(a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless.
Example Sentences:
(1) The acicular alpha structure has been shown to exhibit the best fatigue properties for Ti-6A1-4V alloy in the notched condition.
(2) It was observed that the larger the cast volume and the higher the mold temperature, the thicker became each layer and the coarser became the acicular grains.
(3) The essence of double-nucleus phenomenon and morphogenesis of acicular ichthyosis are disputable at present.
(4) The influence of particle size on hemolysis and cytotoxicity was observed with acicular grunerite.
(5) The heat treatments examined produced alternate microstructures to the lamellar structure and some approached the totally transformed acicular alpha structure.
(6) The interfacial zone was composed of four layers: the outermost reaction or casting burn layer, the second layer of an O-and Al-stabilized alpha case, the third layer in which Si, P, O, and C were inhomogeneously concentrated, and the fourth layer which consisted of acicular or plate-like crystals.
(7) It is suggested that the double-nucleus phenomenon in the epidermis in type Curth-Macklin [correction of Kurt-McLean] acicular ichthyosis is due to cytokinesis-controlling gene mutation.
(8) The noncoated coarse and fine acicular specimens displayed an approximate 25% increase over the noncoated lamellar specimens.
(9) The porous coated coarse and fine acicular specimens showed an approximate 15% improvement over the porous coated lamellar specimens.
(10) A mixture of CF4 and O2 quantitatively remove the acicular nitride phase without any evidence of attack on either the glass or carbide.
(11) The characteristic features of H. taichui cercaria are the presence of two sets--one set of lateral and other dorsoventral cuadal finfolds, 15 acicular spines in three alternating rows and seven pairs of lobed penetration glands arranged in two longitudinal rows.
(12) The giant lysosomes characteristic of cyclodextrin nephrosis are notable because of the prominent acicular microcrystals embedded in the lysosomal matrix.
(13) In PICG, cholesterol esters are released from degenerating macrophages and, as organization occurs, the cholesterol is deposited in the form of acicular clefts within the interstitium.
(14) All four drugs, Puromycin and its aminonucleoside, Cordycepin and Nucleocidin, induced electron-lucent cytoplasmic clefts in the cytoplasm, which were generally acicular or spindle-shaped, with long axes lying in any direction.
(15) H. pumilio cercaria is characterized by the presence of two sets of caudal finfolds, 15 acicular spines in three alternating rows and seven pairs of voluminous unicellular penetration glands.
(16) Scattered foci of cholesterol pneumonia, composed of acicular crystals with an associated foamy lipid material and type II alveolar epithelial cell hyperplasia, were present.
(17) Aggregates of acicular clefts and crystals were present in bile canaliculi, bile ducts, Kupffer cells, hepatocytes and in kidney tubules.
(18) Radially oriented acicular crystalline aggregates could be induced by incubating heparinised blood with bacterial endotoxins.
(19) Electron microscopy of "normal" lung tissue from four heavy cigarette smokers showed acicular crystal clefts thought to represent cholesterol in the cytoplasm of virtually every type II pneumocyte.
(20) Acicular and rhomboidal clefts, some with a characteristic notch, were observed mainly in extracellular locations, although they were also associated with dying fibroblasts.
Needly
Definition:
(a.) Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard.
(adv.) Necessarily; of necessity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(4) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(5) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(6) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
(7) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(8) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
(9) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(10) It is suggested that the results indicate the need for full haematological screening of all patients with recurrent aphthae.
(11) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(12) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(13) The problem of treatment oneside malocclusions of adult patients needs to concern of anchorange.
(14) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(15) Most patients of the bopindolol-group needed 1 mg once daily as compared to those on the nifedipine who required 20 mg b.i.d.
(16) But that's just it - they need to be viable in the long term.
(17) However, further improvement of culture systems is needed for active replication of HBV in vitro.
(18) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(19) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
(20) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.