(n.) A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.
Example Sentences:
(1) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(2) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.
(3) Differences in the rDNA content in Picea could contribute to the variation, in overall genome size, that has been observed within conifer species.
(4) Deciduous trees and conifers react differently to increased atmospheric CO2.
(5) The pollen grains of conifers are very weak allergens; their structure and function are different from those of the remaining flowering plants.
(6) The ability to grow in liquid media with D-xylose, xylan from decidous trees, and hemicelluloses from conifers was tested in 95 strains of 35 genera of yeasts and yeast-like organisms.
(7) With regard to an early diagnosis of defects within the photosynthetic system of conifers by air pollutants, we measured the chlorophyll fluorescence from microscopic parts of individual pine and spruce needles.
(8) The presence of the gidA gene on the chloroplast genomes of conifers may therefore be of significance with respect to the ability of these plants to synthesize chlorophyll in the dark.
(9) Similarities in linkage relationships among Scots pine, other pines, and other species within the Pinaceae support karyological research that suggests extensive conservation of the conifer genome.
(10) According to Weir, five conifer species account for 88% of all England’s softwood forests and five broadleaf species make up over 72% of its hardwood woodlands.
(11) Small numbers are present in algae, ferns, conifers, sponges, echinoderms, other marine animals, and arthropods.
(12) Conifers face axe to save British woodland Read more At the far side of the wood, spindly black-tipped ash seedlings began to appear, growing at the side of the path.
(13) Only the conifers were, as a group, unlikely to harbor INA bacteria.
(14) Dispersion of repetitive DNA by transposition, coupled with loss of the large inverted repeat, appears to have predisposed conifer cpDNA to a number of inversions.
(15) The size and number of aerial spray drops impinging on spruce budworm in its conifer forest habitat were determined by means of a new tracer method that uses fluorescent particles in a liquid spray.
(16) The evergreen Churchill Arms on Kensington Church Street becomes one enormous conifer each December.
(17) But the planting of new woods on open land, and conversion of broadleaf woodlands to conifers, has been a trend in Britain since Victorian times.
(18) • Felsham Road, Bradfield St George, Bury St Edmund's goodrobert Chopwell Wood, Rowlands Gill, Tyne and Wear Chopwell Wood is a conifer and mixed broadleaf wood.
(19) Much of the landscape is to be radically altered over the next 100 years as the Forestry Commission fells tens of millions of conifer trees to stimulate the growth of ash, beech, oak, hazel, field maple and other native broadleaved species.
(20) Higson’s first task in solving MK’s landscaping problem was “practical, rather ordinary gardening things”: planting semi-mature trees and fast-growing conifers to provide quick cover.
Saccus
Definition:
(n.) A sac.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the saccus dorsalis of the rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson, the activity of various enzymes (transferase, lyases, oxidoreductases, hydrolases) have been studied in detail.
(2) A combined morphological and physiological study on the effect of saccus obliteration on the cochlea and the vestibular labyrinth of the rat is presented.
(3) Both free and cracked surfaces of the saccus vasculosus in adult rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) have been investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
(4) The saccus vasculosus receives blood from the posterior cerebral artery through a small blood vessel and is collected by a prominent saccus vasculosus vein which pours blood into the supra-orbital sinus before it joins the infra-orbital sinus to form the heat vein.
(5) Aware of postoperative hearing losses in some patients after 3 years, we have studied the results in 21 Shambaugh saccus decompression (SD) and 29 middle fossa vestibular nerve section (VNS) operations, in order to assess the claims made for these procedures.
(6) The saccus vasculosus is observed in the freshwater ray (Potamotrygon), but not in the freshwater teleost (Osteoglossum).
(7) The saccus vasculosus was ablated partially or fully together with the hypophysis and the bottom of the infundibulum of the diencephalon was injured in 20-25% of the animals.
(8) The different techniques of saccus operations, including the endolymphatic shunts, had all the same results and seemed therefore not to be specific.
(9) The coronet cells are characterized by both numerous specialized cilia, so-called "globules" projecting into the saccus lumen and abundant smooth endoplasmic reticulum in the cytoplasm.
(10) Therapy included infusions active on the inner ear, decompression of the saccus endolymphaticus in two cases and physiotherapy for the cervical spine.
(11) Saccus surgery might be the surgical treatment of choice in early cases with good hearing but in patients with fixed non-fluctuating hearing loss, rehabilitation can be effected only by vestibular neurectomy.
(12) Because the elimination of vertigo is what chiefly concerns most of our patients, we suggest that when medical treatment and surgical decompression of the saccus endolymphaticus fail to control vertigo, then VNS is the surgical method of choice.
(13) Accumulation of 35S-labelled glycoproteins in the endolymphatic duct after saccus obstruction indicates that, in addition to the endolymphatic sac, also the duct contributes to the mechanism underlying the longitudinal flow of macromolecules.
(14) The rationale for operations on the saccus and vestibular nerve in patients incapacitated by Meniere's disease as a replacement for total labyrinthectomy, has been the expectancy that less radical procedures will protect these patients from total auditory incapacity.
(15) The proximal portions of the ducts between the saccus and the ductus show multiple transverse mucosal folds.
(16) Saccus decompression, despite its controversial therapeutic basis, will remain the first-line surgical procedure for many otologists.
(17) The saccus vasculosus (SV) of C. batrachus is comparatively small and situated latero-dorsal to the pituitary in between the lobi inferiores.
(18) The functional significance of the saccus dorsalis (possible analogue of the choroid plexus?)
(19) These studies included analysis for glycosidase (beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase, n-acetyl-beta-glucosamide), non-specific esterases, sulfatases, sulghydryl groups as well as mucous substances within the cochlea and saccus endolymphaticus of the experimental animals.
(20) No insertions of the pars lacrimalis or Horner's muscle on the saccus were found.