(n.) The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.
(n.) An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;
(n.) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc.
(n.) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.
(n.) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.
(n.) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.
(n.) The entrance into a harbor.
(n.) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
(n.) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
(n.) Cry; voice.
(n.) Speech; language; testimony.
(n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
(v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
(v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.
(v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.
(v. t.) To make mouths at.
(v. i.) To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.
(v. i.) To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.
(v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
(2) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
(3) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(4) Translation of foot-and-mouth disease virus RNA for extended periods in rabbit reticulocyte lysates results in the appearance of a previously undescribed protein.
(5) Measurements of mouth opening were made for up to 10 min after loss of the adductor pollicis twitch and cessation of muscle fasciculations.
(6) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(7) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.
(8) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
(9) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(10) Unexpected displacement of the endotracheal tube during anesthesia caused by postural change of the neck or passive compression by the mouth gag was investigated under transluminal fiberoptic observation.
(11) Mouth-to-cecum transit, however, does not play a major role in carbohydrate or fat malabsorption in these patients.
(12) Although 41% of the participants complained of dry mouth, neither serious adverse effects nor evidence of medication abuse appeared.
(13) I opened my eyes and my mouth wide, which made everyone in the audience think I was amazed at what I was seeing.
(14) The jaw deviated to the right when he opened his mouth fully.
(15) The study supports the view that even a moderate reduction of mouth opening capacity may indicate mandibular dysfunction and we recommend that this variable be routinely recorded.
(16) Greatly admired Murdoch is certainly putting his money where his mouth is.
(17) The raw air curve is determined by sequentially counting radionuclide activity in respiratory gases sampled at the mouth.
(18) The gradient of increasing copper and zinc concentrations with increasing distance upstream from the mouth of the estuary reported in 1975 could not be statistically validated.
(19) A certain number of parameters involved in the manufacture, control and use of an efficacious vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease have been studied.
(20) Histopathological examination alone could not be relied upon to differentiate between well-established skin lesions caused by swine vesicular disease and foot and mouth disease.
Palate
Definition:
(n.) The roof of the mouth.
(n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
(n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.
(n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
(v. t.) To perceive by the taste.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(2) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
(3) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(4) Retrognathia or retrusion of the maxilla and mid-face is present in about one-third of treated cleft palate patients.
(5) Cleft palate was found in 98.1% of fetuses in the positive control group and none of them in the negative control group.
(6) An examination of 9720 Zagreb school children, 6-13 years of age, revealed submucous cleft palate (SMCP) in 5 and cleft uvula in 232.
(7) Adult ambulatory patients routinely self-administering potassium chloride solution rate the palatability and acceptance of each preparation.
(8) It was treated by the method of free autogenous gingival graft on the labial side and gingivectomy by flap on the palatal side.
(9) To clarify the mechanism by which retinoid causes cleft palate, we investigated the effect of retinoic acid (RA) on proliferation activity and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) synthesis in mouse fetuses palatal mesenchymal (MFPM) cells.
(10) Since d-fenfluramine failed to alter saccharin preference, it is unlikely that the slowed eating rate induced by this compound indicates a reduction in food palatability.
(11) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(12) An experimental study in the white rat (Sprague-Dawley) was undertaken to evaluate the frequency of fisula formation after palatal midline osteotomies as used in surgical-orthodontic "rapid-expansion" procedures.
(13) In addition to vocal cord paralysis on the laryngoscopy, videofluoroscopy confirmed diminished mobility of the soft palate.
(14) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
(15) Fifty per cent of the children with clefts of the palate and lip had deviated nasal septum producing nasal obstruction.
(16) At 0 hours only the hard palate in the experimental group had elevated, but at 2 and 4 hours almost half this group showed elevation of the soft palate as well, and, in addition, contact had been made between the elevated shelves.
(17) Palates from C3H mice were implanted onto prepared graft beds in histocompatible F1 hybrid mice.
(18) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.
(19) Four years on from that speech, his strategy is bearing fruit – in a less than palatable way.
(20) The classical form most commonly observed on the buccal, palatal and labial mucosa shows a fine lacework of white papules and lines.