(a.) Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial alligation.
(n.) See 2d Media.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(2) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(3) CRF-ir cells were for the most part concentrated in the medial parvocellular component of PVN.
(4) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(5) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(6) The field of labeling formed a continuous band from rostro-laterally to caudo-medially.
(7) Five cases of mycetoma of bone involving patella, shaft of tibia, medial malleolus, calcaneum and phalanx of great toe are presented.
(8) This reduction is produced by medial displacement of the cerci, a movement the animal performs naturally during flying.
(9) Injection of carbachol into the AV3V produced the expected natriuresis, which was accompanied within 20 min by a dramatic rise in the plasma ANP concentration and a rise in ANP content in the medial basal hypothalamus, the neurohypophysis, and particularly the anterior hypophysis but without alterations in the content of ANP in the lungs or the right or left atrium.
(10) This column is located ventral and lateral to the dorsolateral division of the trigeminal motor nucleus, and just medial to the descending trigeminal nerve rootlets.
(11) The results suggest that Ce projections to a variety of medullary sites arise from separate populations of neurons with partially overlapping distributions in the medial Ce.
(12) Recordings were made from secondary vestibular axons in the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) of barbiturate-anesthetized squirrel monkeys.
(13) This study demonstrates the termination of ascending tract of Deiters' (ATD) axons on ipsilateral medial rectus (MR) motoneurons.
(14) The majority of the responsive neurons were located in regions surrounding the aqueduct and the medial part of PAG.
(15) The cellular groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus (TUMM) are positioned at the interface between the lateral and the medial hypothalamus, and form an array of cellular groups indicated in our study as the intermediate division of the hypothalamus.
(16) Lateral digits of forelimbs were slightly more affected than medial digits of hindlimbs (17.0% vs 14.8%).
(17) The operative approach is through an incision above the medial canthus.
(18) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
(19) We have examined the distribution of galanin-like immunoreactive (LI) cell bodies in the medial septal nucleus (MS) and the nucleus of the diagonal band of Broca (nDBB) of young (3 months) and aged (25-30 months) rats, and assessed their respective contribution to the septohippocampal pathway.
(20) We interpret this dissociation between loss of catecholamines and the capacity for active avoidance responding to mean that medial 6-OHDA injections did not damage the same catecholaminergic terminal fields as lateral 6-OHDA injections and that the integrity of the terminal fields damaged by lateral 6-OHDA injections is necessary for active avoidance responding.
Menial
Definition:
(n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
(n.) Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean.
(n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
(n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(2) One of the biggest losers are the estimated 12-20 million illegal immigrants living in the US, most of whom play an integral role in the economy, doing menial jobs that citizens do not want.
(3) Having failed to get into Rada, Wesker embarked on a series of menial jobs: bookseller's assistant, plumber's mate and, at the Bell hotel in Norwich, kitchen porter.
(4) The new movie marks a partial return to the thematic territory of Rosetta , which concerned a teenage girl scrabbling around for menial jobs.
(5) In the UK, the interrelated challenges we face include an ageing population; technological advances that wipe out whole occupations; global competition and the large-scale underemployment of individuals, mostly women, overqualified for the menial jobs they have struggled to acquire.
(6) Nonetheless, the workers' movement was once dedicated to the eventual abolition of all menial, tedious, grinding work.
(7) The system applies domain-specific knowledge to manage the menial details and automate most of the decision-making steps involved in the design process.
(8) • On placement, put your ego to one side and take on any task, however menial: it will open the door to new experiences.
(9) If they are poor, it wants them to be invisible, flitting uncomplainingly from one menial job to the next.
(10) The prosecution claimed that the man, who left home when he was 11 to take up a series of menial jobs in Delhi, was the most violent of the attackers of the girl last December.
(11) Like ads for other menial jobs, they use absurd and insulting hyperbole in inverse proportion to the quality of the position, as though seeing the word SUPERSTAR enough times will make you forget how boring the duties are.
(12) If that became true over the past 10 years, it was only in the "we are all middle class now" sense of New Labour – not in the sense of actually eliminating menial work, or the divide between workers and owners.
(13) There is also Hunt's plan to make all student nurses spend a year of their training doing the more menial tasks in healthcare usually done by healthcare assistants – feeding, washing and moving patients, for example.
(14) We suggest that prosperity which has led to use of foreign laborers in menial jobs has caused this slow down.
(15) The Home Office says the menial work is provided on a voluntary basis to meet their “recreational and intellectual” needs and provide “relief from boredom”.
(16) It’s about spotting that and thinking about how you can influence it.” That’s the dream Clara Summers (not her real name), 33, clings to as she contemplates quitting her job in events at a Copenhagen bar, where a “bro-centric” atmosphere means that, as the only woman in the management team, she is handed all the menial tasks.
(17) Menial tasks in South Africa are invariably performed by Africans.
(18) Professional politicians, and their intellectual menials, will no doubt blather on about “Islamic fundamentalism”, the “western alliance” and “full-spectrum response”.
(19) 15.5% were not in school and unemployed, and 28% worked at menial jobs.
(20) Smartphones at the ready: TechCrunch has given Alfred , an outsourcing app for your most menial tasks, its Disrupt Cup – an award that recognises the best new start-ups.