(v. t.) To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aerial shots along the route – taking in the crenellated ruins of Dunluce Castle, the vertiginous Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, the basalt stacks of the Giant's Causeway, and the seaside villages of Ballycastle, Cushendun, Cushendall and Carnlough – will be a pleasant surprise for viewers who have an entirely different image of Northern Ireland.
(2) Behind the high, crenellated walls of Kigali prison, 7,000 prisoners are crammed into a space that was built to accommodate perhaps a tenth of that number.
(3) Its crenellated edges are deep purple and its eight tentacles look like soft pink coral.
(4) The most notable morphological effect of the antibiotic was ruffling or crenelation of the outer membrane, which resulted ultimately in its separation from the inner membrane.
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(6) Jamie Vardy ’s having a(nother) party: he’s going to get married at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire – actually not a castle, just a big and kind-of-oldish house with crenellations – on 25 May.
(7) We stopped at Pembroke Castle to while away a little more of the drizzle, wondering if this massive crenellated fortification from the 12th century was also, in its day, considered a monstrous carbuncle.
(8) The sexual characters of the parapodial cirri (male and female swellings, male crenellations) are always expressed on stump or regenerate according to the genetic sex.
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Notch
Definition:
(n.) A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.
(n.) A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.
(v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick.
(v. t.) To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Notch locus in Drosophila encodes a transmembrane protein required for the determination of cell fate in ectodermal cells.
(2) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
(3) For histometric evaluation, the radicular notches were used as reference points.
(4) Conversely, in 66 of 80 pregnancies the absence of a notch was associated with the livebirth of an infant beyond 32 weeks gestation, with a birthweight above the 5th centile.
(5) The left subclavian artery was prominent in 33 cases, signs indicating a collateral circulation (rib notching, internal mammary artery) were present in 26 cases.
(6) Notched tympanograms were typical of neonatal ears for a 220-Hz probe tone.
(7) Radiographic manifestations include endosteal sclerosis of the neurocranium with loss of the diploë, osteosclerosis and hyperostosis of the mandible with absence of the normal antegonial notches, endosteal sclerosis of the diaphyses of long bones (including metacarpals and metatarsals), and osteosclerosis of the pelvis.
(8) For the experimental studies, fractures of the jaw bone in terms of oblique osteotomies from angle to sigmoid notch of the mandible of the Malaysian monkeys were made by using #700 fissure bur and reduced and fixed them in terms of interosseous wiring.
(9) Lymphadenopathies were classified by the criteria proposed by Yoshinaka et al., type I: poorly-defined borders, diffuse internal echoes; type II: well-defined borders, diffuse internal echoes; type III: well-defined borders, notchings, strong internal echoes.
(10) Here, we examine a group of six recessive mutations, the facets (fa, fa3, fag, fag-2, fafx and fasw), which affect eye and optic lobe morphology and have been previously shown to be associated with the insertion of transposable elements into an intronic region of Notch.
(11) Another frequent finding was partial or total obstruction at the tentorial notch, often in combination with reduced or absent activity along the superior sagittal sinus.
(12) In one patient, the fibrous band extended from the distal pole of the patella to the intracondylar notch, tethering the patella inferiorly.
(13) This thin flap, usually extending from the hyoid bone to the sternal notch at the central part of the anterior neck, provides a skin island of about 4 by 8 cm.
(14) The chest roentgenographic findings in Takayasu's arteritis include widening of the ascending aorta, contour irregularities of the descending aorta, arotic calcifications, pulmonary arterial changes, rib notching, and hilar lymphadenopathy.
(15) In two cases the epidermoid, located mainly in the cerebello-pontine angle, spread into the middle cranial fossa; in three the epidermoid extended from the parasellar cisterns to the posterior cranial fossa; in six patients the epidermoid, enlarging the tentorial notch, occupied extensively both cranial fossae.
(16) This post-transcriptional regulation is suppressed in embryos mutant for the genes Notch and Delta; where all cells expressing RNA accumulate protein.
(17) The femoral intercondylar notch width was measured in 93 patients with chronic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) insufficiency (Group 1), in 62 patients with an acute tear of the ACL (Group 2), and in 38 fresh anatomic specimen knees (Group 3).
(18) Deep notch cases had more retrusive mandibles with a shorter corpus, smaller ramus height, and a greater gonial angle than did shallow notch cases.
(19) The acicular alpha structure has been shown to exhibit the best fatigue properties for Ti-6A1-4V alloy in the notched condition.
(20) The anatomical relations of the semilunar notch of the ulna were studied in radiographs, taken in a strict lateral view, from 100 patients with elbow dislocations.