(n.) A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.
(n.) A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters.
(n.) The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients with fairly gross stenosis or occlusion of one ICA and stenosis of the intracranial part of the other ICA, phonography of the orbital area on the side of stenosis recorded high-frequency signals on the spectrogram, in the range from 300 to 1000 Hz.
(2) The author used the method of abdominal phonography to study the motor activity of the gastrointestinal tract after resection of the stomach for carcinoma and also to determine the degree of the effect of different stages of the operation and of its volume upon the motor function in 88 patients.
(3) The sistolic murmurs were classified in proto, meso or telesystolic and a good correlation was found with the phonography (method in 91.0% of cases).
(4) For diagnostic purposes the phonography findings should be evaluated within the complex of clinical, X-ray and laboratory findings, and data provided by other investigations.
(5) Phonography of the abdominal cavity has been applied in 115 patients before and after stomach resection.
(6) A 23-year-old man presented with prolonged postprandial epigastric pain and an epigastric bruit with systolic and diastolic components, the intensity of which decreased with inspiration as demonstrated by abdominal phonography.
(7) The phonography findings showed postoperative depression of gastrointestinal motor function in the most of cases within the first days after operation.
Photography
Definition:
(n.) The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.
(n.) The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(2) The whole film is primarily shown from the character's perspective, so 70% of the process involved working with the director of photography [Maxime Alexandre].
(3) The art Kennard produced formed the basis of his career, as he recounted later: “I studied as a painter, but after the events of 1968 I began to look for a form of expression that could bring art and politics together to a wider audience … I found that photography wasn’t as burdened with similar art historical associations.” The result was his STOP montage series.
(4) Brief encounters: Undressed at the V&A Read more But photography’s not the only no-no in this lineup of lingerie.
(5) And Slimane is nothing if not single-minded: everything bearing his name – from show invitations to photography books to his online diary uses the same Helvetica typeface.
(6) Using Scheimpflug photography (a modified SL 45 Topcon camera) instead of the transmission measurements of incubated lenses has the advantage that disorders in lens transparency can be exactly localized and the sensitivity is much higher than the photometer readings.
(7) The total resource cost per screen of screening using non-mydriatic photography is also estimated.
(8) It arrived at this number through a 2004-06 survey of tree canopy cover, carried out using aerial photography.
(9) As a nod to the me-centred world we live in, the exhibition will also feature the responses to an altogether more contemporary Mass Observation directive from 2012, intriguingly entitled Photography and You , which was specially commissioned for the Photographers' Gallery show.
(10) The crystalline lens findings were documented by both Scheimpflug and retroillumination photography.
(11) Retinopathy was documented by stereoscopic fundus photography.
(12) Endothelial specular photography during an attack reveals dramatic changes: large black nonreflecting areas between quite normal-looking hexagonal cells.
(13) In view of the equivalence of these methods, we would advocate, for reasons of ease of application and cost, the use of a single-color slit-lamp photograph with a 30 degree slit angle for documenting nuclear opacities, and the use of black-and-white retroillumination photography with either the Neitz or Oxford cataract cameras for cortical and posterior subcapsular opacities.
(14) Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) fluorescence photography, a technique of assessing myocardial ischemia, was correlated with ischemia as identified by ST segment mapping and electron microscopy (EM) in 25 Langdneorff perfused rabbit hearts following coronary occlusion.
(15) Foundas also praises Magic's photography, calling its "elegantly choreographed traveling master shots bathed in natural light" a key part of "one of his most beautifully made films."
(16) Photograph: Alan Davidson He then gives me a brilliant off-the-cuff lecture about how photography destroyed classical narrative paintings, leading to the formation of a new intellectual art elite that trades on abstracts, concepts and multiple meanings.
(17) The tour continued to the excellent Hector Pieterson memorial and museum and the Regina Mundi church, a rallying point during the struggle, now hosting a terrific photography exhibition.
(18) In may ways, I approached making the first photography book the way I had released records,” he says, “which was basically to go ahead and make the thing, package it, and then hope it sells somehow.
(19) The variation is caused largely by the inclination of the axonemes to the line of sight, but also by distortion occurring during the preparation, observation and photography of the sections.
(20) The question as to whether infrared photography can help determine the prognosis of hereditary macular degeneration cannot be answered simply in the affirmative or negative.