(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.
Retroflex
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Retroflexed
Example Sentences:
(1) Bony anomalies encountered in the 'no neck' form of Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) are a wide, short, fused, bifid, retroflexed spinal canal; craniolacunia, cranium bifidum, and acrania.
(2) 8 of the 50 had a retroflexed uterus and 2 of those were displacement cases, suggesting that anomaly of position could be a predisposition for ectopia.
(3) Each subject, by means of computerized stabilometric platform, has been submitted to the sensitized test with head retroflexed.
(4) Most perforations occur at the time of insertion; insertion during the early postpartum period or during the period of lactational amenorrhoea, or in the case of an undiagnosed pregnant uterus or an acutely anteflexed or retroflexed uterus can be the cause.
(5) The head is not retroflexed, and the tongue is not supported by an endoscope as in direct laryngoscopy.
(6) During a period of 18 months with a history of chronic pelvic pain symptomatology (severe dysmenorrhea, severe dyspareunia, extramenstrual pain) retroverted or retroflexed uterus, and infertility were subjected to laparoscopy for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes as well.
(7) Prior ultrasound of this area was significantly limited by bowel loops anterior to the retroflexed uterine body and cervix, which were displaced cephalad out of the pelvic inlet and were not seen.
(8) This tracing technique labeled, in a Golgi-like manner, the neurons which initiate the fasciculi retroflexes and revealed details of their morphological pattern.
(9) This case report presents a full-term pregnancy in a retroflexed uterus.
(10) An insufficiently full bladder, a retroflex uterus, echoes caused by the intestine, and obesity made the ultrasonic scanning more difficult.
(11) The features of interest are sonorant, syllabic, consonantal, high, back, front, and retroflex.
(12) We describe a fetus with hydrocephalus and the cranial and cervical findings of iniencephaly (enlarged foramen magnum, fusion of the upper cervical vertebrae, and a retroflexed, webbed neck) who had an unusual palatal abnormality ("palatal anteversion").
(13) Finally, the retroflexed uterine position does not appear to increase the risk of abnormal outcomes.
(14) Two cases of retroflexed holoprosencephaly are presented.
(15) A tortuous retroflexed innominate artery can simulate a right apical mass.
(16) Secondary dysmenorrhea means pathological organic alterations of the genital tract: uterus myomatosus, endometrial polyps, endometriosis, and retroflexed uterus.
(17) The fetus remained fixed in the same position with the head retroflexed during each consecutive exam.
(18) Examination revealed a retroflexed uterus with the cervical opening pointing toward the anterior abdominal wall.
(19) The GIF-P2-prototype with four-way tip control and ability to retroflex 180 degree up, 60 degree down, and 100 degree right and left was superior to GIF-P1 and CF-P-prototype for visualization of the entire esophagus, stomach, duodenal bulb, and postbulbar area in patients less than 10 years old.
(20) The common phenotypic features of this syndrome include growth failure and mental or developmental retardation, hypotonia, persistent lanugo, distorted head, congenital glaucoma, short and upturned nose, prominent maxilla, micrognathia, short, webbed neck, short limbs, retroflexed third and fourth toes, cutaneous syndactyly of the second, third and fourth toes, and elevated galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase activity in the red blood cells.