(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.
Pharynx
Definition:
(n.) The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias.
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) The sites involved primarily were the nasal cavity, tonsil and pharynx and about one-fourth of the total cases showed extensive involvement of two anatomical sites at initial presentation.
(3) The method allows reconstructive operations to be conducted on the distal part of the internal carotid artery with preservation of the intactness and function of the muscles and nerves of the pharynx.
(4) 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.
(5) CR-ir was also observed in nerve fibers surrounding neuronal cell bodies in autonomic ganglia, and in nerve endings in the lip, tongue, incisal papilla, soft palate, pharynx and epiglottis.
(6) To review the physiologic basis for normal and abnormal vagal reflexes arising from the pharynx, larynx, and esophagus, as well as the relevance of vagal reflexes to the pathogenesis of such clinically common cardiorespiratory responses as bradycardia, tachycardia, dysrhythmia, coronary angiospasm, bronchospasm, laryngospasm, prolonged apnea, and singultus (hiccups).
(7) This approach can be expanded to reach almost any tumor of the pharynx and radical neck dissection can be incorporated.
(8) Hypoparathyroidism occurs secondary to surgery for carcinoma of the pharynx and larynx in which a total thyroidectomy is required.
(9) Esophageal strictures involved the pharynx or cervical esophagus in eight cases and were multiple in five; they ranged in length from 2 mm to 15 cm and tended to progress over time.
(10) Bacteriological examination of the stool and pharynx is useful in the management of immunocompromised patients.
(11) Four sensors in the pharynx simultaneously measure multiple pressure levels, with no need to move the catheter during sleep.
(12) Health workers must be familiar with proper resuscitation techniques, especially avoidance of excessive suctioning of the pharynx, and be alert to signs of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
(13) Congenital, neuromuscular and motor abnormalities of the pharynx, esophagus and diaphragm, coupled with intra- and extraluminal factors, play roles in the pathogenesis of esophageal diverticula.
(14) Chemical burns of the mouth, pharynx, and digestive passages have been reviewed in regard to the nature of the injury and wound description.
(15) This persistently reduced PaO2 in the former group is therefore most likely due to the physical presence of the endoscope in the pharynx.
(16) Probable site of action: pharynx, larynx, trachea, and bronchi.
(17) The spirochaetes remain motile in the pharynx and oesophageal diverticula for several hours but are apparently immobilised in the midgut (Kumm & Turner, 1936).
(18) We have tested this hypothesis by examining the pressure-area relationship of the pharynx in 13 patients and in 7 control subjects.
(19) The pharynx was rapidly labelled when NBD-cholesterol was added in medium with or without serum or attached to red blood cells only.
(20) Therefore, manometric measurements made in the pharynx during bolus flow are not invalidated by variations in the orientation of the catheter.