(1) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(2) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
(3) This all crept up on me while I wasn't paying attention.
(4) When the ice-cold water crept up the hollow of my neck, when my boots and trousers became as heavy as lead, it wasn't so bad that it stopped me from keeping up with the others.
(5) A team of French paratroopers crept into the town by moonlight, advancing from the airport, they said.
(6) The team's response to the goal was to look for the pair with every attack but the closest they came was through Ravel Morrison's 20-yard free-kick in the 23rd minute, which would have crept under the crossbar had Karl Darlow not made a fine save.
(7) NHS England figures further reveal that the proportion of those patients not treated within 28 days of being turned away from operating tables has crept up to 5.6% – a four-year high.
(8) Coalition policy to accelerate rises to RPI plus 3% were twice modified by the chancellor George Osborne ahead of January rises as inflation crept up, but fares rose by over 6% annually in 2011 and 2012.
(9) I crept up to the security guard on one side of the runway and saw he was not someone I should try to rush past.
(10) Its opening party this year crept forward to the last week of May, coinciding with the International Music Summit, which rivals Miami's Winter Music Conference as the most important event in the calendar for the dance music industry.
(11) Prices of petrol and diesel both crept up around 1p a litre last month.
(12) Leicester could probably have been excused if a little weariness had crept in – nobody, Ranieri said, had slept a great amount over the past week – and for the first time this season it was the occasion, perhaps, rather than the result, that mattered.
(13) The prosecutor, Gerrie Nel, gradually zeroed in on the critical moment when the athlete crept into his bathroom with a 9mm pistol and shot four times.
(14) An early lead, a dominant start; Northern Ireland could not have wished for a better opening but the home side’s confidence and urgency belatedly surfaced as carelessness crept into the visiting performance.
(15) I was worried the weight of the sadness that crept into my whole being over the course of her decline and departure from this world would just keep expanding until it crushed me completely.
(16) He went for the ball, it’s football and these things happen.” The dismissal gave Tottenham plenty of time to search for a winner and while they monopolised the ball, Watford went close to stealing a goal by forcing a succession of late corners, including one from Ben Watson that almost crept over the line.
(17) Perhaps a little bit of complacency crept in from Barcelona after the interval but, to give City their due, they did at least remind themselves they were meant to be the home side.
(18) Concern has increased in recent years, as oil finds have crept closer to the disputed border.
(19) But since the end of the sectarian war in 2008, Baghdad has crept towards a cautious normality, albeit under a very heavy security presence at almost every junction.
(20) Volleys of bullets from the rebels' Kalashnikovs whizzed mostly towards army positions, but some flew down the boulevard and prompted those who had crept too close to throw themselves against walls and to the floor.
Crypt
Definition:
(n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
(n.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(2) A comparative evaluation of these data suggest that hormone independent cells are present in the cervical crypts of late menopause women and that a cyclic change of hormone dependent cells may occur in fertile women, analogous to the cyclic changes of endometrial mucosa.
(3) The proliferating cells showing increased hybridization include normal mitotically active crypt epithelium, regenerating epithelium in ulcerative colitis, adenomatous epithelium, and adenocarcinomatous epithelium.
(4) There was also a reduced crypt cell proliferation, a reduced villus height and a decreased ALP activity in the ileal mucosa.
(5) Explants maintained villus-to-crypt ratio between 1:1 and 1.5:1 for 48 hours.
(6) The diameters of regenerating crypts were measured at various times after X-rays and cis-platinum given either alone or in combination.
(7) In both of these groups, the inoculated bacteria were recovered from the colon, and T hyodysenteriae was demonstrated in the colonic crypts, epithelium, and lamina propria.
(8) Succinylated wheat germ agglutinin bound more to crypt than to villus enterocytes.
(9) The crypts were studied at 1, 5, 7, 15 and 30 days after the initiation of treatment.
(10) Newborn animals already exhibited clearly recognizable crypts of Lieberkühn.
(11) In addition, we found that carbamoylphosphate synthetase mRNA is present mainly in the epithelium of the crypts of the proximal part of the small intestine, whereas carbamoylphosphate synthetase protein is present in the epithelium of both crypts and villi.
(12) The peptide toxin apamin inhibits Ca2(+)-activated K+ channels exclusively in surface cell vesicles, while charybdotoxin inhibits predominantly in the crypt cell membrane fraction.
(13) Intrinsic factor-mediated uptake of cobalamin could not be demonstrated using ileal crypt or jejunal villous or crypt cells.
(14) A method has been developed for the simultaneous isolation of basolateral plasma membrane vesicles from surface and crypt cells of rabbit distal colon epithelium by sequential use of differential sedimentation, isopycnic centrifugation and Ficoll 400 barrier centrifugation.
(15) In contrast, foci formed by 3-4 dysplastic crypts were decreased by the starch diet (P less than 0.05).
(16) In the former group the changes observed were mucosal oedema with acute inflammation of varying severity but with preservation of the crypt architecture.
(17) (ii) In young sucklings (10 days old), SC was virtually absent in both villus and crypt cells, but its concentration progressively increased in weanling rats and reached adult levels by day 40 postpartum.
(18) Sub-groups of 5-7 rats were sequentially killed at 4, 8 and 12 months for evaluation of the length, cell numbers and 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrDU) labeling indices of large bowel crypts together with ODC activity.
(19) One of the conventional approaches used in the past provided estimates of about 70-80 clonogenic cells per crypt (i.e.
(20) Immunofluorescence studies employing monoclonal antibodies specific for villus and crypt cells in vivo, and various enzyme assays, have demonstrated a level of differentiation and maturation of the cultured epithelial cells similar but not identical to that of suckling intestinal mucosa in vivo.