(a.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thereby the Fossula fenestrae rotundae is formed, which in bounded medially by the Membrana tympani secundaria.
(2) Expansive open-plan floors are once again linked with weaving flights of escalators, only here they are suspended precipitously through dramatic interlocking rotundas, which climb from the cavernous lending library terraces, up through floating rings of bookshelves, to the heavenly reaches of the light-flooded atrium above.
(3) Pityriasis rotunda has been described in Oriental and black patients, usually in association with certain serious systemic diseases.
(4) Biopsies were taken from the fundus uteri between the ligamenta rotunda and from the rectus abdominis muscle.
(5) The contributing elements to boundaries of the round window niche are superiorly the tegmen fossula fenestra rotunda (roof support), inferiorly the fustis (depth) and area concamerata, anteriorly the sustentaculum (support) and postis anterior (anterior pillar), and posteriorly the postis posterior (posterior pillar) and the subiculum (underlying supporting structure).
(6) In the cuneate nucleus, terminations from each digit formed an elongated column that was densely labelled in the central pars rotunda and sparsely labelled in both the rostral and caudal reticular poles.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Crumpled Guggenheim … inside the rotunda.
(8) By allocating infants to the currently used neonatal diagnostic related groupings (DRGs) and assigning costs at 1987 US reimbursement levels, the total cost to the Rotunda would be 1,878,750 pounds punts.
(9) Search for a fenestra ovalis sign due to pressure on the membrane of the fenestra rotunda may help to reveal a lesion of the annular ligament.
(10) When I got there it was just Steve in the big, empty rotunda of his house – there was no furniture – sitting behind a Bösendorfer (a particularly expensive make of piano).
(11) Within the pars rotunda, digits 1-5 were represented in order from lateral to medial.
(12) There is a rotunda decorated with Third Reich-esque golden statues; a monument to wartime partisans at a table on a plinth; and, of course, a Triumphal Arch, which the government listed as a “national treasure” as soon as it was constructed – all crammed into a space the size of one city square.
(13) Two triangular lobes jut into this space on either side, housing science and technology labs, their faceted forms giving it all the look of a crumpled New York Guggenheim rotunda .
(14) Afferents from the dorsal skin of the digits terminated in an even more dorsal position, while the most dorsal portion of the pars rotunda related to the glabrous and dorsal hand.
(15) Our patient appeared to have the second reported case of pityriasis rotunda in white persons.
(16) The processus recessus divides the perilymphatic foramen into fenestra rotunda and aquaeductus cochleae.
(17) Pityriasis rotunda is an uncommon cutaneous disorder consisting of asymptomatic, perfectly circular, scaling plaques on the trunk and extremities.
(18) Their examinations were performed on 15 guinea pigs (weighing 210-380 g.) after application of this medicine to the fenestra rotunda.
(19) The Rotunda, with its famous Dome Room and outside porticos, continues to receive critical acclaim for its architectural design.
(20) On the other hand, injections of the same tracers involving areas 3b, 1, and 2 cause anterograde labeling mainly within the core (pars rotunda of Ferraro and Barrera, '35, Arch.
Small
Definition:
(superl.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
(superl.) Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
(superl.) Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
(superl.) Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.
(superl.) Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.
(adv.) In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.
(adv.) Not loudly; faintly; timidly.
(n.) The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
(n.) Smallclothes.
(n.) Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
(v. t.) To make little or less.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(2) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(3) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
(4) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(5) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(6) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(7) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(8) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(9) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(10) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
(11) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
(12) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(13) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
(14) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(15) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(16) Only small amounts of 3H oleic acid were converted.
(17) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.
(18) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(19) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(20) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.