(a.) Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.
Example Sentences:
(1) That shows the level of support for us.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Retired health manager Margaret Alexander, pictured with husband Gordon: ‘Why can’t our government find the money?’ Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian Up the road at the village of Nether Stowey, retired health managers Gordon and Margaret Alexander, 84 and 78 respectively, were admiring the flowers outside Coleridge’s old cottage .
(2) Nether glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity nor [125I]iodoglucagon binding could be detected in the poorly differentiated hepatomas.
(3) By this research the percentage of school-children living in a mainly rural district in Nether Saxony whose carriage is endangered is to be stated and besides that it is to be examined whether and how far orthopedic training, practised by special nurses for physical training, can help to improve their carriage.
(4) The deaths occurred in what was described in court as "the nether world" of alcoholic vagrancy into which the death of her husband plunged her.
(5) I don't take much notice: as a frontline sergeant in a busy multicultural town in the nether regions of England, there isn't anywhere worse they can put me, and nothing they do will change the nature of my work.
(6) There were other people on the beach, including picnicking families, but it was not packed, and they were mainly in the water, with their nether regions hidden.
(7) He shows us its hollowed-out nether regions and parson’s nose in a deliberately obscene way.
(8) Nearest station to Nether Stowey is Bridgwater – take the bus to Williton and Minehead.
(9) It is nether possible nor desirable for analysis to adopt the neutral attitudes and techniques of the natural science observer.
(10) (Nether Alderley, Cheshire) Professor Alistair Stanyer Burns.
(11) Recently, as the morning sun stretched towards my bedroom window, my mind became stranded in that nether world between sleep and waking.
(12) The French have always suspected we were a treacherous bunch, but they've just received a poke with a sharp stick to the vinous nether regions.
(13) Nether the trust nor its subsidiaries are registered by the National Secretariat for Non-Governmental Organisations, a prerequisite for any such project.
(14) On a scale of one to childbirth, waxing your nether regions is a minor blip.
(15) You've just had a baby and 28 stitches in your nethers?
(16) Nether Stowey butcher Andrew Pope, who lives on a farm next door to the site, was more relaxed.
(17) OS Map: Explorer OL2: Yorkshire Dales: southern & western areas Coleridge's cottage to Wordsworth's house Somerset Quantock Hills at Coleridge Way nature walk, Nether Stowey, Somerset.
(18) Nether thrombosis nor stenosis of the renal veins and the inferior vena cava was present.
(19) Terkel disliked this nether region beneath the skyscrapers.
(20) Have a look at Danny's website - it's top notch ... and I'm not just saying that because he's blowing smoke up my nether regions.
Subsurface
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
(2) Completely demineralized root powder was subjected to solutions of varying pH and ionic strength: (a) 0.1 M acetic acid, pH 4.0, (b) 0.1 M acetic acid + 0.15 M KCl, pH 4.0, (c) 0.1 M Hepes, pH 7.0 or to (d) 0.1 M Hepes + 0.15 M KCl, pH 7.0 at 37 degrees C. The surfaces of intact root specimens were exposed to 0.1 M acetic acid, pH 4.0 (which resulted in erosive lesions) or to 0.1 M lactic acid, 0.2 mM methane hydroxy diphosphonate, pH 5.0 (which produced subsurface lesions) at 37 degrees C. After incubation, the extracts were analysed for soluble collagen and the insoluble matrices were treated with trypsin at 15 degrees C to determine the denatured collagen.
(3) It is important to remember that the behavior of contaminants in the subsurface is influenced by chemical and hydrologic parameters as well as biotic considerations, and that a wholistic understanding of these processes will be required for successful ground-water quality management.
(4) Of major significance in assessing the environmental risk impact of GEMs is an understanding of their survival and transport in soil and subsurface environments.
(5) When a subsurface barrier fails, the leachate enters the groundwater in a concentrated, narrow band which may bypass monitoring wells.
(6) Two clinically distinct lesions have been described in dental enamel: the erosion lesion, characterized by a dissolution of enamel from the surface; and the caries lesion, in which the enamel surface layer, accumulating fluoride, remains relatively intact, while the subsurface enamel dissolves.
(7) This indicates that these solutes have access to the silica subsurface amines during chromatography.
(8) The first specialization that we observed was the subsurface cistern, which appeared at five days and showed a significant increase both in frequency and in length throughout development.
(9) A brief increase in the ascorbic acid concentration in the rat cerebral cortex after intraventricular bilateral injection of 20 microliters of a 0.1% or 1% ascorbic acid solution and also intracisternal injection of 20 microliters of a 0.5% solution results in a prolonged (not less than 21 days) ultrastructural reorganization in the nucleus and cytoplasm of the cortical neurons: the amount of lysosomes, polysomes, vesicles of the Golgi complex, and subsurface cisterns increases, this demonstrating an increasing RNA and protein synthesis, catabolic processes, and neuronal-glial interaction.
(10) The decrease at 32 days coincided with the loss of many subsurface cisterns, and dispersion of Nissl substance, all suggestive of chromatolysis.
(11) They may be anchored to the isolated cortex through associations with the plasma membrane and with an extensive subsurface network of rough endoplasmic reticulum (rough ER).
(12) The exposed subsurface layer showed a fibrillar structure.
(13) Although the presence and activity of microorganisms in most subsurface environments are predictable, only recently have subsurface microbial populations in shallow subsurface zones been characterized.
(14) The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that a degraded subsurface layer containing microcracks is produced in dental composites as a result of finishing procedures.
(15) Microorganisms are the predominant forms of life in the subsurface.
(16) The CSF-contacting neurons of all types are usually supplied with axo-somatic synapses on the perikaryon and subsurface cisternae are sometimes observed beneath the postsynaptic membrane.
(17) This material is always placed between the plasma membrane and the first layer of subsurface cisterns, but only in those areas along the lateral surface of the outer hair cell lining the spaces of Nuel.
(18) The Sn-release probably mainly originated from surface corrosion and Cu-release from subsurface corrosion.
(19) Over the past two decades, a number of models have been developed to describe the multiphase migration of organic chemicals in the subsurface.
(20) One of these proteins is associated with the virus "core"; the other is found in the "coat" fraction of the virion and appears to occupy an intermediary, subsurface position.