(n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.
(n.) The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(2) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(3) They are capable of synthesis and accumulation of glycogen and responsible for its transfer to sites of more intense metabolism (growth, bud, blastema).
(4) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(5) 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.
(6) They were formed by budding off from the cytoplasmic projections of the osteoblastic tumor cells.
(7) These antibodies were used to study the localization and synthesis of myosin heavy chain and tropomyosin in the limb buds of premetamorphic (stage VI-VII) tadpoles treated with triiodothyronine (T3) to induce metamorphosis.
(8) In contrast, sporoblasts and budding and free sporozoites in mature oocysts were labeled uniformly on the outer surfaces of their plasma membranes, indicating a uniform distribution of CS protein on these membranes.
(9) Other experiments further implicated actin in the budding process during virus maturation, as there appeared to be a specific association of actin in vitro only with nucleocapsids that have terminated RNA synthesis, which is presumably a prerequisite to budding.
(10) By the time the bud was half the diameter of the mother cell, it almost always bore a vacuole.
(11) The ICC assay demonstrated the production of infectious HIV-1 particles and budding of mature virions was observed by electron microscopy.
(12) We report now that the hormonal metabolite of vitamin D3, namely 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, stimulates chondrogenesis in cultures of stage 24 chick embryo limb bud mesenchymal cells, as evidenced by morphologic changes as well as by increased transcription of collagen type II and core protein genes.
(13) Lysis ability was acquired by growth in (or transfer to) an osmotically stabilized environment, but only under conditions which permitted budding.
(14) Intralobar pulmonary sequestration has generally been considered a congenital malformation in which an accessory lung bud develops, is enveloped by normal lung, and retains its systemic arterial supply.
(15) Consequently mother cells can switch their mating type whereas bud cells cannot.
(16) At the former site the membrane overlying the bud showed an electron opaque thickening which imparted to the mature particle an asymmetrical appearance.
(17) Recently, cDNA clones encoding several bovine CKI isoforms have been sequenced that show high sequence identity to the HRR25 gene product of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae; HRR25 is required for normal cellular growth, nuclear segregation, DNA repair, and meiosis.
(18) Budding "yeast-like organisms" that were consistent with Cryptococcus neoformans appeared in tissue specimens.
(19) This decrease in virus release appeared to be due to interference with the virus budding process due to antibody-mediated modulation of virus-induced cell surface antigens.
(20) Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) was tested for its ability to stimulate a chemotactic response in Stage 24 embryonic chick limb bud mesenchymal cells and muscle-derived fibroblasts.
Inchoative
Definition:
(a.) Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb.
(n.) An inchoative verb. See Inceptive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contemporary biological psychiatry is in a seemingly inchoate state.
(2) The film-maker maunders about inchoately in the documentary, showing a "different" slice of life, and at one stage trots out the extraordinary defence that if he hadn't done it, someone else would have.
(3) Such analysis is done in well-documented and apparently logical form by the utilities and in a rather more inchoate but not necessarily less accurate form by the public.
(4) The detectable AChE activity at this age is apparently found in inchoate layers 1-2 and 4-5.
(5) The painful reality for the party is that its leader cobbled together an inchoate platform that masked fierce ideological differences in the ranks and hoped to steer it through an electoral window opened up by Lib Dem collapse and Ukip insurgency.
(6) Images inchoate and nonsensical, my arms and legs seemingly elongated and embalmed in grease, the sense of utter isolation while being gnawed by rats.
(7) The information and study was at an inchoate stage; therefore, further comparison and interpretation are needed to assess the findings.
(8) Attachment is fascinating as an idea; when it hardens into science, which is inchoate but treated as fact, its consequences can be devastating.
(9) But though, in interviews with the Guardian, young activists focused their anger on Jamaat-e-Islami, which they called "the terrorist group", a series of more inchoate discontents underpinned the movement too.
(10) The other challenge to Cameron, Miliband and Clegg and anyone who hopes to step into their shoes, is that the quarrel between the two firebrands reflects inchoate though powerful undercurrents.
(11) He incorporates within his writing both his stunning and at times crippling intellectual powers and his dark inchoate mournful passion and remorse.
(12) He started with a call for military action, then veered into a prayer for diplomacy before trailing off into an inchoate “stay tuned” denouement.
(13) More recent criticism has emphasised Holden's inchoate desire for something purer and truer than the cruelty and "phoniness" of the unredeemed world.
(14) Given the spontaneous, geographically diverse and inchoate nature of these disturbances, there was never a credible single cause.
(15) Obese entitlement and inchoate bluster; but white as they are white.
(16) Public sentiment whipsawed between unimaginable grief and inchoate rage, and the NRA provided a concrete proposal whose very outlandishness contained a glimmer of hope: no one has ever before seriously proposed weaponizing public schools.
(17) Many of us brood on the abyss – the sense that, in some large, inchoate way, we are nearing the end of life as we know it.
(18) In Uganda there is an inchoate revolution struggling to be born.
(19) Yes, there was some resistance to Putin’s increasing control, but the opposition – inchoate, confused and conflicted – was easily undermined.
(20) Political struggle for a better world has given way to inchoate identity-driven rage.