(a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Administration of aminonucleoside and daunomycin produced proteinuria but did not cause a decrease in lipid P. Anticollagen and anti-lymphocyte sera that attached to the basement membrane but failed to produce proteinuria, also failed to affect the phospholipid content.
(2) The present results suggest that in addition to sulfated glycosaminoglycan some nonsulfated glycosaminoglycan (hyaluronic acid) may also be present in the glomerular basement membrane.
(3) They had no endocrine-like granules and were not associated with nerves or basement membranes.
(4) However, when beta-xyloside-treated cultures were supplied with exogenous basement membrane, Schwann cells produced numerous myelin segments.
(5) The diffuse reaction product seen in basement membranes of ganglion and nerve may also be artifact.
(6) As an extension of the previous study which indicated that mesoglea is a primitive basement membrane which has retained some characteristics of interstitial extracellular matrix, the present study was undertaken to analyze the role of mesoglea components during head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris.
(7) Electron microscopic examination of all leptomeningeal and meningioma cultures revealed desmosomes and dense tonofilament formation; in addition, granular, filamentous basement membrane-like material was abundant in the extracellular spaces of all cultures.
(8) LV force production is dependent on the coupling of myocytes to the extracellular matrix, which is mediated through the basement membrane.
(9) The authors conclude that certain basement membrane components actively promote fetal intestinal epithelial cell differentiation.
(10) Laminin is a constituent of the basement membrane in both chicken and quail blastoderms.
(11) That these antilaminin antibodies were, at least in part, responsible for the toxicity was indicated 1) by reduced cultured embryo toxicity for six of seven serum samples after pre-absorption with purified laminin, 2) by demonstrating a relationship between the amount of affinity-purified antilaminin IgG added to control serum for culture and the severity of embryo abnormalities seen at the end of culture, and 3) by the sera's failing to react with other basement membrane proteins, including type IV collagen, fibronectin, osteonectin, and heparan sulfate proteoglycan.
(12) To study the role of the serum complement system in the early necrosis of acinar cells an acute pancreatitis was produced by injection of basement membrane antibodies into the pancreatic duct of mice and rats.
(13) This enhancement of laminin synthesis corresponds to the mesangial expansion and to the development of laminin-containing spike formations of the glomerular basement membrane at week 8.
(14) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(15) Pathological consequences of these events include inflammatory neutrophil infiltration, damage to the collagen and mucosal basement membrane, increased capillary permeability, edema, cell degeneration and necrosis.
(16) Ultrastructural examination of a tumor with a typical cribriform pattern showed spaces of two types; the more frequent type was bounded by cells with straight plasma membranes and contained filamentous and basement-membrane-like material, and the less frequent type was surrounded by cells with numerous microvilli and contained nonfilamentous homogeneous material.
(17) Laminin, a major component of basement membranes, is known to be present in the internal limiting membrane, and might be involved in the growth of ganglion cell axons.
(18) A case of bullous disease in a child with linear IgA immune deposits at the basement membrane zone and with some clinical, histological, and electron microscopic characteristics both of dermatitis herpetiformis and bullous pemphigoid, is described.
(19) This agrees with previous ultrastructural observations that, in small mammals, neither basement membranes nor large connective tissue spaces are found inside enteric ganglia.
(20) We tested for the distribution of basement membrane (BM) components collagen IV, laminin, heparan sulphate proteoglycan, fibronectin, for S100 protein and for the presence of interstitial collagens III and V. Laminin was generally noted in association with Schwann cells, but collagen IV occurred with perineural cells.
Cellar
Definition:
(n.) A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shackles were found in the cellar, and yesterday police found a trap door.
(2) Last Friday evening, ahead of the congress, the politicians gathered with 100 guests for a dinner in the vaulted cellar of a castle, Burg Weisenau, in the nearby city of Mainz.
(3) It was happening in the cellars of Paris during the occupation in terms of jazz records.
(4) From six captures of Drosophila melanogaster carried out in three different habitats (cellar, vineyard, and pinewood) in two different seasons of the year (spring and autumn), 60 eye-colour mutations were isolated, which were reduced to 29 loci by means of allelism tests within and between populations.
(5) In Walsden, Abbi Blackburn was left stranded in her home after five feet of water poured into her cellar.
(6) Marshall has also established that the cellars regularly flooded disastrously: he began his own work in the building standing in a foot of foetid water.
(7) The EU has so far insisted that the UK cannot offset its share of European Union assets, such as buildings, or indeed the commission’s generous wine cellar, from the bill.
(8) Hence Riva's ordeal in the bathroom, and another almost unwatchable moment that corresponds to the revelation of Mrs Bates rotting in the fruit cellar.
(9) You will never see cream in my house that is not in a jug, nor salt that is not in a cellar.
(10) The cellar level is on the average 5.4 times higher if the cellar has partially a gravel or earth floor than if the whole cellar surface is covered with a concrete floor.
(11) A staircase descends steeply into a network of tunnels and cellars that lead to extraordinary old chalk pits.
(12) The air breathed by three cellar workers was monitored continuously during working hours for one wk.
(13) On the current track, maybe life does become unbearable in the future, when the last remaining cubic centimetre of public space – a trembling pocket of air perhaps, in a cellar at the Emirates British Library – is finally acquired by a friend of King Charles III.
(14) More sybaritically, there is a wine cellar, and a tunnel to the Mandarin Oriental through which meals can be served.
(15) A total number of nearly 100 houses were investigated in Angera; the highest radon concentrations were observed in cellars and especially in the areas where fractures are bigger and more diffuse.
(16) This government was right to examine quangos: if we can't afford universal child benefit, we can't afford committees advising on what wine to buy for government cellars (although if governments want drinks parties, somebody must buy drink).
(17) As well as outlining the property bought in each case, each lease document also specifies which area of the development's wine cellar the buyer is entitled to.
(18) Elsewhere in town, I was reviewing a young double-act called Mitchell and Webb, and – performing in a cellar – a promising character comic, Catherine Tate.
(19) 6.4.1994 Emmerdale ablaze When someone points to a box of fireworks and says, "They should be in the cellar", you know the whole place is about to go up in a dazzling racket of rockets.
(20) I found a section on shocking revenge acts – like kidnapping the son of a mafioso, keeping him hostage in a cellar for two years, then strangling him.