(n.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.
(n.) The clitellus of earthworms.
(n.) The base of the crown of a tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two-dimensional photoelastic analysis of resin-bonded cingulum rest seats demonstrated improvement in stress distribution when the lingual surface of the tooth was prepared with a cingulum groove.
(2) Injection of lidocaine into the anterior cingulum bundle produced a significant reduction in formalin pain scores, but had no effect on foot-flick latencies.
(3) The ventral portion of the cingulum (ligamenta pubourethralia posteriora and ligamentum pubourethrale intermedium) is especially important, as it provides an anchor of the vesical cervix as a mark of continence.
(4) The lesions are characteristically localized in the "centro-axial" regions of the brain involving most frequently: corpus callosum, septum pellucidum, fornix, tela chorioidea, peri- and para-ventricular zone, infundibulobasal region and cingulum; this pattern also includes lesions of the hippocampal area, upper brainstem, pontocerebellar complex, and parasagittal areas of the cerebrum.
(5) The data indicated that the control-lesion and cingulum groups did not differ in the acquisition or extinction of an AAR.
(6) The prefrontal, cingulate, and parahippocampal (entorhinal) cortex, as well as the perforant pathway, cingulum bundle, and hippocampus, were closely examined because these regions have recently been found to show various neuropathological differences in schizophrenia.
(7) From a functional anatomic standpoint every precise surgical technique for incontinence must take the cingulum vesicae and the adjacent structures into consideration.
(8) Locus coeruleus (LC) fibers in the fornix mainly innervate the septal pole of the dentate gyrus, whereas the cingulum projects to the ventral hippocampal formation to provide LC input to the dentate gyrus.
(9) Furthermore, these findings suggest that the cingulum is involved in the affective component of pain and that interruption of cingulum activity with lidocaine can produce analgesia.
(10) A cannula was stereotaxically implanted into the anterior cingulum on one side in anesthetized rats.
(11) nov. is distinguished by its larger size and differences of molar cusp acuity, buccal cingulum expression, and mental foramen configuration.
(12) In parallel with this decrease, numerous 5-HT-IR fibers in the cingulum bundle, fornix-fimbria and the hippocampal parenchyma exhibit structural changes, similar to those produced by 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine, a specific neurotoxin of the 5-HT system.
(13) Dense connective tissue forms a permanent link, adjacent to the cingulum vesicae, between the bladder on the one hand and the lateral pelvic wall and anterior surface of the uterus on the other; in this way the bladder is held in the pelvis at a particular point.
(14) They were treated by lesions in the anterior cingulum.
(15) The fascia endopelvina, extending into the bladder along the entire circumference between the corpus and fundus vesicae, represents the cingulum vesicae.
(16) Seven to 10 days after surgery, the rats were infused with 1 microliter of 2% lidocaine in saline or saline alone into the anterior cingulum bundle immediately prior to testing for analgesia in the formalin or foot-flick test.
(17) Evoked potentials (EPs) and neuronal responses of the medial (MPO) and lateral (LPO) preoptic region (RPO) and adjacent areas of the hypothalamus to stimulation of the prefrontal (area 8), cingulum (area 24), periamigdaloideus (RPA) cortex and hippocampus (area CA3) have been studied on cats anesthetized with ketamine.
(18) Neuroanatomical evidence suggests a separate role for the anterior and posterior cingulum.
(19) By 7 d of postnatal age all the vimentin+ cells were GFAP+ and had converged predominately on the cingulum.
(20) The cingulum group, however, showed a significant deficit in the acquisition of a PAR and a noticeably slower rate of lever pulling during avoidance trials in the combined avoidance training sessions.
Earthworm
Definition:
(n.) Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.
(n.) A mean, sordid person; a niggard.
Example Sentences:
(1) It also strongly inhibited non-plasmic fibrinolysis with human leukocyte proteinase and earthworm proteinase.
(2) Monitoring of DDT and HCH residues in abiotic and biotic components of the environment of Delhi during 1988 to 1989 revealed low to moderate levels of these insecticides in soil, earthworms, birds, buffalo milk, water, freshwater clams, fish, human fat, human blood and breast milk samples.
(3) It was concluded that it is possible to substitute 30% of the protein in the diet of growing rabbits, with earthworm meal, without any adverse physiological effects.
(4) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for chain c of hemoglobin of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris has been determined.
(5) For copper and dichloroaniline earthworms did recover cocoon production to a level as high as the control level or even higher; in case of pentachlorophenol, cocoon production was still reduced after 3 weeks in clean soil.
(6) The present results indicate that the toxicity and bioaccumulation and therefore the bioavailability of chlorophenols in soil to earthworms are dependent on the concentration in soil solution and can be predicted on the basis of adsorption data.
(7) In the cerebral ( = supraesophageal, suprapharyngeal) ganglion of the earthworm, a number of neurosecretory Gomori-positive perikarya are bipolar; others are unipolar, or multipolar.
(8) Such an activity is not inhibited by zymosan, inulin or lipopolysaccharide (LPS), nor by hydrazine or methylamine, suggesting that earthworm hemolysins are not related to C3 or C3b complement components.
(9) Proteinase-inhibiting components of the coelomic fluid of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris were examined.
(10) Nerve fibres and cell bodies displaying vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) or pancreatic polypeptide (PP) immunoreactivity were demonstrated in ganglia of the earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris).
(11) The dorsal openings in the myelin sheath of the median giant fiber (MGF) of the earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris L.) have been studied with electronmicroscopical and electrophysiological methods.
(12) These results suggest that earthworm powder represents a possible oral thrombolytic agent.
(13) Chloragocytes and intestinal tissue showed significantly higher lead levels in contaminated earthworms than in control material.
(14) High concentration of lead in the soil does not favour increased accumulation of lead in the earthworms' organisms.
(15) The snakes were fed diets consisting of earthworms, Lumbricus terrestris, and mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis.
(16) Traditional formulations of the roles of supra- and subpharyngeal ganglia in the earthworm's behavior were reinvestigated with the use of saline rather than light as the aversive stimulus.
(17) This information on lymphocytic, granulocytic and inclusion-containing coelomocytes is crucial to understanding more about cellular immunity in the earthworm.
(18) Toxicity values were obtained for pentachlorophenol (PCP) and other compounds in the standard OECD and EEC earthworm test.
(19) A gavage technique has been developed that permits the administration of water-soluble and lipid-soluble test chemicals in spite of the extremely low level of triglyceride lipase activity in the earthworm gut.
(20) Conjugation with glutathione catalysed by glutathione S-transferases may consequently be an important detoxification mechanism in earthworms.