(n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
(n.) A sting.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mollusks Littorina saxatilis, L. obtusata, Solariella obscura, Cingula aculeus, Hydrobia ulvae, Margarites helicina and M. groenlandica serve as hosts of the parthenites of Microphallus pygmaeus in eastern Murman.
(2) Specifically, when the lancets of a vespid aculeus are in a retracted position, the width of the smooth-edged stylet extends beyond the barbed edges of the lancets, forming a protective sheath.
(3) The exposure of barbs on retracted honey bee lancets and the presence of additional barbs on the dorsal tip of the stylet would make withdrawal of a honey bee aculeus from a victim's flesh more difficult than withdrawal of a vespid aculeus, in which the barbs of retracted lancets are shielded and no dorsal barbs are present.
Prickle
Definition:
(n.) A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
(n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.
(n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.
(v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some peculiarities in the ultrastructure of these neurones were described as the presence of prickles, fringes.
(2) Single-unit sensory nerve recordings from the rabbit saphenous nerve were used to identify the receptors responsible for fabric-evoked prickle.
(3) Prickle cell masses invaded into the soft tissue in the deeper layer.
(4) In some of the distal and middle dendrites and dendritic spines [correction of prickles] in elderly ground squirrels there were plaques, composed of electron-dense material with structure similar to postsynaptic condensations, but without presynaptic specializations of chemical synapses.
(5) Desmosomes are most frequent in the prickle cell layer, where desmosome fields may occur, and in the lower functional cell layer.
(6) Membrane coating granules first reaching a maximum in the functional cell layer appeared in the upper prickle cell layer and few persisted into the surface cells.
(7) Oral discomfort such as prickling and burning sensations, metallic and bad taste was rare in both diabetics and non-diabetics.
(8) Gap junctions (nexuses) were observed primarily in the basal and prickle cell layers.
(9) Beginning to feel the first prickles of boredom, I thought of young Nathan, for whom Minecraft was life, until it wasn't.
(10) The emigrating ERM from PDL explants, as well as occasional proliferating ERM within explants, consisted of two cell types--outer basal-like cells, as described above, and inner tonofilament-rich prickle-like cells, suggesting a propensity for differentiation of ERM.
(11) Three layers were identified, as in the light microscopy of the oesophageal epithelium: basal, prickle and funtional cell layers.
(12) This system was attached to the upper arms of young adult volunteers who increased the voltage of the rectangular electrical pulses supplied to the electrodes until a reproducible sharp prickling pain sensation was perceived.
(13) Various cells were observed in expanded intercellular spaces of basal cell and prickle cell layers.
(14) CRBP concentrations were highest in maturing keratinocytes within the prickle cell layers of normal mucosa and in laryngeal papillomas, as estimated on the basis of immunoreactivity to CRBP.
(15) The fluid phase marker was taken up most avidly by the prickle cells but to a lesser extent in the functional layers and by basal cells.
(16) Light microscopical findings: Leukoplakia exhibited orthokeratinization and the thickening of prickle and corneal cell layers was seen.
(17) Prickling of the skin and hirsutism were common side-effects.
(18) In all sections of leukoplakia, the positive cells for EGFr were found in the prickle cell layer in addition to the basal cell layer.
(19) Each subject judged only one single pair with respect to which one tasted more fizzy ("spritziger"), dry ("trockener"), prickling ("prickelnder") and better ("besser").
(20) Untoward effects experienced in volunteers receiving BW 942C included heaviness in the limbs, nasal stuffiness, mouth dryness, facial flushing, skin rash, and prickling sensations.