(a.) ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.
(a.) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.
(a.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant.
(n.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(2) consider the X-ray findings verified in 3 groups of subjects: with Hayfiber, with perennial rhinitis and the last one being a control group.
(3) Eleven children with severe perennial asthma and a poor clinical response to disodium cromoglycate were studied in a 4-month, double blind trial involving 1 month's treatment with placebo, disodium cromoglycate, betamethasone 17 valerate, and both drugs combined according to a predetermined random design.
(4) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
(5) In this study, the authors evaluate the inhalant substances of the house, emphasizing the importance of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus to cause perennial allergic rhinitis.
(6) A panel of human CD4+ T cell clones specific for the house dust mite was isolated from an atopic individual with perennial rhinitis.
(7) Patients who had both perennial symptoms and summer seasonal exacerbations had a higher incidence of a positive family history of atopy and developed symptoms earlier in life than those patients who had summer seasonal or perennial symptoms only.
(8) Patients with perennial rhinitis had a more vigorous response than the controls.
(9) The immediate changes in regional ventilation and pulmonary blood flow were studied in seventeen adults with perennial asthma and in two control persons, who were challenged by histamine inhalation (histamine induced asthma (HIA)).
(10) Twenty-eight patients with allergic perennial rhinitis treated for 2 years with parenteral semidepot immunotherapy were divided into two groups of 14 patients: group A receiving conventional aerosol nebulization (TNE), and group B, which received TNAI using a type F aerosol electrocompressor.
(11) We have something to say and something to offer on perennial political dilemmas.
(12) Specificity was 87% for pollens and 90% for perennial antigens.
(13) Overnight, Russia has moved from perennial rival to trusted friend, while Nato’s future is in peril.
(14) More males than females had summer seasonal symptoms whereas more females than males had perennial symptoms.
(15) The old-fashioned dining room, unpretentious atmosphere, and the three-course menus under €30 make it a perennial favourite.
(16) But Howitt says that while it is a problem that so much farmland has shifted from more adjustable crops to perennials like almonds, he has a simpler solution: better management of groundwater.
(17) They are the identification of factors causing severe disease as opposed to heavy infection; the effects of seasonal as opposed to perennial transmission; and the importance of transplacental transmission of microfilariae or soluble antigens.
(18) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
(19) It seems that perennial rhinitis probably arises from abundance of domestic antigens more than for the other allergic manifestations, as the nose is the first filter to receive foreign particles.
(20) However, PAC differed from SAC in several respects: a history of exacerbation on exposure to house dust (PAC 42 per cent; SAC none) and an association with perennial rhinitis (PAC 75 per cent; SAC 12 per cent) were more common in PAC.
Ramie
Definition:
(n.) The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(2) The Rami ureterodeferentiales craniales were spread out from A. testicularis or Rami epididymales.
(3) Electrical responses to stimulation of different areas of the cingulate gyrus were studied in L2-L3 white rami in anesthetized and immobilized cats.
(4) The present study focusses on the number of sensory axons in the midthoracic rami communicantes in the cat.
(5) Harold Ramis, who helped catch phantoms in Ghostbusters and directed Bill Murray to glory in Groundhog Day , has died at the age of 69.
(6) The ansae subclaviae, T3 and T4 rami, and stellate ganglion were also examined by electron microscopy for the extent of Wallerian degeneration.
(7) Ramis enjoyed another box office hit in with the 1999 Mafia comedy Analyse This, starring Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro.
(8) Dense adhesions were found fixing the rami musculares to the surfaces of the triceps muscle.
(9) According to the theory as mentioned, satisfactory effects of 1108(87.73%) of 1263 treated by freezing the posterior spinal rami at the primary site have been obtained.
(10) A maxillofacial examination, however, showed a total loss of the mandibular condyles, short rami and bodies, and a retrusion of the jaw.
(11) Sympathetic discharges, recorded from upper thoracic preganglionic white rami, were evoked by stimulation (0.1 Hz) of descending excitatory pathways in the cervical dorsolateral funiculus (intraspinal) or of adjacent intercostal nerves (spinal reflex).
(12) Feathered hair sensilla fringe both rami of the lobster (Homarus americanus) swimmeret.
(13) Born in Chicago, Ramis worked as a teacher and journalist before teaming up with comedians John Belushi and Bill Murray for the wildly successful National Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973.
(14) Harold Ramis, who played Egon Spengler in the original Ghostbusters films, died in February last year.
(15) Pulis had wanted to do all his business early and has cut a frustrated figure with reinforcements far from forthcoming, but there should be a flurry of deals completed today: Wayne Hennessey has undertaken a medical and should complete a £3m move from Wolverhampton Wanderers; Celtic have accepted a bid of around £800,000 for Joe Ledley , who is out of contract in the summer and also undertaking medical tests; Ivan Ramis spent Thursday at Palace's Copers Cope training ground and may arrive from Wigan Athletic, his move hinging upon the extent of cruciate knee ligament damage from earlier in his career; the Blackburn centre-back Scott Dann is in Beckenham to talk terms over a proposed switch from Ewood Park.
(16) The long-circuited reflex elicited in renal nerves and the spinally mediated reflex discharge produced in white rami by single shock stimulation of intercostal nerves were inhibited by stimulation within the sympatho-inhibitory areas of the medulla.4.
(17) The trapezius muscle of Mustelus sharks, in contrast with that of human beings, was found to be supplied solely by rami accessorii--subbranches of the truncus intestino-accessorius of the vagus nerve; no evidence indicating the direct contribution of the spinal nerves to the innervation of the trapezius were obtained.
(18) At the other end Schmeichel blocked Vitolo and Adil Rami’s header hit the bar.
(19) • Harold Allen Ramis, actor and director, born 21 November 1944; died 24 February 2014
(20) A segment is defined as that part of the sympathetic trunk which is connected via its rami communicantes with one spinal nerve, without discriminating between grey and white rami.