(n.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.
(n.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.
(n.) An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc.
(v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four cases of benign lymphoid hyperplasia (BLH) of the duodenal bulb are reported.
(2) White hair bulbs which demonstrated no TH activity formed 2SCD, but not 5SCD.
(3) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
(4) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
(5) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.
(6) This observation provides corroboration for the identification of the principal CCK-I neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as the centrally projecting middle tufted cell.
(7) One PCR product hybridized to a 4.0 kb RNA concentrated in subpopulations of putative glutamatergic neurons including mitral cells of the olfactory bulb, pyramidal cells of layer V of the cerebral cortex, pyramidal cells of the piriform cortex, and pyramidal cells of field CA3 of the hippocampus.
(8) Glomus body tumors most frequently originate in the middle ear (tympanicum) or on the jugular bulb (jugulare).
(9) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
(10) Olfactory bulbs are relatively smaller in felids than in canids or viverrids.
(11) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
(12) The lighting regimen was 14 h light: 10 h dark, supplied by natural diffused sunlight and incandescent bulbs.
(13) Endoscopic evaluation of the stomach and duodenum was performed, with separate registration of the duodenum distally to the duodenal bulb.
(14) The staining of HRP-immunopositive cell bodies indicates that the pallial regions studied receive afferent projections from the main olfactory bulb and are reciprocally interconnected by intrapallial associative fiber systems.
(15) The cardiac glycoside ouabain was injected into the eye-bulb of the teleost fish, Carassius carassius.
(16) The results also indicate that the two parts of the teleost olfactory bulb are differentiated not only functionally but also morphologically.
(17) The rhythmic waves induced by these ions were recorded in the olfactory bulb.
(18) In oestrogen-treated preparations, tuberoinfundibular arcuate neurons responsive and unresponsive to accessory bulb stimulation could be distinguished by the frequency of successful antidromic propagation into the soma.
(19) The volumetric determination of all those tissues relevant for Opthalmodynamography (ODG) showed the lids to contribute about a quarter to the total volume; another quarter each was due to the optic bulb including optic fascicel, external bulbar musculature and orbital fat.
(20) Early resection of carotid body tumors, before involvement of the internal carotid artery and carotid bulb, is advocated.
Tuber
Definition:
(n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.
(n.) A genus of fungi. See Truffle.
(n.) A tuberosity; a tubercle.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
(2) This paper describes a family in which the first child, a girl born in 1988, has tuberous sclerosis (TS).
(3) Tuning curves of afferent electroreceptive fibers in the anterior lateral line nerve of the weakly electric fish, Sternopygus macrurus, indicate that the tuberous electroreceptors of each individual are well-tuned to its own electric organ discharge (EOD) frequency.
(4) 100 degrees C. Thus residues did not migrate into the flesh of the tubers.
(5) Aromatase immunoreactive cells (ARO-ir) were found in the medial preoptic nucleus, in the septal region, and in a large cell cluster extending from the dorso-lateral aspect of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus to the tuber at the level of the nucleus inferioris hypothalami.
(6) Injections of horseradish peroxidase into the telencephalon retrogradely labeled neurons ipsilaterally in various thalamic, preglomerular, and tuberal nuclei, the nucleus of the locus coeruleus (also contralaterally), the superior raphe, and portions of the nucleus lateralis valvulae.
(7) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
(8) A simple and efficient method is presented for the extraction, cleanup, and liquid chromatographic (LC) determination of oxamyl residues in potato tubers.
(9) The study of the selective renal arteriogram enables preoperative diagnosis of angiomyolipoma even when not associated with tuberous sclerosis, and a partial nephrectomy.
(10) The association of diffuse lipomatosis with tuberous sclerosis is reported.
(11) Developing pyramidal cells in the remaining three tuberous organ-receptive lateral ELL segments are unreactive.
(12) CD rats were much less responsive to mPOA stimulation (spaced electrodes) than O-M rats, but the responses of both strains to tuberal stimulation were essentially alike.
(13) It did not allow distinction between true pachygyria, focal cortical dysplasia, or the forme fruste of tuberous sclerosis.
(14) cDNA clones of potato virus X (PVXcp strain), potato virus Y (PVYo strain), potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) and potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV) were used separately or combined for the detection of the corresponding RNAs in extracts of infected plants.
(15) The export of pectate lyase, polygalacturonase, and cellulase and the maceration of potato tuber tissue occurred with Out+, but not Out-, strains of E. carotovora subsp.
(16) We conclude that neurons in the lateral tuberal nucleus show an early stage of AD-related cytoskeletal pathology (Alz-50 positivity), but without plaques or neuronal death.
(17) The possibility of incorporating Icacinia manni among the edible starchy plant tubers is discussed.
(18) Western blots of extracts from P(i)-deficient cells were probed with rabbit anti-(potato tuber PFP) immune serum and revealed equal intensity staining immunoreactive polypeptides of M(r) 66,000 (alpha-subunit) and 60,000 (beta-subunit) that co-migrated with the alpha- and beta-subunits of homogeneous potato tuber PFP.
(19) In six patients the clinical symptoms were atypical; in those instances computed tomography makes diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis possible.
(20) Angiomyolipomas produce pathognomonic appearances on modern imaging methods and a tissue diagnosis is no longer required particularly when multiple tubers can be confidently diagnosed and if a CT brain scan shows periventricular calcifications.