(n.) A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a).
(a.) Alt. of Ellipsoidal
Example Sentences:
(1) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(2) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.
(3) Oocysts appeared under bright field microscopy as 3x4 mcm ellipsoidal bodies with a central large round granule, known as the residuum, and 1-4 granules.
(4) 1965.-Thin sections of filterable hemolytic anemia agent of rat, now identified as Haemobartonella muris, revealed (i) that the agent is spherical or ellipsoidal and 350 to 700 mmu in size, (ii) that it has a single limiting membrane enclosing granules and some filaments (neither cell wall nor nucleoid was found), and (iii) that it is found preferentially at the surface and sometimes within the cytoplasmic vacuoles of erythrocytes in the circulating blood and bone marrow, and multiplies there through binary fission.
(5) The ReLPS suspension showed large ellipsoidal particles 12-38 nm wide and 40-100 nm long.
(6) Light microscopic studies indicate it has an ellipsoidal centre from which catalase-positive filamentous or rod-like processes protrude along its major axis; hence, it is called a phi body.
(7) E2 was obtained as follows: The stress-time integral was analyzed from pressure-volume data and wall thickness using an ellipsoidal calculation model.
(8) The thermographs showed a pattern of ellipsoidal isotherms (major axis horizontal) approximately concentric about a temperature apex (coldest point) which was slightly inferior to the geometric center of the cornea (GCC).
(9) These data are consistent with an ellipsoidal rather than a spherical shape.
(10) There is saturation of the interaction sites by the aggregation of a few protein monomer units possibly to form a tetramer which is moderately asymmetric (1:4 axial ratio, assuming an ellipsoid of revolution) and relatively rigid.
(11) The uterine volume was measured in 30 patients 24 hours before hysterectomy by ultrasonography using the prolate ellipsoid formula.
(12) The lunar particles found in the sample include: (i) spherules, rotational ellipsoids, dumbbells, tear-drops, rings, and crescents which have (ii) diameters of 0.1 to 500 microns; (iii) budlike features on the particles; and (iv) chemical inhomogeneity (electron probe).
(13) Oocytes of I. serini are spheroid and average 19.2 times 20.1 mum, while those of I. canaria are larger, more ellipsoid, and average 21.8 times 24.6 mum.
(14) Also, in bursectomized birds, the ellipsoid could not be identified, although a small number of abnormal ellipsoid-associated cells (EAC) were observed in the periellipsoid region.
(15) Native human Glu-plasminogen (Glu1-Asn791) was previously shown to have a radius of gyration of 39 A and a shape best described by a prolate ellipsoid [Mangel, W. F., Lin, B., & Ramakrishnan, V. (1990) Science 248, 69-73].
(16) From the relaxation times and the orientation mechanisms, the nucleosome may be assimilated to an oblate ellipsoid of dimensions about 140 x 140 x 70 A, and the DNA superhelical axis is parallel to its shorter axis.
(17) Uterine volume, based on the ultrasound data, was calculated, utilizing the formula for a prolate ellipsoid, before and after treatment.
(18) The chamber, an ellipsoid of revolution, is gold-plated for increased reflectivity.
(19) The protective aspect of melanin in dark skin is seen as resulting from its high concentration and its confinement to ellipsoidal and densely packed organelles that can effectively shield the nucleus.
(20) Second, although the parallelogram model provides a slightly better fit of our data than the other two shapes, it does not serve as a better guide than the ellipsoidal model for interpolating from the measurements to thresholds in novel color directions.
Globose
Definition:
(a.) Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the locus ceruleus and nucleus basalis, where tangles have a loose or globose structure, correlations with neuronal counts were not significant.
(2) The flat acuity-luminance function of the falcon results from adaptations which increase the optical sensitivity of the eye compared with the globose eye of strongly diurnal falconiformes.
(3) An electron-microscopic study revealed that the subcortical NFT in NCS are made up of paired helical filaments in spite of their globose round shape.
(4) In the brain of embryos from normal females these cells had mainly a round or oval form (globose microglia).
(5) Corticobasal degeneration shows similar midbrain pathology and a round, filamentous inclusion in the substantia nigra, not unlike the globose tangle, but there is also focal frontoparietal cortical atrophy.
(6) The results suggest that the stem cells of the olfactory cells are globose basal cells and not basal cells proper, and that the shape of basal cells proper changes in relation to the active proliferation of stem cells.
(7) At autopsy prominent globose neurofibrillary tangles with variable cell loss, microglial nodules, and neuronophagia were found in the locus ceruleus, third cranial nerve complex, nucleus supratrochlearis, nucleus centralis superior, and nucleus basalis of Meynert with mild pallor of the globus pallidus, mild cell loss in the dentate nucleus of the cerebellum, and sparing of the superior colliculus.
(8) In Pythium species and in several related Oomycetes, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the nontranscribed spacer (NTS) region with one primer specific for the 5S gene revealed, with several exceptions, that the 5S rRNA gene was present in the rDNA repeat of those species with filamentous sporangia and was absent from the rDNA repeat of those with globose or unknown sporangia.
(9) Three major sporangial morphotypes were consistently observed on leaf blades: oval, globose, and fusiform.
(10) Cultures revealed rapidly growing yellow colonies on Sabouraud dextrose agar medium at 25 degrees C. Sporangiophores branched in sympodia and the sporangia were globose, 35-60 microns in diameter.
(11) When a single dose of BrdU was given to mice 9 days after axotomy, immunostaining for BrdU was found in the globose basal cells which were negative for MA903, but not in the basal cells proper which were positive for MA903.
(12) Furthermore, three pulses of BrdU resulted in numerous BrdU-immunolabelings in the globose basal cells and a few in the basal cells proper.
(13) At the 7th-8th weeks the hepatocytes show a globose shape, their surface is furnished with scattered and irregular evaginations and they are arranged in loose and narrow ribbons, separated by vascular spaces; the hepatocytes are tightly connected with haemopoietic cells, usually furnished with hyperchromatic nuclei.
(14) The colony morphology, the presence of globose sporangia bearing motile spores, the absence of aerial mycelium and the presence of meso-DAP in cell wall, ascribe this strain to the genus Actinoplanes.
(15) In the globose cauda (Nicander's region 8), the principal cells are reduced in height, and in addition to the features described in region 7, are characterized by a concentric array of rough endoplasmic reticulum in the basal cytoplasm.
(16) These axons terminate in characteristic globose structures resembling the glomeruli of the olfactory bulb.
(17) This pseudostratified epithelium consists of apical supporting cells, a middle layer of olfactory receptor neurons and a heterogeneous population of basal cells consisting of basal cells proper and globose basal cells.
(18) These results further confirmed that NCAM was expressed by both globose basal cells and receptor neurons but not by other cell types within the epithelium.
(19) Globose and club-shaped, one- and two-celled microconidia were formed especially 'en thrse'.
(20) Cunninghamella antarctica has conidiophores usually verticillately, pseudoverticillately and sympodially branched; and globose conidia with evident spines, 12-8-16micron in diameter.