(n.) Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.
Example Sentences:
(1) And a letterpress studio called Salt & Cedar , founded by a husband-and-wife team, offers "Book and Bread" dinners (gourmet food followed by a bookbinding session).
(2) The book has now evolved from a high-end letterpress project into a collaboration between Libanus and two commercial publishers, the poetry specialist Enitharmon Press and the Queen Anne Press, once owned by Ian Fleming.
(3) A neighbour was Michael Mitchell, a Wiltshire dentist who was starting Libanus Press , which specialised in fine letterpress books.
(4) "The first rug I designed came from a letterpress drawing.
Tympan
Definition:
(n.) A drum.
(n.) A panel; a tympanum.
(n.) A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subsequently, the inflammatory reaction diminishes, as can be seen on smears from tympanic effusions.
(2) Deep body temperature was recorded from the tympanic membrane, oral cavity, esophagus, and rectum.
(3) Microotoscopy showed a blue pulsating mass behind the tympanic membrane.
(4) Both tympanic and nontympanic pathways of sound reception are utilized by anuran amphibians.
(5) A clinico-pathological study of 10 cases (including histopathology) indicates that occult cholesteatoma is neither a congenital cholesteatoma nor an epidermoid cyst, originating in the attic through a melaplastic process of middle ear mucosa behind an intact tympanic membrane.
(6) An artist's rendition of the entire normal gerbil tympanic membrane is presented.
(7) The core temperature is taken from the rectum, the nasopharynx or tympanic membrane, and the peripheral temperature from the great toe.
(8) (2) Tympanometrically measured middle ear pressure (MEP) was almost equivalent to the actual MEP recorded by a manometer when the tympanic membrane was normal.
(9) These complications are of much higher frequency than after tympanoplasty with autograft, and indications for tympano-ossicular homografts are now limited to total tympanic destruction with absence of handle of malleus.
(10) Definitive degeneration and atrophic type changes were seen in all the parotid fragments removed six months after selective neurectomy of the tympanic plexus.
(11) During juvenile and adult life stages, the process becomes somewhat removed from the fenestra for obvious reasons, but at a gape of about 40 to 50 degrees it inevitably must touch the "inferior tympanic membrane" and possibly also the tympanic ring.
(12) On the other hand, the ciliary activity of the middle ear lining displays a varying pattern of reaction according to the locations within the tympanic cavity.
(13) Tympanometric findings could more often correctly suggest reduced tympanic membrane mobility than did otomicroscopy, but both methods gave an equally good indication of middle ear effusion.
(14) Ventilatory conditions, or the existence of soft tissue density, were evaluated by HRCT at such locations as the supratubal recess, mesotympanum, anterior and posterior parts of the tympanic isthmus, epitympanum, and mastoid antrum.
(15) Also the tympanic nerve and its course on the promontorium have been estimated.
(16) In this second report a sizable proportion of the men reported a history of otitis or otorrhea but had normal tympanic membranes.
(17) Above 5 kHz discrete resonances are observed, and the response varies strongly with position on the tympanic membrane.
(18) One problem remains: permanent aeration of the new tympanic cavity.
(19) Significant improvements in measurements of ear function also allow us to be more precise in the diagnoses of otosclerosis, perforation of the tympanic membrane, ossicular discontinuity, facial nerve dysfunction, and brain stem disorders.
(20) 1) When pressure was applied to the tympanic cavity, the curvature of the TM became small under negative pressure and large under positive pressure, with the displacement being greater under positive pressure.