(n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.
(n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.
(n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(2) What are the major threats that face the world's coral reefs and what more needs to be done to protect them?
(3) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Table corals provide an excellent hiding place for smaller fish.
(5) But the Guardian can now reveal Australia will also need to report on how it is dealing with the current bleaching, where almost a quarter of the coral on the reef has been killed.
(6) Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, a Griffith University associate professor, said the research was “a major step forward in understanding how seaweeds can harm corals and has important implications for comprehending the consequences of increased carbon dioxide emissions on the health of the Great Barrier Reef”.
(7) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(8) The Infinity towel comes in colours more vibrant than one might expect from an eco-friendly product, including coral, green, blue and violet.
(9) Warming water will make it hard for many of the reef’s corals to survive, while the acidification of the oceans will hinder the ability of remaining corals to form their skeletons.
(10) Tyr190 may react with the coral toxin by nucleophilic addition at one of the carbons associated with an epoxide, and may form part of the alkylammonium-binding subsite of the acetylcholine recognition site.
(11) A recent study suggests that coral disease is doubled when dredging occurs near reefs, although supporters of the dredging have repeatedly insisted it can be done safely and that the Abbot Point sediment will be dumped around 40km from the nearest reef.
(12) This process hinders the ability of corals to produce the skeletal building blocks of reefs.
(13) We’re currently due to fly back on Friday afternoon and were not too concerned about it just yet.” Mohammed Sami, general manager of the Coral Sea Sensatori, one of Sharm el-Sheikh’s largest resorts, said the move had created uncertainty for holidaymakers.
(14) Incidentally, it’s the algae that give the coral its colour; and so when it’s ejected, the coral takes on a ghostly white hue, giving rise to the term “bleaching”.
(15) So are you optimistic then about the future survival of the world's coral reefs in the long term?
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef worse than for decades The photos were taken from around Lizard Island by Lyle Vale from Coral Watch at the University of Queensland .
(17) So we looked at the economic contribution of tourists to that area and compared it with the cost of interventions to improve water quality and coral reef health in that area.
(18) Freed of the need to wave their tentacles around to hunt for food, the coral can devote more energy to secreting the mineral calcium carbonate, from which they form a stony exoskeleton.
(19) It was the fourth mass bleaching to hit the reef in recorded history – all since 1998 – and coral scientists are alarmed the increasing regularity of these events gives stressed coral precious little chance to recover.
(20) In areas near the loaders, enough has accumulated to have a toxic effect on the corals that grow there.
Cordal
Definition:
(n.) Same as Cordelle.
Example Sentences:
(1) These dysgeneses are characterized by the presence of cordal epithelial structures and of stroma.
(2) Some H felis were closely associated with the plasmalemma of cordal reticular cells and also were located in intracytoplasmic vacuoles of the cells without being influenced by the phagocytic process.
(3) The sinus-cordal rearrangement and, particularly, the increase in the volume of pulp cords may cause a slowing down of blood cell circulation with resultant increased phagocytosis and hypersplenism.
(4) Site of origin has never been considered a possible prognostic factor for such cordal neoplasms; such factors could possibly make the choice between treatments significant.
(5) Moreover, it is suggested that the changes observed in the arterial bed of the spleen in hairy cell leukaemia involve both a reduced blood supply per unit volume of splenic pulp and a more marked conditioning of blood cells prior to their screening by cordal macrophages.
(6) Research is still needed concerning the follow-up of the intubated patients in order to limit the pressures exerted between the cordal mucosa or the tracheal mucosa in contact with the endotracheal tube.
(7) The cordal arrangement and adluminal shift of the diverse spermatogonia will be discussed along with the cyclic transformations of Sertoli cell processes and their junctions.
(8) This study aimed to evaluate the usefulness and efficacy of intracordal silicone injection in the treatment of cordal paralysis after thoracic surgery or due to tumor invasion of the recurrent nerve.
(9) Stereoscopic observations of scanning electron micrographs clearly demonstrated the three-dimensional fine architecture of the splenic sinuses, the spongy cordal reticular tissue and the intracordal vasculature.
(10) Mitral valve prolapse is the main cause of mitral incompetence; spontaneous cordal rupture is a late complication in the natural history of this disease, thus warranting prompt surgical valve repair or replacement.
(11) Prolonged sojourn of these elements in a metabolically unfavorable environment results in cellular damage, increased exposure to cordal macrophages, and premature destruction with the evolution of a hypersplenic syndrome.
(12) At surgery, a solid mass, localized on the right side, inside the medulla oblongata and the spinal cordal, with a cyst at each extremity, reaching C4 in the lower part and the recessus lateralis in the upper part.
(13) The transmission (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies demonstrated predominantly red cell retention in the cords of HS spleens, red cell phagocytosis by cordal macrophages in AHA spleens and in a lesser intensity in HS spleens, and phagocytosis of haematic corpuscles by sinus endothelial cells (SEC) in the cases of HS.
(14) The AVPL perfusion fixation of these spleens clearly visualized complicated three-dimensional fine architecture of the red pulp and provided much important information on in situ morphology and dynamic change of the terminal vascular bed, including venous pressure-dependent size change of the stomata and three-dimensional shapes of the capillary terminal, with positive proof of their opening into the cordal reticular tissue.
(15) Thirty (5.6%) of 535 patients followed 5-25 years after treatment of cordal carcinoma (T1A,B) developed a second primary laryngeal carcinoma.
(16) The cause of the cordal paralysis was injury to the recurrent nerve incurred during operation for oesophageal or lung cancer in nineteen patients, and direct invasion of malignant neoplasm to the recurrent nerve in the other three patients.
(17) The results are as follows: Vocal nodules: no real advantages are offered by the CO2 laser in the treatment of these pathologies, whereas, in a small percentage of cases, the occurrence of reactive nodules or scars was noted; Cordal polyps are better removed with the traditional procedures, whereas the CO2 laser allows a more accurate excision of voluminous polyps or edemas of Reinke because of the bloodless operative field; Dyskeratoses: better functional results can be obtained using the laser.
(18) Cordal capillaries were exclusively open into labyrinthine reticular tissue space of the cord with a funnel-shaped or a perforated saccular or ampullar terminal.
(19) Leukemic myeloblasts infiltrated the cordal space of the red pulp.
(20) In four patients who were treated with this procedure 7 months following thoracic operation and three who had cordal paralysis due to invasion of malignant tumors, in all of whom aspiration had not been noted, dysphonia disappeared completely after the silicone injection.