(n.) A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.
(n.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
(2) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
(3) The human temporal cortex contains a type of interneuron, identified by Golgi impregnation which, like the axo-axonic or chandelier cells found in animals, establishes Gray's type II synaptic contacts exclusively with the axon initial segments of pyramidal cells.
(4) The axon initial segments are normally densely covered by GABAergic synapses derived from a specialized type of interneuron, the chandelier or axo-axonic cell.
(5) With special consideration to the axon morphology we could describe the following neuronal types: large spinefree cells with probably myelinated axons (basket cells), small and medium sized spinefree cells with axons inside the dendritic fields (small basket cells), spinefree cells with axonal arcades, cells with axonal grape like terminal knobs, cells with columnar axons (double bouquet cells), sparsely spined cells with ascending axons (Martinotti cells), bipolar cells, neuroglioform cells and chandelier cells.
(6) The genius of The Great British Bake Off Read more Viewers have seen contestants throw pots blindfolded, and create objects ranging from bone china chandeliers to decorated tiles and bathroom sinks.
(7) The tiles, I am told, are also Italian, the chandeliers Czech, the fridge American, the stove German.
(8) During the course of an in vivo intracellular labeling study, a chandelier (axo-axonic) cell was completely filled with biocytin in the CA1 region of the hippocampus.
(9) In the Dolce & Gabbana store - with its chandeliers, black mirror walls and stainless steel D&G logo - a young man is trying on a leather jacket.
(10) However, we find that parvalbumin and CRF are present in only subpopulations of chandelier axon cartridges.
(11) In an attempt to classify neurons in the upper layers of the cerebral cortex according to modern nomenclature based on Golgi impregnations, non-pyramidal neurons in layers II and III of the dog's cerebral cortex have been categorized into thirteen types: large double-bouquet cells with long ascending and descending axons (type I double-bouquet cells); bipolar neurons; multipolar neurons with long tufted descending axons (type II double-bouquet cells); neurons with long ascending axons; neurons with superficial axon plexuses; elongated large multipolar neurons with extended generalized axonal arborizations; neurons with long descending axons; small bi-tufted neurons with short ascending, descending or local axons; small multipolar neurons with short ascending, descending or local axons; multipolar neurons with local or extended axonal arborizations usually forming arcades (some of them also with a long descending axon); basket cells; neurogliaform neurons, and chandelier cells.
(12) Thus, the chandelier cell axons appeared to degenerate in epileptic cortex.
(13) These two types of structures composed of PV-IR terminal boutons tended to be present in different laminae in all regions and ages examined, except in layer III of primary motor cortex where both PV-IR pericellular clusters and chandelier cartridges were found.
(14) Chandelier earrings Sparkly, gobstopper styles worn by celebrities ranging from Kim Kardashian to Keira Knightley.
(15) The synapses formed by the chandelier cell terminals are readily recognized in thin sections because of the characteristics features of both the terminals and the initial axon segments, which are the neuronal elements postsynaptic to them.
(16) On the 50-minute journey to the plant, on a bus whose interior was an incongruous mix of protective pink plastic and mock chandeliers, radiation monitors bleeped in unison as we drove through hotspots, then fell silent as the hazard passed.
(17) I mean, buying chandeliers and TVs and porn movies with our money.
(18) Huge parvalbumin-immunoreactive cells were distributed at random and resembled axo-axonic (chandelier) and basket neurons.
(19) In addition to the chandelier and basket cells, which have been shown in animal studies to contain GABA, other cell types, most prominently the neurogliaform cells, terminating on the distal parts of neurons, also contain GABA and may have a inhibitory function.
(20) Oak-panelled walls are hung with hunting scenes and pre-independence state crests, while the chandeliers twinkle.
Lamp
Definition:
(n.) A thin plate or lamina.
(n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.
(n.) Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.
(n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Absence of linkage in a large group of families shows that lamp genes are not involved in Salla disease.
(2) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
(3) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
(4) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(5) Only 5 or 6 patients could be examined per hour with the 60D slit-lamp compared with 30-35 examined by reading retinal photographs.
(6) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
(7) In the adult, LAMP-immunoreactive membrane patches are present exclusively postsynaptically on neuronal somata and dendrites.
(8) Optical differences between a mercury arc lamp and a laser-illuminated flow cytometer are compared.
(9) The use of a standard 35 mm camera with a spot metering system to take slit-lamp photographs is described.
(10) Microcirculation is clearly visible and can be observed on the conjunctival mucosa by means of any microscope and notably with the slit lamp microscope of ophtalmologists.
(11) LAMP-2 was closely related or identical to the macrophage antigen, MAC-3, as indicated by antibody adsorption and tryptic peptide mapping.
(12) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
(13) In order to pursue this process the slit-lamp examination is recommended as necessary and useful method.
(14) We investigated the possibility of significant corneal trauma (as revealed by slit lamp observation of the fluorescein instilled eye), and massage effects following determination of intraocular pressure with the A. O. Non-Contact tonometer (NCT).
(15) Fluorometric studies have been made with modified slit-lamp microscopes.
(16) Treatment was administered with white light produced by a commercially available halogen-tungsten lamp.
(17) In view of the equivalence of these methods, we would advocate, for reasons of ease of application and cost, the use of a single-color slit-lamp photograph with a 30 degree slit angle for documenting nuclear opacities, and the use of black-and-white retroillumination photography with either the Neitz or Oxford cataract cameras for cortical and posterior subcapsular opacities.
(18) Bacterial corneal ulcer is a potentially blinding emergency which should ideally be treated by an ophthalmologist aided by slit lamp biomicroscopy, microbial stain and cultures, and then selected fortified topical antibiotics.
(19) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.
(20) Body temperature was continuously monitored with a rectal thermistor and maintained by adjustment of a heating pad and lamp.