(n.) Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract.
(n.) Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(2) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(3) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(4) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(5) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
(6) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
(7) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(8) A total of 555 caries lesions were registered on proximal surfaces, 49.1% being primary lesions in the enamel, 21.4% primary lesions into the dentin and 29.5% secondary lesions.
(9) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(10) Pleural or subpleural lesions were found in all cases.
(11) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(12) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(13) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(14) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
(15) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(16) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(17) Differentiation between these two types of lesions is of utmost importance since the surgical approach will be different.
(18) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(19) In the present study, the expression of type IV collagen associated with the basal membrane (BM) was studied histochemically (indirect immunoperoxidase-antiperoxidase) in cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) lesions (diagnosed using in situ DNA hybridization) of different grades.
(20) Patients with sarcoidosis that present only cutaneous lesions are uncommon but have been described.
Warble
Definition:
(n.) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.
(n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.
(n.) See Wormil.
(v. t.) To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.
(v. t.) To utter musically; to modulate; to carol.
(v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate.
(v. i.) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
(v. i.) To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations.
(v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.
(n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two boys with ophthalmomyiasis caused by the first instar larva of the reindeer warble fly Hypoderma tarandi are reported.
(2) Cattle exposed to their third consecutive warble (Hypoderma lineatum and H. bovis) infestation had significantly reduced apparent and accumulative grub populations and produced significantly fewer grubs than animals exposed to their first infestation.
(3) A bi-layered warble capsule surrounded the cavity as a thin layer and a thick diffuse outer layer.
(4) More predictable were the three awards that went to Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – two technical, and a best supporting actress gong for Anne Hathaway's showstopping role as warbling prostitute Fantine.
(5) Thirty-four normal-hearing 4-year-old children were tested with conventional steady-state pure tones and with warbled tones to compare efficiency of the stimuli.
(6) Warble tone thresholds were markedly better than unmodulated thresholds at 14 and 16 kHz.
(7) The song ended on an emotional warble, then Nicolas rummaged in a drawer and handed me a small circle of cloth.
(8) At the end of each month, a satisfaction questionnaire was completed and free field assessment, consisting of speech in noise discrimination measurement and warble tone threshold determinations, was performed.
(9) The interlude lasted barely 10 seconds before the vixen trotted out and resumed her nocturnal warbling.
(10) The growing warble expanded into the subcutaneous tissue of the inguinal area and stretched the hide caudally.
(11) Speech band comfort levels were found to be significantly higher than equal-duration noise band or warble tone comfort levels.
(12) The effect of the last developmental phase of the warble fly (Hypoderma bovis de Greer) larvas was studied as exerted on some health indices of milk in 20 experimental (treated) and 18 control (untreated) first-calvers of the Pinzgau breed at two localities of an area affected by bovine hypodermosis in the period from May to June, 1975.
(13) "My sister lives in Italy and here local supermarket has a very inviting offer on: do a big shop there on the day of an Italy match, and if Italy win the game you will be given a coupon for the amount that you spent, entitling you to free goods of the same value next time you come," warbles Peter Jenkins.
(14) It was concluded that convincing evidence to persuade the audiologist to select warbled over conventional steady-state pure tones for testing children was lacking.
(15) Wild-caught, tethered females of the reindeer warble fly, Hypoderma tarandi (L.) (= Oedemagena tarandi (L.)), (Diptera, Oestridae) were stimulated to oviposit on hairs of a reindeer hide.
(16) No differences in warble production were found in hosts of either sex.
(17) The warble-tone and speech detection thresholds aided with the implant devices of the first two patients were comparable with those found in western cases.
(18) Thresholds were ranked from most to least sensitive as follows: warble-tone, pure-tone, and narrow-band noise.
(19) In frequency regions where the masked audiogram was relatively flat, p-t and warble-tone (w-t) HTLs were equivalent.
(20) Stimulus configurations included the constant-frequency vibrations used by other laboratories as well as frequency-modulated (warbled) stimulus patterns.