(n.) The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
(n.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
Example Sentences:
(1) In later phases, mast cells appeared in the newly formed marrow in the external callus.
(2) The mitotic activities of various cellular components of callus tissues in different periods after tibial fracture of rat were studied with 3H-thymidine labeling and electron radioautographic method.
(3) The fractures, which appeared on roentgenograms as transverse radiolucent zones with variable callus formation, healed slowly or not at all despite treatment with calcium and vitamin D. They resembled pseudofractures (Looser's transformation zones) radiologically, but the biochemical and histologic findings were those of idiopathic osteoporosis rather than osteomalacia.
(4) The normal process of fracture healing was described in which the dual role of external callus was stressed, firstly in providing immobilisation of the fragments and secondly in providing the first bony bridge between the fragments.
(5) Pinwheel inclusions (PWs) were found in cells of callus tissue derived from explants of secondary phloem parenchyma of carrot (Daucus carota) storage root and grown on a basal medium containing zeatin and indoleacetic acid or coconut milk, naphthalene acetic acid, or combinations of these.
(6) However, we failed to demonstrate any remarkable IL-1 inhibitory activity in each fraction after gel filtration high-performance liquid chromatography of the psoriatic scale extracts or in that of extracts from the plantar callus.
(7) The lack of periosteal callus appears to be the result of a small gap and rigid fixation, rather than related to strains induced in the bone.
(8) The ages of the callus were three, five, eight, and 11 days after the fracture, that is, from before the cartilage was demonstrable on Day 5 until the enchondral bone formation started on Day 11.
(9) Biochemical analysis of the callus is reminiscent of bone from early stages of human development and normal fracture healing (e.g.
(10) Origin of roots from calluses was not accompanied by formation of buds.
(11) While some gymnasts seem more ethereal than corporeal, Beth's blisters and calluses have always been obvious.
(12) Bet v I, the major birch pollen allergen, could be extracted easily from pollen, and in low amounts from callus and leaves.
(13) In the surrounding external callus Types I, II, and III were present, but Type III was not noted in the later stages of healing.
(14) Lipids from callus cultures and suspension cultures of higher plants constitute 5 to 8% of the dry tissue's weight.
(15) Histological investigation showed that the medullary cavity was closed after 2-3 weeks, chiefly by endosteal callus.
(16) The plate-fixed bones healed more rapidly, with less periosteal callus and less angulation of the fragments, than those treated with a cast.
(17) These findings indicate that the oxygen tension around the cathode was diminished in advance of the electrically stimulated callus formation.
(18) There is increased metabolism of glycosaminoglycan collagen synthesis, and transformation of fibrous and cartilaginous callus, combined with mineralization of the latter and intensified vascular invasion into bone.
(19) Bone union can be achieved under external fixation through different pathways, ranging from callus-free gap healing under a rigid neutralization configuration to direct-contact healing with periosteal new bone formation under axially dynamized stable fixation.
(20) We compare the gene activity in heterozygotes versus homozygotes, and show variation in activity between plants regenerated independently from the same transformed callus.
Cutting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cut
(n.) The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
(n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.
(a.) Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.
(a.) Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.
(a.) Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.
Example Sentences:
(1) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(4) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
(5) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(6) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(7) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
(8) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(9) It is proposed that this "zipper-like" mechanism represents the normal cutting process of the septum during cell separation.
(10) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(11) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
(12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
(13) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
(14) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(15) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(16) Size comparison of the newly discovered Msp I fragment with a restriction map of the apolipoprotein A-I gene revealed that most likely the cutting site at the 5'-end of the normally seen 673 bp fragment is lost giving rise to the observed 719 bp Msp I fragment.
(17) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
(18) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
(19) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
(20) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.