(n.) A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an ephah. See Ephah.
Example Sentences:
(1) It made perfect sense to use to spread those kinds of features and hardware around the wrist instead of throwing them all into one thick lump under the screen on top of your wrist,” said Omer El Fakir, industrial designer of Blocks.
(2) They chose only to lift the subsidies, leaving other major items untouched – for example, the majority of the budget is still directed to the war,” said Omer al-Digair, chairman of the Sudanese Congress Party.
(3) Groups of children from 5 different places of residency were tested: (1) urban children from the city of Beer-Sheva; (2) children from Omer, a suburb of the city; (3) children from rural communes ("kibbutz"); (4) children from small agricultural settlements ("moshav"); and (5) seminomadic bedouin children.
(4) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Leigh Daynes, executive director of Doctors of the World UK, said he had encountered 10-year-old Syrian boys living in a ditch at the edge of a farmer’s field outside Saint Omer.
(5) The uncle of the Deghayes boys, Omer, was also linked to LIFG, an outlawed group that the US state department says has links with al-Qaida.
(6) The Authors describe history, etiopatogenesis, clinic, therapy of omeral epicondilitis, very frequent affection.
(7) Omer el-Hamdoon, president of the Muslim Association of Britain, said: “My reaction to the cartoon is disgust, but tending more to annoyance as well because I feel that what’s happening here is not that different from what we witnessed back in 2005 with the Danish cartoons when media outlets went into a cycle of just publishing the cartoons just to show defiance.
(8) At about that time, Beattyville’s police chief, Omer Noe, and the Lee County sheriff, Johnny Mann, were jailed for taking bribes to protect drug smugglers.
(9) How Twitter reacted to Nadiya's Great British Bake Off victory Read more Her victory “demonstrated the inclusivity of British Muslims in society”, according to Dr Omer El-Hamdoon, president of the Muslim Association of Britain.
(10) The flames went all the way up to the sky,” said Omer Yilmaz, who works as a cleaner at the nearby Dolmabahce mosque, directly across the road from the stadium.
(11) Another 12 people were killed in an ambush involving a roadside bomb in Sangin district in Helmand province, also in the south, on Friday evening, said Omer Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
(12) Mehreen Omer (@mehreen_omer) @MohammadFarooq_ The current Education Spend to GDP ratio in #Pakistan is hardly 2%, which is one of the lowest in the world!
(13) "We do not have any formal information," spokesman Waheed Omer told the Guardian today.
(14) Zlatan Ibrahimovic says PSG owners will ‘hunt down Champions League’ Read more And in ‘throw enough of it at the wall’ news, United are also set to decimate Bayer Leverkusen by swooping for the defender Omer Toprak , the midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu and the striker Karim Bellarabi .
(15) Omer Simjee, Employment partner at Irwin Mitchell said: “This is a significant ruling and although being ‘fat’ is not enough in itself to be considered disabled, it could if it restricts an individual’s ability to actively and fully engage in their work.
(16) Doa’a Kutbi Omer, public health officer, International Medical Corps, Attouahi, Aden “Snipers had already taken up positions in the neighbourhood and the area was besieged.
(17) Three policemen were killed and four badly wounded in a 20 minute firefight, according to Omer Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
(18) We put all of the bodies in pickups and brought them to Omer Ben Al-Khattab mosque in Jdaidet Artouz.
(19) Omer would be detained at Guantánamo Bay from 2002-2007 and interrogated over “general-to-specific information on LIFG personalities and activities” within the UK.
(20) The Rockets had been planning to make a free-agency push, clearling up the cap space beforehand by sending Jeremy Lin to the Lakers and shipping off backup center Omer Asik to the New Orleans Pelicans.
Vomer
Definition:
(n.) A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
(n.) The pygostyle.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of brown-tumor of the vomer in a 21-year-old woman is described.
(2) Growth between the vomer and premaxilla was recorded in every case, with growth being especially marked during the first year of life.
(3) We report a three-year-old boy who presented with an oral chord-like structure that extended from the base of the tongue up to the posterior part of the vomer.
(4) A posteriorly based readily accessible vomer flap is raised on the cleft side and used as nasal lining for the palatal mucoperiosteal flap on the non-cleft side.
(5) The surgical intervention led to the following complications: 1) deformation of the nasal septum in the vestibule area (11 patients); 2) perforation of the nasal septum of atrophic origin (15 patients); 3) saddle-like deformation of external nose (7 patients); 4) vibration of the nasal septum which occurred in most patients after total resection of the cartilage and vomer.
(6) Given that the septum plays a fundamental role in the projection of the nasomaxilliary complex, it is clear that certain surgical rules must be applied: the perichondrium must be left intact, no wide cartilaginous resections must be made, the areas of contact between the septum, the vomer, and the perpendicular lamina of the ethmoid must be reconstituted, and finally, the remodeled cartilage must be repositioned.
(7) Antero-posterior retardation of upper jaw growth became evident in all five dogs with surgically placed clefts and extirpation of the vomer within 8 weeks following surgery.
(8) The photoelasticimetric procedure and pressure load to the model were used for the determination of possible pressure tensions, if any, occurring during mastification, namely the share of the vomer in the transfer of these tensions to the base of the cranium.
(9) Removal of the vomer is an essential part of this procedure in order to open and enlarge the choanae.
(10) The vomer was resected via a palatal flap in four 42-day-old beagle pups; four unoperated dogs served as controls.
(11) Radiographically, the frontal and nasal bones dorsally and the vomer and palatine process of the incisive bone ventrally do not completely obscure the nasal septum and its covering mucous membrane.
(12) This modality defines the full anatomic abnormality of bony choanal atresia: medial bowing and thickening of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity, enlargement of the vomer, and fusion of these elements.
(13) Histological serial sections of 6 postmortem nasal cavities showed that the high laminae of the vomer prevent any caudal dislocation of the septal cartilage.
(14) Therapeutic factors associated with good outcomes were the employment of a vomer flap to close the anterior palate, and poor outcomes with primary bone grafting and with active presurgical orthopedics.
(15) Findings on CT included: thickening of the vomer, bowing of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity and fusion of bony elements in the choanal region.
(16) The growth pattern implied that a forward, downward sliding of the vomer must take place in relation to the ethmoid bone and the cartilaginous septum.
(17) The author's original approach to the early repair of cleft palate which consists in the use of the extended vomer flap is presented.
(18) Dimensions of certain parts of the orofacial skeleton and vomer were obtained by a bioanthropologic measurement for which native preparations of whole and parasagitally sawed up skulls were used.
(19) Microscopic examination of the healing wound showed granulation tissue and contractile fibroblasts, which were more numerous at the premaxilla-vomer suture than at the posterior site.
(20) The sample consisted of 51 patients and 22 of them had undergone surgical treatment which included vomer flap and pushback palatal repair, while the remaining 29 patients were treated with a routine characterized by delayed closure of the hard palate.