(1) Total length, nape-rump length and tail length were recorded for each embryo and hatchling.
(2) Cooling the nape of the neck is said to induce reflex constriction of the mucosal vessels of the nose, but there is no general agreement in the literature on the benefit of an ice pack as an adjuvant treatment of epistaxis.
(3) Down's syndrome diagnosis is presently evaluated by some more specific ultrasonographic signs such as fetal nape or femur length measurements and by new biological parameters such as hCG assay.
(4) A pinch to the nape of the neck of mice, by application of a noxious clip, produces analgesia and immobility.
(5) Thus, low analgesic doses of local anesthetics injected into the nape of the neck prevented noxious clip from inducing analgesia but immobility was still evident.
(6) There are typical arsenic melanisms on the forehad-temple-rim where the hair begins to grow, on the nape of the neck, on the shoulders, chest, arms, and on the back of the hands which pass into precanceroses and carcinomas.
(7) The following electrode arrays were evaluated (1) vertex-neck, (2) forehead-ear canal (Enhancer I), and (3) vertex-nape.
(8) A case is reported of a man with a deep nape stabwound completely severing the medulla of the spine.
(9) A heat-stable factor (HSF) purified from the spleen of a patient with Gaucher's disease significantly increased the sensitivity of the rat liver beta-glucosidase to all of the NAPE derivatives.
(10) Passing subcutaneously, the catheters then emerged at the nape of the neck and were sealed by heating.
(11) The binding of chlorophenoxyisobutyric (CPIB), tibric (TA) and nicotinic (NA) acids and CPIB ethyl ester (Clofibrate), TA and NA isopropyl esters (TAPE and NAPE) to human lipoproteins of low density of different classes (LDL2, LDL1 and VLDL) and high density (HDL) were studied by equilibrium dialysis and Sephadex gel filtration.
(12) Intraoperative unilateral occipital artery ligation, with extensive undermining to the nape of the neck on only one side, can minimize the risk of postoperative scalp necrosis or telogen effluvium.
(13) On CT scan a round low dense lesion with clear margin was found in the nape.
(14) However, the vertex-neck and vertex-nape combinations are best for estimating auditory sensitivity because they gave the largest wave V amplitudes and 10-dB lower electrophysiologic thresholds.
(15) An exaggerated unilateral foot-nape posture is held responsible for a complete obstacle to parturition.
(16) The second patient suffered avulsion of the entire scalp as well as the forehead skin and nape of the neck.
(17) Since his second year, the papulonodular lesions have gradually merged into large confluent plaques, particularly on the face, nape, and axillae.
(18) A morphologic abnormality was seen of the nape which could not be interpreted.
(19) The toxoid was injected subcutaneously at the nape of the neck at dose levels of 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 ml in Groups II, III, and IV, respectively.
(20) This study tested the generalizations that cutaneous pressure will elicit immobility, that there is a relationship between the intensity of cutaneous pressure and the duration of immobility, and that the localization or body surfaces, particularly the upper dorsal area or the nape of the neck, is more susceptible to immobility.
Withers
Definition:
(prep.) The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho launched a withering attack on the lack of atmosphere generated by Chelsea’s home supporters after their 2-1 victory against QPR , saying it felt like his side were playing at an “empty stadium”.
(3) Though intraspinal narcotic analgesia is associated with a number of side effects, with proper knowledge these adverse reactions are wither preventable or can be greatly reduced.
(4) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(5) They may be in power, but institutional support is withering away.
(6) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
(7) But if the coalition does keep together for four more years, then that's four more years of Lib Dem withering and four more years to gather a treasure chest to reward Tory voters.
(8) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(9) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(10) There is a brief compensatory detour into the wonders Blair worked in Northern Ireland, but the essential verdict remains withering.
(11) Her original concept was that he might shed the kingly mantle, be just a poor player strutting, but he couldn’t get out fast enough from his prosthetic withered arm.
(12) Faced with the audience, some of the candidates flourished; others withered.
(13) Covers followed including versions of Bill Withers's Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)
(14) Katya Gorchinskaya, deputy editor of the Kyiv Post, said that after years of corruption and budget starvation, Ukraine's army resembled a "withered muscle".
(15) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
(16) Capital was more rewarded than labour, regions withered and exports and manufacturing suffered.
(17) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
(18) Press lobbying On the press lobbying for self-regulation, Leveson is withering, saying he does not find "the self-interested lobbying of the press to be an appropriate matter for press regulation".
(19) The major component of vitellogenin labeled wither in vivo or in culture has a molecular weight of approximately 180,000 as shown by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(20) A review of chloroquine and sulfa-antifol combination treated falciparum malaria patients revealed a high incidence of chloroquine-resistance, wither R1 or R2, in patients infected in Southeast Asia or Oceania.