(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.
Median
Definition:
(a.) Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
(a.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.
(n.) A median line or point.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mean and median values in the nondiabetic group are higher than in previously published reports.
(2) However, time in greater than 21% oxygen was significantly longer in infants less than 1000 g (median 30 days, 8.5 days in patients greater than 1000 g, p less than 0.01).
(3) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(4) Only candidacidal activity was enhanced in FCA-elicited peritoneal macrophages (median C. albicans killed 28% versus 16% for resident peritoneal macrophages, p less than 0.01).
(5) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(6) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(7) Median time for ventilatory support was 90 minutes after transfer to the area.
(8) As of November, 1988 after a median observation period of 34 months, 174 of the 256 patients (68%) were alive, 11 (4%) dead and 71 (28%) lost to follow-up.
(9) Unilateral VNAB lesions induced similar alterations but these were restricted to the ipsilateral PVN and median eminence.
(10) SPRs were elicited either by stimulating the reticular formation or the distal end of the median nerve.
(11) The criteria for sero-positivity was determined from the median antibody concentration in a group of 368 non-endoscoped control patients.
(12) With a median follow-up of 6 years, 32 (20%) of 156 patients who achieved complete remission have relapsed.
(13) The median survival after radiotherapy is 17.4 months.
(14) But the median survival time was 30.7 months in Arm A and 24.5 months in Arm B, and significantly longer in Arm A until 10 months.
(15) The median functional protein S of these patients was 71% (40-101%).
(16) Using the MTT assay and analyzing the data using the median-effect principle, we showed that synergistic cytotoxic interactions exist between CDDP and VM in their liposomal form.
(17) At concentrations below the respective median for each variable, odds ratios of between 1.42 and 1.67 were calculated whereas at concentrations above the respective medians the odds ratios ranged from 4.50 to 6.33 (P less than 0.001).
(18) The median blood levels were lower in hyperacidic subjects and higher in hypoacidic patients; the urinary excretion of the digitalis compound showed no essential differences.
(19) Irradiation of the skin overlying the median nerve at the wrist in humans with a low power (1 mW; 632.5 nm) helium-neon laser produced a somatosensory evoked potential obtained at Erb's point.
(20) Most of the bilateral lung lesions were removed through a median sternotomy so as to avoid staged bilateral thoracotomy.