(1) With Shiva there was the Trinity Trai-Linga-Ishwara; Hermes was correspondingly called Tris-Majestis.
(2) The earlier form of Hindu Trinity was called Trai-Linga-Ishwara, where Linga literally means the male organ but semantically connotes creative power.
(3) When we visit, people are wading in the River of A Thousand Lingas, a section of the stream boasting stone carvings on its floor.
Lingua
Definition:
(n.) A tongue.
(n.) A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Encysted metacercariae of C. lingua require 38 days in the fish second intermediate host before they are infective to the bird definitive host.
(2) The Ca linguae and sublinguale are without symptoms--after treatment--in 29.15%, the Ca radicis linguae in 10.5% only.
(3) The Straits Chinese were those who had been settled in the region for many years, losing much of their Chinese identity both to the language and institutions of their British rulers, and to the Malays, their neighbours whose tongue was the lingua franca of south-east Asia.
(4) The cercariae of Cryptocotyle lingua have a brief but active life during which they do not feed.
(5) Rock's lingua franca remains the post-Oasis, post-Radiohead big stadium ballad, replete with keep-your-chin-up lyrics, usually suggesting you "hold on".
(6) Individual subjects responded to perturbations reliably but differently, using different combinations of involved articulators to achieve bilabial closure and lingua-alveolar contact.
(7) In Marani's office, employees have been experimenting with "Europanto", which he describes as "der jazz des linguas" : a freestyle mash-up language made up of the common body of European languages, without grammar rules and an unlimited vocabulary.
(8) There is a marked difference between the regions of the corpus and the radix linguae which present with different symptoms and--in relation to these--have a very different prognosis.
(9) A parasitological investigation of Baltic cod, caught in the Bornholm Basin, showed that 1.6% were infected by C. lingua (metacercaria) and 22.5% were infected by D. spathaceum (metacercaria).
(10) The following statistically significant observations were made: The distance of the mandibular canal to the external lingua and buccal cortical layers did not change with increasing atrophy, but remained remarkably constant.
(11) The 6-W and 9-W wounds were observed from the upper musculi transversus linguae to the near center.
(12) It has offered us the English language, now in practice the lingua franca of Europe."
(13) Apart from the apparent trias of oro-facial swellings, facial paresis, and lingua plicata (LP), Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome (MRS) comprises a variety of complex signs and symptoms.
(14) Catheterization technique is presented in 16 patients with the diagnosis of carcinoma baseos oris and carcinoma linguae.
(15) Analysis of errors according to place of production revealed lingua alveolar and bilabial phonemes to be significantly less impaired than all other categories.
(16) "Well, in 2001, I lost my job on a magazine called Lingua Franca , which folded.
(17) With courtroom deadpan delivery and forensic word-by-word deconstruction, the lingua franca of the pitch lost its pejorative power to shock, displaying instead a terrifying paucity of vocabulary possessed by our multimillionaire sports stars.
(18) Clinically, among the 78 cases of herpetic keratitis due to HSV1 treated by Pyrrosia lingua and Prunella vulgaris eye drops, a cure was effected in 38 and an improvement in 37, with 3 being of no benefit.
(19) The lowest temperatures (33 degrees C) were measured in the apex linguae area.
(20) Lingua plicata was seen in 10, and other features were detected in 6 of the 42 families.