(a.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anxiety conditions were measured by monitoring palmar skin resistance with a psychogalvanometer.
(2) In the 18 month-old a more mature grasp and forearm combination, mainly palmar grasp with or without stablizing index finger + overpronated forearm, was found.
(3) Bifid uvula, preauricular pits, and abnormal palmar creases were also slightly more common in the patients, but the differences were not statistically significant.
(4) Because of the compensatory collateral circulation, no permanent symptoms of ischaemia occur despite the partial resection of both palmar digital arteries.
(5) Painful palmar and plantar erythema is an uncommon systemic complication of chemotherapy and has been reported in association with methotrexate, cystosine arabinoside, doxorubicin, and 5-fluorouracil.
(6) As in previous studies, the sites predominantly affected were the foot and the hand, mainly on the plantar and palmar surfaces.
(7) No significant difference is observed when single localizations (dorsal or palmar) are considered.
(8) The palmar digital nerves to the thumb were constant in position and course, with a short lateral cutaneous branch from the radial palmar digital nerve in 30 per cent of cases.
(9) The diagnostic criteria of median nerve compression (carpal tunnel syndrome) include morphological and signal changes in the nerve, abnormal palmar convexity of the flexor retinaculum and signs of tenosynovitis of the intracarpal flexor tendons.
(10) A worrisome lesion in a 62-year-old black man prompted a review of the differential diagnosis of pigmented lesions involving palmar skin.
(11) The tendon is threaded through a hole in the distal phalanx from the dorsal to the palmar side and impacted like a cork to create an immediate strong fixation.
(12) The locomotor function tests included a power grip and two precision grips; dermatoglyphic features were represented by finger and palmar pattern intensities and ridge counts, and body structure by 35 head, face, trunk, and limb anthropometric measurements.
(13) Finger pulse amplitude (PA), finger blood content (BC), heart rate (HR), and palmar skin potential reflex (SPR) were recorded simultaneously.
(14) It is however restricted by its medial tendon which runs into the palmar aponeurosis.
(15) Evaluation of the palmar surface of the superficial digital flexor tendon was limited by the midline attachment of the tendon sheath, otherwise the surfaces of the tendons and tendon sheath could be examined with 25 degrees and 70 degrees arthroscopes.
(16) It is characterized by nodular growth and proliferation of collagen in the palmar and plantar fascias.
(17) Open reduction should be performed through a palmar incision.
(18) The clinical results suggest that BSTS is the technique of choice for one-stage transaxillary sympathectomy in the treatment of palmar hyperhidrosis.
(19) Iontophoresis is a suitable alternative to long-term drug therapy and should be offered to patients for the control of palmar hyperhidrosis prior to surgical intervention.
(20) The major sources of the sensory fibres of the palmar digital nerves appeared to be the ganglia of the C8 and T1 spinal segments which contained more than 90 per cent of all labelled neurons.
Wing
Definition:
(n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.
(n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
(n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.
(n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.
(n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.
(n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
(n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
(n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
(n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.
(n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
(n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
(n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
(n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.
(n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.
(n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.
(n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
(n.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.
(n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
(n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
(v. t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.
(v. t.) To supply with wings or sidepieces.
(v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
(v. t.) To move through in flight; to fly through.
(v. t.) To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
(2) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(3) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(4) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
(5) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
(6) Changes of mineral content in the approximal enamel of the teeth were determined in situ with quantitative bite-wing radiography.
(7) 'The right-wing bloc will now be able to unify around one leader,' said Robert Misik, a senior Austrian journalist and commentator.
(8) "The influence of private companies is getting ever bigger, and the right-wing government has been in favour of more privatisation."
(9) Jamat-ud Dawa, the social welfare wing of LeT, has been blacklisted in the wake of the Mumbai attacks although it continues to function.
(10) In terms of physiology and favourable maternal and foetal outcomes, the best age for childbearing is 20-35, but in my 20s I ran from any man who might clip my wings.
(11) The resection included the skin, globe, sphenoid wings, and orbitofrontal bone.
(12) Wing muscles were removed and examined histologically at various times after stretch.
(13) Dali Tambo [son of exiled ANC president Oliver] approached me to form a British wing of Artists Against Apartheid, and we did loads of concerts, leading up to a huge event on Clapham Common in 1986 that attracted a quarter of a million people.
(14) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
(15) Matteo Renzi, the Italian leader who has argued it would be a disaster if Britain left the EU, suggested defensiveness about freedom of movement led to nowhere apart from opening the door to “right-wing xenophobia and nationalism” in Europe .
(16) Exact comparisons of recovery of ocular tone (Maddox Wing test) between the anaesthetics were not possible as both Althesin and methohexitone rendered some patients incapable of taking the tests in the early post-operative period.
(17) So again, they did what they had to and should do.” Aakjaer’s Facebook account also contained other derogatory references to eastern Europeans, a message of support for the right-wing Dansk Folkeparti’s views about border control and a photograph of six pigs with a caption: “It’s time to deploy our secret weapons against Islamists.” When Aakjaer was contacted by the Guardian in January, he said that he was not “a racist at all”.
(18) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
(19) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(20) In Drosophila melanogaster new tester strains for the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in the wing were constructed with the aim of increasing the metabolic capacity to activate promutagens.