(n.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The capacity of new selected sorts of rape and winter cress oils to decrease a high cholesterol level in the blood and liver was studied in "cholesterol" rats.
(2) In Martinique water-cress beds constituted the last transmission sites for schistosomiasis.
(3) The uptake of 14C from various 14C-labeled organic chemicals from different chemical classes by barley and cress seedlings from soil was studied for 7 days in a closed aerated laboratory apparatus.
(4) The effect of washing mustard and cress, cucumber and the different layers of lettuce leaves was examined.
(5) It is suggested that rape oil ("Agat", "Kubanskoye") and winter cress oil ("Sibiryachka") initiate the lipid transport in the blood and tissues thus leading to the reduction of the cholesterol level in the blood and liver tissue in "cholesterol" rats.
(6) Experimental studies on 16 water-cress pools with cases of human fasciolasis in Limousin were undertaken.
(7) The intermediate host snail, Biomphalaria glabrata, was considered in the past as a common species in the different habitats of the island, but during the last decade it has been found only in water-cress beds.
(8) Several of these water-cress cultures contained mixed populations of B. glabrata and B. straminea.
(9) The danger of eating water cress is emphasized for this momentary delight may lead to a chronic debilitating illness.
(10) The effect of nonpurified condensate obtained during prolonged cultivation of batata in a sealed chamber upon batata cuttings and seedlings of garden cress, radish and Chinese cabbage was studied.
(11) 6-HKA was found to be devoid of antibacterial and antifungal activity, and was inactive in the Avena-coleoptile and cress-seed-germination tests.
(12) You’ve been seeing him on the TV for years and years and years,” Cress said, adding that the frontrunner stands for “jobs, money, [not] getting ripped off by other countries”.
(13) Cress, who owns a fireworks business in New Mexico and imports his stock from China, was unperturbed by Trump’s promise of tariffs on imports from the country.
(14) Normal human plasma contained no antibodies to structural proteins of tobacco mosaic, cucumber mosaic, and rock-cress mosaic viruses.
(15) This greater appearance is probably related to the dietary habits in those areas, since the consumption of water cress is undoubtedly the principal source of contamination and is entirely responsible for the rest of the epidemiology of the diseases in humans.
(16) The two remaining water-cress beds have dried up and were abandoned.
(17) However, the water-cress was that which presented the highest frequencies of enteroparasites.
(18) After extraction from the cells, the compounds were purified with column and thin layer layer chromatography on silica gel, bioassayed for inhibition of garden cress (Lepidium sativum L.) radicle elongation, and identified with ms, ir, nmr, and co-chromatography with authentic standards.
(19) It was given as sodium tellurate, sodium tellurite, metallic colloid and intrinsically bound in cress.
(20) Thai marinated monk fish with sweet potato fondant, pak choi, thai red curry sauce and coriander cress.
Crest
Definition:
(n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
(n.) The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet.
(n.) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.
(n.) The upper curve of a horse's neck.
(n.) The ridge or top of a wave.
(n.) The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
(n.) The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
(n.) The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
(n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.
(v. t.) To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
(v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.
(v. i.) To form a crest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence, the absence of NGF receptors on premigratory neural crest and early migratory neural crest cultures was not due to enzymatic alterations of the receptor.
(2) Predominantly observed defects included neural crest cells in ectopic locations, both within and external to the neural tube, and mildly deformed neural tubes containing some dissociating cells.
(3) Our results suggest that cAMP may be an important regulator of phenotypic expression in at least some neural crest cell lineages.
(4) Neural crest cells give rise to various essential tissues in vertebrates.
(5) In the present study, we have compared the phosphorylation state of the fibronectin receptor in motile neural crest and somitic cells, in stationary somitic cells, and in Rous-sarcoma virus transformed-chick embryo fibroblasts, using immunoprecipitation following metabolic labeling.
(6) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
(7) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
(8) The talus was revascularized with a vascularized corticocancellous iliac crest bone graft.
(9) When the method proposed by Trela (1975) is applied, thin layers of the petrous crest are chiselled out until the common crus of the superior and posterior semi-circular becomes apparent.
(10) The center of resistance was located at 0.24 times the root length measured apical to the level of alveolar crest.
(11) By means of immunoreactivity for spot 35 protein, a novel cerebellar Purkinje cell-specific protein, the regional heterogeneity among non-pigmented ciliary epithelial cells of rats was demonstrated with reference to the antero-posterior and crest-valley directions of individual ciliary epithelial folds in immature and mature eyes.
(12) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
(13) The type II, III, IV, and V boutons appear mature at all ages examined but crest synapses formed by the type III terminals are observed in the later stages of the study.
(14) The use of the pectoralis major muscle only flap in conjunction with a free iliac crest bone graft for reconstruction of the mandible is described.
(15) The outer coat turned to be extremely sculptured, presenting as interlaced crests of various height.
(16) The effects of AAGTP are different in nervous tissue from other tissues, and experiments with that nucleotide have led to the discovery of a new, 32 kDa GTP-binding protein which appears only in neural crest cells.
(17) The neural crest has been suggested as the origin of the ectomesenchymomas.
(18) He had huge eyes, a wide, deep brow, an angel's mouth, with the upper lip crested.
(19) We have examined the distribution and function of the defined cell adhesion molecules, N-cadherin and N-CAM, in the emigration of cranial neural crest cells from the neural tube in vivo.
(20) On E7, a slender neuropil was present in the migrating cell clusters, but all the crest derived cells were uniform.