(n.) The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.
(n.) Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.
Example Sentences:
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Calyx
Definition:
(n.) The covering of a flower. See Flower.
(n.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results, together with information from the amino acid sequences, infer that the native carotenoid, astaxanthin, is bound to each apoprotein within an internal hydrophobic pocket, or calyx.
(2) The involved calyx is punctured directly and dilatation performed to the stone without negotiating a wire into the renal pelvis.
(3) The host cannot encapsulate the parasitoid egg owing to the suppressive effect of the polydnavirus-laden calyx fluid injected by the female parasitoid during oviposition.
(4) A small population of nonadrenergic, VIPI nerves innervates the renal calyx.
(5) Flexible ureterorenoscopy is valuable for diagnosis of filling defects in the lower calyx and for treatment of stones in the upper and middle ureter.
(6) A sparse plexus of VIPI nerves innervates the rat renal calyx.
(7) Two antimicrobial fractions were obtained from the sponge Calyx podatypa from the Bahamas.
(8) The optimum photographing time was 15 minutes in the upper urinary tract (nephrogram, calyx, pelvis, upper ureter) and 20 minutes in the lower urinary tract (lower ureter, urinary bladder).
(9) It could be shown that nucleus and calyx may have a monomineral as well as a polymineral structure.
(10) A dense plexus of SPI nerves innervates the rat renal calyx.
(11) For example, in the cerebellum it recognizes myelinated axons and the calyx formed by basket cell axon collaterals.
(12) The smooth muscle and myofibroblast-like cells presumably assist expression of urine from the papilla and calyx, and possibly participate as pacemakers for the urinary tract.
(13) From September 1988 to April 1989, 400 patients with stones in the calyx (40%), in the renal pelvis (45%), in the ureter (15%) and with staghorn calculi (5%) underwent shock wave treatment.
(14) The rhabdom of isolated small photoreceptors is surrounded by a calyx originating from the soma, so that it appears to be located internally.
(15) The vestibular sensory epithelia contain two main types of hair cell innervation; bouton-innervated hair cells and calyceal hair cells characterized by a surrounding nerve calyx.
(16) The importance of selective arteriography and the interpretation of the "naked calyx" sign in the diagnosis of supernumerary renal arteries has been emphasized.
(17) If a fine deformity of calyx is shown on intravenous pyelogram, magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates renal scarring.
(18) Proper placement of the percutaneous nephrostomy tract through a posterior middle calyx and of a guidewire across the ureteropelvic junction is necessary in order to gain access to the narrowed area with a rigid cutting instrument.
(19) Subsequent to the elaboration of the activation calyx, the contents of cortical granules are released (cortical reaction) into the perivitelline space.
(20) Surrounding baculovirus occlusion bodies is an electron-dense layer reported to be composed of carbohydrate which we term calyx.