(n.) A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega.
(n.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The discrimination performance of Megaderma lyra was studied in a two-alternative, forced-choice experiment using phantom targets with different internal delays and relative amplitudes of the two copies.
(2) Peroxidase-anti-peroxidase immunocytochemistry, applied on serial semithin epoxy resin sections, was used to examine the localization of endogenous GABA in horizontal cells in the retina of a marine teleost, the dragonet (Callionymus lyra L.).
(3) The divergent evolution of Macroderma gigas and Megaderma lyra, two representatives of the family Megadermatidae, is discussed.
(4) Dialectic Criminology is defined, in Lyra's conception, as a Classified Criminology, synthetizing both the psychological approach (clinical criminology, or micro-criminology), and the sociological approach (sociological criminology or macro-criminology), according to an anthropological basic frame of reference, which constitutes the new and original prerequisite.
(5) The hemoglobin of the Indian false vampire Megaderma lyra contains only one component.
(6) A detailed comparison of the unfolding programs LYRA and SAND is made, and reasons are given for our choice of SAND in our application.
(7) There were lush velvet palazzos from Maslea ; pastel-coloured flared jumpsuits by Syomirizwa Gupta ; satin emerald-green dresses with puffed shoulders from Foulard; trendy burkini-wear by Lyra ; and beaded evening gowns by Sahee London that could have floated off the pages of an F Scott Fitzgerald novel.
(8) The displaced small amacrine cells (DSA cells) in the dorsal pure cone part of the retina of the marine teleost Callionymus lyra have been analysed in a combined light and electron microcopical study.
(9) Mission scientists will use Kepler's 95 megapixel digital camera to survey the brightness of 100,000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra every half an hour.
(10) In more than three years surveying 150,000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra, Kepler has located 132 planets and more than 2,700 further candidate planets, which will need independent corroboration from other telescopes before they are confirmed hits.
(11) An allele at B1 produces the frenata pattern; an allele at B2 produces zonata; together they produce lyra.
(12) They are orbiting a star called Kepler-20 almost 1,000 light years away in the constellation Lyra .
(13) The horizontal cell system in the retina of the fish Callionymus lyra L. was investigated light microscopically and electron microscopically.
(14) But there have been so many good female characters for girls in cinema – Lyra in The Golden Compass, Katniss in The Hunger Games, Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass .
(15) Prof. Lyra discusses in this article the basic problem of criminological sciences, stating that its essential object of study is the determination of the genesis of crime.
(16) To this aim, according to Prof. Lyra, it is necessary to overcome merely biological or psychological theories, and the new sociologisms, which cannot explain deviant behavior without falling into dogmatism or relativism.
Lyre
Definition:
(n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
(n.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Aswan, the lyre is represented by the Sudanese masenkop, Ugandan adungu, and Egyptian simsimiya and tamboura, while the spike fiddle manifests as the Ethiopian masenko and Ugandan endingidi.
(2) Orpheus, the great musician of myth, sits at its centre strumming a lyre, while a fox leaps at his feet.
(3) Similarly, for the isthmus, an anterior lyre, a pallial crest, a pallial peduncle, and a posterior lyre are described.
(4) The plucked harp (lyre) and spike fiddle have been at the heart of the Nile's musical identity since ancient times.
(5) The impulse seemed archaic, quaint, but as the weeks of these Olympics have progressed, you could argue that Hannah Cockcroft and Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Ellie Simmonds, Bradley Wiggins and David Weir have not been done justice even by the vivid enthusiasm of Clare Balding and Michael Johnson – they require lyres and heroic couplets.
(6) The article shows the results of study of the causes of these complications, which formed the basis for improving the methods and techniques of the operation the principal differences of which consisted in: (1) colostomy, except for the final formation of the opening at the level of the skin, was conducted before mobilization of the rectum; (2) retroperitoneal passing of the intestine was accomplished through the upper angle of a lyre-shaped incision of the pelvic peritoneum to the left of the sigmoid colon; (3) the use of a "closed" method of flat stoma formation by cutting the intestinal wall at the level of the skin down to the mucosa and attaching it to the skin by the musculoserous coat with interrupted catgut sutures, and only after that is the excessive mucosa cut off and the intestinal lumen opened.