(n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Xavier Niel, one of France’s wealthiest people and a known “cataphile” (those who illegally explore Paris’s catacombs and underground quarries), is said to have built a flight of steps that goes directly from his house down to Paris’s undergrounds.
(2) If postnatal wards are filled with hope for the future, psych wards are catacombs, filled with the death of hope.
(3) You are here in the Kingdom of Death,” warns the macabre inscription at the entrance to Les Catacombes de Paris – the underground boneyard filled with the remains of 6 million Parisians, which attracts half a million living and breathing visitors each year.
(4) Part of the inspiration for the piece had come, he explained, when he was trying to visit the catacombs of the Capuchin monks in Palermo.
(5) He drew a parallel with the church of the persecuted early Christians who preserved their orthodoxy in the catacombs.
(6) It is part of a religious complex containing another ancient church (S Agnese, early 7th century and also with beautiful mosaics) and catacombs.
(7) Further, the quiet, understated scenes between John Clare and Vanessa in the catacombs of the cholera ward allow themes to blossom that few other shows would dare cultivate: God, salvation, theodicy, our responsibility to one another, those truly universal hopes of being accepted and being loved.
(8) Next to the catacombs, a former toll house known as the Barrière d’Enfer (“Gate of Hell”) hosts the Inspection Générale des Carrières (IGC), an office created in 1777 by King Louis XVI to oversee the mapping and maintenance of the 32 sq km of abandoned quarries below the surface of the French capital – an underground space 10 times the size of New York’s Central Park.
Crypt
Definition:
(n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
(n.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(2) A comparative evaluation of these data suggest that hormone independent cells are present in the cervical crypts of late menopause women and that a cyclic change of hormone dependent cells may occur in fertile women, analogous to the cyclic changes of endometrial mucosa.
(3) The proliferating cells showing increased hybridization include normal mitotically active crypt epithelium, regenerating epithelium in ulcerative colitis, adenomatous epithelium, and adenocarcinomatous epithelium.
(4) There was also a reduced crypt cell proliferation, a reduced villus height and a decreased ALP activity in the ileal mucosa.
(5) Explants maintained villus-to-crypt ratio between 1:1 and 1.5:1 for 48 hours.
(6) The diameters of regenerating crypts were measured at various times after X-rays and cis-platinum given either alone or in combination.
(7) In both of these groups, the inoculated bacteria were recovered from the colon, and T hyodysenteriae was demonstrated in the colonic crypts, epithelium, and lamina propria.
(8) Succinylated wheat germ agglutinin bound more to crypt than to villus enterocytes.
(9) The crypts were studied at 1, 5, 7, 15 and 30 days after the initiation of treatment.
(10) Newborn animals already exhibited clearly recognizable crypts of Lieberkühn.
(11) In addition, we found that carbamoylphosphate synthetase mRNA is present mainly in the epithelium of the crypts of the proximal part of the small intestine, whereas carbamoylphosphate synthetase protein is present in the epithelium of both crypts and villi.
(12) The peptide toxin apamin inhibits Ca2(+)-activated K+ channels exclusively in surface cell vesicles, while charybdotoxin inhibits predominantly in the crypt cell membrane fraction.
(13) Intrinsic factor-mediated uptake of cobalamin could not be demonstrated using ileal crypt or jejunal villous or crypt cells.
(14) A method has been developed for the simultaneous isolation of basolateral plasma membrane vesicles from surface and crypt cells of rabbit distal colon epithelium by sequential use of differential sedimentation, isopycnic centrifugation and Ficoll 400 barrier centrifugation.
(15) In contrast, foci formed by 3-4 dysplastic crypts were decreased by the starch diet (P less than 0.05).
(16) In the former group the changes observed were mucosal oedema with acute inflammation of varying severity but with preservation of the crypt architecture.
(17) (ii) In young sucklings (10 days old), SC was virtually absent in both villus and crypt cells, but its concentration progressively increased in weanling rats and reached adult levels by day 40 postpartum.
(18) Sub-groups of 5-7 rats were sequentially killed at 4, 8 and 12 months for evaluation of the length, cell numbers and 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrDU) labeling indices of large bowel crypts together with ODC activity.
(19) One of the conventional approaches used in the past provided estimates of about 70-80 clonogenic cells per crypt (i.e.
(20) Immunofluorescence studies employing monoclonal antibodies specific for villus and crypt cells in vivo, and various enzyme assays, have demonstrated a level of differentiation and maturation of the cultured epithelial cells similar but not identical to that of suckling intestinal mucosa in vivo.