(n.) Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ultrastructural study found not only round, but also elongated and drumstick-shaped alpha-granules and rod-like structures protruding from round alpha-granules.
(2) Most of the labelled axons were studded with large en passant varicosities (Type 1), whereas the others (Type 2) had smaller boutons often of the drumstick type.
(3) Only peroneus longus from the drumstick and semitendinosus from the thigh had maximum percentage increases in length, width, and depth at the same age that maximum percentage weight increases occurred.
(4) In at least six of the cell types a series of dendritic specializations can be observed, such as spines in the form of "drumsticks" and thin varicose appendages, similar to those reported previously in the optic tecta of amphibians and teleosts.
(5) Billed as Channel 4's first factually inspired period drama, The Mill joins this month's Run (concrete, weeping) and next month's Southcliffe (guns, despair) in a tri(gl)umvirate of astonishingly bleak summer dramas, the channel's determined attempt to do a big stinging wee all over the nation's barbecued drumsticks.
(6) Therefore, pressure cooking resulted in a loss ranging from 36% for the drumstick to 53% for the thigh skin.
(7) Effects of product form classifications, consisting of intact turkey drumsticks, dark meat trim tissue, and mechanically deboned meat, on microbiological concentrations were evaluated.
(8) The most distinctive features of the two first types (1) and (2) are their irregular drumstick shape appendages, increasing in number as well as in length and irregularity of their stalks towards the periphery of the dendrites.
(9) Radiological examination demonstrated striking hypoplasia of the humerus with proximal rounding and distal tapering giving a 'drumstick' appearance, 'S'-shape configuration of the cervical spine, scoliosis and coronal cleft in the thoracolumbar vertebral bodies.
(10) The correlation between the nuclear lobe counts and the frequencies of drumstick-like appendages in polymorphs was also similar to that reported for drumsticks in blood cells in vivo.
(11) The presence of polymorphonuclear neutrophils exhibiting a drumstick, in the hemopoietic tissues and a sex chromatin body in the nucleated cells of buccal mucosa suggest that mosaicism prevails in other somatic tissues of the horse.
(12) Fillet and tender yields (per lean carcass weight) were higher for Treatment E than BI and opposite responses were seen for drumstick and thigh yields.
(13) I’ll be here from 6.30pm to keep an eye on every fearful Foxtrot and chilling Charleston, so grab the bowl of Trick or Treat leftovers (mostly Cadbury's Fudge bars and Drumstick lollies, in my case) and join me in the comment box.
(14) Turkey drumsticks or whole carcasses were artificially contaminated with S. senftenberg 775W or S. typhimurium in concentrations ranging between 5 X 10(5) to 8 X 10(5) viable cells per ml.
(15) Both brightly and weakly fluorescent drumsticks (in females) and drumstick-like bodies (in males) were observed, and they were readily differentiated on the basis of size, shape and, usually, fluorescent intensity.
(16) Relative weights of heart and all segments of the gastrointestinal tract except the esophagus were smaller in the faster than in the slower growing line whereas breast, thigh, and drumstick were greater for the faster than the slower growing line.
(17) This is why John Farrell keeps Drew in the lineup despite the fact that he might as well be stepping to the plate with a turkey drumstick instead of a bat.
(18) A case of keratosis palmoplantaris with drumstick fingers, hypotrichosis, hypohidrosis and dental dysplasia is presented.
(19) Since no truly sex-specific drumsticks appeared to be present in the polymorphs of this cell line containing only one X chromosome, the study supports the accepted notion that there is a correlation between drumstick frequency and the presence of one versus two X chromosomes.
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.