(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.
Trigon
Definition:
(n.) A figure having three angles; a triangle.
(n.) A division consisting of three signs.
(n.) Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.
(n.) A kind of triangular lyre or harp.
(n.) A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.
Example Sentences:
(1) One lattice was trigonal, as in purple membrane, and showed a high-resolution electron diffraction pattern from glucose-sustained patches.
(2) Lateralis dorsalis nucleus of thalamus belong to the limbic system of Papez more by its trigonal than cingular afferent pathways.
(3) Retro-molar trigones call for combined telecobaltherapy-electrontherapy;--curie-therapy is too difficult in this area.
(4) The development of the muscular tissue of the ureter, ureterovesical junction and vesical trigone in the human fetus has been investigated using serial histological sections.
(5) The crystals are trigonal, space group P3(1)21 with axes a = b = 102.2 A and c = 58.5 A.
(6) We conclude that the bladder trigone will tolerate IORT to 20 Gy without major clinical sequellae.
(7) Enuresis after sphincteroplasty was linked with functional insufficiency of the trigonal muscle due to tissue dysembryogenesis.
(8) These findings show that an extensively ionized substrate is needed for reaction at the exocyclic N2 and O6 sites on guanosine but that the reactive intermediate is not an ideal planar trigonal carbonium ion.
(9) Two boys presented with acute bullous cystitis limited to the trigone and periureteral zone and producing marked but transient acute ureteral obstruction.
(10) MRI was better than CT at demonstrating tumours in the roof of the bladder and at the trigone.
(11) A case of adenocarcinoma development in the trigone 34 years after trigonosigmoidostomy for exstrophy of the bladder is presented.
(12) A pyramidal configuration of D-quisqualic acid would allow either rapid interconversion between active and inactive configurations at its ring junction or adoption of a trigonal configuration in solution.
(13) Two UCN join the ureters and the cecum, to which the trigone, the cervix vesicae, or the prostatic or membranous urethra is anastomosed, depending on the case.
(14) 1, The repeat length per disaccharide was 0.913 nm: 2, The molecular chain had three-fold screw symmetry: 3, The shape of the unit cell was a trigonal prism with dimensions a=b=1.28 nm, c=2.74 nm, and gamma=120 degrees: 4, The number of disaccharide residues in the unit cell was six.
(15) Although much remains to be learned, most pediatric nephrologists and urologists are now in comfortable agreement with the following assumptions: (1) Most reflux (primary reflux) is due to a congenital anatomic abnormality of the bladder trigone.
(16) The common field, where the valvular diseases and conduction disturbances occurred, was the fibrous trigone of the heart.
(17) Lesions were in the anterior part of the third ventricle in 32 cases, in the frontal horns in 6, in the trigone in 3, and in both lateral and third ventricles in 1 case.
(18) The superficial trigone responded maximally to alpha-adrenergic receptor stimulation but also produced a significant cholinergic response.
(19) Few adrenergic nerves were also found in the urinary bladder, except in the trigone area, where they were abundant.
(20) Dosimetric-computerized studies were expressed as the maximum bladder dose on the trigone, as proposed by the I.C.R.U.