** Exostosis is an abnormal bony overgrowth narrowing the ear canal due to frequent, long-term splashing or filling of cold water into the ear canal, also known as surfer's ear.

At 18, after extensive testing, he was diagnosed with spinal stenosis ( a narrowing of the spinal canal ), which brought his playing days to an end.

Any forward slipping of one vertebra on another can cause spinal stenosis by narrowing the canal.

Stenosis can occur as either central stenosis ( the narrowing of the entire canal ) or foraminal stenosis ( the narrowing of the foramen through which the nerve root exits the spinal canal ).

Severe narrowing of the lateral portion of the canal is called “ lateral recess stenosis ".

Unlike isthmic spondylolisthesis, degenerative spondylolisthesis is not associated with a neural arch defect, meaning that the forward translation of the vertebral body also causes narrowing of the central spinal canal at the level of the slip.

Neurogenic claudication is thought to result from central canal narrowing that is exacerbated by the listhesis ( forward slip ).

This is due to the spinal canal narrowing that these kind of syndromes can produce.

In neurogenic claudication, positional changes lead to increased stenosis ( narrowing ) of the spinal canal and compression of nerve roots and resultant lower extremity symptoms.

The ilial pelvic bone shifted forward and broadened, while the ischial pelvic bone shrank, narrowing the pelvic canal.

Additional radiographic findings include joint effusion and degenerative changes such as joint space narrowing, subchondral sclerosis, and osteophyte formation.

This narrowing can be caused by bone spurs, spondylolisthesis, inflammation, or herniated disc, which decreases available space for the spinal cord, thus pinching and irritating nerves from the spinal cord that travel to the sciatic nerves.

However, after World War II the expression formelles Recht obviously has been found " contaminated " and to a broad extent has been replaced by Prozeßrecht meaning narrowing the idea behind it to " law of litigation " ( thereby excluding f. i. the law of other procedures and the law on competences ).

Only in a small proportion of patients has underlying narrowing of the cerebral sinuses or veins been demonstrated.

He argued, back in 1871, that narrowing the definition to mean the belief in a supreme deity or judgment after death or idolatry and so on, would exclude many peoples from the category of religious, and thus " has the fault of identifying religion rather with particular developments than with the deeper motive which underlies them ".

Like Gloria Steinem, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in academic feminist theorizing, saying, " There's this sort of narrowing specialization and use of coded, elitist language of deconstruction or New Historicism or whatever they're calling it these days, which is to my mind impenetrable and not particularly useful.

Known as the " Harbor of Hospitality "™, Elizabeth City has had a long history of shipping due to its location at the narrowing of the Pasquotank River.

This type of split gate has no doors and provides no real defensive purpose but narrowing the passage.

Since, there has been a more complicated debate and a general narrowing of the definition of " fiduciary duty ".

It has been speculated that repetitive forceful use of a digit leads to narrowing of the fibrous digital sheath in which it runs, but there is little scientific data to support this theory.

To adjust for a large sampling fraction, the fpc factored into the calculation of the margin of error, which has the effect of narrowing the margin of error.

Since the process began in 1997, ASEAN Plus Three ( APT ) cooperation has broadened and deepened to also focus on subjects other than finance too in the discussion such as the areas of food and energy security, financial cooperation, trade facilitation, disaster management, people-to-people contacts, narrowing the development gap, rural development and poverty alleviation, human trafficking, labour movement, communicable diseases, environment and sustainable development, and transnational crime, including counter-terrorism.

The Government has attempted to expand the well-being of the people by narrowing down gender, region, and income related gaps.

The tradition of applied linguistics established itself in part as a response to the narrowing of focus in linguistics with the advent in the late 1950s of generative linguistics, and has always maintained a socially accountable role, demonstrated by its central interest in language problems.

* Single-lane working chicanes, which consist of staggered buildouts, narrowing the road so that traffic in one direction has to give way to opposing traffic

The Breuer community has cautiously applied Torah im Derech Eretz to American life, narrowing its application over time.

However, his influence on such groups has, somewhat paradoxically, resulted in narrowing the scope of Bakhtin ’ s work.

However, AV grafts are at high risk to develop narrowing, especially in the vein just downstream from where the graft has been sewn to the vein.

Co-arctation of the aorta ( a congenital narrowing in the region of the ductus arteriosus ) has also been associated with BAV.

** Description: found at depths up to 183 m ; small ovate white shell, narrowing toward the apex ; sunken spire ; body whorl has spiral grooves at the edges ; narrow aperture

This research has changed the primary focus for heart attack prevention from severe narrowing to vulnerable plaque.

It has the effect of narrowing the focus of the dialogue so that book and reader are more quickly and more accurately matched up.

The term temperament refers to a tuning system which tempers the just intervals ( usually the perfect fifth which has the ratio 3: 2 ) in order to satisfy another mathematical property ; in equal temperament, a fifth would be tempered by narrowing it slightly, achieved by flattening its upper pitch slightly, or raising its lower pitch slightly.

The gap between cantopop and mandopop has been narrowing in the new millennium.

Hokkien pop, though having its roots in Japanese enka, has been re-integrating into C-pop and narrowing its trend of development towards Mandopop.

This is accomplished by using a polynomial of high degree, and / or narrowing the domain over which the polynomial has to approximate the function.

The harsh tonality of the medieval shawm had been modulated somewhat by a narrowing of the bore and a reduction in the size of the fingerholes.

Parts of the earlier and much broader Communications Decency Act had been struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1997 ( Reno v. ACLU ); COPA was a direct response to that decision, narrowing the range of material covered.

Experiments on variations of this flow have been made with lock-exchange flows propagating in narrowing / expanding environments.

Though the case resulted in no binding case law, the Court suggested a narrowing of federal jurisdiction and implied the federal government needed a more substantial link between navigable federal waters and wetlands than it had been using, but held onto the " significant nexus " test.

Hennessy is doubtful of this, as well as Waldman's sanity, until armed men who've been narrowing in on them begin shooting.

We've been talking to a lot of people for a while and we're narrowing it down.

Prior to the rupture, there may have been no lumen narrowing, even aneurysmal enlargement, at the atheroma.

Based on the angiographic view and long popular medical beliefs, it had long been assumed that areas of high grade stenosis ( narrowing ) of the lumen ( opening ) within the coronary arteries, visible by angiography, were the likely points at which most myocardial infarctions ( heart attacks ) would occur.

bus lane proposals have run into vehement opposition from cycling representatives-a typical theme is the perceived generation of conflict due to the narrowing of other lanes already shared by cars / cyclists so as to create space for the bus lanes The TRL reports that cyclists and bus drivers tend to have low opinions of each other There have been reports in Dublin of conflict as cyclists choose to cycle in the bus lanes and a bus driver apparently expected them to use adjacent cycle tracks instead.

Waterways have been modified by humans through the building of irrigation canals, expanding or narrowing waterways, and multiple other adjustments done for agricultural or transportation usage.

The road has been left untouched however at points further west of Itaituba, at times narrowing to roughly 2 meters wide.

On investigation, they find that the equipment bears resemblances to Starfleet technology, and after narrowing down from one of three theories of Tuvok's, they realize that the technology must have been given to the Kazon by a member of the crew during the visit to the planet, and that this member of the crew must have been alone on the planet's surface.

Asthma, characterized by episodic inflammation and narrowing of small airway passages in the lungs, affects about 8 percent of the U. S. population, but the rate of affected individuals has been steadily climbing in recent years, especially in low income, ethnic minority neighborhoods in cities.