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VELUM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language VELUM, also soft palate . The soft part of the roof of the mouth, behind the hard palate . There are two adjectives: velar , for the velum itself and sounds made by raising the back of the tongue towards the velum; velaric , referring to a stream of air. See ARTICULATION SPEECH.
SPEECH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...raising the back of the tongue towards the VELUM . It is thus both bilabial and velar...are several types of approximant. The velum is normally raised to prevent air from...the nose: a NASAL is produced with the velum lowered. The airstream normally passes...
NASAL
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...through the nose. When a nasal consonant is produced, the velum is lowered to allow air to pass out through nose as well as...of LONDON English. It is the consequence of a setting of the VELUM which causes a degree of nasal resonance greater than the user...
PALATE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...ALVEOLAR ridge, often described as having two parts: the hard palate (the roof of the mouth proper) and the soft palate (the VELUM ). The adjective palatal is used to describe sounds made by raising the front of the tongue towards the hard palate. See CONSONANT...
UVULA
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language UVULA. The anatomical term for the soft, fleshy protuberance at the back of the mouth, hanging down from the velum. The adjective uvular describes sounds made by raising and retracting the tongue towards the uvula: for example, the uvular...
TONGUE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...in a state of rest, and sounds made with the front are palatal . The back of the tongue lies opposite the soft palate or velum when the tongue is in a state of rest, and sounds made with the back include velar consonants and back vowels .
CONSONANT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...described as a ‘voiceless velar plosive’, where voiceless refers to the state of the glottis, velar to the velum as the place of articulation, and plosive to the manner of articulation (the release of a blocked stream of air). The consonant...
R
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...by r. It may be articulated with the tongue against the alveolar ridge (upper tooth ridge) or with the uvula against the velum (soft palate) at the back of the mouth. The breath is made to pass over the tongue or uvula in such a way that the organ...
speech
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...that gives rise to the acoustic properties of speech. The major speech articulators are the lips, jaw , the body, tip and velum of the tongue , and the hyoid bone position (which sets larynx height and pharynx width). The configuration of the speech...
GUTTURAL
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...criticisms of my own education,” he said in his slow guttural, uncompromised by 50 years of living and working in the USA’ (referring to Bruno Bettelheim, Observer , 6 Sept. 1987). See BURR , PHARYNX , UVULA , VELUM .

Dictionary entries related to "Velum"

velum
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology velum From the Latin velum , ‘ship's sail’. 1. In Mollusca , the ciliated lobe possessed by the veliger larva.2. In most hydroid medusae ( Cnidaria ), a ridge or narrow shelf inside the border of the sub-umbrellar...
velar
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology velar A. (archit.) resembling a sail XVIII; B. pert. to the velum XIX. — L. vēlāris , f. vēlum curtain; see VELUM , -AR .
veliger
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology ...scientists believe torsion developed as a larval defensive mechanism, the twisting through 180° enabling the larva to withdraw its head and velum into the protective shell with the opening guarded by an operculum on the end of the foot).
vela
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ve·la / ˈvēlə / • plural form of velum .
Scyphomedusae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology Scyphomedusae (phylum Cnidaria , class Scyphozoa ) A subclass of medusoid (see MEDUSA ) cnidarians whose members lack a velum and have a coelenteron partly divided by four interradial endodermal septa . They are first known from Cambrian rocks.
annulus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology annulus 1. (in botany) a. A ragged ring of tissue that remains on the stalk of a mushroom or toadstool. Also called a velum , it is formed from the ruptured membrane that originally covered the lower surface of the cap. b. The region of the wall...
Ghisi, Martino
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...mainly centered on the clinical framework of the illness. He described in particular detail the diphtheric paralysis of the velum palatinum and the tumefaction of the submaxillary glands. Ghisi was also interested in examining and describing the diphtheric...

