(n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
(n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
(n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
(n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.
(a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
(n.) To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
(n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
(n.) To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
(n.) To spike, as a cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(2) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(3) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(4) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
(5) Impairments of hearing, of mobility, of cutting toe-nails and of general physical activity were the conditions which were most frequently named.
(6) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
(7) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
(8) A case is reported of a male infant with congenital palmoplantar keratoderma and nail dystrophy who developed progressive perioral and perineal keratoderma.
(9) Although the nail changes and systemic complications are probably due to different causes in drug-induced YNS, a careful search for systemic complications are necessary in patients who develop nail changes.
(10) Similar cultures from ten additional patients who underwent nail surgery were also performed.
(11) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
(12) Fragments of nail keratin removed with tweezers from patients suffering from alopecia areata were examined using light microscopy and electron microscopy.
(13) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(14) The phenol and alcohol procedure still remains as one of the most effective and gratifying means of treatment for symptomatic ingrown nails.
(15) High level of Ge content was detected from the hair and nail by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry.
(16) Yellow nail syndrome is characterized by a yellow discolouration of the nails associated with idiopathic lymphoedema and pleuropulmonary manifestations.
(17) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(18) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
(19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
(20) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
Umbo
Definition:
(n.) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
(n.) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.
(n.) One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) The position, displacement and phase angle of the rotation axis of the ossicles was calculated based on the displacement and phase angle of the umbo, malleus head and lenticular process.
(2) The bending will also affect the displacements transmitted to the ossicular load, and introduce significant errors into estimates of such displacements based on measurements of umbo displacement even at frequencies as low as a few kHz.
(3) The umbo region may represent the center of superficially radial dispersion.
(4) The epithelial migration center was found at the region of umbo, manubrium, and the short process of the malleus.
(5) It is demonstrated that the rotation angels can not account for the measured movement of the umbo, which leads to the conclusion that for static high pressure levels the classical hypothesis of rotation around a fixed axis has to be abandoned.
(6) There is a small area we have termed the "slow zone", located anterior and inferior to the umbo, that has comparatively fewer patches and where ink dots can remain static for several weeks.
(7) This attachment is most intimate at the level of the umbo and becomes progressively more tenuous as the short process is approached.
(8) It is shown further that a linear relationship between umbo displacement and volume displacement exists.
(9) The acoustically estimated "drum location" generally lay between the optically determined vertical planes containing the TOD and the umbo.
(10) The displacement of the umbo is compared to other work.
(11) All of the modifications (except the perforation) had a minimal effect on umbo displacement; this seems to imply that the pars flaccida has a minor acoustic role in human beings.
(12) Due to the gliding movement in the malleus-incus joint, this motion changes at the umbo into outward rotation, counteracting the tensor tympani muscle.
(13) When the motion is rotational the position of the axis of rotation shifts with frequency, the shifts are so large that the axis can lie near the umbo so that amplitudes at the processus lateralis are larger than at the umbo.
(14) The umbo moved piston-like at 0.1-0.8 kHz and 2.6-4.5 kHz but in an ellipse at 1.0-2.4 kHz.
(15) The vibration amplitude and phase angle of the umbo, malleus head, lenticular process and stapes head were measured at 19 frequencies between 0.1 kHz and 4.5 kHz.
(16) The malleus head showed elliptical movement with its long axis anteriorly tilted around 45 degrees from the direction of the umbo vibration at 0.1 kHz.
(17) As a result of the bending, the frequency response at the umbo at high frequencies displays much higher amplitudes and larger phase lags than when the manubrium is rigid.
(18) The effects of aditus blockage, decrease of tympanic cavity volume, and resection of the tensor tympani muscle on umbo displacement were studied in human temporal bones using a new non-contacting video measuring system.
(19) The umbo, lenticular process and stapes head vibrated parallel at lower frequencies.
(20) The three-dimensional movements of the umbo, the proc.