(n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
(n.) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.
(n.) A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.
Example Sentences:
(1) The temporal hyperbolic lituus spiral has its focal point under the anterior, clinoid, at the junction of the segments CII and CIII of the carotid siphon the curve of which follows the convolutions of the temporal spiral.
(2) The contour of the upper edge of the cerebellum is a lituus spiral.
Ode
Definition:
(n.) A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
Example Sentences:
(1) And here they are, giving a certain Irish ode the treatment it deserves.
(2) Here, we introduce a new method to find an ODE which models both the short time and the long time dynamics.
(3) In extensive metabolizers, the drug undergoes extensive first-pass metabolism to form the active metabolites O-desmethylencainide (ODE) and 3-methoxy-O-desmethylencainide (MODE).
(4) Despite the increase in ODE AUC, no significant effect on the surface electrocardiogram 2 hours after dose administration could be detected.
(5) The classically described signs of early ODE were almost always absent.
(6) However, since plasma concentrations of the active metabolite ODE were correspondingly lower, specific encainide dosing instructions for patients with hepatic impairment are not indicated.
(7) In the ODE cells, abundant labyrinthine canals appeared in the cytoplasm, and capillary vessels were found close to the outer surface of the ODE cells.
(8) McFadden, a pop star himself, is in the news this week after his new single "Just The Way You Are (Drunk at the Bar)", released by Universal Music, was roundly read as a catchy ode to date rape.
(9) We haven't had so much as a team line-up on this broadcast to date, so I'm not holding out much hope of ODing on information about replacements.
(10) An ode to better days: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 12.30am BST Amy Poehler confirms that she and Tina Fey will discuss whether they want to host the Golden Globes tonight.
(11) Serial studies of fundus changes at frequent intervals, by routine ophthalmoscopy, steroscopic color photography, and fluorescein angiography, revealed that swelling of the optic disc was the first sign of ODE.
(12) Small differences are found among the variants in the pH range 7.5-8.2, where A and B show a "peak and trough," while A-, "Ijebu-Ode," and "Ita-Bale" exhibit a plateau.
(13) Plasma encainide, ODE and 3-methoxy-O-demethyl concentrations were similar to those observed in normal subjects who had received twice the dose of encainide, and steady-state apparent oral clearance of encainide was reduced by 66% with renal impairment.
(14) We have obtained complete A-type sequences coding for functional units Ode and Odf; consequently a total of three such unit sequences are now known from a single subunit of one molluscan hemocyanin.
(15) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
(16) Encainide (ENC) and its metabolites O-demethylencainide (ODE), 3-methoxy-O-demethylencainide (MODE), N-demethylencainide (NDE) and bis-N,O-demethylencainide (NODE) have been measured by two HPLC procedures.
(17) The second model is described by an ODE for which an explicit solution was obtained, and which yields the pancreatic responsivity parameters phi 1 and phi 2.
(18) The 8-h urinary metabolic profiles of encainide and its oxidized metabolites, O-desmethyl- (ODE), 3-methoxy-O-desmethyl- (MODE), N-desmethyl- (NDE) and N, O-didesmethyl- (DDE) encainide were studied in a group of 112 normal Caucasians.
(19) Encainide, ODE, or MODE was then infused in loading and maintenance doses to achieve QRS widening of 20% to 50%.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Banksy’s now Perspex-covered ode to fellow graffiti artist Tox on Jeffreys Street, London.