(n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
(n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
(n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
(n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
(n.) See Chord.
(v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
(v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
(imp. & p. p.) of Core
Example Sentences:
(1) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
(2) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
(3) A complex linkage between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix is illustrated both in the cord forming Sertoli and granulosa cells, and in the adjacent mesenchymal cells.
(4) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(5) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(6) Subdural tumors may be out of the cord (10 tumors), on the posterior roots (28 tumors), or within the cord.
(7) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
(8) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(9) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(10) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.
(11) In umbilical cord blood a higher level of lipoperoxide was observed in patients with toxemia of pregnancy than in normal pregnant women.
(12) The antibody reacted with adult as well as with cord red cells, and its reactivity was strongly diminished by treatment of the cells with neuraminidase and to a lesser degree by treatment with protease.
(13) Magnetic resonance imaging of the spinal cord clearly demonstrated the entire lesion.
(14) The evolution of tissue damage in compressive spinal cord injuries in rats was studied using an immunohistochemical technique and by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis.
(15) Results of the present study show that epithelial cells of ciliated columnar type covering vocal cords change remarkably to nonciliated squamous cells between prenatal and postnatal stages.
(16) We have also studied the distribution of tenascin mRNA in the developing spinal cord and spinal ganglia.
(17) Serum ferritin was measured in 51 term normal pregnant mothers and the corresponding cord blood samples.
(18) Spinal cord stimulation would suppress at least the dorsal horn neurons which were destroyed by various kinds of diseases.
(19) These findings support the hypothesis that the presence of FSC tissue will have an effect on the persistence of glial scar tissue in a chronic lesion site as well as limit the extent to which a new scar is formed in response to a second injury to the spinal cord.
(20) The first spinal nerve and the spinal accessory nerve (XI) have no sensory projections, but the second spinal nerve has typical projections along the dorsal funiculus of the spinal cord.
Ribbon
Definition:
(n.) A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.
(n.) A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.
(n.) Same as Rib-band.
(n.) Driving reins.
(n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
(n.) A silver.
(v. t.) To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.
Example Sentences:
(1) The "hexagonal ribbon" model proposes that hexagonal profiles are true cross-sections of elongated hexagonal ribbons.
(2) Consequently, the insular ribbon effectively becomes a watershed arterial zone.
(3) The possible arrangements of molecules within the twisted ribbons have been deduced and are found to be fairly closely related.
(4) Description and differentiation of the ribbon shaped vascular muscle cells from cardiac muscle cells, and the potential for confusion of the two in older animals, was addressed.
(5) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(6) Differentiated ribbon synapses are found after 8 days in vitro, the time at which they normally appear in situ.
(7) At low pH, it is theorized that the trapezoidal profile of the dimer is shifted to a more rectangular configuration such that flat ribbons are formed by the lateral association of dimers.
(8) When negatively stained with uranyl acetate, LPSI was ribbon-like but LPSII exhibited hexagonal lattice structures.
(9) synaptic ribbon (SR) and synaptic spherule (SS) numbers, was explored in 6 different stocks and strains of laboratory rats, viz.
(10) In the astrocytes, the residual bodies were extremely polymorphous and contained inclusions with bilamellar ribbon-like structures.
(11) These labeled amacrine cells received conventional synaptic contacts from other unlabeled amacrine cells and ribbon synaptic contacts from unlabeled bipolar cells, in both the proximal and distal inner plexiform layer.
(12) Regular patterns of actomyosin interactions arise when ribbons are aligned with myosin thick filaments, because the repeat distance of the myosin lattice (429 A) is an integral multiple of the subunit repeat in the ribbon (35.7 A).
(13) All underwent implantation of a ribbon electrode through a small laminotomy, under general anesthesia.
(14) We have reported that meso-hexestrol, a synthetic estrogen, inhibits microtubule assembly and induces microtubule proteins into twisted ribbon structures.
(15) The first is characterized by afferent synapses to the brain with, in the sensory pedicle endings, structures similar to the presynaptic ribbons noted by some authors in photoreceptors of arthropods.
(16) Presynaptic ribbons could be observed in cone cells on E.E.
(17) The other part was processed for electron microscopy to quantify synaptic ribbons (SR).
(18) A possibility of reorganization of the tubular structures into the ribbon-like ones and vice versa is shown.
(19) Some tied yellow ribbons and bows to the Eccles Cross while others stood quietly, reflecting on what had happened to someone who, according to the local paper, was an "extraordinary man who we can be proud to call one of our own".
(20) At the apposition of the ribbon to the hair cell membrane, presynaptic densities are formed and the ribbon appears to become anchored.