(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.
Snood
Definition:
(n.) The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character.
(n.) A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.
(v. t.) To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stimulation of oocyte maturation by 1-methyladenine causes snoods to disappear, presumably by disassembly, about halfway to the time of germinal vesicle breakdown.
(2) The putatively stressful procedures of sexing, toe trimming, snood removal, beak trimming and injection of antibiotic solution, as performed in a commercial hatchery, elevated blood glucose levels and depressed hepatic glycogen levels in newly-hatched turkey poults.
(3) This argument has more holes than one of my hand-knitted snoods.
(4) In the toms, using TAM advanced semen production by 4 wk (13.5 versus 17.5 wk of age) and increased the size of the snood and testes.
(5) "C all me Gloria," oozed Gloria Price, draping herself around Lloyd Mullaney's neck like a menopausal snood.
(6) By immunofluorescence microscopy of isolated cortices and electron microscopy of isolated cortices and intact oocytes, snood fibers exhibit complex striations with a periodicity of approximately 0.75 micron.
(7) ( £18.99 ) Neckwarmer My best cycling friend is my Buff ( from £15, buffwear.co.uk ) – a windproof modern-day take on the snood.
(8) Three children with wandering spleens were treated by a new splenopexy technique, the splenic snood.
(9) Snood fibers form loops and branches throughout the cortex of a premeiotic oocyte, except at the animal pole where they emanate from a nonstaining zone surrounding the centrosomes.
(10) The large-meshed network resembles a snood (hair net).
(11) The chancellor, in a black skull and crossbones patterned snood at the royal family's favourite ski resort, was the perfect new year image of us all not being in it together.
(12) Snoods are not colocalized with the cortical arrays of microtubules and are unaffected by drugs that disrupt microtubules or microfilaments.
(13) The simplicity and technical ease of the splenic snood operation recommend it as an improved method to avoid splenectomy and safely normalize intraabdominal anatomy in the management of the wandering spleen.
(14) As protesters finally shuffled out of the Westminster Bridge kettle in single file, after seven hours imprisoned in freezing temperatures without food, water, toilets or freedom of movement, I saw several of them look the police in the eye – for that was all they could see, beneath a riot shield visor and a raised black snood – and say, some with humour, some with anger – but all with total defiance, "see you at the next one, mate".