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cloud
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...perlucidus radiatus translucidas undulatus vertebratus Accessory Clouds scud cloud/pannus cap cloud/pileus veil cloud/velum Stratospheric Clouds mother-of-pearl/nacreous luminous/noctilucent Other Types and Features anabatic anvil/incus arch...

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Vertical transmission of chemoautotrophic symbionts in the bivalve Solemya velum (bivalvia: protobranchia).
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...symbiont transfer in the chemoautotrophic bivalve Solemya velum. S. velum lives in shallow-water sediments from Nova Scotia to...Lutz, 1992), however, has made it clear that S. velum is different from other hosts in which reproduction and...
Embryonic velar structure and function of two sibling species of Crepidula with different modes of development.
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...feeding and swimming in gastropod larvae is the velum. In planktotrophic larvae, the velum is normally a pair of large flat lobes of tissue...and Pechenik, 2000). In swimming larvae, the velum is lost at metamorphosis. Those species with...
Response to "velopharyngeal dysfunction: speech characteristics, variable etiologies, evaluation techniques, and differential treatments" by Dworkin, Marunick, and Krouse, October 2004.(Letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Language, Speech, & Hearing Services in Schools; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...primary cause of VPD after palate repair is a velum that is too short or that lacks adequate...mentioned, including "tethering of the velum [italics added] during maxillary advancement...Maxillary advancement does not cause the velum to be tethered. Also, maxillary advancement...
Avoiding perils and pitfalls in velocardiofacial syndrome: an otolaryngologist's perspective. (Original Article).
Magazine article from: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...a global decrease in the motion of the velum and lateral pharyngeal walls with speech...superiorly to the adenoid pad. The nasal velum was flat in appearance, and diastasis...articulation as well as poor movement of the velum and lateral pharyngeal walls. Magnetic...
Anatomy and physiology of normal speech resonance balance.(Letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Language, Speech, & Hearing Services in Schools; 7/1/2006; 700+ words ; ...The four "complications" (stiffening of the velum, tethering of the velum following maxillary advancement, inherent weakness...cleft palate and VPD. Indeed, tethering of the velum secondary to maxillary advancement does not occur...
Possible roles of sulfur-containing amino acids in a chemoautotrophic bacterium-mollusc symbiosis.
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...chemoautotrophy. To detoxify sulfide, Solemya velum and S. reidi, two well-studied species...by their symbionts. For example, S. velum has two types of cytoplasmic hemoglobins...may be involved in sulfur cycling in S. velum (Conway and McDowell Capuzzo, 1992...
Sources of energy for increased metabolic demand during metamorphosis of the abalone Haliotis rufescens (Mollusca).
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...During this time, they lose their velum, develop enlarged gills and foot, and...morphological attributes (e.g., presence of velum). Live animals were observed under dissecting...swimming veliger competent to settle, has velum, branched cephalic tentacles, eyes...
Isoetes araucaniana, a new species from southern South America.(Report)
Magazine article from: American Fern Journal; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...having reticulate megaspores, an incomplete velum, and essentially laevigate microspores...longum, 2.0-5.0 mm latum, basale. Velum incompletum. Ligula lanceolata, auriculata...long, 2.0-5.0 mm wide, basal. Velum incomplete, occasionally covering 25...
Innervation of ascidian siphons and their responses to stimulation.(Report)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Zoology; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...cellules associees au muscle du sphincter du velum a la base des tentacules. Nous avons enregistre...atrial et de contraction du sphincter du velum. Une stimulation plus forte provoque des...recently described in the tentacles and velum of the oral siphon of the colonial styelid...
Study results from University of Bourgogne in the area of molecular medicine published.
Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week; 4/27/2009; 700+ words ; ...were isolated from Jura ''Vin Jaune'' velum and characterized by conventional physiological...acetic acid, and sotolon) from micro scale velum tests. Except at an early stage of aging...in a cellar produced mostly one type of velum (thin or thick, grey or white); but...