(n.) Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vague denture complaints and complaints about a bulbous face were related to "neuroticism".
(2) We followed up 48 patients operated on for bulbous or penile strictures caused by inflammation or by urethral irritation following endoscopic manipulation or catheterization.
(3) Similar to previous cases in the literature this girl presented with proportionate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, normocephaly, triangular face with bulbous nose, long eyelashes, short upper lip, small vermilion border of upper lip, dorsally rotated ears, deep nuchal hair line, hirsutism, and clinodactyly of little fingers.
(4) However, the bulbous part was considerably blunter and the "U"-shaped part much larger in circumference in comparison to the lower incisor.
(5) Using a new sample of 16 human brains (F = 8, M = 8), it was found that the splenial portion of the corpus callosum was larger and more bulbous in females than in males.
(6) Since 1979, 12 patients with obliterated urethras (ten membranous, two bulbous) have been treated by direct vision urethrotomy using a second cystoscope or sound passed through the previously placed suprapubic tract as a guide.
(7) In Rhinolasius, one receptor possesses a short bulbous cilium without a rootlet, with a septate desmosome of the pleated sheet (comb) type and a weakly developed electron-dense band beneath it.
(8) The filaments did not taper and had large bulbous irregularities at the ends.
(9) This is a reasonable first procedure for restoring continuity of traumatically obliterated membranous and bulbous urethras.
(10) Women tended to have 1) a smaller cross-sectional callosal area (CCA); 2) a larger fraction of CCA in the posterior fifth of the CC; 3) more slender CCs; and 4) more bulbous splenia.
(11) Two types of bulbous projections were observed in the ventricular lumen close to the ependymal surface.
(12) The cell processes contained cytoplasmic varicosities at various intervals along their lengths; and their endings often expanded into bulbous, vesicle-filled process terminals.
(13) The inner ends of the cells project into the ventricular cavity as bulbous or apical protrusions which contain many organelles, especially MVBs.
(14) In addition, the prosthecae of these fusiform caulobacters do not have crossbands, they are somewhat wider than the stalks of Caulobacter and the pseudostalks of Asticcacaulis, and they terminate in a bulbous tip.
(15) The prominent finding in the amygdaloid complex of SDAT was that swollen and bulbous TH-immunoreactive neurites were found in association with neuritic plaques, which have not, rarely if any, been found in controls.
(16) Observations made with a scanning electron microscope confirm the binding of the stereocilia to a matchhead-like bulbous terminal at the apex of the kinocilium in frog saccular receptor cells.
(17) Due to the bulbous shape of the stump prosthetic fitting of modern appliances no longer presents problems.
(18) Some meandering evaginations were also observed as, rarely, were small spherical or bulbous projections.
(19) The immunoreactive cells consisted of two subtypes; the rod-dominant ON-type with a large soma and a large bulbous axon terminal, and the cone-dominant ON-type with a small soma and small axon terminal.
(20) Three papillary tumors as large as a grain of rice or a pea were found in his fossa navicularis, besides on panendoscopic examination, a small papillary tumor was found on the bulbous urethra.
Squill
Definition:
(n.) A mantis.
(n.) A European bulbous liliaceous plant (Urginea, formerly Scilla, maritima), of acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties used in medicine. Called also sea onion.
(n.) Any bulbous plant of the genus Scilla; as, the bluebell squill (S. mutans).
(n.) A squilla.
Example Sentences:
(1) Red squill bulbs, with reported specific rodenticidal properties, have been assayed for their content of the two main glycosides, scilliroside and scillaren A, by a method depending on the separation of the glycosides from purified plant extracts by tlc followed by spectrophotometric (uv and visible) determination of the individual glycosides in the eluates.
(2) The structure of sinistrin from red squill (Urginea maritima) was determined by methylation analysis and 13C NMR spectroscopy, using the fructans from Pucinella peisonis and quack-grass (Agropyron repens) as reference substances.
(3) The method was found convenient for assessment of the potency of red squill bulbs.
(4) In a randomized, controlled, double-blind study 2 groups of 7 patients each with coronary heart disease received either 1 mg methylproscillaridin (MP) a cardiac glycoside of the squill intravenously, or placebo to test the inotropic effect of MP.