(a.) Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
(2) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
(3) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(4) In this study, tritiated leucine placed on the isolated maternal side of amniochorion with adherent decidua was incorporated into newly synthesized tritiated human decidual prolactin.
(5) Significantly more PP12 (P less than 0.001) was released into the medium from decidual explants than from chorion and amnion explants throughout the experimental period of 24 h. When incubated under identical conditions, placental explants released no detectable PP12.
(6) Decidual response also is produced in the immature rat after coitus-induced ovulation.
(7) High expression of these connexins is found in developing decidual cells by day 7 to 8 post coitum; furthermore, coexpression of connexins 26 and 43 in myometrium is observed just before delivery on day 21 post coitum.
(8) Although no specific trophic or regulating factors for placental function have been described as yet, it is possible that prostaglandins which are synthesized in decidual tissue could play such a physiological role.
(9) In addition, the validity of the classification "mesenchymal-epithelioid" for differentiated decidual cells was addressed using antibodies to the intermediate filament proteins, vimentin, a mesenchymal marker, and keratin, an epithelial marker.
(10) They may reflect the various functions of decidual tissue.
(11) C. burnetii antigen was demonstrated in decidual cells, trophoblasts, and macrophages and extracellularly within the sinuses of the labyrinth and in the uterine lumen but not in granulated metrial gland cells.
(12) Concentrations Ca and P in both peritubular and intertubular dentin are lower in deciduous than in permanent teeth.
(13) In lower second deciduous molars, the buccal margin of the cavity was positioned 1.7 mm medially to the summit of the distobuccal cusp and 1.2-1.3 mm medially to the summits of the other buccal cusps.
(14) During pregnancy decidual suppressor factors the maternal tolerance of the fetus.
(15) From each sample was counted the number of odontoclasts appearing on the root surface and measured the volume of the root in the maxillary deciduous incisor.
(16) The 90Sr levels in deciduous tooth crowns were related to the fall-out rate and the accumulated fall-out.
(17) Absence of resorption of the roots of the deciduous teeth at the usual time.
(18) The risk factors were also related to dentine lead level (PbD) from shed deciduous teeth.
(19) This study analyzed G-CSF concentrations in the peripheral blood of pregnant women and examined whether decidual tissue acted as source of G-CSF production.
(20) This normalization is explained by a prolonged stay of the deciduous teeth in the dental arch which is due to a lesser caries prevalence.
Hickory
Definition:
(n.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(2) A commercial hickory smoke condensate (HSC) was evaluated for its tumour-initiating and promoting activities in the glandular stomach using short-term methods in vivo.
(3) The rats produced IgE antibodies to each of the allergens used (maple, willow, poplar, ash, oak, sycamore, hickory, walnut, birch, and elm), yet the allergens had extremely limited cross-reactivity.
(4) Deciduous trees growing in a natural forest on the hillsides downslope from the site were sampled for the presence of tritiated water in sap of maple trees and in leaf water extracted from oak and hickory trees.
(5) • 101 Hickory Street, Denton, Texas 76201, theabbeyinndenton.com Rob Curran The Dubliner, La Paz, Bolivia You might think a shopping centre would be a strange place to find a decent Irish pub, but so it is in the Bolivian capital.
(6) The year started with Alabama governor George Wallace standing on the steps of the state capitol in hickory-striped trousers and a cutaway coat declaring: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation for ever."
(7) Every handle of every tool was once made from ash (until hickory was imported from the US), and ash was widely used in gates and cartwheels.
(8) That Halloween, many parents in Hickory Creek stopped their kids from going trick or treating, because the air was so bad.
(9) At a bucolic-sounding new subdivision called Meadows at Hickory Creek, the middle-class suburban American dream collides with the Lone Star State’s business-first approach to energy regulation.
(10) Pollen extracts of Box Elder, Willow and Hickory elicited the highest allergic reactions, Oak, Birch, Sycamore, Black Walnut and Poplar more moderate reactions, while allergens from Cottonwood, Maple, Elm and White Ash were less reactive.
(11) Hickory-smoke condensate (HSC) is a popular food flavouring in the USA.
(12) It was delivered in a year that started with Alabama governor George Wallace standing on the steps of the state capitol in hickory-striped pants and a cutaway coat declaring, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” and ended with President Kennedy’s assassination.
(13) Soon after the ordinance came in, in the summer of 2013, oil drillers began to frack two wells near a new suburban development, the Meadows at Hickory Creek, which is full of young families.
(14) Bone Doggie and the Hickory Street Hellraisers at the Denton Arts and Jazz festival.
(15) Concentrations of 226Ra and 224Ra in 13 wells distributed throughout McCulloch and Mason counties in the Hickory Aquifer of the Llano Uplift Region of West-Central Texas are reported.
(16) Six Foods is using $70,000, which it raised on crowdfunding website Kickstarter, to produce and package sea salt, aged cheddar and hickory BBQ flavored Chirps, which it plans to deliver to US grocery stores in October.