(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.
Structure
Definition:
(n.) The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.
(n.) Manner of building; form; make; construction.
(n.) Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence.
(n.) Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure.
(n.) That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(3) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
(4) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
(5) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
(6) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(7) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(8) Immunocytochemistry was used to visualize cytoskeletal structures and to assay selective disruption of neurofilaments by acrylamide.
(9) The quaternary structure of ribonucleotide reductase of Escherichia coli was investigated, with the use of purified B1 and B2 proteins and bifunctional cross-linking agents.
(10) Structural peculiarities in tubulin polymorphism are considered.
(11) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(12) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(13) Fluorination with [18F]acetylhypofluorite yields 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa with 95% radiochemical purity; fluorination of the same substrate with [18F]F2 yields a mixture of all three structural isomers in a ratio of 70:16:14 for 6-, 5-, and 2-fluoro compounds.
(14) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(15) The aetiological factors concerned in the production of paraumbilical and epigastric hernias have been reviewed along structural--functional lines.
(16) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.
(17) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(18) The structures of 1 and 2 were established mainly on the basis of nmr spectroscopic data.
(19) Determination of the primary structure for factor V has provided the basis for examination of structure-function relationships.
(20) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.