(a.) Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures.
(a.) Palatal; palatine.
(n.) A palatal letter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tensor palati muscle is divisible into four functional units: (1) anterior part, vertical fibers; (2) middle part, oblique fibers; (3) posterior part, horizontal fibers; and (4) posterior-most part, osseous origin.
(2) Director Charles Ferguson made his debut with No End in Sight, which spotlighted the US occupation of Iraq; with Inside Job, he identifies a different kind of crime scene, buttonholing the culprits in their palatial boardrooms and forcing them to confess.
(3) Far better then, for the movie, to give Roper a billionaire’s island in the sun with a palatial Gatsby -style villa at its centre and a sprinkling of cottages for his underlings and protectors.
(4) It’s a unique place.” It may say something about Bradford’s straitened circumstances that, whereas some city leaders hold court from palatial offices, the leader of Bradford district council’s HQ is comically modest.
(5) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
(6) The peculiar absence of the medial cartilaginous lamina near the isthmus is attributed to the following: (1) freedom of movement of cartilaginous tube; (2) better anchorage of tubal cartilage passively by levator palati; (3) "kinking" of canal; and (4) compression of the lumen.
(7) Rhodes did say that co-ordinating military support for the Syrian opposition movement would be a central part of discussions at the king’s palatial desert camp, Rawdat Khuraim – and hinted that Washington had already stepped up its work in Syria, a move that has reassured the Saudis.
(8) At the divisional courthouse, a palatial complex of octagonal towers and Florentine domes originally built as the accounting office of British Burma, the windows have blown out and vegetation sprouts from every nook, yet inside the decaying shell, the courts continue to press on.
(9) The pair bought a palatial home overlooking Regent's Park and Schaffer concentrated on family life and her triplet daughters, Amber, Madison and Daisy.
(10) An experimental study of the modus operandi of tensor and levator palati muscles over the Eustachian tube was conducted in two dogs.
(11) Lord Cobham built the New Inn in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary front garden at his palatial home at Stowe: 250 acres studded with temples, columns, arches, obelisks, cascades, grottoes, and lakes.
(12) The morphological relationship between the musculus uvulae and levator palati muscles and their importance in velopharyngeal closure was studied in cadavers by simulation of levator action, palate serial section and dissection, and in various subjects by nerve stimulation and blockade.
(13) The insubordinate, dandyish Lieutenant TE Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is in the palatial Cairo offices of the Arab Bureau's Mr Dryden (Claude Rains) to discuss secondment with the Bedouin.
(14) His homes in Johannesburg and his ancestral village of Qunu are grand by local standards but hardly palatial.
(15) Looking relaxed in rolled-up shirt sleeves in his palatial Carlton House Terrace office, with sweeping views across St James's Park to Whitehall and the London Eye, Nurse added that combining Pfizer's £40bn cash pile (which it has built up from overseas profits and wants to spend abroad rather than see it taxed in the US ) with AstraZeneca's pipeline of potentially groundbreaking drugs could produce real benefits and open doors all over the world.
(16) Yanukovych is accused of illegally appropriating a giant estate outside Kiev and building a palatial complex.
(17) The prevalences for leukoplakia, preleukoplakia and leukokeratosis nicotina palati were 4·9%, 2·9% and 9·5%.
(18) A five-star hotel has just been completed, while a new elite is building palatial houses with satellite dishes, pools and high-security walls.
(19) A new technique for the treatment of bilateral palatal palsy involves the submucosal transposition of the tensor palati muscles of both sides to form an active muscular sling for the elevation of the paralyzed soft palate.
(20) Three days after the Saturday Night Live taping we are at a private party that Prince is hosting at his palatial Beverly Hills home to launch 3121 .
Palatine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
(n.) One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.
(n.) The Palatine hill in Rome.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the palate.
(n.) A palatine bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most often, constrictor fibres follow the course of the pterygo-palatine nerve, when dilator fibres follow the infraorbital nerve.
