(n.) One of the external openings of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares.
(n.) Perception; insight; acuteness.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(2) The relative toxicities of formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde to the rat nasal epithelium were determined following intra-nasal instillation of aqueous solutions of these compounds into one nostril of male Fischer 344 (F-344) rats.
(3) The phantosmia could be eliminated by nostril occlusion or cocainization of the olfactory epithelium on the involved side.
(4) Two S. aureus strains isolated from the nostril and finger of one person working in the mouse colony were identified as the same biotype as the murine strains but different in phage type, coagulase type and drug resistance pattern.
(5) But really it's because That's What Real Cyclists Do, along with blowing their noses by shooting snot out of a nostril at high speed, and obsessing over their weight.
(6) A total dose of 360 micrograms of ipratropium bromide (60 micrograms into each nostril, repeated twice at 15 min intervals) were administered nasally to the subjects in randomized order.
(7) For the reconstruction of the nostril a nasolabial flap is recommended.
(8) Since forced unilateral nostril breathing activates the contralateral brain hemisphere, an animal analogue of this technique could be provided by methylmethacrylate gluing large plastic pellets in either the right or left nostrils in a group of rats.
(9) I still have the stench of their debasement in my nostrils.
(10) Detection thresholds for phenylethyl alcohol were measured separately in each nostril using a forced-choice staircase procedure.
(11) But at this moment of the final parting, my heart is heavy with sorrow and grief.” On death: “There is an end to everything and I want mine to come as quickly and painlessly as possible, not with me incapacitated, half in coma in bed and with a tube going into my nostrils and down to my stomach.” “Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me to the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up.
(12) Inclusion of signs of respiratory distress (flaring of nostrils, intercostal retraction) raised the specificity to 83-84%, but reduced sensitivity to 68%.
(13) In the first cycle (pretreatment cycle), only the vehicle (alcohol, propylene glycol, water; 3:3:4) was sprayed intranasally (100 microliters in each nostril), using a metered nebulizer, once daily from day 3 to the last day of menstrual cycle.
(14) This paper shows that forced nostril breathing in one nostril produces a relative increase in the EEG amplitude in the contralateral hemisphere.
(15) Betamethasone valerate aerosol given in doses of 100 mug into each nostril twice daily was compared with a placebo in a double-blind, cross-over trial involving thirty patients with seasonal rhinitis.
(16) Following an unsuccessful attempt to advance nasogastric tube during anesthesia for cholecystectomy, the same nostril was used for an oxygen catheter at the end of operation.
(17) When the nostril involved in the experiments was on the same side of the cut olfactory nerve, the pigeons did not show any response, whereas they displayed changes in heart rate when the nostril tested was on the opposite side.
(18) The syndrome is characterized by short stature; a broad, prominent forehead, hypertelorism, congenital ptosis, a broad, short nose with anteverted nostrils, a long, broad upper lip, low-set, abnormally shaped and posteriorly rotated ears; simian palmar creases; brachyclinodactyly; short fingers; ligamentous laxity allowing for hyperextensibility of the fingers, genu recurvatum, flat feet; and an anomalous penoscrotal configuration resulting in "saddle" deformity with scrotal folds incircling the base of the penis.
(19) Psychophysical procedures were used to investigate the effects observed by humans when two odorants were presented simultaneously through the same nostril (physical mixture) or separate nostrils (dichorhinic mixture).
(20) The safety and efficacy of pentigetide (Pentyde) nasal solution, administered as 1 mg into each nostril four times daily, was compared with placebo for controlling symptoms associated with seasonal allergic rhinitis.
Pervious
Definition:
(a.) Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.
(a.) Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
(a.) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
(a.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this latter group two of 29 (7%) had ECG evidence of infarction while four of 28 (14%) had positive scintigrams, compared to the pervious incidence of 31%.
(2) Three antigens designated B1, B2, and B3 (perviously B, C, and D) were detected in our outbred colony and also found to be present in a wide variety of guinea pig strains.
(3) Isopycnic sucrose density (discontinuous) gradient centrifugation of vesicles from adrenal glands of control cats, and of cats given reserpine 1 or 2 days perviously, indicated that new vesicles or vesicles depleted of CA by reserpine had a lower equilibrium density than the original population of vesicles.
(4) Considering the type, localization and perviousness of the lesion, similar conclusions were drawn, and did not affect the results, except that there were more false-negatives in both exams when the lesions were impervious.
(5) The purpose was to quantitate and characterize uterine activity in a group of multiparous patients with normal labor using our present on-line method and to evaluate our method against pervious work done on uterine activity.
(6) The contractility indices (VCF: mean speed, and VCF max: maximum shortening speed of the equatorial diameter of the left ventricle (% delta theta) were unmodified in the group (I) of fourteen patients with at least one pervious by-pass.
(7) Conditioning under a steam-proof and gas pervious (O2-CO2) film.
(8) A case of pheochromocytoma of the urinary bladder is reported, and 35 perviously reported cases are analyzed.
(9) Using epithelial monolayers of HCA-7 cells, derived from a primary human colonic adenocarcinoma and grown on pervious supports, it is shown that responses to lysylbradykinin can be elicited from either side.
(10) Oral apparatuses also purified by a modification of a pervious method.
(11) The sudden withdrawal of LSD produced a fall in avoidance rate, which was dependent on the pervious training dosage; as with delta 9-THC state-dependent learning can also be assumed for LSD.
(12) Comparison of the serum time-concentration curves to pervious analgesic and toxicity trials was made, and minimum serum levels for induction of analgesia and production of side effects are discussed.
(13) The percent yield of purified hyaluronidase calculated on the basis of total activity was ten times higher than by any pervious method [Yang, C.H.
(14) Clinical manifestations, including recurrent urinary tract infection and cuff abscess, followed vaginal hysterectomy performed three years perviously.
(15) The new policy amounts to an effective U-turn on pervious, ground-breaking legislation passed by Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrat and Green government, which would have seen nuclear power phased out in just over a decade's time.
(16) Spontaneously occurring surface wrinkling retinopathy occurreed in 17 eyes of 16 patients and was not related to pervious surgery, retinal vascular disease, or obvious ocular inflammation.
(17) Previously it has been thought that such a perviousness of the mucosal barrier would be bidirectional in nature.
(18) We consider this clinical entity to be much more common than perviously reported.
(19) However, although the specificity and intracellular localization of these enzymes in different tissues have been described perviously, there are only a few reports about their localization in the salivary gland, and the functional role of arylsulphatases in the physiological function of the salivary glands.
(20) When compared with pervious data (1) it is suggested that alcohol is differentiated from pentobarbital and diazepam on the basis of their interactional effects with bemegride.