(n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
(2) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.
(3) "The UK is not a banana republic and we do ourselves no favours whatsoever by appearing to behave like one".
(4) He told one journalist to “visit the ear doctor” and threw a banana skin at the head of a cameraman.
(5) In short, it is alleged that under his rule Sri Lanka is becoming a nasty, authoritarian quasi-rogue banana republic.
(6) The amount of banana starch not hydrolyzed and absorbed from the human small intestine and therefore passing into the colon may be up to 8 times more than the NSP present in this food and depends on the state of ripeness when the fruit is eaten.
(7) Bananas are a staple crop in the region and so controlling the disease would directly enhance food security.
(8) Responding by squirrel monkeys was maintained under a 30-response fixed-ratio schedule of food presentation; during different sessions responding produced either sucrose-flavored or banana-flavored food pellets.
(9) Ahmed Dirie, independent research consultant, San Jose, US Release Africa's farmlands from cash crops : East Africa exports coffee, tea, flowers, banana and livestock but faces recurrent droughts and food shortages.
(10) This article examines a remarkable case of massive sterilization of approximately 1,500 workers in Costa Rica, due to exposure to a toxic nematicide called DBCP 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane), applied in large commercial banana plantations.
(11) It’s worth resisting the allure of unnecessary online purchases, one banana at a time.
(12) With the Gulf of Cádiz and the Atlantic beyond being among Europe’s most fertile marine areas, and a climate where mangoes and bananas thrive, visitors eat extremely well – and surprisingly cheaply – here.
(13) The foundation's chief executive, Michael Gidney, compared the price of a banana that has been shipped in from the Caribbean or Central America to the 20p paid for an apple grown in Britain.
(14) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
(15) The school's new campus opened last September as part of the – now abolished – Building Schools for the Future programme, and a distinctive Super Lamb Banana statue stands outside the reception.
(16) I often find a pile of banana skins in my car at the end of the week.
(17) Histamine, tyramine, noradrenaline, serotonin and other pressor amines occur in fruits and fermented foods such as bananas, pineapples, cheese and wine.
(18) Gidney said banana farmers had suffered because they were less able to publicise their plight from far overseas.
(19) She reminds me of the time David was ridiculed for being photographed grinning inanely with a banana.
(20) Ticketed attractions include the small zoo (family ticket £29) and “ banana bikes ” for hire (£10 an hour).
Cuneiform
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Cuniform
(n.) Alt. of Cuniform
Example Sentences:
(1) DYN B cell bodies were present in nonpyramidal cells of neo- and allocortices, medium-sized cells of the caudate-putamen, nucleus accumbens, lateral part of the central nucleus of the amygdala, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, preoptic area, and in sectors of nearly every hypothalamic nucleus and area, medial pretectal area, and nucleus of the optic tract, periaqueductal gray, raphe nuclei, cuneiform nucleus, sagulum, retrorubral nucleus, peripeduncular nucleus, lateral terminal nucleus, pedunculopontine nucleus, mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus, parabigeminal nucleus, dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus, lateral superior olivary nucleus, superior paraolivary nucleus, medial superior olivary nucleus, ventral nucleus of the trapezoid body, lateral dorsal tegmental nucleus, accessory trigeminal nucleus, solitary nucleus, nucleus ambiguus, paratrigeminal nucleus, area postrema, lateral reticular nucleus, and ventrolateral region of the reticular formation.
(2) Outside PAG, labelled cells and terminal labelling were observed in the cuneiform, parabrachial and intercollicular nuclei, in the deep and intermediate gray layers of the superior colliculus, in the anterior and posterior pretectal nuclei and in the nucleus of Darkschewitsch.
(3) The mesencephalic central grey contained relatively few labeled neurons, the great majority of them being mesencephalic trigeminal, ectopic cuneiform or midline cells.
(4) Bilateral stimulation of electrodes aimed at the cuneiform nucleus produced significant inhibition of the startle response produced by presentation of an 8-kHz, 110-dB tone.
(5) Furthermore, isolated retrogradely labeled cells were present in the central nucleus of the raphe, in the cuneiform nucleus, and in the periaqueductal gray.
(6) The last patient was treated by arthrodesis between the first cuneiform and the first metatarsal for plantar-flexion the first ray.
(7) Special emphasis is directed toward the angle formed between the first metatarsal base and medial cuneiform, which these investigators believe has not been previously described.
(8) An increased density of bony lamellae in the internal structure of the navicular bone could result from excessive stress, enforced by its close relationship to the three cuneiform bones.
(9) In 93% of sites in the cuneiform area this procedure gave only freezing, although subsequent testing with repeated injections produced fast running in 53% of these sites.
(10) Two of the targets of the ipsilateral descending pathway from the superior colliculus are the cuneiform area (immediately ventral to the inferior colliculus), and the dorsolateral basilar pons.
(11) It get release of metatarsal stiffness before 6 years of age, then in older we make osteotomy of 1 degree cuneiform and cuboid to correct bone deformity.
(12) This is a case report of a tarsal coalition involving a bilateral symmetrical synchondrosis of the navicular first cuneiform bones in a 37-year-old Hispanic man.
(13) A case of Candida albicans arthritis involving a knee and cuneiform bone is presented.
(14) Although many tectal cells were single-labelled by injections into basilar pons or the cuneiform area, less than 5% were double-labelled.
(15) Moreover, eversion of an average of 6.2 degrees often only occurs as a result of dorsal displacement of the joint surfaces of the first metatarsal in relation to the first cuneiform by an average of 2.6 mm.
(16) The incidence of the cuneiform cartilage and cartilago triticea was greater in the female than in the male.
(17) Since the ipsilaterally projecting laminae V-VII interneurones with such an input might be involved in locomotion, it is proposed that this is also the case for the contralaterally projecting lamina VIII midlumbar interneurones, especially those excited by stimuli applied in the cuneiform nucleus (mesencephalic locomotor region).
(18) The fact that the histological picture does not provide too much data on the etiopathogenic mechanism of the cuneiform lesions it may be considered that the occluding trauma is one of the major causes of these coronal lesions.
(19) To avoid the dropfoot deformity and retain mobility of the ankle, the amputation was modified by transposing the tibialis anterior from metatarsal I to cuneiform I.
(20) This conceptual revolution is the result of progress in a number of fields: precise information concerning the situation and, more particularly, the variability of "instantaneous axes", a better understanding of the anatomy of ligaments and their role, allowing their grouping into functional units: the anterior and posterior ligamentous straps and the cuneiform sling which determines its stability and basic movements.