(n.) The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) It moves down the neck of the archegonium into the cavity above the egg.
Venter
Definition:
(n.) One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.
(n.) The belly; the abdomen; -- sometimes applied to any large cavity containing viscera.
(n.) The uterus, or womb.
(n.) A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula.
(n.) The lower part of the abdomen in insects.
(n.) A pregnant woman; a mother; as, A has a son B by one venter, and a daughter C by another venter; children by different venters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last night, in a dramatic announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God, Venter said the dream had come true, saying he had created an organism with manmade DNA .
(2) In 17 out of 18 such patients, the two-week therapy with sucralfat (venter) resulted in the disappearance of esophagitis with multiple erosions.
(3) At the same time, Craig Venter was racing to sequence the human genome through his company, Celera, with the intention of charging reseachers for access to the information.
(4) The cell instantly starts reading that new software, starts making a whole different set of proteins, and in a short while, all the characteristics of the first species disappear and a new species emerges," Venter said.
(5) Last year, scientists at the J Craig Venter Institute successfully transferred an entire genome from one bacterium to another.
(6) "Nobody wants their kid to be the first one off the block to make the Ebola virus," says Venter.
(7) Venter has secured a deal with the oil giant ExxonMobil to create algae that can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into fuel — an innovation he believes could be worth more than a trillion dollars.
(8) In order to study the effect of running on ATPase activity of myofibril and myosin in the hindlimb muscles, male wister rats of the same venter weighing approximately 50 g were housed in individual cages and allowed to run unimpeded on a treadwheel for 25-30 days.
(9) Gavin Venter, a former jockey who worked for Steenkamp's father, said: "Without a doubt he's a danger to the public.
(10) Dr Venter is a brilliant scientist, a successful entrepreneur and a man who knows how to sell his ideas.
(11) Julian Savulescu , professor of practical ethics at Oxford University, said: "Venter is creaking open the most profound door in humanity's history, potentially peeking into its destiny.
(12) "Each day approximately 2,000 die in America from cancer," Dr Venter said.
(13) Group I was treated by the drugs combination (methacin, almagel, gastrofarm, solcoseryl, tazepam, rudotel), group II received gastrocepin, group III venter.
(14) Such possibilities arise in reducing mammaplasty and venter propendens.
(15) These data support the hypothesis that the heart consists of three suborgans; the cushion, venter (pump), and infundibulum.
(16) On the publication of his autobiography, Venter also brought out another book, one that contained the six billion characters of his own genome.
(17) M. pterygoideus ventralis lateralis has a well developed 'venter externus' slip which has its thick and fleshy insertion on the outer lateral angular and articular mandible.
(18) Brand has got to know Venter over the last couple of years through John Brockman's Edge initiative which brings together the world's pioneering minds.
(19) It was the first full catalogue of a single individual's genetic code and it revealed several secrets about Venter's inherited traits, notably a predisposition to heart disease and to Alzheimer's.
(20) Earlier this year, I attended a weekend organised by the Singularity University , a sort of Silicon Valley thinktank co-founded by the futurist Ray Kurzweil and the founder of the X prize, Pete Diamandis, and after presentations by Craig Venter , who sequenced the human genome, and Vint Cerf, the "father of the internet", a voice down the front asked a question.