(n.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
(n.) Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
(n.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
(n.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
(v. t.) To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
Example Sentences:
(1) Implantation of the mouse embryo involves the invasion of the secondary trophoblast giant cells of the ectoplacental cone (EPC) into the uterine decidua.
(2) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
(3) In scanning of more than 20 Hz frequency, the spectral pattern also reflected the characteristics of the cone system.
(4) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
(5) Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model for stuying nonmuscle contraction because it is linear, slow, and repetitive.
(6) As early as E-28 many growth cones have lamellipodia that extend outward from the core region as far as 10 microns.
(7) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(8) Rats permitted to recover for 13 weeks and then sacrificed had lost almost all their rods (p less than 0.001) while the cones were reduced by about 50% (p less than 0.01).
(9) Rod adaptation had no reliable influence on response to rapid onset in cones or bipolar cells.
(10) Unique domains of the retinal interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM), termed cone matrix sheaths, are composed largely of chondroitin 6-sulfate proteoglycan in most higher mammalian species.
(11) Psychophysical results on human colour matching (Stiles & Burch, 1955; Stiles & Burch, 1959) were well predicted from the spectral sensitivities of the monkey cones.
(12) Our model of voltage dependence of GABA uptake predicts that all colors of light should hyperpolarize H1 cone horizontal cells and other investigators have shown by intracellular recording and dye-marking that type H1 cone horizontal cells hyperpolarize to all wavelengths of light.
(13) During the third stage, the dendritic trees of ganglion cells no longer branch or extend by means of active growth cones.
(14) Growth cones from the neurons contacted the muscle fibers within 6-12 h after isolation.
(15) The results indicate that contact Nd.YAG laser conization for CIN is an excellent conservative therapy from the point of cure rate, safety, indication, operation time and cone specimen, even compared with CO2 laser conization.
(16) In the human retina, which has both cones and rods in abundance, cones, cone bipolars, ganglion cells, horizontal cells, and small and large amacrine cells were labeled.
(17) Neither pH nor composition of liner collection cone had an effect on postthaw acrosomal scores, but the time required for a 50% increase in severely damaged acrosomes was greater for spermatozoa collected in polyethylene than in rubber liner collection cones.
(18) These regenerating nerve fibres together with growth cones make terminals in the form of buttons, rings and loops.
(19) Underneath the envelope, p17 forms the matrix protein layer, while the capsid of the double cone shaped core is built up of p24.
(20) On the model of electrical coupling proposed by Lamb & Simon (1976), this suggests that to the extent that the voltage-dependent desensitization results from an increased conductance and hence an increased shunt of the signals at the plasma membrane, there must be a concomitant increase in the conductance of the electrical pathways linking cones to one another.
Cuneiform
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Cuniform
(n.) Alt. of Cuniform
Example Sentences:
(1) DYN B cell bodies were present in nonpyramidal cells of neo- and allocortices, medium-sized cells of the caudate-putamen, nucleus accumbens, lateral part of the central nucleus of the amygdala, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, preoptic area, and in sectors of nearly every hypothalamic nucleus and area, medial pretectal area, and nucleus of the optic tract, periaqueductal gray, raphe nuclei, cuneiform nucleus, sagulum, retrorubral nucleus, peripeduncular nucleus, lateral terminal nucleus, pedunculopontine nucleus, mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus, parabigeminal nucleus, dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus, lateral superior olivary nucleus, superior paraolivary nucleus, medial superior olivary nucleus, ventral nucleus of the trapezoid body, lateral dorsal tegmental nucleus, accessory trigeminal nucleus, solitary nucleus, nucleus ambiguus, paratrigeminal nucleus, area postrema, lateral reticular nucleus, and ventrolateral region of the reticular formation.
(2) Outside PAG, labelled cells and terminal labelling were observed in the cuneiform, parabrachial and intercollicular nuclei, in the deep and intermediate gray layers of the superior colliculus, in the anterior and posterior pretectal nuclei and in the nucleus of Darkschewitsch.
(3) The mesencephalic central grey contained relatively few labeled neurons, the great majority of them being mesencephalic trigeminal, ectopic cuneiform or midline cells.
(4) Bilateral stimulation of electrodes aimed at the cuneiform nucleus produced significant inhibition of the startle response produced by presentation of an 8-kHz, 110-dB tone.
(5) Furthermore, isolated retrogradely labeled cells were present in the central nucleus of the raphe, in the cuneiform nucleus, and in the periaqueductal gray.
(6) The last patient was treated by arthrodesis between the first cuneiform and the first metatarsal for plantar-flexion the first ray.
(7) Special emphasis is directed toward the angle formed between the first metatarsal base and medial cuneiform, which these investigators believe has not been previously described.
(8) An increased density of bony lamellae in the internal structure of the navicular bone could result from excessive stress, enforced by its close relationship to the three cuneiform bones.
(9) In 93% of sites in the cuneiform area this procedure gave only freezing, although subsequent testing with repeated injections produced fast running in 53% of these sites.
(10) Two of the targets of the ipsilateral descending pathway from the superior colliculus are the cuneiform area (immediately ventral to the inferior colliculus), and the dorsolateral basilar pons.
(11) It get release of metatarsal stiffness before 6 years of age, then in older we make osteotomy of 1 degree cuneiform and cuboid to correct bone deformity.
(12) This is a case report of a tarsal coalition involving a bilateral symmetrical synchondrosis of the navicular first cuneiform bones in a 37-year-old Hispanic man.
(13) A case of Candida albicans arthritis involving a knee and cuneiform bone is presented.
(14) Although many tectal cells were single-labelled by injections into basilar pons or the cuneiform area, less than 5% were double-labelled.
(15) Moreover, eversion of an average of 6.2 degrees often only occurs as a result of dorsal displacement of the joint surfaces of the first metatarsal in relation to the first cuneiform by an average of 2.6 mm.
(16) The incidence of the cuneiform cartilage and cartilago triticea was greater in the female than in the male.
(17) Since the ipsilaterally projecting laminae V-VII interneurones with such an input might be involved in locomotion, it is proposed that this is also the case for the contralaterally projecting lamina VIII midlumbar interneurones, especially those excited by stimuli applied in the cuneiform nucleus (mesencephalic locomotor region).
(18) The fact that the histological picture does not provide too much data on the etiopathogenic mechanism of the cuneiform lesions it may be considered that the occluding trauma is one of the major causes of these coronal lesions.
(19) To avoid the dropfoot deformity and retain mobility of the ankle, the amputation was modified by transposing the tibialis anterior from metatarsal I to cuneiform I.
(20) This conceptual revolution is the result of progress in a number of fields: precise information concerning the situation and, more particularly, the variability of "instantaneous axes", a better understanding of the anatomy of ligaments and their role, allowing their grouping into functional units: the anterior and posterior ligamentous straps and the cuneiform sling which determines its stability and basic movements.