(n.) A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.
(n.) A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.
Example Sentences:
(1) Andromeda is the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way.
(2) Tom Neenan: The Andromeda Paradox Pleasance Dome, to 31 Aug Last year he made everyone jump because his show had two really scary bits in it.
(3) I don’t think an Andromeda strain will wipe out all humans.
(4) But "near" is a relative term in intergalactic space – the Andromeda galaxy is 2.5m light years away.
(5) If you take a look on a very clear night at the constellation of Andromeda, a little fuzzy patch of light is just visible with the naked eye.
(6) In addition, cosmic threats to our existence have always been with us, even thought it has taken us some time to notice: the collision of our galaxy, the Milky Way, with our nearest neighbour, Andromeda, for example, or the arrival of a black hole.
(7) "The sense that there's a bridge, that a hand can be extended, and you can step from the Earth, from the supermarket car park, into the Andromeda nebulae or whatever."
Lacerta
Definition:
(n.) A fathom.
(n.) A genus of lizards. See Lizard.
(n.) The Lizard, a northern constellation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors removed from Lacerta viridis specimens part of the dorsal hippocampus of one telencephalic hemisphere.
(2) After 3H testosterone injection into castrated males of the Lizard Lacerta vivipara, the radioactive compound is detected by radioautography of epididymis, femoral glands, gut and liver.
(3) The spatial relationship between microtubules and mitochondria was studied in myelinated axons of the ventral and dorsal spinal roots of the lizard Lacerta muralis by use of quantitative methods in single and serial sections.
(4) The "secretory rudimentary photoreceptor-cells" of Lacerta vivipara J., during embryonic stages, exhibit photosensory differentiations (disks).
(5) Lacerta vivipara vitellogenin was isolated from pooled plasma collected from heavily estrogenized males by the two-step precipitation procedure of H. S. Wiley, L. Opresko, and R. A. Wallace, (1980, Anal.
(6) After comparison of results obtained by different modalities of 3h-5HTP injections (involving intraallantodic, intraventricular and intraperitoneal injections), the intraperitoneal one was retaineed to study experimental cytochemcal biosynthesis of indoleamines, in the epiphysis of Lacerta vivpara J., during ontogenesis.
(7) The layer of mucosubstance that is associated with the free surface membranes of the pneumonocytes in the lungs of the toad Xenopus laevis and the lizard Lacerta viridis was demonstrated by electron microscopy using iron oxide stain.
(8) The magnocellular paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei and the parvocellular preoptic and periventricular nuclei have been studied by light and electron microscopy in Emys orbicularis, Lacerta agilis and Elaphe longissima.
(9) 51Cr-chromate labelled chicken red blood cells, treated with rabbit (anti-chicken red blood cell) serum, are lysed in vitro, in the absence of complement, by spleen cells from Xenopus laevis, Ambystoma mexicanum or Lacerta viridis.
(10) Intrageneric std VO2 (ml h-1 STPD) = 0.328 W0.76 or 0.216 W0.77 for 1- or 3-days starvation at 30 degrees C for 0.2 to 34 g Lacerta.
(11) A histochemical study on Lacerta lepida cerebral cortex glutamic dehydrogenase activity (GLD) was reported in this paper.
(12) The ultrastructure of primordial germ cells migrating through the embryo and situated in genital crests is described in Lacerta viridis and Lacerta muralis.
(13) An electron microscopic study of the components of anterior limb buds of the slow-worm (Anguis fragilis) and of the green lizard (Lacerta viridis) (embryos of Anguis whose allantoic bud reach 0,7 to 4 mm of length; embryos of Lacerta 2 to 7 days old) provides data on the cytological characteristics of the components of the limb bud at these early stages.
(14) Homogeneity of the Iguania species was pointed out and they were found more closely related to the Scincid Chalcides ocellatus than to the Lacertid Lacerta lepida.
(15) After exposure to Concanavalin A a bright fluorescence was observed in the ependymal cells of the subcommissural organs of all vertebrates studied (Lampetra planeri, Ameiurus nebulosus, Bufo bufo, Lacerta vivipara, Gallus gallus, Rattus norvegicus, Ovis aries).
(16) The lens of the parietal eye of Calotes appears at a comparatively later state of development than in Sphenodon and Lacerta.
(17) Q10S of maximal performance are lower in Lacerta vivipara and Podarcis muralis than Podarcis hispanica, a difference having no demonstrated metabolic basis but which is thermally adaptive for these cooler climate species.
(18) It is compared with the germ cells of Lacerta vivipara previously studied.
(19) The epithelium of the extrapulmonary airways of a Chelonia (Mauremys caspica) and a Squamata (Lacerta lepida) was investigated by means of conventional light and transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, histochemistry and immunocytochemistry.
(20) The aspartate aminotransferase activity (AAT) is reserched into the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata and the cerebellar nuclei of the rat, chicken, Lacerta lepida and Bufo calamitas.