(n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
(n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.
(n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
(v. t.) To perceive by the taste.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(2) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
(3) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(4) Retrognathia or retrusion of the maxilla and mid-face is present in about one-third of treated cleft palate patients.
(5) Cleft palate was found in 98.1% of fetuses in the positive control group and none of them in the negative control group.
(6) An examination of 9720 Zagreb school children, 6-13 years of age, revealed submucous cleft palate (SMCP) in 5 and cleft uvula in 232.
(7) Adult ambulatory patients routinely self-administering potassium chloride solution rate the palatability and acceptance of each preparation.
(8) It was treated by the method of free autogenous gingival graft on the labial side and gingivectomy by flap on the palatal side.
(9) To clarify the mechanism by which retinoid causes cleft palate, we investigated the effect of retinoic acid (RA) on proliferation activity and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) synthesis in mouse fetuses palatal mesenchymal (MFPM) cells.
(10) Since d-fenfluramine failed to alter saccharin preference, it is unlikely that the slowed eating rate induced by this compound indicates a reduction in food palatability.
(11) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(12) An experimental study in the white rat (Sprague-Dawley) was undertaken to evaluate the frequency of fisula formation after palatal midline osteotomies as used in surgical-orthodontic "rapid-expansion" procedures.
(13) In addition to vocal cord paralysis on the laryngoscopy, videofluoroscopy confirmed diminished mobility of the soft palate.
(14) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
(15) Fifty per cent of the children with clefts of the palate and lip had deviated nasal septum producing nasal obstruction.
(16) At 0 hours only the hard palate in the experimental group had elevated, but at 2 and 4 hours almost half this group showed elevation of the soft palate as well, and, in addition, contact had been made between the elevated shelves.
(17) Palates from C3H mice were implanted onto prepared graft beds in histocompatible F1 hybrid mice.
(18) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.
(19) Four years on from that speech, his strategy is bearing fruit – in a less than palatable way.
(20) The classical form most commonly observed on the buccal, palatal and labial mucosa shows a fine lacework of white papules and lines.
Palmate
Definition:
(n.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.
(a.) Alt. of Palmated
Example Sentences:
(1) Palmatic acid uptake and oxygen consumption were significantly reduced (P less than 0.02) in adrenalectomized hearts.
(2) It is important to establish a diagnosis of subglottic stenosis associated with a palmation, since treatment and prognosis are very different from those of an isolated glottic palmation: all attempts at endoscopic treatment resulted in failure that intubation or tracheotomy was necessary in 7 cases.
(3) Morphologically, ginseng is a perennial herb with fleshy root, a single annual stem bearing a whorl of palmately compound leaves, and a terminal simple umbel of small 5-merous flowers.
(4) Both fascicular pinning as described by Appril and palmate pinning are inconvenient in that the pins can perforate the articular cartilage of the humeral head and provoke premature unpinning because of insufficient fixing in an osteoporotic bone.
(5) The 4-chlorobenzoate:coenzyme A ligase was found to be a homodimer (57-kDa subunit size), to require Mg2+ (Co2+ and Mn2+ are also activators) for activity, and to turn over MgATP (Km = 100 microM), coenzyme A (Km = 80 microM), and 4-chlorobenzoate (Km = 9 microM) at a rate of 30 s-1 at pH 7.5 and 25 degrees C. Benzoate, 4-bromobenzoate, 4-iodobenzoate, and 4-methylbenzoate were shown to be alternate substrates while 4-hydroxybenzoate, 4-aminobenzoate, 2-aminobenzoate, 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate, 4-coumarate, palmate, laurate, caproate, butyrate, and phenylacetate were not substrate active.
(6) Some sprouts form very large, palmate growth cones on the marginal surface, which in turn give rise to many branches that continue to grow either rostrally or caudally along the surface of the brain.
(7) Consistent and significant shifts from myristic and palmatic acids (in red marrow) to their respective monounsaturated derivatives myristoleic and palmitoleic acids (in yellow marrow) were found.
(8) Differences concern: i, substitution of phosphoryl groups by 4-amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinopyranose and phosphorylethanolamine in S. typhimurium with Col Ib plasmids; ii, the degree of acylation of hydroxyl groups of 3-hydroxytetradecanoic acid by myristic, lauric and palmatic acids; iii, presence of tridecanoic acid bound to hydroxyl of 3-hydroxy-tetradecanate residue in S. typhimurium with Col Ibdrd2 plasmid.
(9) The Golgi technique was used to study the morphology of spinal motoneurons at various stages in the early development of swimming behaviour in embryos and larvae of the palmate newt, Triturus helveticus ((Razoumowsky).
(10) Analysis of fatty acids in the triglycerides showed that almost all of the decanoate and the palmate were incorporated as intact molecules, while acetate yielded acids of varying chain lengths.
(11) We’re going to have to use every tool we can to repair the relationship we have.” Others, such as Pamela Palmater, who heads the centre for indigenous governance at Toronto’s Ryerson University, demand more.
(12) But we’re missing the biggest portion of the apology and it’s from the people who actually orchestrated it, which were representatives of the British crown.” Palmater’s call for an apology was the focus of a keynote address at the British Library in April to a gathering of British academics studying Canada.
(13) The Private Cannabis Club, with its palmate green leaves stencilled on the walls and the club's name etched on to smoked windowpanes, is at the vanguard of a new movement of pro-cannabis campaigners in Spain .