(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.
Lingula
Definition:
(n.) A tonguelike process or part.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Part of the fibers was mixed with the spheno-mandibular ligament and attaches on the lingula of the mandible.
(2) Using both a morphometric and a semiquantitative grading system (r = 0.80), we noted that both fibrosis and pulmonary vasculopathy were more evident in the lingula than in either of the 2 other lung segments (p less than 0.05 ANOVA, Newman-Keul test).
(3) These strongly suggest that the fibrous structure of organic matrix assists the orientation of apatite crystals in Lingula unguis shell.
(4) The regional distribution of [3H]etorphine binding sites in the rabbit cerebellum points toward concentrations higher in the neocerebellum (hemispheres) than in the archecerebellum (lingula and flocculonodular lobe).
(5) A previously unreported pattern of MAC-PD was observed: disease limited to the lingula or middle lobe occurred in 21% of the patients, all female.
(6) Collapse of the left lower lobe is sometimes accompanied by linear atelectasis in the lingula.
(7) The lavage was performed two months after radiotherapy, in the anterior part of the lingula (left side) or of the right middle lobe (right side), depending on which side had been exposed to radiation.
(8) The lingula was exposed sterilely through a left thoracotomy.
(9) The amino acid sequence of the beta chain of hemerythrin from Lingula unguis was determined.
(10) A well-circumscribed nodular mass was excised from the lingula of the left lung of a 40-year-old-female.
(11) Measurements were made to locate vertically the point of fusion of the buccal and lingual cortical plates relative to the lingula and to the depth of the sigmoid notch.
(12) The modified nucleoside, 7-(4,5-cis-dihydroxy-1-cyclopenten-3-yl-aminomethyl)-7-deazaguanosine, designated as Q, and its derivative, Q*, were found in tRNA's from various organisms, including several mammalian tissues, other animals such as starfish, lingula and hagfish, and wheat germ.
(13) This was not a function of vessel size, since the overall cumulative distribution curve of percent muscle divided by length of internal elastic lamina was also shifted between lingula and lower lobe.
(14) Meckel's cartilage appeared as a single, continuous fibrous structure lying between the mandibular lingula and the malleus of the middle ear in fetuses of 210 mm crown-rump length (22 weeks of age) and over.
(15) Recent studies have emphasized that none of the accepted intraoral landmarks used in the conventional mandibular block technique is completely reliable, nor can they presage those instances in which the lingula presents an obstruction to the needle pathway.
(16) Subsegmental bronchi of the left inferior lingula were seen in only 17%, but other subsegmental bronchi in greater than 75%.
(17) The middle lobe was the most common site of bronchiectatic involvement, followed by the lower lobes and the lingula.
(18) Even in a normal-sized mandibular ramus, a high lingula places the medial cut in a thin region where there is little or no cancellous bone.
(19) In 20 of the nonimmunocompromised patients, computed tomography was performed prior to biopsy, and demonstrated no particular tendency for greater involvement of the lingula or right middle lobe.
(20) An increase in the identification rate of the segmental bronchi of the middle lobe and lingula was achieved only after reducing the slice thickness from 8 mm to 4 mm, the yield being now 87% (512 image matrix) and 82% (256 image matrix), respectively, whereas the remaining segmental bronchi could be made to show up almost without exception.