(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.
Rowan
Definition:
(n.) Rowan tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer Conran retrospective, New Review page 36
(2) Additionally, rather than listing Davis’s name, it says “city of Morehead”, the Rowan County seat.
(3) The trust said records suggested this year had yielded the best crops of autumn fruit and berries – particularly blackberries, rowan berries and elderberries – since it began the "citizen science" project 12 years ago.
(4) Or as Rowan Blanchard , a 13-year-old actress, neatly put it, “the way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality”.
(5) The campaign, which wants a skyline commission to examine London's future profile, has also obtained the support of the Observer 's architecture critic, Rowan Moore.
(6) Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius's OSS 117 films, Mike Myers's Austin Powers movies and Rowan Atkinson's pair of Johnny English efforts are some of the more recent entries.
(7) The result is the £19m, 115-metre, ArcelorMittal Orbit by Anish Kapoor, "a loop of string arrested in mid-fall", in the words of our architecture critic Rowan Moore.
(8) US federal judge David Bunning, who remanded Davis to US marshals during a high-profile hearing last week, ordered the Rowan County clerk released from jail on the condition she doesn’t interfere with efforts by her deputies to issue marriage licenses.
(9) Read more Speaking about the bill before it was voted on Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, and chair of Christian Aid argued in The Guardian that the the UK had to take a lead in protecting unaccompanied minors in Europe .
(10) The Rowan Learning Trust, a small academy trust that grew out of a single school in Wigan, was brought in to turn the school’s fortunes around.
(11) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
(12) How she does it I have no idea.” Karen Kay, events fundraiser at the Rowans hospice, said: “Doris is an amazing lady and a huge inspiration.
(13) BBC sports editor Dan Rowan tweeted: Dan Roan (@danroan) Action of US sponsors also raises issue of whether broadcasters (who bring more £ into FIFA than corporates) should make a stand too... October 3, 2015
(14) In 2008, he stirred controversy when he accused the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, of being "mistaken and naive" for saying that some aspects of sharia law in Britain were unavoidable.
(15) The eventwill include speeches from celebrities, the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Bill Gates, as well as a flower installation designed to represent the lives that could be saved if funding for nutrition was improved.
(16) Welby's intervention suggests he will not be discouraged from speaking out despite criticism of his predecessor, Rowan Williams, who was accused of meddling in politics .
(17) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
(18) That goal has been achieved.” The ACLU is relying on the representations of Kentucky’s attorney general and Rowan County attorneys that marriage licenses issued henceforth are legal, Sharp said.
(19) Not long after, Carmen and Shannon Wampler-Collins arrived at the Rowan County clerk’s office to obtain a marriage license around 10.45am – but their efforts did not succeed without a hiccup.
(20) Rowan Williams was preaching in the Danish capital as crucial UN climate change talks entered their second and final week.