(a.) Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
(a.) Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.
(a.) Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abducting saccades, which were slightly hypometric, displayed a marked postsaccadic centripetal drift.
(2) The study shows 3 groups of AN families, centripetal (53%), centrifugal (24%) and mixed (24%), supporting a hypothesis that AN families are a heterogeneous group.
(3) In these subjects, the centripetal reorientation of the platelet granules, which may be early structural changes of the release reaction, failed to occur.
(4) The direction of the arterial blood flow in the mature animal is predominantly centrifugal, while the venous drainage is centripetal.
(5) The responses obtained from circular muscle originating from either the centripetal or centrifugal gyri of the ascending colon did not differ significantly.
(6) The regenerative phase consists of centripetal cellular regeneration, cellular repair and some residual damage.
(7) The mechanisms involved in the selective degeneration of centrifugal and centripetal optic fibers is discussed.
(8) In addition, they suggest that migration is an important aspect of the regeneration response in the free graft system and permits the myogenic population to contribute en masse to the centripetal wave of regeneration from the time it is initiated at the muscle periphery.
(9) In both cases the spreading involves the peripheral actin cortex and is accompanied by a continual centripetal movement of surface components--a "membrane flow"--which continues even after spreading is completed.
(10) The concept of centripetal and centrifugal modes constructively links the illness life cycle to the individual and family life cycles.
(11) Four images were retained, and were graded 0 (absence) or 1 (presence): hypodensity before injection of the contrast material, arteriolar halo after injection, progressive centripetal filling and late hyperdensity.
(12) Certain head and neck malignancies tend to invade branches of the cranial nerves and progress centripetally.
(13) These data exhibit a highly negative selection intensity and selective mortality at the lower and higher birth weights than at intermediate weights, an example of stabilizing or centripetal natural selection.
(14) Activated regions of caged resorufin (CR)-labeled actin in lamellipodia of IMR 90 and MC7 3T3 fibroblasts were observed to move centripetally over time.
(15) In immunolight microscopy, NFPs (neurofilament proteins) are confined to the centripetal domain.
(16) On the other hand, dendrites of starburst amacrine cells process information electrotonically with a bias towards the centrifugal direction and for a restricted range of membrane resistance values the voltage attenuation in the centripetal direction suggests that the action of these dendrites can be confined locally.
(17) In contrast the negativity preceded centripetal saccades by only 500 msec, and its peak amplitude was smaller (4.6 microV).
(18) The boot can exert continuous centripetal pressure on both sides of the calcaneus to control transverse displacement and to maintain the normal height of the heel.
(19) Muscularization appears to occur in a centripetal direction and is apparent in the caudate at approximately 30 weeks' gestation.
(20) There was one localized area of apparent centripetal accumulation of contrast medium.
Receptive
Definition:
(a.) Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(2) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(3) VS had a crude topography, and receptive fields of neurons in VS were relatively large.
(4) The use of UEBP-deficient female rat liver cytosol revealed that the afore-mentioned steroids are ineffective with respect to estrogen reception.
(5) Both face and paw receptive fields are unions of a certain set of skin areas called compartments.
(6) They thus have 2 receptive fields: one on the hindleg whose motor neurons they control and one on the ipsilateral middle leg, provided by inputs from the mesothoracic intersegmental interneurons.
(7) Thus cross-orientation suppression originates from within the receptive field.
(8) Medical treatment has several objectives: the action of water on the metabolism, action on the behaviour of the labyrinthine capillaries and the biology of neurosensorial cells, action on vestibular information and the receptivity of the nerve centres and finally on the patients' lifestyle.
(9) The contrast threshold for line orientation was studied using two lines with the same orientation under three different experimental conditions (series): (1) the two lines were presented in the same part of the receptive field; (2) they were along the same straight line and separated by 14' visual angle; (3) they were parallel and displaced at 4' of visual angle.
(10) Once you've invested many years in a career, figuring out how to take time out and then return to a role that's comparable to the one you left (or as comparable as you want it to be) requires more than confidence and enthusiasm - employers need to actively acknowledge the benefits of such breaks and be more receptive to those seeking to return”.
(11) "I never expected to get 100 caps and have the reception I did," said the Chelsea defender.
(12) Administration of the progestins, progesterone and dihydroprogesterone (DHP), and of the hypothalamic decapeptide, LH-RH, 6 hr prior to testing restored receptivity to varying degrees in these E2B + DHT treated mice.
(13) The regional difference in the prevalence of beta AR404-immunoreactive astrocytes suggests that these receptive sites may either: (i) be preferentially activated by catecholamines released from terminals rather than circulating catecholamines; or (ii) be down-regulated in AP due to blood-born substances, such as catecholamines.
(14) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
(15) Both tympanic and nontympanic pathways of sound reception are utilized by anuran amphibians.
(16) The characteristics of pattern and flicker (movement) detection are compared to electrophysiological studies on X (sustained) and Y (transient) neurones respectively, and correlations are described for studies of temporal frequency response, non-linearity, width of receptive field, strength of the inhibitory surround and motion sensitivity.
(17) Three groups of facts are compared in this study: the significant adaptive and adaptational modification of the receptive fields of neurons of the visual cortex of the cat, the conditioned, selective, subsensory change in the threshold of perception (detection and recognition) by an individual of a letter in relation to two control letters, and the role of spatially-specialized cortical inhibition in the formation and adaptive modifications of the receptive fields and detector properties of neurons of the visual cortex.
(18) After an hour or so, a car appeared, and another Isis man drove Abu Ali to a reception house not far away.
(19) Well one of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon … which means we’ve got to step up.” In the backrooms of the G20 meeting, Australia was continuing to resist language in the official communique encouraging countries to make pledges to the Green Climate Fund , but to a rousing reception at a local university, Obama announced the $3bn US commitment.
(20) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.