(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.
Vascular
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
(a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(2) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(3) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(4) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(5) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(6) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(7) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(8) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(9) Hexamethonium abolished vasodilatation in the hindquarters vascular bed only.
(10) The fibrous matrix and cartilage formed within the nonunion site transformed to osteoid and bone with increased vascularity.
(11) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(12) An inverse relationship between the pumping capacity of the heart and vascular resistance was confirmed at different stages of examination and treatment of the patients.
(13) The capillary-adipocyte distances were shorter and the vascularization density was higher in old rats.
(14) When nifedipine was combined with ouabain the elevation of vascular resistance was completely abolished.
(15) A retrospective review was undertaken of 127 lower extremity fasciotomies performed for compartment syndrome after acute ischemia and revascularization in 73 patients with vascular trauma and 49 patients with arterial occlusive disease.
(16) It inhibits platelet and vascular smooth muscle activation by cGMP-dependent attenuation of the agonist-induced rise of intracellular free Ca2+.
(17) Base-line HPV was determined by measuring the change in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) while sheep breathed 12% O2 for 7 min.
(18) The chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model was used to study vascular effects of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and hyperthermia (HPT) and the synergism of these modalities.
(19) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(20) It is concluded that a Na-H antiport system in vascular smooth muscle regulates Na influx rate, contributes to intracellular pH regulation and influences basal levels of Na,K-pump activity.