(a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anterior lenticonus is a rare condition, in which there is a conical or spherical protrusion of the anterior surface into the anterior chamber.
(2) Conical root shapes without special provision of retention are not suitable.
(3) However, in conical cells the new oral apparatus and fission line form well posterior to the cell equator, so the opisthes are invariably smaller than proters.
(4) Their use is indicated in large or total defects to restore the natural anatomical conical shape of the eardrum, particularly in congenital atresia.
(5) That of the small conical filiform papillae is to take food efficiently into the oral cavity.
(6) Following enlargement of sporozoite buds the apical ends of the buds became conical in longitudinal sections with the newly formed apical rings at their truncated apices and then, newly formed dense inner membranes and subpellicular microtubules gradually extended backwards and finally enclosed the sporozoites.
(7) 1) In polishing the axial surface of the inner crown of the conic telescope crown system, the milling machine with a polishing disk facilitated specular finishing without causing undercutting in the region from the occlusal surface to the dental cervix.
(8) The study of the effect of dimensions and local organization of net tissue on its electrical properties can be reduced to the problem of investigating electrical properties of conic fibre at different laws of its expansion.
(9) The conical shape of the occlusion device is well suited for the anatomic structure of the ductus.
(10) Considering both the present data and previous findings, Palaeognath birds appear to be a peculiar and monophyletic group, characterized by: 1), a conical acrosome surrounding the nucleus; 2), a fibrous sheath around most of the axoneme; and 3), an elongated distal centriole occupying the entire midpiece.
(11) Scanning electron micrographs showed them to be smooth-surfaced conical to tubular extensions arising from putative photoreceptor inner segments.
(12) The sperm consists of a conical head and 100 flagella.
(13) Subsequent analysis of a mathematically describable conical geometry demonstrates the need for improved compensator design.
(14) Many of the lanceolate receptors contained multiple unmyelinated axons, and the usually highly ordered circular innervation of the inner conical body was markedly abnormal.
(15) For osteotomy conic cutters were used (diameter of base 2.1 mm and 5 mm) and a drill (3000 rotations per minute) from the small instrumentarium of SYNTHES Co.
(16) The concept of stimulation threshold is generalized to three dimensions, and an excitability surface is constructed, which for cardiac muscle is approximately conical in shape.
(17) The results showed that the resisting areas are larger in pyramidal than in conical preparations.
(18) The hooks (105 by 24 nm) each displayed a conical protrusion at the proximal end, a concave cavity at the distal end, and helically arranged subunits.
(19) In practice, the pins are introduced in the same way as the previously described procedure, by they must protrude beyond the opposite wall by 6-8 mm; the difference is in the screwing of the "ARUM" nut: first it is screwed as the reduction stress is increased so its conical part penetrates between the fracture edges; then the pin is cut; and the nut is unscrewed so the cut end of the pin will be included in the space of its base.
(20) Eight conical holes drilled in the side of the chamber serve for the insertion of plugs with attachments for perfusion, rapid injection of small amounts of reagents, temperature measurements or for heating the interior of the chamber.
Conoid
Definition:
(n.) Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.
(n.) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.
(n.) A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane.
(a.) Resembling a cone; conoidal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors describe a clinical case of closing upper central incisives diastema, reconstructiva of a conoid upper lateral and the rechaping of an upper canine to a lateral incisive.
(2) We propose that the conoid and polar ring complex are fundamental features of all apicomplexan "kinetes."
(3) The peptide pattern revealed that slow (I) and fast (IIA, IIB) myosin heavy chains are quite distinct, as are those from pure slow (conoidal bundle) and fast (psoas) rabbit skeletal muscles.
(4) A primitive conoid was situated at the anterior end of the parasite and consisted of delicate helical rings.
(5) A conoid and subpellicular microtubules were observed at this stage as development continued, a number of vacuoles were found between the nucleus and the conoid.
(6) A dense band formed below the host cell membrane at the site nearest to the conoid.
(7) They are "cemented" anteriorly into a periconoidal ring which surrounds the conoid.
(8) Exogenesis of merozoites was largely prevented, whereas production of micronemes, amylopectin granules, and dense bodies and the formation of rhoptries, conoid, and pellicle continued.
(9) These cells possess as the metrocytes of other species a typical three-layered pellicle with deep micropores, a conoid, polar ring with 22 anchored subpellicular microtubules, very few rhoptries and micronemes, a golgi complex anterior to the large nucleus.
(10) Two rhoptries were present having club-shaped terminal ends and slender ductules in the conoid region.
(11) Many measures (such as eye drops, protective conoid shields, muscle exercises, surgical treatment etc.)
(12) The anterior end consists of a conoid, from which emanate two lobed paired organelles and several closely associated dense bodies.
(13) The incidence of an articular facet on the conoid tubercle of the clavicle indicating the presence of a coracoclavicular joint was studied in paired clavicles obtained from 1,000 adult subjects aged 18 to 95 years (748 males, 252 females), and 75 children (45 males, 30 females) of known age on whom a medicolegal postmortem had been performed by the second author during 1972-90.
(14) The conoid consists of similar to 20 oblique fibers and is surmounted by a ring with regular ornamentation.
(15) Numerous micronemes, 2 smaller preconoidal rings, and a conoid composed of approximately 6 spirally wound, electron-dense tubules were also present.
(16) We postulate that as the conoid moves, the polar ring complex moves along the spiral pathway of the conoid subunits.
(17) The rhoptries extended from the conoid and terminated anterior to the nucleus with a narrow dense neck and an enlarged posterior portion with a glandular structure.
(18) First these anlagen consist of a conoid and a concentric ring of short microtubules (22 or 24).
(19) From the side of the right ventricle the conoid septum and bulboventricular fold form a supraventricular crest--muscular torus, separating its inflow and outflow parts.
(20) Variably electron-dense material was apparently released from the conoid and a large membrane-bound vacuole was formed in the anterior end of the sporozoite, displacing the typical anterior electron-dense organelles (rhoptries and micronemes).