(n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.
(a.) Pertaining to leap year.
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Intercalary
Definition:
(a.) Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.
(n.) Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary.
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(1) During the past several years, the cost of excising and preparing intercalary allografts has been $600 per implant, while the cost for osteochondral allografts varied between $900 and $1,200.
(2) In the parotid glands numerous adrenergic and cholinergic axons are found beneath the basement membrane of acini and intercalary ducts in intimate association with the cells.
(3) We suggest that the lower efficiencies of the replication origins, or special regions of termination at these sites, are the primary cause of the under-replication, and that this under-replication is sufficient to confer the properties of intercalary heterochromatin.
(4) Arguments that the duplications are the result of cell interactions and intercalary growth that themselves arise from an abnormal polarity of the embryonic segment are presented.
(5) The loci-specificity of the X-chromosome intercalary parts' attachment to the nucleus envelope is found in Anopheles messeae.
(6) Terminal fields were identified in lamina intercalaris and medial habenular nuclei.
(7) Glycoproteins demonstrated in the epithelium are similar to those of intercalary ducts of parotid and submandibular glands, and may represent a primitive form of salivary secretion.
(8) Filaments incubated in low stain concentrations (0.0005%) showed cell abnormalities with all stain types, with FB-28 producing the most extreme deformations of both intercalary and apical cells.
(9) The molecular organization of the cloned DNA was compared with that of sequences isolated from regions of intercalary heterochromatin and also with genes which have been characterized from more conventional euchromatic regions.
(10) These data are compatible with a cell-movement:intercalary cell division hypothesis in which duplication is dependent upon specific positional confrontation and subsequent cell division.
(11) Incidence of supernumerary tests was 28%, their distribution being caudal (80%), intercalary (8%), ramal (5%) and anterior 1%; 6% had both caudal and intercalary teats.
(12) It is argued that the terms n. geniculatus dorsalis p. principalis and p. intercalaris, n. superficialis magnocellularis (in its wrong usage), n. lamminaris precommissuralis, n. lentiformis mesencephali p. medialis, p. parvocellularis and p. magnocellularis should be considered obsolete, on various embryological and hodologic grounds.
(13) Study of the genetics of mutant haplotypes suggests that the observed effects on meiosis and embryonic development may be due to an altered form of intercalary DNA (iDNA) in the relevant chromosomal region (band 17B).
(14) We treated 21 aggressive and malignant bone tumors by wide resection and replacement with deep-frozen osteoarticular and segmental (intercalary and block) allografts.
(15) This pattern has not been observed previously and is designated as type E. Other new observations were: chromosome 5 was composed of pericentromeric heterochromatin, a lightly stained intercalary band at the middle portion of the short arm, and a lightly stained interstitial band at the terminal region of the long arm.
(16) Preparation and banking of massive osteoarticular allografts and intercalary bone allografts have been performed for the past 12 years.
(17) The labeling index of the nuclei of the centroacinar cells was 2.5 times higher than that of the acinar epithelium and amounted to 0.48 plus or minus 0.17%, whereas the epithelium of the intercalary ducts had an extremely low labeling index: 0.09 plus or minus 0.09%, compared with 0.27 plus or minus 0.09% for the intralobular ducts and 0.50 plus or minus 0.08% for the interlobular ducts.
(18) Staining for esteroproteases was confined to the periluminal rims of intercalary and striated ducts.
(19) Homologous 125I-5S rRNA was found to hybridize to three sites in the polytene chromosomes of P. coccineus: the proximal heterochromatic segment in the long arm of chromosome pair I (which also bears the sequences complementary to 25S, 18S and 5.8S RNAs), most of the proximal heterochromatic segment plus a small portion of adjoining euchromatin in the long arm of chromosome pair VI and the large intercalary heterochromatic segment in the same chromosome pair.
(20) The authors concluded that atrophic changes found in the intercalary nucleus may be probable of transsynaptic in character.