(n.) A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(2) Animals continued to display escape responses after removal of eyestalks and antennae.
(3) In all cases, the antennas were omnidirectional co-linear arrays.
(4) Cyanobacteria utilize multimeric protein complexes, the phycobilisomes, as their major light-harvesting antennae.
(5) This substrate specificity correlates with the oligosaccharide residues thus far defined on glycoproteins of CHP 134 cells since NeuAc and Fuc alpha 1----3GlcNAc have yet to be detected on the same oligosaccharide antenna.
(6) Some antennae were equipped with an external cooling jacket.
(7) As illustrated by some antennas the dependence of sanitary and limitation zones on the wavelength, radiated power and the type of soil has been studied.
(8) Linkage crosses and X-autosome translocations were used to assign short antenna to the right arm of chromosome 3 about 45 map units proximal to stripe (st+), and melanotic was located on chromosome 2 near the centromere.
(9) Representative blood flow values were assigned within the tumour, and the applied SAR distribution was based on a previously developed antenna theory.
(10) Subfamilies II and III are expressed in both male and female antennae, appear to associate with general-odorant-sensitive neurons, and are highly conserved when compared among species.
(11) The 2450 MHz antenna array was the most effective at heating the shorter tumours, while the 433 MHz antenna array heated the longer tumours most effectively.
(12) Theoretical three-dimensional power deposition and temperature distributions were calculated for interstitial hyperthermia microwave antenna arrays driven at 915 and 2450 MHz in brain tissue.
(13) Diantennary structures without GalNAc were present as partially sialylated and partially (1-->6)-alpha-L-fucosylated structures in Fractions A and B. Sequences containing alpha-D-Galp-(1-->3)-beta-D-Gal on the alpha-D-Man-(1-->6) antenna, and beta-D-GalpNAc-(1-->4)-beta-D-GlcNAc and alpha-NeuAc-(2-->6)-beta-D-GalpNAc-(1-->4)-beta-D-GlcNAc on the alpha-D-Man-(1-->3) antenna were characterized in the oligosaccharide-alditols obtained by reductive cleavage of Fraction B.
(14) The antennas are made of thin coaxial cables with a radiation gap or gaps on the outer conductor.
(15) The severity and distribution of these histological changes correlated well with the thermal profile of the helical antenna.
(16) The structure of the antennae of PBLs was characterized by glcNac-gal and galNac-gal-Sa sequences, while in lymphomas additional asialo as well as sialylated galNac containing antennae have been identified.
(17) These results provide evidence that chlorophyll-protein complexes closely represent the state of the bulk of antenna chlorophyll in vivo.
(18) An accidental deep intraorbital penetration of a radio antenna tip damaged the optic nerve and caused immediate amaurosis in a 19-year-old female with normal funduscopic, electroretinographic and computerized tomographic orbital findings.
(19) Excellent qualitative agreement is found between the theoretical heating pattern and the measured pattern in a non-perfused phantom on a 2 cm x 2 antenna array.
(20) In the present investigation, flash-induced absorbance changes at 605 nm have demonstrated that the upper fraction is enriched two-fold in photochemical reaction center activity when compared to chromotophores; a similar enrichment in the reaction center-associated B-875 antenna bacteriochlorophyll complex was also observed.
Lamellate
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Lamellated
Example Sentences:
(1) Chloroquine induced large cytoplasmic vacuoles, whereas the other drugs (quinacrine, 4,4'-diethylaminoethoxyhexestrol, chlorphentermine, iprindole, 1-chloro-amitriptyline, clomipramine) caused formation of lamellated or crystalloid inclusions as usually seen in drug-induced lipidosis.
(2) Ultrastructural examination of selected sections of the lumbosacral nerves, revealed lesions characterized by reduced neurofilaments and neurotubules, and irregular lamellated axoplasmic dense bodies in all animals receiving lead.
(3) In the mouse, Meissner corpuscles, glomerular corpuscles, and Merkel cell nerve endings were seen in every palatine ruga, though the first antemolar ruga also contained simple and atypical lamellated corpuscles.
(4) Follicular mucinosis is not synonymous with alopecia mucinosa but is analogous to other histologic reaction patterns of cutaneous epithelium such as epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, focal acantholytic dyskeratosis, and cornoid lamellation.
(5) Simultaneously with iron uptake, mitochondria differentiate to lamellated bodies and, successively, expansions rise for ferruginous compounds and G polypeptides gathering, followed by prehemosome vesicles formation, which condense and change to prohemosomes that afterwards evolve to hemosomes.
(6) Lamellated osmiophilic bodies are intracellular organelles in which pulmonary surfactant is stored prior to secretion.
(7) Lamellated corpuscles were found histologically in the skin of the receptive field of RA units and identified as Krause's corpuscle of cylindrical type by their superficial location in the cutaneous tissue and their structure revealed by electron microscopy.
(8) In the scleral spur, the apical part of the muscle fiber bundle showed a very thin lamellated layer and terminated between the stromal tissue of the scleral spur indicating a strong interconnection with stromal tissue by a muscle-tendon junctional structure basically similar to the muscle-tendon junction in the striated muscle.
(9) These structures include nerve endings contiguous with K-cells, partially exposed terminal axons, preterminal and terminal axons protruding into the vessel lumina, and lamellated receptors.
(10) Three types of lamellated corpuscles (a simple corpuscle; a coiled, simple corpuscle; and a Meissner-like corpuscle), and a unique, organized, bush-like assembly of free nerve terminals were identified.
(11) Rene Meulensteen is still hopeful of securing Lewis Holtby on loan from Tottenham Hotspur, and are talking with his former club, Manchester United, over taking Ryan Tunnicliffe and Lamell Cole on deals until the end of the season.
(12) Both uninuclear cells and multinuclear tubes contained numerous lysosomes, myelin figures and lamellated bodies as well as electronlucent or content-filled vacuoles and cisternae of variable size, sometimes reminding the sarcoplasmic reticulum in early stages of its development.
(13) Three of three patients who had toxic reactions, and two of five patients without toxic reactions had lamellated inclusion bodies by electron microscopy.
(14) The endothelium was generally surrounded by lamellated basal laminae that were compactly invested in the neoplastic cells.
(15) The concentration of endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, polysomes, lipid droplets, dense bodies (lysosomes), lamellated and multivesicular bodies increases.
(16) Differentiation of alveolar epithelium into types I and II pneumonocytes occurred at this stage and lamellated osmiophilic inclusion bodies were present in type II cells for the first time.
(17) Three types of nerve endings were found: free nerve endings (FNE), Ruffini-like endings and lamellated corpuscles.
(18) In addition to the lamellated bodies, multiple lattice-like tubular myelin figures were abundant in the alveoli of the normal rat lung.
(19) The eye consists of about 3600-3700 ommatidia, each containing a dioptric apparatus formed by a lamellated corneal lens and a eucone-type crystalline cone.
(20) The organization of the caecal epithelium conforms with that of blood-feeding polyopisthocotyleans, with two components: lamellated cells responsible for intracellular digestion interspersed with elements of a non-lamellated connecting syncytium.