(n.) One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian.
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Tabula
Definition:
(n.) A table; a tablet.
(n.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
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(1) He is the tabula rasa on to which the "anyone but Zuma" campaign can project their hopes and, perhaps, wishful thinking.
(2) Again, this is the 'tabula rasa' aspect of the 2008 election.
(3) A conditional analysis of psychotic disturbances must be based on the concept that the individual's psyche, in both spheres, is not a 'tabula rasa' (Locke), but always conveys a selection of that which has been offered in the situation (Leibniz).
(4) European engineers were sent in flocks to the US to learn from the environments in which these revolutionary ideas were playing out, returning with tabula rasa development plans to realise their own modernist dreams.
(5) The article presented here demonstrates structure findings (calvarial thickness; relation between tabula externa, tabula interna, and diploe [in terms of the percentage of the whole section examined], porosity of the diploe [including the mean width of its cavities]; degree of obliteration of the sagittal suture) of a strictly defined skeletal segment in special regard to the expected variability.
(6) Your Tory Party Chairman Name should be a tabula rasa for public trust.
(7) As was common at that time, the text plagiarized a portion of Vesalius' Tabulae sex, which resulted in the famous anatomist's anger.
(8) Reviewing the anglo-american literature and our own research it is argued that infants cannot be viewed as "tabula rasa".
(9) This study also formed the basis for the chapters on cyclopia in his Handbook of pathological anatomy (1842-1844) and his Tabulae ad illustrandam embryogenesin hominis et mammalium (1844-1849).
(10) He prefers to be the empty vessel in this three-way relationship, a tabula rasa giving nothing away, a disinterested party to the exchange, a mere catalyst, a service-provider, a set of skills for rent: at the basic level, he considers himself not to be involved.
(11) Forget tabula rasa regeneration, slow and steady wins the race.
(12) The nervous system of dark-reared chicks is not a tabula rasa, as chicks have predispositions to approach some stimuli rather than others.
(13) But such a site would have necessitated the intelligence of adaptive reuse and careful planning, of a kind clearly at odds with the tabula rasa predilections of the Expo juggernaut.
(14) "Obama's great strength on the campaign trail was that he was 'tabula rasa' [a blank slate].
(15) This potential for sudden destruction highlights one of the most powerful aspects of fire and cities: the ability to create a tabula rasa , to wipe clear the entire history of a place.
(16) Fairhead had come to the committee an unknown quantity and she left it a tabula rasa on to which the committee would tomorrow place a big tick.
(17) A conditional analysis of psychotic disturbances has to proceed from a conception that the individual's psyche in both spheres, is not a "tabula rasa" (Locke), but always already conveys a selection of that which has been offered in the situation (Leibniz).
(18) And as we've always wanted to make a garden we'll now have a tabula rasa of a third of an acre of what is now just grass."
(19) Real differences were not to be found, but there are to be derived possible tendencies of development for the calvarial thickness, for the relation between the compact bone (tabula externa, tabula interna) and the porous bone (diploë), of the porosity in the diploë and the obliteration of the suture in the course of increasing age.