(n.) A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.
(n.) A sucker or acetabulum.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time it was demonstrated that the exposure produced swelling of cupulate nerve endings in the central compartment of the receptor epithelium of the posterior ampulla.
(2) Cells from the prosencephalic neural crest migrate into the frontal nasal process and mix with the mesencephalic neural crest cells in the lateral nasal processes, around the optic cupule and beneath the diencephalon.
(3) The effects of angular accelerations in one or two spatial planes over the pressure exerted on the cupule of the semicircular canals, was studied using hydraulic models of the canals.
(4) In the course of aftereffect of the otolith stimulation, both the activated and the inhibited responses as well as the responses similar to control can be revealed, depending on the time interval between presentationsof otolith and cupulous stimuli.
(5) The club-shaped retinular cells lie homogeneously distributed in the cupule of the ocellus.
(6) If sperm contacted follicle cells between the cupules the acrosome did not react.
(7) When dissected ripe eggs were exposed to sperm in vitro, the sperm were attracted only to open cupules, inside which they swam through one of seven channels to the base where they penetrated the hull.
(8) After inoculation with a heavy suspension of growth, strips containing 20 cupules were incubated for 24 h, reagents were added, and the results of 21 biochemical reactions were recorded as numerical profiles.
(9) The eggs have an elaborate hull (= chorion), which is formed into cupules that remain covered by follicle cells until maturity.
Curule
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.