(2) In the mouse, Meissner corpuscles, glomerular corpuscles, and Merkel cell nerve endings were seen in every palatine ruga, though the first antemolar ruga also contained simple and atypical lamellated corpuscles.
(3) If the abnormal sensation, such as a lump or choking, in the throat was mainly caused by inflammatory changes in the palatine tonsils or their surrounding tissues and conveyed via vagal nerve branches distributing there, the sensation might be reduced by topically injected Impletol (Procaine and caffeine in saline solution), i.e.
(4) The purpose of tonsillectomy is the complete removal of the palatine tonsils with minimal blood loss while avoiding unnecessary trauma to adjacent tissue.
(5) For the purpose of ascertaining the peculiarities of cellular differentiation of lymphoid cells of the palatine tonsils experiments were conducted on rabbits immunized intravenously and subcutaneously with streptococcus and paratyphoid B antigens; a study was made (in the blast-transformation reaction) of a comparative response of the lymphocytes of the palatine tonsils, the thymus, the spleen, the appendix and the regional lymph node.
(6) A study was made of the production of a blastogenic factor and lymphotoxin in the cultures of lymphocytes of the palatine tonsils removed from patients with chronic tonsillitis; the activity of this blastogenic factor and lymphotoxin was studied in the test-cultures of autologous and allogenic lymphocytes and the transplantable HeLa cells.
(7) She also has no serious rivals in the CDU, which still emerged as the biggest party in Baden-Württemberg and made small gains in a separate vote in neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate.
(8) The teeth were loaded up to breaking at their palatinal crown surfaces.
(9) As for specimens of total 118 tonsils, 52 palatine tonsils obtained at autopsy and 66 palatine tonsils obtained by tonsillectomy from patients with the diagnosis of chronic tonsillitis were used.
(10) The activity and isoenzyme profile of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), alkaline and acid phosphatase were studied in tumors of the tongue, cheek, oral floor, soft palate and palatine tonsils (n = 100), leukoplakia (n = 7) and in the oral mucosa at corresponding sites in healthy subjects (n = 66), to develop tests for early detection, monitoring and prognosis of oral cancer.
(11) The palatine fibromucosa is not the same throughout the various regions of the palatine vault and its role differs in maxillary growth.
(12) Similar distribution patterns also were observed in palatine rugae that had received mechanical stimulus during fixation.
(13) The results obtained in the present study suggest that prostaglandins may play an important role in normal differentiation of the developing palatine region.
(14) In light of the following findings the authors conclude that toxoplasme tonsillitis did not occur in their series: toxoplasma antibodies failed to be increased; their titers in seropositive children were low; toxoplasma was not isolated from tonsillar tissue; no direct microscopic evidence of the parasite could be established in smears of cell aspirate from lymph nodes regional to the palatine tonsils; the same smears failed to present the cytopathologic picture characteristic of nodal toxoplasmosis.
(15) Cortisone also reduces fetal muscular movements, which may explain why displacement of the tongue from between the palatine shelves is delayed.
(16) Cell suspensions of human bone marrow, spleen, lymph nodes and palatine tonsils have been investigated for the presence of intracellular immunoglobulins by a direct immunofluorescence technique, using monospecific antisera against human Ig heavy chains alpha, mu and gamma and light chains kappa and lambda.
(17) From these findings, it is concluded that the lingual tonsil transiently responds to aging from the first to the 2nd decade, when the pharyngeal and palatine tonsils have dominant functions, and becomes active from the 4th to 5th decades, followed by a decrease in function after the 6th decade though its activity persists in elderly individuals.
(18) The distance of the foveola palatina from the papilla incisiva and palatinal raphe was measured.
(19) We describe a method for determining the nickel content of small tissue samples by flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry in this case biopsy specimens from human palatine tonsils.
(20) This study compares the effects of a pulsed laser and a continuous laser on freshly removed human palatine tonsils and skeletal muscle tissue.