(n.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.
(n.) The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.
(v. t.) To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.
Example Sentences:
(1) We examined AMT with regard to (1) its papain activity; (2) its ability to digest meat cubes in vitro; and (3) its effect on rabbit esophageal mucosa.
(2) There is a developmental sequence of pencil grasp, and useful development scales in copying cube models, drawing geometric shapes, and the draw-a-man test.
(3) First, the parameters of the two angiographic projections are determined in form of two 4 x 3 matrices from a pair of cineframes showing a 4 cm cube bearing markers.
(4) One format is that of multiplanar reconstruction of the eye and orbit, including an "oblique CT cube" image.
(5) If you squat in the corner of a big cube ( a cubical room, say), you can see at least a floor, a ceiling and three walls.
(6) Oxygen diffusion distance was measured in solid tumor "cubes" prepared by excising the tumor from the mouse and incubating 1-2 mm sided tumor cubes in spinner culture flasks with fluorescent drugs (AF-2 or DM113) which bind to hypoxic cells.
(7) 3 For the smoked mackerel pate, peel the sweet potato and chop into cubes.
(8) I live close to the Bird’s Nest stadium and the Water Cube and see many people visiting both venues every day,” he said.
(9) A cube with side length 6.5 mm or a cylindrical specimen with 7.5 mm diameter and 6.5 mm length are suggested as standard specimens for comparative studies on trabecular bone mechanics.
(10) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
(11) The EMI values were correlated with physical density, electron density, and atomic number cubed (Z3).
(12) It had a “flat, nasty” ring to it, she says, which she has since “analysed like a Rubik’s cube; I have turned it every which way.
(13) By comparison of the scattering curves with triaxial geometric bodies which are equivalent in scattering, the tetrameric enzyme is described as a rectangular prism, with overall dimensions of A = 131.0 A, B = 131.0 A, and C = 65.0 A, and the octameric form as that of a cube with A = B = C = 120.0 A.
(14) When the man with the Rubik's Cube arrived, it was Edward Snowden."
(15) Children between the ages of 6 and 14 years were asked to draw an L-shaped array of three cubes from one of three views: frontal eye level, frontal looking down, and corner looking down.
(16) Pour the chopped tomatoes over the peaches and onions, add chopped coriander, cumin and a finely crumbled stock cube and stir in.
(17) The contribution of the decreased weight to the decrease in absolute AGD was examined by a variety of methods (ratio of AGD to cube root of weight or biparietal distance, comparison to weight-matched controls, and covariance analysis).
(18) College students and community-dwelling adults studied and later reconstructed a three-dimensional arrangement of common or abstract objects located in a compartmentalized cube so that relocation errors could be independently measured within the horizontal, vertical, and depth dimensions.
(19) Regional cerebral blood flow was measured in 19 subjects during the performance of three tasks thought to primarily involve right hemisphere processing: judgement of line orientation, mental rotation of three-dimensional cube arrays, and a fragment puzzle task.
(20) We studied gastric emptying of three differently shaped particles, (cubes, spheres, rods) of either hard or soft consistency during the fasting state in human volunteers.
Cuboid
Definition:
(a.) Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot.
(n.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.
Example Sentences:
(1) New lamellae are formed by these cuboidal cells which then divide and migrate into the lamellae where they assume the characteristic attenuated appearance of fibroblasts in the adult dermal lamellae region.
(2) This exogenous protein tracer could be seen in apical vacuoles and phagosomes in the cuboidal parietal epithelium.
(3) The lining epithelium was a single layer of flattened or cuboidal endocervical cells.
(4) 24 hours after birth, the vesicles fill with colloid and the epithelium is cuboidal; the iodine content of the protein increases (between 1 and 2 mu g 127I per mg protein) as well as the thyroglobulin percentate (around 20%).
(5) There was gradual regeneration of epithelium which showed slow maturation from flat non-ciliated epithelium to partially cuboidal and columnar epithelium with some cilia showing early differentiation to respiratory epithelium.
(6) Sclerosing hemangioma of the lung (SHL) was investigated immunohistochemically, histochemically and ultrastructurally with reference to cellular components associated with the histologic pattern: cuboidal cells in the papillary type, round cells in the solid type, flat cells in the hemorrhagic type and stromal cells in the sclerotic type.
(7) The MNT was composed mainly of two cell types: small immature neuroblast-like cells and large columnar or cuboidal epithelial-like cells with or without melanin granules.
(8) By immunofluorescence, staining was confined to cuboidal cells in alveolar spaces.
(9) The tumors were superficial, solitary masses consisting of cuboidal to columnar cells in tubuloglandular arrangement.
(10) Light microscopic and electron microscopic examinations showed that the cysts are lined by flattened to cuboidal epithelial cells which, on their surface, have microvilli of different lengths and underneath a continuous basement membrane.
(11) In the experiments performed on 61 dogs dynamics of changes of morphometrical parameters of mitochondria of brush-border and cuboid cells have been studied at conservation of the kidneys for 120 h in solutions of intracellular type.
(12) In contrast, type II pneumonocytes are cuboidal and are richly endowed with organelles including large Golgi complexes, extensive endoplasmic reticulum and numerous inclusion bodies.
(13) By avidin-biotin complex (ABC) and immunofluorescence method, B-11 was reactive to squamous and transitional epithelium, but was not reactive to simple columnar epithelium from stomach and colon, simple cuboidal epithelium from urinary tubule and thyroid, and pseudostratified ciliated epithelium from trachea and ductus epididymidis.
(14) Out of four cell lines examined, LS174T cells formed glandular structures composed of a simple columnar or cuboidal epithelium with a lumen in the centre of the cell mass.
(15) This portion coexisted with a deeper, preexistent lesion in the substantia propria that was comprised of orderly nests of unpigmented cuboidal nevus cells surrounded by pigmented, spindle-shaped blue nevus cells--a so-called "mixed nevus."
(16) Scanning and transmission electron microscopy revealed that streptomycin-treated cultures were composed of cuboidal-to-columnar shaped cells which maintained intact tight junctions similar to control cultures.
(17) Fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies of a thyroid nodule in a patient with longstanding histiocytosis X produced a scanty amount of colloid, a moderately dense mixed inflammatory infiltrate and numerous small papillary fragments lined by cuboidal-to-columnar cells.
(18) The long arterial capillaries of the carp spleen are provided with cuboidal endothelial cells containing filaments approximately 7 nm in diameter.
(19) One hundred renal corpuscles were counted per section and the parietal layer of Bowman's capsule was classified as normal (squamous) or metaplastic (cuboidal).
(20) In the pituitary, similar pattern of localization was also observed in the cuboidal-columnar epithelial cells that lined the par tuberalis between the anterior and intermediate lobes.