(n.) Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.
(n.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.
Example Sentences:
(1) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(2) After completion of the biopsy, a J-shaped 5F bipolar pacing lead was inserted via the sheath and positioned with the lead tip directed medially against the interatrial septum or right atrial appendage.
(3) The purpose of this study is to determine the sensitivity and specificity of two dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of thrombosis of the left atrial appendage.
(4) Thus careful examination of standard ECG leads for paced P waves of low amplitude, prolonged duration and specific morphology can help in confirming atrial capture following pacing stimulus from right atrial appendage.
(5) The results indicate that position along the appendage does not influence the developmental sequence of events of regeneration, but that it does influence the rate of growth and the structures to be replaced.
(6) The appendages were about 125 x 30 A; the central ring had an outer diameter of approximately 100 A and an inner diameter of 40 A.
(7) In this last region, we can find a more or less reduced true tail or a terminal appendage without vertebral element.
(8) Before therapy considerable destructive changes in nerve fibers were seen, i. e. Schwann cell cytoplasm and nerve cell appendages edemas, no neural tubes in the appendages.
(9) Of 70 children scrotal explorations, torsion of appendages was found in 33 cases (47%).
(10) Synaptic contacts (GRAY I) are established with the grape-like appendages in the branching zone of P-neuron dendrites.
(11) Of the 84 adolescent scrotal explorations performed, 72 (86%) had torsion of testis, and 8 (9%) had torsion of appendages.
(12) Electron microscopy reveals that Toh+ amacrine cells are postsynaptic to amacrine cells and a few bipolar cell terminals in stratum 1 of the inner plexiform layer and are primarily presynaptic to AII amacrine cell bodies and lobular appendages, and to another type of amacrine cell body and amacrine dendrites hypothesized to be the A17 amacrine cell.
(13) A practical classification of left atrial calcification is proposed according to the dominant lesion in each group: (a) Calcification of the left atrial appendage alone (Mitral stenosis).
(14) The innervation and myocardial cells of the human atrial appendage were investigated by means of immunocytochemical and ultrastructural techniques using both tissue sections and whole mount preparations.
(15) Many HBox genes sustain their expression in the appendages of the adult newt.
(16) Wounds made at intervals from 2-24 weeks after irradiation in normal or irradiated ileum were repaired immediately and wrapped in normal or irradiated appendages.
(17) A course of treatment resulted in clinical improvement and appearance of small-diameter appendages of nerve cells on the periphery of nerve fibers that were often not completely covered with Schwann cell appendages.
(18) Among the relay cells, these differences relate to soma and axon diameter, dendritic orientation, and the presence or absence of grapelike dendritic appendages.
(19) When taken together these cases show that just over 50% of the degenerating terminals are presynaptic to spiny appendages and are located within the synaptic clusters (glomeruli) described previously (King, '76).
(20) Surgical techniques used (alone or in combination) included an isolation procedure in 1 patient, cryoablation in 4 patients, and excision of atrial appendages or portions of atrial free walls in 7.
Fringe
Definition:
(v. t.) To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.
(n.) The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.
(n.) An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.
(n.) Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.
(n.) One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fringe 2009 also welcomes back Aussie standup Jim Jeffries , whose jokes include: "Women to me are like public toilets.
(2) The fringe of the seizure ("borderland of epilepsy") is briefly delineated.
(3) This means the work of the giant but highly disciplined RSS, as well as smaller fringe groups such as the Bajrang Dal, can be critical.
(4) We show that over a limited range of high spatial frequencies this noise takes on a striated appearance, with the striations running perpendicular to the true fringe orientation.
(5) One or two young fringe players may go out on loan but that will almost certainly be that.
(6) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
(7) They live in the shadows, on the fringes of Australian society.
(8) This kind of audience investment is one of the reasons why James Baker's 30 Days to Space , at the Edinburgh 2010 forest fringe, proved so fascinating.
(9) A further parametric investigation of the conductivity effect revealed that conductivity boundaries may significantly modify the MEF due to neuronal currents located within 1 mm of a conductivity boundary, as would be the case for active neurons near an edema, an anoxic fringe such as might occur during stroke, or a ventricle in the human head.
(10) When the highly crystalline core contents are suitably oriented to transmit their Bragg reflections through the objective aperture, regular fringes separated by 2-9.5 A have been visualized.
(11) But when they show up in Manchester at lunchtime on Tuesday to take part in a Conservative conference fringe meeting entitled Challenges for the EU in 2010, they may find themselves under the kind of scrutiny they rarely face at home.
(12) "They're just asymmetric – one goes up more than the other," and she pulls back her fringe to show me.
(13) Then again, any show attracting reviews as bad as Celtic have had in the last week would be lucky to survive any longer at the Festival and this performance has left them on the fringes of European football.
(14) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(15) The retinal visual acuity of 198 cataractous eyes was tested with interference-fringes and compared with the post-operative visual acuity.
(16) "We have done it very cheaply anyway and are not performing for long, but I do know people who have been put off by the intensely commercial atmosphere of the fringe."
(17) Regardless of fringe rucks, these protests are more likely to lay the ground for wider public and industrial campaigns than frighten them off.
(18) I had more fun with Matt Winning , delivering a silly set on the Free Fringe imagining himself the son of Robert Mugabe.
(19) The two games on this trip will not have helped a great deal, other than made it harder for some fringe players to force their way into contention.
(20) In the context of a deficit recovered against a team on the fringe of the Champions League places, and grasping for positives, it did at least offer flashes of the character the home support deemed to have been so absent of late.