(n.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc.
(n.) Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.
(v. t.) To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red.
Example Sentences:
(1) A rather unusual case of basal cell carcinoma of the labio-mental fold area is presented where it was possible to preserve the vermilion of the lower lip after wide excision.
(2) We feel that the myomucosal advancement flap is a valuable technique to overcome some of the problems in reconstruction of the vermilion after lip-shave.
(3) This article describes a one-stage technique to reconstruct up to one-third of the vermilion after full-thickness excision of the lips.
(4) Similar to previous cases in the literature this girl presented with proportionate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, normocephaly, triangular face with bulbous nose, long eyelashes, short upper lip, small vermilion border of upper lip, dorsally rotated ears, deep nuchal hair line, hirsutism, and clinodactyly of little fingers.
(5) Following removal of the hemangioma, the excessive mucosa-vermilion flap is reduced to form an accurate upper lip shape.
(6) The procedure consists in the excision of the vermilion epithelium with immediate repair of the lip by advancement of a flap of labial mucosa.
(7) A method is described to correct major vermilion defects by using a transverse, cross-lip, vermilion flap.
(8) Vermilion border and skin specimens of cattle, rats and humans were processed under standardized conditions for light microscopic observation.
(9) Two keratin-filled pseudocysts which developed in the excretory ducts of sebaceous glands in the vermilion border of the lower lip in an 86-year-old woman are described.
(10) Using discriminant analysis and controlling for race, the FAS face was characterized by landmark measurements which correspond to short palpebral fissure, scooping out of the nasal bridge and thin vermilion [F(4,71)-7.8, r sq-30%, p < .01].
(11) A bilateral tissue expanding flap is described for the reconstruction of the mid-vermilion border.
(12) Defects of the lips must be closed with exact alignment of the vermilion-cutaneous margins.
(13) Both girls had numerous telangiectases distributed over the upper limbs, trunk, face, and vermilion border of the lips.
(14) Philtrum length, philtrum shape, philtrum depth, nasolabial triangular area, vermilion thickness, Cupid's bow peak, horizontal upper lip groove, vermilion border, alar size, depth of alar groove, nasal deviation, nostril shape, nasal tip, columella height, sill shape, columella width, and facial balance of the anterior, profile, and caudal views are used as aesthetic checkpoints for the results of a cleft lip operation.
(15) The studies also revealed the lip elevator muscles and the "fold muscles" coursing down the lip to traverse the orbicularis oris and insert into the dermis of the upper lip, the cutaneous vermilion junction, and vermilion.
(16) This method consists of forming two equilaterally triangular mucosal flaps on the vermilion and a small triangular skin flap in the new position of the commissure and transposing these three flaps to reconstruct the commissure.
(17) A lateral lip orbicularis muscle flap with white skin roll and vermilion is recommended for reconstruction of the Cupid's bow.
(18) The pedicle is cut all around the vermilion leaving only a muscle cuff with the nutrient labial vessels.
(19) The combination of mucosal advancement flaps plus split vermilion grafts and full-thickness preauricular skin grafts are used and illustrated in two patients.
(20) This procedure is applicable only when adequate vermilion is available.
Vivid
Definition:
(a.) True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.
(a.) Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
Example Sentences:
(1) 156 subjects (students and working adults) completed Marks' Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire in one of two formats reflecting item order (blocked, random) under one of three instructional conditions (easy, neutral, difficult) reflecting ease of image formation.
(2) In contrast to height, however, a short term formula for values from birth to near pubescence cannot be applied due to the vivid head growth in the postnatal phase.
(3) Spontaneously recovered alcoholics reported experiencing vivid sensations and images at the time they decided to quit drinking, and they reported subsequent transformations of their personal identities.
(4) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(5) This summer, if all goes to plan, the metaphor will be vividly recast: the Globe's stage will itself become a world.
(6) Thank God, then, for The Execution Of Gary Glitter (Mon, 9pm, Channel 4), which vividly envisions the trial and subsequent capital punishment of pop's most reviled sex offender so you don't have to.
(7) Extremism outside Europe can also affect the continent, as the attacks in Paris so vividly illustrate.
(8) We present a series of four patients with the Charles Bonnet syndrome, which is characterized by recurrent vivid visual hallucinations in the presence of normal cognition and insight.
(9) He gives vivid accounts of the utter chaos of Gallipoli where he shelters under flimsy awnings in shallow holes in the ground, exhausted and starving.
(10) There were moments when Joe was so hurt and which he remembers so vividly.
(11) At such a juncture a writer can inject their own imagination to isolate them from the real world or maybe they can exaggerate the situation – making sure it is bold, vivid and has the signature of our real world.
(12) It was a vivid green morning, the air muggy and sad.
(13) Individuals with frequent nightmares scored higher on hypnotizability, vividness of visual imagery, and absorption.
(14) Although it indicates that there is no disturbance in the vividness of volitional mental imagery in schizophrenia, the presence of abnormal spontaneous imagery cannot be commented upon.
(15) Separate item pools were developed to measure each disposition: Trance, Nonconscious Involvement, Archaic Involvement, Drowsiness, Relaxation, Vividness of Imagery, Absorption, and Access to the Unconscious.
(16) It was an obvious inclusion, says Linehan, because it encapsulated the essence of Vivid Music.
(17) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
(18) In this report, a technique is described that evokes a vivid percept of motion of a textured pattern only at isoluminance.
(19) Congestion and vivid reddening of the caecum and marked serosal and submucosal oedema are present.
(20) A detailed conformation analysis vividly demonstrated that the difference in conformational possibilities is manly determined by different conditions of realization of residual interactions.