(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.
Tether
Definition:
(n.) A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.
(v. t.) To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.
Example Sentences:
(1) A comparison was made between the Q's estimated by the CO2 rebreathing method during tethered swimming and previously published data on Q determined by the dye-dilution method during free swimming in a flune.
(2) In both conditions about half the number of cases presented clinically before the age of 3 months, when paraplegia was evident in only 5 of the 26 infants with tethered cord and 3 of the 25 with tethered roots.
(3) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
(4) The hypothesis that a localized lordosis, or tethering of the posterior elements of the spine, is the primary cause of the vertebral rotation in idiopathic scoliosis was investigated in anatomic specimens of human and calf spinal columns.
(5) The ultrasound-induced negative phonotactic response of tethered, flying Australian field crickets habituates to repeated stimuli.
(6) In one patient, the fibrous band extended from the distal pole of the patella to the intracondylar notch, tethering the patella inferiorly.
(7) Single-chain antigen-binding proteins are novel recombinant polypeptides, composed of an antibody variable light-chain amino acid sequence (VL) tethered to a variable heavy-chain sequence (VH) by a designed peptide that links the carboxyl terminus of the VL sequence to the amino terminus of the VH sequence.
(8) We have described delayed presentation in an adult with evidence of the tethered spinal cord syndrome following myelomeningocele repair.
(9) We report 2 cases of the tethered spinal cord syndrome.
(10) Internal motions of the tethered Er-labeled ligands may also contribute to the observed anisotropy decay, particularly in the case of cell-bound IgE.
(11) Computerized interpretation of the electrocardiogram has now advanced to computerization of the electrocardiograph, resulting in greatly increased versatility, including the capacity for adapting to a variety of lead systems rather than being tethered to the old Einthoven-Wilson-Goldberger (EWG) system.
(12) Apple was asked to comment on this ability to unlock the iPhone tethering facility for free.
(13) Three cases of tethered cord syndrome are presented with reference of reported literatures.
(14) However visitors to benm.at – an iPhone and iPod touch enthusiasts' website – can download a profile that instantly activates the tethering system free of charge.
(15) A 14-residue peptide based on the tethered ligand stimulated the aggregation of gel-filtered platelets with an EC50 of 7 microM, and a concentration of 10 microM was the minimum concentration necessary to yield a full aggregation response in platelet-rich plasma.
(16) The ratio of the change in the length of the tether to the change in the projection length is proportional to the ratio of the pipette radius to the tether radius.
(17) Surgical repair with release of cord tethering at the time of diagnosis is advocated, regardless of patient age.
(18) In single-channel recordings, tethered agonists opened channels with the same conductance as reversibly bound agonists (30 pS at 15 degrees C and -100 mV).
(19) In a series of 75 patients with surgically treated lipomyelomeningoceles, the neurological condition of six patients deteriorated 6 months to 14 years after the operation due to repeat tethering of the spinal cord.
(20) Failure to release this structure from the proximal ulna caused kinking and tethering of the nerve when transposition was attempted.