(a.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
(n.) An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
(n.) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
(n.) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
(n.) One of the nasal bones.
(n.) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(2) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(3) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(4) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(5) These data suggest that basophilic cell function in the superficial mucous layer in the nose is of greater significance in the development of nasal symptoms in response to nasal allergy than either mucociliary activity or nasal mucosal hypersensitivity to histamine.
(6) Virus replication in nasal turbinates was not diminished while infection in the lung was suppressed sufficiently for the infected mice to survive the infection.
(7) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
(8) In this study we investigated the recovery or regenerative process of nasal mucosa in rabbits after mechanical injury on the basis of ultrastructural as well as functional observations.
(9) The frequency of previous nasal diseases and symptoms was analyzed by histologic type of cancer.
(10) We present the results of giving continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) via a single nasal catheter to 20 preterm infants.
(11) In the latter groups, specimens were taken from both polyp tissue and adjacent nasal mucosa.
(12) Because of the wide range of human nasal anatomic configurations, some people sniff odorants against comparatively high resistances.
(13) The characteristic features of the nasal mucosa obtained here are as follows: 1) The cross-section profiles of the cilium were round and smooth.
(14) Thus, enhancers are required to obtain significant nasal absorption of glucagon and calcitonin and powders and spray solutions did not differ in terms of systemic availability.
(15) One child (case 1) exhibited nasal regurgitation during feeding.
(16) Many times the nasal airway is disregarded as the source of airway difficulty if small catheters can be passed.
(17) Nasal epithelial dysplasia is morphologically similar to dysplasia in other organs where the precancerous state of this lesion has been proved.
(18) The disposition of radiolabeled cocaine in humans has been studied after three routes of administration: iv injection, nasal insufflation (ni, snorting), and smoke inhalation (si).
(19) In patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), values in the donor lung did not differ from those in non-CF transplanted patients up to one year following transplantation, although nasal PD in the host remained elevated.
(20) The RSV EIA was also used to test 137 nasal swabs obtained from cases of bovine respiratory disease.
Naval
Definition:
(a.) Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval forces, successes, stores, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty-five myopic naval personnel with no previous contact lens experience were put through a three-week study using these contact lenses.
(2) The announcement came two days after US-led naval exercises started in the Gulf.
(3) At Gölcük naval base, a frigate was reportedly taken over by an unidentified anti-government group and the head of the Turkish fleet was held hostage, a Greek military source told Reuters.
(4) For the treatment of systemic HSV-1 infection in Naval Medical Research Institute mice, a single oral dose per day of 5 mg of CEDU per kg achieved a significant reduction in the mortality rate.
(5) Chinese naval ships recently showed up off the Aleutian islands during an Obama visit to Alaska, the mineral-rich Arctic being another possible theatre.
(6) And that requires a big military commitment to protect refugees from attacks.” During Monday afternoon’s two-hour meeting, the US president and the four EU national leaders are also likely to discuss stemming the flow of migrants from Libya by placing EU naval patrols in Libyan waters.
(7) An additional 2,900 BAE staff are employed in the Portsmouth area on tasks that include maintaining, servicing and upgrading the Royal Navy ships at the naval base.
(8) US defence officials say the new base, which is expected to cost at least $8.6bn (£6bn), is an essential part of the White House’s strategic “pivot” towards the Asia-Pacific, amid rising concern over Chinese naval activity in the region and North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes.
(9) CND costs The Vanguard-class fleet operates out of the deep-water naval base at Faslane on the Clyde, but also makes use of the US navy’s base at Kings Bay in Georgia.
(10) In its recent decision to end Portsmouth’s role as a naval dockyard, the British government said recently that future warships - notably a new generation of frigates - would be built in Scotland only if Scotland remained part of Britain.
(11) A member of the CGT union at the naval construction company STX said locals were between a rock and a hard place.
(12) Abbott continued: "Do you believe Australian naval personnel or do you believe people who were attempting to break Australian law?"
(13) The plan for the yacht is the brainchild of Rear Admiral David Bawtree, a former naval base commander in Portsmouth.
(14) In an attempt to discourage potential migrants, European ministers cancelled a naval operation aimed at rescuing stricken smugglers’ boats.
(15) He said Iran's enemies had understood the message of the naval exercises, saying: "We have no plan to begin any irrational act but we are ready against any threat."
(16) The naval confrontation was the most serious incident between the two navies since 2009, when Chinese ships and planes repeatedly harassed the US ocean surveillance vessel USNS Impeccable in the South China Sea.
(17) A review of death certificates in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts for 1959-77 yielded a total of 1722 deaths among former workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where nuclear submarines are repaired and refuelled.
(18) The US has also pledged $86m towards upgrading Mexico’s checkpoints, roadblocks and naval bases.
(19) Two military doctors testified on Wednesday, describing the treatment of Bales' victims, including a young girl who had been shot in the head and who spent three months undergoing surgeries and rehabilitation at a naval hospital in San Diego, relearning how to walk.
(20) The escort ship would not be a naval one, the source added.