(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.
Settlement
Definition:
(n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
(n.) Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
(n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
(n.) The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
(n.) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
(n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
(n.) That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
(n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
(n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
(n.) That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary.
(n.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
(n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
(n.) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support.
Example Sentences:
(1) JPMorgan did not reveal the terms of the settlement.
(2) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
(3) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
(4) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
(5) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on.” The payment brings the total of fines imposed on JP Morgan to nearly $20bn in the past year.
(6) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(7) The filings do not contain any clues about the size of the settlement that the DoJ was hoping to reach with Barclays, although the bank is thought to have been prepared to pay up to $2bn (£1.6bn).
(8) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
(9) Obama will meet with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow as well, but US envoy George Mitchell has had no luck in recent weeks trying to persuade Netanyahu to compromise on the settlements.
(10) The environment is going to pay a high price for its settlement in the recent spending review."
(11) In the Commons on Monday , John Whittingdale, the culture secretary who only in February chaired the committee that concluded “No future licence fee negotiations must be conducted in the way of the 2010 settlement”, ducked the invitation to explain how exactly the same thing had just happened again.
(12) An additional 200,000 Jews live in settlements in East Jerusalem.
(13) "The priorities are public order, improved lives for the people of Libya and an inclusive, peaceful settlement led by the Libyan people."
(14) Further south is Ghadames, one of the most ancient settlements in north Africa , which Unesco calls “the pearl of the desert”.
(15) HIV-1 infection was 1.5 times more common in women than in men; 2.5% of the adult population in rural villages, 7.3% in roadside settlements and 11.8% in town were infected.
(16) In American football, however, more than 4,500 former NFL players sued their league for downplaying the dangers of concussion, and last year there was an out-of-court settlement for around £500m.
(17) Israel's illegal settlements are so entrenched that uprooting them to make way for a viable Palestinian state has become impossible.
(18) In fact, CFAs generally involve payment of a "success fee" on top of normal legal fees; the payment is not calculated as a proportion of the final settlement.
(19) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
(20) In 2004, the dispute settlement body , the "judicial branch" of the WTO, ruled that the US had to reform its cotton subsidies or face "retaliation" from Brazil.