(n.) A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.
(n.) The state or position of beds and layers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
(3) Hexamethonium abolished vasodilatation in the hindquarters vascular bed only.
(4) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(5) "I don't want to go to Zurich, to some anonymous facility; I would want to do it in my own bed.
(6) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(7) But even before the reforms, half of the women coming to refuges were being turned away, so beds were already scarce.
(8) It is suggested that this human model of unloading could serve to simulate effects of microgravity on skeletal muscle mass and function because reductions in muscle mass and strength were of similar magnitude to those produced by bed rest.
(9) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
(10) Using nursing home and hospital medical records, we performed a case-control study to identify risk factors for death from LRI among residents of a 110-bed, midwestern community nursing home.
(11) These results indicate, that there is no autoregulation in the hyperemizied capillary bed.
(12) A 30% maltodextrin solution has been continuously hydrolyzed at 50 degrees C and pH 4.5 in a recycled, fluidized bed reactor (FBR) containing GA immobilized on these magnetic microparticles.
(13) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
(14) A key part of the reason why Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, one of the NHS’s most prestigious hospitals, was put into special measures last week was that 200 of its beds were being occupied by patients who could not leave because there was a lack of social care in place to support them.
(15) AR and ER mRNA-containing neurons were widely distributed in the rat brain, with the greatest densities of cells in the hypothalamus, and in regions of the telencephalon that provide strong inputs in the medial preoptic and ventromedial nuclei, each of which is thought to play a key role in mediating the hormonal control of copulatory behavior, as well as in the lateral septal nucleus, the medial and cortical nuclei of the amygdala, the amygdalohippocampal area, and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
(16) Principles and technique for selecting material from the human heart ventricular walls to study stereometrically their intramural arterial bed are described.
(17) We present interim survival data for a group of 83 adult patients with recurrent malignant glioma treated by implanting stimulated autologous lymphocytes into the tumour bed following surgical debulking.
(18) Effectiveness of a relaxation technique to increase the comfort level of patients in their first postoperative attempt at getting out of bed was tested on 42 patients, aged 18 to 65, who were hospitalized for elective surgery.
(19) Biomicroscopic studies performed in anesthetized white rats revealed the increase in the cortex mass and the formation of microcirculatory bed as the main factors in microcirculation development.
(20) In 9 women with polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD) and in 11 control subjects at the follicular phase of the normal cycle, blood samples were collected at 15-min intervals during a 2 h period of bed rest for the assay of beta-endorphin, beta-lipotropin, corticotropin, cortisol and prolactin.
Foliation
Definition:
(n.) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
(n.) The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.
(n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
(n.) The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
(n.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
(n.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(2) Tissue sections, taken from foliate and circumvallate papillae, generally revealed taste buds in which all cells were immunoreactive; however, occasionally some taste buds were found to contain highly reactive individual cells adjacent to non-reactive cells.
(3) Examination of rabbit foliate papillae by electron microscopy revealed for the first time the existence of a dividing cell within a taste bud.
(4) Exposure to ethanol from E12 to PN5 resulted in a large loss of P cells and retarded the foliation of the cerebellum.
(5) Fissurations forming lobules arose largely independent of the external granular layer by directed expansion of the central fiber core while normal parallel foliation is an elaboration of the lobular surface controlled by growth forces defined by both distribution of the external granular layer and the underlying fiber core with associated Purkinje cells.
(6) Individual differences in pattern of foliation and body representation occur.
(7) Small tubulo-alveolar salivary glands, the von Ebner's glands, are located beneath the circumvallate and the foliate papillae.
(8) NSE-positive fibers then penetrated the epithelium as isolated fibers, primarily in the foliate and circumvallate papillae, or as brush-shaped units formed by a multitude of fibers, especially in the fungiform papillae and in the apical epithelium of the circumvallate papilla.
(9) Foliate and vallate buds demonstrated homogeneous dense substance within the taste pores while fungiform pores were frequently empty.
(10) To examine this hypothesis further, we used electron microscopy to examine taste pores of both vallate and foliate papillae from Rhesus monkeys before or after stimulation with thaumatin or sucrose.
(11) the filiform, fungiform, foliate and circumvallate papillae.
(12) The single circumvallate papilla and fungiform papillae were initiated during the early part of the 13th day, followed on the 15th day by differentiation of filiform and foliate papillae and raised nodules of lingual tonsilar tissue.
(13) Morphological evidence of degeneration includes pyknosis of Purkinje cells and abnormal foliation patterns.
(14) Plasma glycine concentration increased in foliate deficiency and decreased with oestradiol treatment.
(15) Pseudomorphous foliated texture and cross-cutting relationships indicate replacement of talc by sepiolite.
(16) The circumvallate and foliate papillae are characterized not only by their position, but also by presence of several taste buds which open through the external orifice of the gustatory canal into the cavity of the vallum, or furrow, which divides the two folds of the lingual mucosa.
(17) alpha-Gustducin messenger RNA is expressed in taste buds of all taste papillae (circumvallate, foliate and fungiform); it is not expressed in non-sensory portions of the tongue, nor is it expressed in the other tissues examined.
(18) This reorientation of the expansion appears to be related to the cortical changes which have been described and marks the onset of foliation.
(19) Labelled fibers innervated the ipsilateral foliate papilla only, but both ipsi-and contralateral sides of the single circumvallate papilla.
(20) Ganglia of various shape and size were observed on or near the fungiform, filiform and foliate papillae.