(a.) Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those differences can be summarized as follows: (1) the occurrence of pronounced, highly curved hackle marks, which could in many instances be mistaken for conchoidal marks;(2)the appearance of the beveled edges bordering the cratering on the side opposite origin of force; and (3) a more apparent tendency toward an inverse relationship of muzzle velocity and energy to radial fracture length and degree of curving along crater boundaries.
(2) These figures were assumed to be the very early stage of formation of conchoidal bodies at the LM level, so-called Schaumann bodies.
(3) Their similitude with other reported intracellular calcareous bodies occurring in malakoplakia, infectious orchitis (Michaelis-Guttman' bodies or calcosphaerites), in beryllium granulomas (conchoid bodies) and sarcoidosis (Schaumann bodies) is discussed.
(4) Sclerotic granulomas with giant cells, conchoidal bodies, iron deposition in the pulmonary stroma--all these lung alterations allowed one to establish a diagnosis of lung berylliosis.
(5) Several patterns of calcification were noted including bubbly, plate-like, elongate, and conchoidal forms.
(6) Lung biopsies in the index cases revealed an interstitial infiltration of inflammatory cells and aggregates of conchoid bodies surrounded by multinucleated giant cells.
Knap
Definition:
(n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop.
(v. t.) To bite; to bite off; to break short.
(v. t.) To strike smartly; to rap; to snap.
(v. i.) To make a sound of snapping.
(n.) A sharp blow or slap.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pH-rate profile for inactivation of the RTEM-1 cysteine beta-lactamase by iodoacetate supports previous evidence [Knap & Pratt (1989) Proteins Struct.
(2) Photograph: Dixe Wills Size: 0.09sq miles Around 5,000 years ago, the community living at the Knap of Howar on Papa Westray crossed over to the Holm of Papay to build a burial cairn in which to lay their loved ones to rest.
(3) I thought this was all fair enough, although surely, I cavilled, if building simulacra of Neolithic houses and learning how to flint knap is our new route to the past, then really the actual monument itself is somewhat besides the point.
(4) On a hot day last week, workers from Poland and Bulgaria were spreading straw across fields of strawberries while the knapped flint of Hoo's several 13th-century churches shone in the sun.
(5) At the village of Knap o'Howar on Papay the bones of domesticated cattle, sheep and pigs have been found alongside those of wild deer, whales and seals, for example, while analysis of human bones from the period suggest that few people reached the age of 50.