Two small plates of gold, stamped out, represent respectively the lingual and labial superficies of a middle lower incisor; these two pieces soldered together form the crown of the tooth.
If we were to translate these into English lingual equivalents of one ounce per hundredweight, then the value would be 17.
If we take an example such as "each centumpondium of lead contains one uncia of silver", and reduce it according to purely lingual equivalents, we should find that it runs 24.
Agricola uses, throughout, the Roman and the Romanized Greek scales, but in many cases he uses these terms merely as lingual equivalents for the German quantities of his day.
Nor does the contemporary German translation of De Re Metallica prove of help, for its translator adopted only lingual equivalents, and in consequence the summation of his weights often gives incorrect results.
They have instead of a regular tongue a strip that is called a lingual ribbon, one end of which is free and the other fastened to the floor of the mouth.
Snails in an aquarium gnaw the green slime from the sides of the vessel with their lingual ribbons, and the process may be seen to more or less advantage at times.
He has little sense of taste, his lingualor tongue-nerve not being larger than that of a middle-sized dog.
Singularly enough, the test in Austria of one's nationality is not the mother tongue of the citizen, as elsewhere, but the lingual medium which one employs in daily association with others.
These latter not only preserved the lingual and national characteristics of the owners, but they even contrived to Germanize the home element that came into contact with them.
The settlement between these two lingual disputants did not come for many days.
The dry, troublesome, tickling cough is generally due to a congestion of the blood vessels at the base of the tongue, in the lingual tonsil region, or possibly in the larynx.
The chronic inflammation of the pharynx and subacute or chronic irritation of the lingual tonsil, causing the tickling, irritating, dry cough of inhalers of tobacco, is too well known, to need description.
Down the liquid stream of lingual melody the dirge drifts dying—dying it echoes back into a ghostly after-life, as the yet throbbing sense wakes the drowsed mind once more.
At the same time, it is but just that the peoples who have paid the piper of progress should call the common lingual tune.
In bi-lingual districts children's answers would have a special value.
Cohnheim refers to the rapid occurrence of oedema of the tongue as a result of irritation of the lingual nerve, and oedema is known to occur rapidly in cases of acute myelitis.
Cohnheim and Weil describe a similar condition in the tongue of frogs after ligature of the lingual artery.
The first perceives acid or electro-positive tastes through the two lingual nerves; the second detects alkaline tastes by the two glosso-pharyngeal nerves.
I advocated tin at the cervical wall, cervico-lingual and cervico-buccal angles to the thickness of 24 plate.
Lingual cavities in molars and bicuspids can be perfectly preserved with tin.
The advantage over gold for cervical, buccal, and lingual walls is the perfect ease with which it is adapted, and it can be burnished so as to be absolutely impervious to moisture.
In proximal cavities attacked by this kind of caries, separate freely on the lingual side, and fill with tin.
When the labial wall is intact or nearly so, access to the cavity should be obtained from the lingual side, and in this case the bending of the shield would be reversed, as shown in Fig.
Buccal cavities in the first permanent molars, and lingual cavities in the superior incisors, filled for children from six to eight years of age, are still in good condition after a period of twenty years.
In the accompanying figures are given some examples which show small sections of lingual ribbons.
They are exceedingly active and predaceous, feeding upon other mollusks, whose shells they bore through by means of the sharp teeth upon their lingual ribbon.
Lingual ribbon^: The chitinous band of teeth, or rasp, borne upon the odontophore; the radula.
Some of the species of Trochus surpass even Emarginula in the beauty of their lingual apparatus.
He often also puts out the tongue between the lips and draws it back during expiration, producing thereby the before-mentioned labio-lingual explosive sounds.
He was daily impressed with the lingual attainments of foreigners and his own lack of them.
Then in 1799 came the finding of the Rosetta Stone with its lingual inscription, consisting of fourteen lines of hieroglyphs, thirty-two lines of Demotic, and fifty-four lines of Greek.
Lingual ribbon, the rasp or file like tongue of the snail.
Describe the tongue or lingualribbon of the snail, and its use.
