(comp.) Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature.
(n.) The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(2) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(3) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(4) In seven girls with early adrenarche, plasma concentrations of DHEA were in the upper range of normal values, whereas T levels were within the normal range.
(5) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(6) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
(7) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
(8) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(9) A good understanding of upper gastrointestinal physiology is required to properly understand the pathophysiological events in various diseases or after operations on the upper gastrointestinal tract.
(10) About tow amyloid tumors diagnosed because of oropharyngeous signs, the authors remind the main symptoms at the upper airway and ENT tracts; the local, regional and general treatment will be discussed.
(11) On the other hand, the patients treated with cimetidine showed a marked, systematic increase in theophylline plasma levels, even exceeding the upper limit of its known therapeutic range in 4 cases.
(12) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.
(13) Lateral upper and lower lid lysis allows the needed extended period of healing.
(14) Finally, these cases support the existence of a therapeutic upper limit for desipramine plasma concentrations, above which clinical deterioration occurs.
(15) The authors recently observed 2 elderly female patients with ischemic pain of the upper extremity as the first manifestation of giant cell arteritis.
(16) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(17) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
(18) Though the problems associated with Robin sequence may be numerous, especially if the primary cause of the sequence is a multiple anomaly syndrome, the most acute problems in affected newborns is upper airway obstruction.
(19) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(20) A total of 38 patients underwent attempted percutaneous extraction of upper tract calculi with the Wolf nephroscope.
Welt
Definition:
(n.) That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
(n.) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.
(n.) A hem, border, or fringe.
(n.) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
(n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
(n.) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
(n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
(n.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
(v. t.) To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
(v. t.) To wilt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight patients with dermal exposure had irritation ranging from erythema to welts, which resolved after thorough soap and water decontamination.
(2) Those very arsonists who spread exclusion and intolerance are now projecting an image of themselves as the upright citizens.” The head of the German police trade union Rainer Wendt told Die Welt that he feared the event, which last week drew 18,000 supporters, had itself become a possible magnet for terrorists.
(3) In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy.” 'In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy' Die Welt deputy editor Ulf Poschardt The rhetoric may be overblown, but the remarkable fact is that Berlin will ultimately not further develop a hugely valuable piece of real estate, all because the people decided they didn’t trust big business not to mess up the park they loved.
(4) Die Welt are lucky to be part of Axel Springer, Europe's largest newspaper publisher whose portfolio also contains Bild, still the world's bestselling non-Asian newspaper and the Germany's most successful news website: pressure on Die Welt to make a profit is relatively low, so they have the luxury to experiment with new models that may later be rolled out elsewhere.
(5) After weeks of open criticism, Die Welt also heaped praise on the German coaching team’s tactical flexibility.
(6) A sk Becky Hope if she ever feels shocked by what she sees in her work in child protection – the welts on backs, broken limbs, the maggots in cots – and she seems nonplussed.
(7) Stark , who surprisingly quit the Board almost a year ago , wrote in Die Welt today that the ECB has been pushed to the brink of abandoning its mandate to control inflation: The political pressure on the central bank is massive... Monetary policy must not be conditional.
(8) Major loci affecting the difference between the fast and the slow remating speed map to the right arm of chromosome II to the right of welt (wt).
(9) In Paris, as their counterparts at Die Welt were planning their own pages, journalists at the offices of France Soir, an ailing tabloid based in an industrial estate in the north ofthe city, were also deciding that the cartoons should be published - for somewhat different reasons.
(10) When one German language school in Istanbul was forced to cancel its festivities, the daily Die Welt responded with a caricature of Erdoğan on its front page as the Grinch who stole Christmas.
(11) In his interview with Welt am Sonntag, Hammond also emphasised that restricting immigration would be the British government’s priority during negotiations.
(12) Theresa May says rise in Europeans moving to UK likely before a Brexit Read more Volker Bouffier, premier of the German state of Hesse – home to Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt – told the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that “quite a number of Brits” were currently applying for German citizenship.
(13) One principle-ist, the former parliamentary speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, recently told Die Welt, the German newspaper, that Iran needed "more national manufacturing, and a change in people's lifestyle".
(14) Cousin spots Beasley one-on-one with Anderson and welts the ball forward towards him.
(15) In the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Henryk M Broder said of Roche: "She does what she wants without worrying what Simone de Beauvoir or Andrea Dworkin would say about it."
(16) I don’t think its a good idea to dilute the sporting value,” the 2014-World Cup-winning coach told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper in an interview on Sunday.
(17) Martin Schulz told Die Welt: “We must try to avoid this, because the consequences would be dramatic.
(18) But according to Die Welt, some of the leaked documents were part of the communication between the office of the chancellor, Angela Merkel, and that of the president of BND, while others contained an overview of BND locations around the world – which might hint at a more general spying strategy rather than a targeted operation.
(19) According to Die Welt newspaper, the staffer being investigated is a soldier who had caught the attention of the German military counter-intelligence service after establishing regular contact with people thought to be working for a US secret agency.
(20) But she stepped back from the company at the end of last year, telling Die Welt in an interview that “combining politics on a national, state and local level with family and the company is simply not possible.