(n.) The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
(n.) An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
(n.) The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.
(n.) That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.
(n.) The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).
(n.) The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
(n.) One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.
(n.) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
(n.) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
(n.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis.
(v. t.) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
(v. t.) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
(n.) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
(n.) To wrap or wind around something.
(n.) To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
(n.) To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
(n.) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
(v. i.) To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.
(v. i.) To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
(v. i.) To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
(v. t.) To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
(n.) The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
(n.) The sound of lapping.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(2) We conclude that plasma LAP measurements have little value in monitoring ovulation induction therapy.
(3) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
(4) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.
(5) Kester said her daughter came and cried in her lap.
(6) 1.08pm BST Lap 2: Sergio Perez is out after an incident at Mirabeau, which is what brought out the yellow flags and safety car.
(7) By comparing P-LAP activity with cystine aminopeptidase activity, we concluded that both activities were shared by the same molecule.
(8) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
(9) The new tablet models come with a better built-in kickstand with two positions rather than one, so they can rest more firmly on users' laps.
(10) After Manchester United came the long goodbye to Stamford Bridge, a home game against Leeds on 15 May 2004, Abramovich's dismissal notice in Ranieri's pocket, but a lap and guard of honour with the players.
(11) Having personally witnessed their live act (Black Flag frantically twanging Bootsy’s Rubber Band) at Dingwalls in late August, I thought I’d made a great discovery until, two breathless days later, and a mere few hours before they left these fair isles, the Peppers deposited their press kit in my lap.
(12) Analysis of the activity of each unit was made at intervals from the beginning of the conditioned signal (light or sound) to the beginning of lapping milk which appeared in the feeding trough after the cat pressed the pedal.
(13) (2) The alleles at the Est-1, Est-2, Amy loci and the AP-4(1.0) and the LAP-1(.90) alleles show north south clinal change in frequency.
(14) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
(15) We correlated Doppler variables of pulmonary venous flow and mitral inflow with simultaneously obtained mean LAP and changes in pressure measured by left atrial or pulmonary artery catheters.
(16) However, saccharin does not trigger a fixed rate of lapping at any point in the sequence.
(17) We might as well put a white cat in his lap.” The photographer asks McCluskey to hold the king up to the camera, and the press officer laughs with a wince.
(18) The race itself will feature 120 cyclists starting at 12.45pm and covering 13 laps of the Tour's finish circuit up and down the Champs Elysées, turning at Place de la Concorde and at the Arc de Triomphe, with a total distance of 90 kilometres.
(19) A significant LAP activity decrease was found only after a 30 day postcastration period when naloxone treated intact animals were compared with the castrated rats.
(20) These results suggest that P-LAP shows oxytocinase activity and plays an important role in the regulation of the plasma level of these hormones during pregnancy.
Pudenda
Definition:
(n. pl.) The external organs of generation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Who would've predicted that instead of laughing at Victorian prudery, many men still expect their sexual encounters to entail pudenda, pins and pits as marble smooth as those of young Ruskin's imagination?
(2) The Receptaculum ductus deferentis, the Corpus vasculare paracloacalis and the Phallus nonprotrudens in the Cloaca were supplied from the thick Ramus cloacalis of the A. pudenda.
(3) To investigate the ejecting course of EGR-fluid, Evans blue solution and India ink were injected into the A. pudenda interna and just beneath the epithelium of the ejaculatory groove region, respectively, using cloacal specimens.
(4) Evans blue (T-1824) solution injected into the A. pudenda interna was easily exuded out directly from TVP.
(5) The A. pudenda accessoria is not formed on the left side of the pelvis.
(6) The vertebral venous system is anastomosis with the vena cava posterior, the common iliac vein, the internal iliac vein and vena pudenda interna.
(7) Arteriography gives a complete study of the pudenda arterial tree and its terminal ramifications, and it is able to supply all the necessary informations regarding the planning of revascularization procedures.
(8) For the selective study of the pudenda and peniena vascularization we perform a selective arteriography bilaterally, with the catheter tip placed in the proximal part of the internal iliac artery.
(9) This stem divides into the A. obturatoria dextra and the A. pudenda accessoria.
(10) The A. pudenda accessoria goes through the pelvis and through the fissure between Symphysis and the Diaphragma urogenitale on the Radix penis as the A. dorsalis penis dextra.
(11) They recall the fact that the preprostatic veins are attached at the bottom, not only to the venae dorsales penis, but also to the venae pudendae internae which runs under the levator ani muscle.
(12) Ligation of the A. pudenda interna decreased the volume of fluid to a negligible amount, and removal of the paracloacal vascular body (Corpus vasculare paracloacale) completely suppressed the tumescence of the copulatory organ and the flow of the fluid (lymph-like fluid).
(13) TVP was abundant in capillaries which were branched off from the A. pudenda interna at the site of paracloacal vascular body (PVB).
(14) Also, no ejection of the injected dye solution into the A. pudenda interna was found in the dorsal wall of the cloaca, particularly from the TF.
(15) The author Frank Harris reported a later conversation with Ruskin, in which the critic described the destroyed works of art as "painting after painting of Turner's of the most shameful sort - the pudenda of women - utterly inexcusable and to me inexplicable."
(16) In addition, a new flap, based on the arteria pudenda externa, was designed and implemented in 1 patient.
(17) The Rami ureterodeferentiales caudales originated from the A. caudae lateralis and A. pudenda.
(18) Development of the external genitalia in rat fetuses was studied with special reference to the formation of the labia pudenda and the determination of the stage at which the sex difference could be recognized from changes in the external structures.
(19) Lymph generated in the vascular body causes the erection of the penis only and a lymph generated the tissue of ejaculatory groove, region to which blood is supplied from the A. pudenda interna is ejected from the epithelium of this region through the intercellular space of it.
(20) In one case presenting with obstruction of the pudenda artery revascularization of the penis was achieved by anastomosis of the inferior epigastric artery to the deep dorsal vein of the penis.