(n.) A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.
(n.) A mass or aggregation of things.
(n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
(v. i.) To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.
(v. i.) To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.
(v. i.) To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although distributed models yielded improved fits of the data, the distributed and lumped models produced similar estimates of membrane parameters.
(2) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(4) In agreement with the predictions based on a simple lumped-parameters model, we found that Z reached very low values, especially at the frequencies where H had a resonance peak.
(5) The effective electrical geometry under the conditions of control and 0.5 mM PNB sufficient to completely abolish the postsynaptic potential were determined from analyses of the membrane charging curves assuming the lumped-soma-short-cable model.
(6) Examination of the patient revealed 2 lumps detected in the right hemi-scrotum which felt like small testes and did not permit transillumination.
(7) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
(8) If the abnormal sensation, such as a lump or choking, in the throat was mainly caused by inflammatory changes in the palatine tonsils or their surrounding tissues and conveyed via vagal nerve branches distributing there, the sensation might be reduced by topically injected Impletol (Procaine and caffeine in saline solution), i.e.
(9) Combination with IP degrees increases polyhead formation when head formation is not blocked at a more defective stage but results in a qualitative shift to lump formation in association with gene 22 mutants.
(10) "It really gets my goat when commentators (literally all British ones especially Townsend) complain that Spain don't play with a striker as they 'lack a focal point' or 'don't have any direction', presumably because these commentators would lump it up to the 'big man'.
(11) The degree of observer variation in recording 11 186 items of clinical data from 242 woman who presented complaining of a lump in the breast to a group of 10 surgeons was studied.
(12) It is therefore felt that (1) a cautious attitude is necessary when commenting on FNAC samples until more specific criteria are forthcoming for the diagnosis of this neoplasm; and (2) if cellular atypias are seen in FNAC samples, these should be reported with a recommendation for removal of the breast lump and a detailed tissue examination.
(13) Our analysis of 1051 breast biopsies in West Indian women under the age of 30 y revealed that 99% of the breast lumps were benign.
(14) Kadyrov also gave the happy couple an unusual wedding present – "a five kilo lump of gold".
(15) A female patient presented with a lump in the right parotedeal region.
(16) GCPP includes standardization of both experimental factors (lumped constant, arterialization, purity of tracer, regions of interest, relative rates) and clinical factors (state of the subject, wakefulness, anxiety, gender, course of the disease) in PET performance.
(17) There are clearly lots of nice, benign, kind nuns who'd be a bit miffed to be lumped in with all the others."
(18) The rest of ICD-10, either on the three- or on the four-digit level, has to be grouped into combinations of classes (lumping) to allow compatible conversion to the remaining rubrics of ICPC.
(19) His BBC television career famously came to an end when he thrust a lump of cheese in his commissioning editor's face .
(20) A 39-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of large breast lump (11.5 X 8.0 cm) and an abnormal nipple discharge.
Puffiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being puffy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combination of puffy fingers, digital pitting scars, and serum anticentromere antibody, all consistent with CREST syndrome, occurred in a small group of patients.
(2) The folksy and charismatic cartel leader of puffy cheeks and large nose, known to wear a baseball cap and a grey-haired goatee, was a fugitive also wanted in the US for conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine.
(3) A 4 year old girl is described with severe mental retardation, peculiar face with nasal hypoplasia, sparse hair, genital hypoplasia, truncal obesity, puffy hands, and small feet with complete cutaneous syndactyly of the second and third toes.
(4) A 46-year-old female was admitted to our hospital because of fatigability, puffy eye-lids, leg edema and petechia.
(5) These patients are probably most common and present with Raynaud's phenomenon and puffy hands which never reach sclerodactily.
(6) The most characteristic features were myalgia-myositis, arthralgia-arthritis, puffy, atrophic, sclerotic fingers, and Raynaud's phenomenon.
(7) Following insulin treatment, he developed gross fluid retention (peripheral oedema and puffiness of face) and a weight gain of 1.8 kg.
(8) With lots of pockets and slightly puffy sleeves (yet curiously appearing as though it would be too tight to zip up) the jacket was East Berlin before the wall went down, it was Malcolm Turnbull on Q&A and before he lost weight, it was your “groovy” maths teacher supervising your year 10 formal, it was the Masters Apprentices reunion tour in the early 1990s.
(9) The striking features include the following: (1) bitemporal scarring, an anomaly that resembles forceps marks; (2) periorbital puffiness with wrinkling of the skin; (3) abnormalities of the eyebrows; (4) anomalies of the eyelashes; (5) flattening of the nasal bridge with a bulbous nasal tip; (6) increased mobility of the skin, associated with severely redundant facial soft tissue; and (7) normal growth and development.
(10) A 35-year-old Kashmiri male with a 12-year history of recurrent aphthous ulcers of the mouth and scrotal ulcers was admitted with pedal edema, facial puffiness and proteinuria.
(11) Two patients did indeed have it, but the third patient's "puffy tumor" was a soft tissue abscess.
(12) Five patients had preoperative proptosis and diplopia, three had Pott's puffy tumor and five had erosion of the posterior table of the frontal sinus.
(13) To understand the mechanism, magnitude, and time course of facial puffiness that occurs in microgravity, seven male subjects were tilted 6 degrees head-down for 8 h, and all four Starling transcapillary pressures were directly measured before, during, and after tilt.
(14) Pott's puffy tumor, a subperiosteal abscess of the frontal bone associated with frontal osteomyelitis, is a rare complication of frontal sinusitis.
(15) The most frequently occurring clinical manifestations among the patients with MCTD were Raynaud's phenomenon, puffy hands, arthritis, myalgias, and sicca symptoms.
(16) Puffy clouds dotted a brilliant blue sky, the trees burned red, yellow and orange, and water lapped softly in the background.
(17) Examination of sera from the infected mice revealed autoantibodies that, by immunofluorescence, reacted with second antigens in the colloid (ground-glass staining pattern) and thyroglobulin (puffy staining pattern).
(18) A case of latent mastoiditis presenting with Pott's puffy tumour is described.
(19) The emojis feature the main cast of characters plus George's parents, classic objects from the show such as an urban sombrero and the puffy shirt, and some modern versions of the characters, including Glasshole Jerry.
(20) A columnist for the Independent, Joan Smith, recently watched Assange's interview of Ecuadorean president Rafeal Correa and offered up this wisdom : "He's put on weight, his face is puffy and he didn't bother to shave before his interview with Correa."