(n.) A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) In telecost fishes, the corpuscles of Stannius contain Bowie-stainable granules and a renin-like pressor substance.
(2) Two types of mechanoreceptor have been found in the articular capsule of the knee joint of the domestic cat--Ruffini corpuscles and Pacinian corpuscles.
(3) Twenty-six rapidly adapting units (RA), eighteen slowly adapting units (SA) and ten Pacinian corpuscle units (PC) were differentiated from each other mainly on the presence of the off response in RA and PC units to a ramp stimulation, the persistence of discharges of the SA units during steady pressure on the receptive field and the classical tuning curve seen in the PC units.
(4) In the mouse, Meissner corpuscles, glomerular corpuscles, and Merkel cell nerve endings were seen in every palatine ruga, though the first antemolar ruga also contained simple and atypical lamellated corpuscles.
(5) Tumours which consist mainly of multiple touch corpuscles have not been described in the literature.
(6) Tubocurarine or hexonium application of decapsulated pacinian corpuscles led to depression of the sensitivity of the receptor to the mechanical stimulation that can also be explained by the participation of acetylcholine in the process of adequate receptor stimulation.
(7) Radioactivity from NaH14CO3 also was accumulated in soft tissues and corpuscles of T. taeniaeformis.
(8) The increasing excitability of the Pacinian corpuscle in potassium-rich solution was shown by electrophysiologic methods.
(9) Assuming that the 14C taken up by the corpuscles was in the form of 14CO3(2-), the ratio of Ca2+ to CO3(2-) accumulation in the corpuscles approximates the ratio of these constituents in dolomite: CaMg(CO3)2.
(10) The capsule is quite simple mostly formed by a single lamella of fibrocyte which often fails to form a continuous coat of the corpuscle.
(11) Colchicine application to the cat caudal mesenteric nerve containing sensory fibers for single mechanoreceptors (Pacinian corpuscles) causes degeneration of the axis cast of the nerve endings.
(12) We conclude that the inner core of Pacinian corpuscles is a unique micro-environment promoting sprouting of sensory axon in the normal human adult as well as juvenile Pacinian corpuscles.
(13) It was shown that cyclosporine induced cell depletion in the thymus cortical and medullar zones, inhibition of lymphocyte mitotic activity, alteration of the Hassall corpuscles and impairment of their formation.
(14) Ruffini-type corpuscles, 50-150 microns long and 25-50 microns wide, had the branched axon terminals with varicosities under the incomplete capsule.
(15) Cardiac blood films of all the fetuses stained by the Pappenheim's panoptic method showed Anaplasma marginale in two to 20% of red corpuscles.
(16) Antigenic stimulation of macrophages made it possible to investigate the dynamics of absorption and digestion of sheep corpuscles, as well as the morphology of this process.
(17) After the application of the fourth chemotherapy cycle, the patient presented microangiopathic hemolytic anemia associated to Mitomycin-C, which was treated with the application of recurrent plasmapheresis and restricted transfusions of red corpuscles concentrate.
(18) The major derivative possesses a paracrystalline corpuscle and the minor has an electron-dense area in the juxta-axonemal region.
(19) The shape of this age-related decline in the ratio corresponded well with the decrease in the number of Meissner corpuscles found in histological studies.
(20) One hundred renal corpuscles were counted per section and the parietal layer of Bowman's capsule was classified as normal (squamous) or metaplastic (cuboidal).
Laky
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a lake.
(a.) Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Passive movement decreases stiffness; when the muscle is subsequently allowed to rest it returns at a progressively declining rate to a level of stiffness that is close to its original value (Lakie & Robson, 1988b).
(2) This strongly suggests that muscle thixotropy (Lakie, Walsh & Wright, 1984) is a property of the SREC.
(3) This finding reveals the cause of error in an earlier report (Tyler, H.M., and Laki, K. (1967) Biochemistry 6, 3259) that rabbit liver contains little, if any, of the enzyme.
(4) Recent reports have shown that the stiffness of relaxed frog muscle is not a fixed property, but is dependent on the previous history of movement (Lakie & Robson, 1988a).
(5) Saya ingin agar para pekerja di Jakarta baik laki-laki maupun perempuan mengeluarkan tidak lebih dari 10% pendapatan mereka untuk penggunaan transportasi publik.
(6) The extent of this thixotropic effect is dependent on the size of the applied force (Lakie & Robson, 1988).
(7) The man provoking the clapping and peals of laughter is Lakis Lazopoulos, a stocky figure who spends the best part of three hours prancing across the stage in flamboyant costumes and wigs.
(8) The geometric representation by Abdulnur & Laki (1983) of the set of amino-acid residues in alpha-polypeptide chains is essentially the same as the one put forward by Crick 30 years ago.
(9) Eight- and nine-week-old Hungarian Landrace pigs were tested with halothane as described by Laky et al.