(n.) Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
(n.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
(2) There was no evidence of a "columnar" or "blob" pattern of any binding site within any of the laminae.
(3) The thresholds for both tasks increased linearly with decreasing resolution (increasing blur), for a constant ratio of the resolution parameter and the separation of the outer two blobs.
(4) If you look at a map of Britain resized according to house prices, London and the south-east form a massive blob, and every other region and nation are mere stringy offshoots, like a fried egg that is all yolk.
(5) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(6) The centers of the hypercolumns coincide with the blobs.
(7) Segregation of textures based on differences in line orientation and blob size was tested in adults, infants and children, with a forced-choice preferential looking technique.
(8) In primate striate cortex, staining for the mitochondrial enzyme cytochrome oxidase reveals a regular pattern of intense staining, the blobs, which are surrounded by the lighter stained interblob regions.
(9) Differential connections between CO-rich (blobs) and CO-poor regions (interblobs) also exist within V1; blobs are connected to blobs and interblobs are connected to interblobs.
(10) The level of isolation of the blobs from the surrounding interblob tissue was investigated in the present study by combining CO staining with Golgi impregnation of dendritic arbors in the same tissue sections.
(11) Thus the activating domain of the hER HBD appears to be different from the recently characterized 'simple' activating domains, such as acidic 'blob' or amphipathic helix, and more likely corresponds to a protein surface created from dispersed elements and dependent upon the three-dimensional folding of the HBD.
(12) Paterson, who has previously said significant global temperature rises of 1-2.5C would only be modest and who claimed he was sacked as minister to appease the “green blob” , is to call for a repeal of the act unless other countries adopt similar carbon-cutting laws.
(13) Like the centers of pinwheels, the centers of blobs also lie along the midline of ocular-dominance columns.
(14) The preattentive system ignores the exact shape of these blobs, but is sensitive to their average width, length, and orientation.
(15) Neuroanatomical tracing studies have shown that blob and interblob cells receive different inputs and participate in different projections.
(16) The chief finding was that cells in "blobs" of layer III that stain densely for cytochrome oxidase receive indirect input, via layer IVC, from both LGN magnocellular (M) and parvocellular (P) cells.
(17) The rare, ethereal objects, first seen in the 1990s, came to be known as Lyman-alpha blobs (Lab), their place instantly secured among the most mysterious phenomena in the heavens.
(18) The technique involves a full thickness incision of the blob of tissue and positioning of a spacer which is gradually expanded by means of a conical obturator.
(19) Scaling (i) the three-blob alignment results with estimates of the cortical magnification factor and (ii) the two-blob separation discrimination results with their corresponding neural blur parameter shows an impressive isotropy and blur scale-invariance for the mechanisms mediating differential spatial displacement discrimination across the visual field.
(20) The first woman to be awarded the prestigious gong in her own right, the 64-year-old earned a place as one of the most sought-after architects in the world, having bestowed her trademark blobs on cityscapes from Baku to Guangzhou This article was amended on 25 September 2015.
Metope
Definition:
(n.) The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature.
(n.) The face of a crab.
Example Sentences:
(1) The deformities resulting from premature closure of a coronal, sagittal, metopic, or lambdoid suture can be predicted by the following observations: (1) cranial vault bones that are prematurely fused act as a single bone plate with decreased growth potential; (2) asymmetrical bone deposition occurs mainly at perimeter sutures, with increased bone deposition directed away from the bone plate; (3) sutures adjacent to the stenotic suture compensate in growth more than those sutures not contiguous with the closed suture; and (4) enhanced bone deposition occurs along both sides of a nonperimeter suture that is a continuation of the prematurely closed suture.
(2) The specific syndrome is formed by a premature synostosis of the metopic suture (PSMS) in association with an abnormally shaped skull.
(3) Quantitative changes were measured by counting primary osteones in the outer table of each frontal bone half within 1.6 mm of the metopic suture.
(4) For a minor degree of prominence at the metopic suture, a bicoronal flap followed by shaping at the suture with a shaping burr was sufficient and yielded favorable cosmetic results.
(5) The presence of metopism must be remembered, for instance, in skull fractures.
(6) The father had a sloping forehead and possibly partial metopic craniosynostosis.
(7) The metopic suture was present in the lower part of the frontal bone in various shapes in 35.27% of cases.
(8) Plain skull radiograph showed persistent metopic suture and frontal fontanelle, many wormian bones around coronal and lambdoid sutures.
(9) Mean blood loss for sagittal craniectomies was 24 per cent of estimated blood volume (EBV) or approximately 20 ml.kg-1 and for metopic craniectomies 42 per cent of EBV (P less than 0.05).
(10) A rare case of congenital orbital teratoma that developed concurrently with the clinical findings of metopic sutural synostosis in an infant is presented.
(11) Incomplete metopic suture was present in 115 skulls (28.75%, 27 females and 88 males).
(12) In summary, three-dimensional CT re-formation correlated with metopic suture histology.
(13) The midline strut in the area of the fused metopic suture is then burred down using a high-speed drill, but is not removed.
(14) In addition to skin fragility, the disorder is characterized by redundant skin folds and edema, healing with minimal scar formation, large fontanels and wide sagittal and metopic sutures, blue sclerae, micrognathia, and umbilical hernia; after the neonatal period there are joint laxity, growth failure, short limbs, and normal mineralization of the skeleton except for the cranial vault.
(15) The majority of these articulations were obliterated by bone union, except for the midsagittal, coronal, and metopic sutures, which were re-established in their appropriate antomical positions.
(16) Thus, both the patient's age and the severity of aesthetic deformity dictate the surgical techniques used in the correction of metopic synostosis.
(17) We presented a case of hemangioblastoma associated with spina bifida occulta, persistent metopic suture, thyroid adenocarcinoma, vertebro-occipital anastomosis and erythrocytosis.
(18) Common clinical features included normal birth weight, postnatal asphyxia, convulsions, severe psychomotor retardation, normal growth, and a distinct pattern of dysmorphias consisting of trigonocephalic head with prominent metopic suture, long and markedly curved eyelashes, a stubby nose, increased distance between nose and upper lip, high-arched palate, misshapen ears with virtually absent lobules and prominent anthelices which are curved in a sharp angle, and hemangiomata.
(19) Ridging of the metopic suture, congenital heart defect, postaxial polydactyly, and hypospadias were additional features in individual cases.
(20) The patients considered in the present study were subdivided into two groups according to the prevalent involvement of sagittal suture or of the anterior sutural group (coronal metopic, spheno-frontal and spheno-palatine sutures).