(n.) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.
(n.) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.
(n.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
(n.) See under Cloud.
Example Sentences:
(1) sp., from Chalcophaps i. indica, has three or four testes, and a cirrus pouch 93 to 108 mum long, 28 to 45 mum wide, and its egg capsules are 10 to 12 mum long, seven to nine mum wide, each containing four to six eggs.
(2) in having a transverse cirrus pouch anterior to the vagina.
(3) The new species is characterized by davaineidlike rostellar hooks, absence of a rostellar pouch, a huge cirrus pouch in gravid proglottids, a bilobed uterus that becomes progressively reticular, absence of a paruterine organ, and eggs with an internal coat forming a crescentic protuberance outside the embryophore.
(4) For the first time, the full story of Cirrus's collusion to rig prices can now be told.
(5) Paul Welch, a 70-year-old disabled retired civil servant living in a Peverel-managed block outside Bournemouth, told Carlex that Cirrus had just quoted £29,190.04 while Jackson quoted £33,306.04.
(6) SP- and FMRFamide-IR were identified in the CNS, and FMRFamide-immunopositive nerve fibres were also evident in association with the gonopore cirrus region and with the terminal excretory pore.
(7) sp., from Ducula aenea palawanensis, has 12 to 15 testes, and a cirrus pouch 130 to 150 mum long, 52 to 72 mum wide.
(8) The lumina of seminal vesicle, ejaculatory duct and cirrus are filled with spermatozoa.
(9) This cestode differs from other related species of this genus in the form of rostellar hooks and form and armament of cirrus.
(10) A gauzy light filters down through high streaks of cirrus and ranks of towering cumulus look like smoke thrown up over the fells from a giant cannon salvo.
(11) It differs from the related species of the genus--C. oculatus, C. flexiosus, C. australis, C. nagibinae, and C. pedunculatus--in the shape and articulation of accessory piece with cirrus and in having a crescentic posteromedian process on its dorsal bar.
(12) Inhaled pentamidine has become an important method of treatment and prophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and we have compared nebuliser efficiency in terms of drug output and droplet sizes in four brands of jet nebuliser (Acorn-22, Inspiron, Cirrus, Respirgard II) and one brand of ultrasonic nebuliser (Fisoneb), at 2 pentamidine concentrations and 3 flow rates, using a laser particle sizer.
(13) In vivo development of Echinostoma malayanum Leiper, 1911 was studied in white rats and the developmental process was arbitrarily divided into four stages: organogeny, vitellogenesis, formation of Mehlis' gland complex and cirrus sac, and oviposition.
(14) Acid phosphatase (AcPase), alkaline phosphatase (AlPase) and adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) were present in almost all structures: tegument; subtegumental muscles; subtegumental cells; excretory canal; testes; sperm ductules; vas deferens; cirrus sac; cirrus; ovary; receptaculum seminis; vagina; vitelline gland cells; oocytes; uterus; embryonated eggs.
(15) Serotoninlike immunoreactivity was seen on the external seminal vesicle, the sphincter and cirrus sac, and the proximal portion of the vagina.
(16) Restriction fragment patterns for several enzymes were observed in both large and small genotrophs which consistently differed from the progenitor, Stormont Cirrus.
(17) This cestode is distinguished by the structure of the cirrus and other morphologic characters from other species of Aploparaksis Clerc 1903 in which there are 10 rostellar hooks and the vitelline gland is aporal to the ovary.
(18) The mean aerosol content, expressed as a percentage of the total weight loss, varied from as little as 15% for the Wright jet nebulisers to 54% (range 45-61%) for the Turbo and Micro-Cirrus jet nebulisers under the operating conditions used.
(19) In the peripheral nervous system, immunoreactivity occurs in the nerve plexuses supplying the subtegumental musculature, the oral and ventral suckers, and the muscular lining of the male and female reproductive ducts, including the ootype, uterus, cirrus pouch and gonopore.
(20) P. paralonchuri differs from other Pseudohaliotrema by the characteristics of the cirrus, accessory piece, anchors and bars.
Tendril
Definition:
(a.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
(a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buds are transformed into tendrils with swollen extremities.
(2) Tendrils were found only in regions which had characteristics of poor fixation.
(3) The tendrils could then be seen in all portions of the proximal convoluted tubule and not exclusively in the initial portion as previously reported.
(4) Examples of this approach include Alstom who have invested in Brightsource (utility scale solar thermal) and Tidal Generation (tidal power); ABB is working with Aquamarine (wave power) and Trilliant (smart grid); Siemens with Tendril and a number of other smart grid companies; Monsanto with biofuels company Sapphire Energy .
(5) Microtubular changes in degenerating CF tendrils were observed.
(6) When samples of pea tendril tissue were incubated in the Wachstein-Meisel medium for the demonstration of adenosine triphosphatases, deposits of lead reaction product were localized between the membranes of the chloroplast envelope.
(7) In AD, however, increased vascular tendrils in form of endothelial abluminal processes and intraparenchymal abnormalities were evident in cortical and hippocampal regions, predominant in cases with severe pathology.
(8) In the granular layer, tendril and glomerular collaterals of climbing fibers were observed.
(9) Approaching Istanbul, 435 days after slinking into the sea in Gibraltar, the pair found the city’s tendrils reaching down the Thracian coast.
(10) One of the characteristics of Dadd's fairy paintings is the way grasses and tendrils are apparently randomly interposed between the onlooker and the world in the painting.
(11) The villi intertwine in different positions; both the villi and their tendrils are covered with dense layers of microvilli.
(12) Tendrils have been reported to radiate from luminal surfaces of proximal tubules in rat kidneys by Andrews and Porter ('74) using scanning microscopy, but they were not seen by Bulger et al.
(13) The tendril-like processes continued to increase in length until about the end of the second postnatal month.
(14) I can imagine him enthroned in his techno-lair in Manhattan, sampling news feeds from the old country, allowing tendrils of moist patriotism to penetrate his otherwise steely alien mind.
(15) The climbing fibers formed tendril collaterals and glomeruli.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest I would sit next to my mother on these afternoons and inevitably a tendril of tension would start emanating from the screen, and from her.
(17) The symptomatic form of livedo racemosa causes circumscribed, asymmetric lesions restricted to one half of the body, while the idiopathic form is characterised by arborization figures and livid tendril-like discolorations.
(18) A decade ago, the white tendrils of an iPod's headphones might have marked the wearer out as trendy; nowadays it makes them just one of the crowd, and Apple's in-ear headphones are too common to bother with.
(19) At least three types of urinary fibrillar material were observed: 10-12-nm-diameter fibrils similar to amyloid; 7-10-nm-diameter fibrils with characteristics of intracellular tonofibrils; and 15-30-nm-diameter fibrils suggestive of fibrin tendrils.
(20) These mixed-use habitats would extend upwards, outwards and deep underground in organic rings and tendrils.