Subsequent loss of the nasal / oral contrast in vowels may result in nasal consonants becoming part of the phoneme inventory.

Additionally, nasal congestion can be a common result of migraine headaches, due to the autonomic nerve stimulation that can also cause tearing ( lacrimation ) and a runny nose ( rhinorrhea ).

Factors which may predispose someone to developing sinusitis include: allergies ; structural abnormalities, such as a deviated septum, small sinus ostia or a concha bullosa ; nasal polyps ; carrying the cystic fibrosis gene, though research is still tentative ; and prior bouts of sinusitis, because each instance may result in increased inflammation of the nasal or sinus mucosa and potentially further narrow the nasal passageways.

As a result of this geographic crossroads, the people of Cattaraugus County speak a variety of accents, ranging from mild variants of Appalachian English to Inland Northern American English, with a handful of people speaking in the more loud and nasal Buffalo English.

Tinnitus is not a disease, but a condition that can result from a wide range of underlying causes: neurological damage ( multiple sclerosis ), ear infections, oxidative stress, foreign objects in the ear, nasal allergies that prevent ( or induce ) fluid drain, or wax build-up.

Some preparations such as nasal sprays and inhalers may result in a rapid response, but the fast onset of high blood levels may compromise safety ( see below ).

Because the " infectious dose " for some pathogens can be very small ( 10-100 viable units, or even less for some viruses ), and infection can result from direct transfer from surfaces via hands or food to the mouth, nasal mucosa or the eye, ' hygienic cleaning ' procedures should be sufficient to eliminate pathogens from critical surfaces.

As a result, Green iguanas have developed a lateral nasal gland to supplement renal salt secretion by expelling excess potassium and sodium chloride.

When this process fails, the result is called nasal regurgitation.

This results in a more metallic, sometimes nasal sound, and when played at loud volumes can result in a very piercing note.

Fields, with his bulbous red nose ( partly as a result of rosacea, although his parents also had bulbous noses ), rotund body and nasal, braying voice, has been imitated for decades in a wide variety of media.

A result of an open connection between the oral cavity and nasal cavity is called velopharyngeal inadequacy ( VPI ).

If this important, early facial embryogenesis fails, it might result in anomalies such as choanal atresia ( absent or closed passage ), medial nasal clefts ( fissures ), or lateral nasal clefts, nasal aplasia ( faulty or incomplete development ), and polyrrhinia ( double nose ).

The predominance of pterygia on the nasal side is possibly a result of the sun's rays passing laterally through the cornea, where it undergoes refraction and becomes focused on the limbic area.

On the other hand, the digraphs mh, nh, and the trigraph ngh, which stand for voiceless consonants, but only occur at the beginning of words as a result of the nasal mutation, are not included in the alphabet.

This may result in a crease running across the nose, commonly referred to as the " transverse nasal crease ", and can lead to permanent physical deformity if repeated enough.

Deformity of the nasal septum can also result in enlarged turbinates.

Note: Clinical testing of visual fields ( by confrontation ) can produce false positive result ( particularly in inferior nasal quadrants ).

Rates above 5 L / min can result in discomfort to the patient, drying of the nasal passages, and possibly nose bleeds ( epistaxis ).

By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.

Even in the nineteenth century such accomplished philologists as Kemble and Guest were led into what now seem ludicrous errors because of their failure to recognize that modern forms of place names are not necessarily the result of logical philological development.

Its elimination would result in the saving of interest costs, heavy when short-term money rates are high, and in freedom from dependence on credit which is not always available when needed most.

The provisions are also designed to avoid disruption in State programs already in operation, which might otherwise result from the allotment of funds on the basis of wealth and population alone.

When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.

Most beakers are graduated in cubic centimeters ( cc. ), making it necessary to convert the result to cubic inches.

They are the result of a constant and careful contest with the elements.

And like this English master, Mason realizes his subjects in large, simplified masses which, though they seem effortless, are in reality the result of skilled design born of hard work and a thorough distillation of the natural form that inspired them.

as a result, such pictures are only a literal translation of what the artist finds in the scene before him.

Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.

Wage-price policies of industry are the result of a complex of forces -- no single explanation has been found which applies to all cases.

These are arranged approximately in the order of the vociferousness of their proponents but will be discussed in the reverse order in the hope that the true order of importance will result.

Malocclusion can also result if baby teeth are lost too soon or retained too long.

People today are aware of the value of orthodontics, and as a result there are more practitioners in the field.

As a result, the West is in a poor bargaining position at the current Geneva negotiations on Laos, and South Vietnam and other nations in Southeast Asia are under increased pressure.

As a result of the new outlook for turnpikes, investors who bought toll-road bonds when these securities ranked as outright speculations are now finding new hope for their investments.

Another result is that buyers are tending to bid up the prices of these tax-exempt bonds.

and by deriving legitimate decision backward from whatever may conceivably or possibly or probably result, whether by anyone's doing or by accident, it finds itself driven to inaction, to non-political action in politics and non-military action in military affairs, and to the not very surprising discovery that there are now no distinctions on which the defense of justice can possibly be based.

Their metabolic rate is low and as a result, their food and energy requirements are limited.

Proposed subgroups are difficult to recognise, having similar ' lily-like ' flowers, with the result that some members of the group have been included in different subgroups at different times.

In sum, the idea was that Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic form a Sprachbund – the result of convergence through intensive borrowing and long contact among speakers of languages that are not necessarily closely related.

The proof of the independence result also shows that a wide class of mathematical statements, including all statements that can be phrased in the language of Peano arithmetic, are provable in ZF if and only if they are provable in ZFC.

Some are no more than a widening of a stream valley ; others, such as the Konya Ovasi, are large basins of inland drainage or are the result of limestone erosion.