any variations of the nystagmus duration (increasing or decreasing) could result from different changes of the otolith signals from the two labyrinths.
(16) Vimentin occurred in a number of supporting structures in the membranous labyrinth, but not in vestibular or cochlear ganglion cells.
(17) Cytohistochemistry localized the Ca2+-ATPase to the chorionic villi of the placental labyrinth, and specific staining was primarily associated with the syncytio- and cytotrophoblast layers as well as the perivascular cells.
(18) Pressure recordings in the esophageal body, LES and stomach were performed in 10 healthy subjects before and after caloric stimulation of the labyrinth.
(19) On the basis of theoretical considerations and experimental studies, it can be shown that Menière's attacks result from rupture of the membranous labyrinth with diffusion of potassium into the perilymph and sodium into the endolymph.
(20) A qualitative electron microscopic investigation of endothelial cells in each subregion of the subfornical organ in Long-Evans rats revealed at least three types of capillary oriented according to region: in the rostral region were capillaries having no endothelial fenestrations or pericapillary spaces, and few vesicles, in the "transitional" region between the rostral and central regions, capillaries having no endothelial fenestrations, substantial numbers of vesicles, and narrow but perceptible pericapillary spaces were found, and in the central and caudal regions, capillaries having abundant endothelial fenestrations and vesicles, expansive pericapillary labyrinths, and relatively thin walls were present.
Leviathan
Definition:
(n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.
(n.) The whale, or a great whale.
Example Sentences:
(1) The leviathan once known as Bombay is the centre for most of India's foreign trade, global financial dealing and personal wealth.
(2) Best screenplay goes to Leviathan Andrei Zvyagintsev strides to the stage to pick up the gong for best screenplay.
(3) A commission spokesperson said that east Mediterranean gas finds such as Leviathan “could play a very important role in helping both producing and neighbouring countries to address their energy security problems.
(4) Christ knows what kind of conniptions Britain will have on that sad day when the nation is thrown into mourning a man who, at worst, is the acceptable face of the broadcasting leviathan, and at best the embodiment of all that is righteous and good.
(5) Andrei Zvyagintsev , whose most recent film, Leviathan, won a Golden Globe, said on Monday that he had read the documents from the court case and found them unconvincing.
(6) That seems to be the message of a new book of photos of these empty leviathans by the American photographer Seph Lawless, dusty and crumbling, with dead ornamental trees at the foot of abandoned escalators.
(7) Leviathan, a moving film about life in a corrupt Russian town has won the award for the best film at the London film festival awards.
(8) A commission timeline estimates that the pipeline could begin pumping gas by 2020, four years after the Leviathan field, which contains around 450bcm of gas comes online.
(9) A late spurt of momentum for Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan was only enough, in the end, to secure it the best screenplay award.
(10) Popular with journalists and staff from Editora Abril – the offices of Brazil's magazine leviathan are just down the road – Ella offers silky, exquisite homemade pasta, springy gnocchi and tender milanesas (breaded steak in a superbly crunchy coating).
(11) • Gallery: how the night unfolded • Peter Bradshaw's take Reviews of the winners • Winter Sleep • The Wonders • Mommy • Goodbye to Language • Foxcatcher • Mr Turner • Maps to the Stars • Leviathan
(12) The potentially explosive struggle between China and Japan for physical control of the energy-rich Senkaku islands in the East China Sea reflects broader security, ideological and historical tensions between the two east Asian leviathans, the world's second and third biggest economies respectively, which could yet produce a head-on collision , Japanese officials and analysts say.
(13) Steve Silberman's Neurotribes is the book 'families affected by autism have long deserved' Read more Previous winners of the £20,000 award include Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad; Philip Hoare’s Leviathan or, the Whale; and last year Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk.
(14) Nearly 700 shopping centres are “super-regional” megamalls, retail leviathans usually of at least 1 million square feet and upward of 80 stores.
(15) The internet leviathan is one of a number of groups that have lobbied the US government to invest in high speed networking as a way to boost productivity and competitiveness.
(16) But there is strong competition from Leviathan, a Russian epic inspired by the Book of Job and full of barbed digs at the Moscow administration, and from Mike Leigh's artist biopic Mr Turner, starring Timothy Spall.
(17) His film, Leviathan, picked up five stars from Peter when it screened here yesterday.
(18) Leviathan is his most accessible to date, in part because of the humour in its bloodstream, and much of that on account of its high alcohol content.
(19) Based on the Book of Job, Leviathan tells the story of a man battling endemic corruption across the church and state and modern-day Russia.
(20) After sampling her tea – this absurdly precious, unerringly pretentious, wholly underwhelming ambergris spewed from the belly of a corporate leviathan – I can only wish that karma back on her.