(a.) Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees.
(a.) Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The treatment led to decreased spinnbarkeit, arborization and sperum penetration in the cervical mucus.
(2) The degree of overlap varies with the thickness of the arborization and is in the order of 1-2 mu.
(3) The diversity of the non-Hodgkin's groups, the continued evolution of histopathologic classifications, and the great frequency of advanced disease in the lymphocytic subgroups make the Ann Arbor classification of only limited value for the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas.
(4) These tangential fibers are in part the preterminal arborizations of geniculocortical axons, since some of them have been shown to degenerate after geniculate lesions.
(5) After 4 weeks of in vivo growth, extensive growth of arborizing ducts was apparent in recombinants composed of urogenital sinus mesenchyme and a single adult prostatic ductal tip.
(6) The 10-year survival rates for patients with Ann Arbor stages II, III, or IV disease of 55%, 42%, and 40%, respectively, were not significantly different.
(7) Numerous CA fibers which are first observed at the level of the preoptic area, ascend through the central zone of the telencephalon and arborize profusely particularly within the medial zone of area dorsalis telencephali.
(8) It is believed that by looking at such subtle shape differences an understanding of what it means morphologically for a primate to be either more or less arboreal may be achieved.
(9) S2 amacrine cells arborized in sublayer 3 and made synapses onto amacrine cells.
(10) The observed damage was similar: a decrease of the total length of the dendritic segments of the apical tuft and the basal arborization.
(11) Inferior colliculus and commissural neurons form two populations that differ in their distribution in layer V, in somatic area, and in the form of their apical dendritic arbors.
(12) NMDA treatment reduced arbor density by approximately 50%.
(13) Y axons, whether originating from the deviated or the nondeviated eye, have substantially smaller arbors and fewer boutons in the A-laminae of the lateral geniculate nucleus compared to Y axons in normal cats.
(14) Murine F9 embryonal carcinoma cells exposed to retinoic acid and dibutyryl cyclic AMP gradually arborize and acquire a neuron-like morphology in monolayer culture.
(15) Although the drugs did not cause a desegregation of the eye-specific stripes, treated retinal axon arbors covered about half the area covered by untreated arbors or arbors treated with inactive analogs of the drugs.
(16) At birth, most cochlear neurons displayed peripheral arbors that embraced both inner and outer hair cell receptors.
(17) Results in previous studies of primates based on intra-axonal filling with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) staining of a limited sample of fibers suggest that corticospinal arbors branch widely to multiple motoneuronal pools.
(18) The Arbor was supported by Artangel , the arts commissioning body that produced Rachel Whiteread's House , her 1993 cast of a condemned terraced home, and Roger Hiorns's Seizure (2008), an empty council flat encrusted with cobalt-blue crystals.
(19) After differentiation, both Ewing's and neural lines developed neuritic processes with varicosities and little arborization, except for the initially undifferentiated Ewing's line (A4573) which displayed extensive lateral sprouting from neuritic processes after differentiation.
(20) Budd, Kenneth (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Alfred S. Sussman, and Frederick I. Eilers.
Boreal
Definition:
(a.) Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Polar Psychology Project brings together three organizations from Canada and Argentina to study human adaptation to the boreal and austral circumpolar environments.
(2) Mosquito-borne arboviruses are prevalent throughout subarctic regions of Canada and Alaska, principally in the boreal forest extending between latitudes 53 and 66 degrees N, but they have been identified in tundra regions as far north as 70 degrees N. All mosquito-borne agents have been bunyaviruses, comprising principally the snowshoe hare subtype of California encephalitis (CE) virus, but also Northway virus.
(3) Antifreeze production is seasonal in boreal species and is often initiated by environmental cues other than low temperature, particularly short day lengths.
(4) This trend is only like to deepen as heat extremes in central Europe grow stronger, while the boreal forests of Scandinavia experience less snow, river ice, and an increasing risk of winter storms and pest infestations.
(5) In the Atlantic, Boreal and Steppic (southern Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and western Kazakhstan in Europe), no forest ecosystems were found to be well-tended, although 80% of such habitats across Europe were also judged unfavourably.
(6) The effect of the accidental oil spill (250 tons) in a boreal archipelago (Gulf of Bothnia, Vaasa, Finland) on xenobiotic metabolism of local perch (Perca fluviatilis) was monitored for 1.5 years.
(7) When this became apparent, a comprehensive radioecological research programme was initiated in order to study the behaviour of radiocaesium in boreal and alpine ecosystems, with emphasis on food-chains leading to exposure of species used for human consumption, i.e., reindeer and freshwater fish.
(8) Ultimately, the occupation of the Western Hemisphere was a direct result of boreal cultural adaptations in the Old World.
(9) The high northern latitudes are warming more rapidly than other parts of the Earth, with climate models predicting a northward shift of Arctic vegetation that will see the boreal biome (coniferous forest across North America and Eurasia) migrate into what is currently tundra (treeless plains of the Arctic).
(10) But the ‘Boreal’ (Norway, Finland and the Baltics) and ‘Atlantic’ (UK, Western France, Denmark and Benelux countries) emerge as danger spots for biodiversity.
(11) Among the Cree-Ojibwa Indians in the subarctic boreal forest of northern Manitoba and Ontario, a high prevalence of clinical gallbladder disease (18.5% among women aged 20-64) was observed.
(12) The morphology of the optical part of the Enallagma boreale Selys compound eye remains unchanged during its post-embryonic development.
(13) Six strains of Jamestown Canyon virus in the California serogroup were isolated from three species of boreal Aedes in the Aedes communis group of the subgenus Ochlerotatus.
(14) Between 2011 and 2013 fires in the boreal forests of Canada and Russia accounted for almost a quarter of global forest losses.
(15) Strongholds include the boreal forests of northern Canada, Australia’s deserts and western woodlands, some lowland forests in Asia and parts of central Africa.
(16) Infections were restricted to alpine and montane regions in southwestern Alberta (97%) as well as boreal uplands of the Cypress Hills in southeastern Alberta (3%).
(17) Surrounded by boreal forest, it is one of the most spectacularly beautiful regions in Canada.
(18) If global warming is leading to more fires in boreal forests, which in turn leads to more emissions from those forests, which in turn leads to more climate change.
(19) Boreal forests are one of the world’s great carbon sinks.
(20) It would only feed the expansion of strip mining the boreal forests and wetlands for tar sands crude.