(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.
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Definition:
(n.) The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
(n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
(n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(2) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
(3) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(4) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
(5) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
(6) Four patients with acute brucellosis are described, none of whom had any connexion with farming or milk industry, the source of infection being different in each case.
(7) No correlation between volatile make up and geography was found, but the profiling procedures are shown to be of use in the forensic problem of relating samples to a common source.
(8) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(9) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.
(10) These spectra show marked differences between sources.
(11) This capacity is expressed during incubation of the bacteria with the substrate and needs a source of carbon and other energy metabolites.
(12) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(13) A Monte Carlo simulation was performed to characterize the spatial and energy distribution of bremsstrahlung radiation from beta point sources important to radioimmunotherapy (RIT).
(14) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(15) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
(16) Furthermore, the analyses indicated an important interplay between environmental sources and social factors in the determination of hand lead and blood lead levels in very young children.
(17) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
(18) Biosyntheses of TXA2 and PGI2 were carried out using arachidonic acid as a substrate and horse platelet and aorta microsomes as sources of TXA2 and PGI2 synthetases respectively.
(19) In certain cases, the effects of these substances are enhanced, in others, they are inhibited by compounds that were isolated from natural sources or prepared by chemical synthesis.
(20) Lysates of lymphoblastoid cells provided the antigen source which were visualized by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.