(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.
Toque
Definition:
(n.) A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet.
(n.) A variety of the bonnet monkey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Praia do Toque, Alagoas Ricardo Freire, author of 100 Praias Que Valem a Viagem (100 Beaches You Must Visit) São Miguel dos Milagres fringes 15km of beaches protected both by reefs and the lack of a highway – the main coastal road turns inland, and only those in the know take the local road that leads to a forest of coconut trees and scattered villages.
(2) Severin's uniform is "a Krakovian costume in [Wanda's] colours, light blue with red piping and a red toque decorated with peacock feathers … the silver buttons bear her coat of arms."
(3) We may never reach the dizzy levels of addiction to this herb shown by the late, great American gourmand James Beard, who wrote, "I believe if ever I had to practise cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon to go around", but I hope I've convinced you that tarragon is just as good for a little culinary rough and tumble as it is for the rarefied world of starched white linen and towering toques.
(4) Gordon Ramsay has also thrown his toque in the ring, confirming he plans to launch his own app in the summer.
(5) Plasmodium fragile infection of the toque monkey is a natural host-parasite association in which parasite sequestration occurs as during P. falciparum infection of humans.
(6) We demonstrate that in a simian malaria parasite (Plasmodium cynomolgi in its natural host, the toque monkey), the loss of infectivity during crisis is due to the death of circulating intraerythrocytic gametocytes mediated by crisis serum.
(7) Set up base at Praia do Toque and walk the sands nearby.
(8) The infectivity of Plasmodium cynomolgi in its natural host, the toque monkey, Macaca sinica, to Anopheles tessellatus mosquitoes was studied in relation to the evolution of anti-sexual-stage immunity in the host during the course of a blood-induced infection.
(9) Animals seropositive for HTLV were found only among macaques originating from various localities, toque monkeys in Sri Lanka (17.5%), crab-eating macaques in Thailand (1.3%), stumptailed macaques in Thailand (1.5%), rhesus monkeys in Thailand (3.3%), and Celebes macaques in Indonesia (16.9%).
(10) • Where to stay: Pousada do Toque , the region's pioneers.
(11) The course of infection of Plasmodium fragile in its natural host, the toque monkey Macaca sinica, consists of a primary peak of parasitemia followed by several distinct, successive peaks of lower parasitemia.