(a.) Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.
(a.) Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
(2) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
(3) The interaction with these lipids, the rotational conformations of the 17-acetyl group, and invertible conformations of the cyclohexenone of PROG were discussed on the basis of the elliptical strength of the Cotton effect and energy estimation of the preferred conformers.
(4) Similar aftereffects were obtained whether the area of the test stimulus was fixed or varied randomly from trial to trial, and whether the test stimulus was rectangular or elliptical.
(5) Raji consistently exhibited the highest and SU-AMB-1 the lowest polymerase activity and ellipticity.
(6) As univariate predictors, the variance of nuclear roundness, the mean of ellipticity, the Gleason score, age, and clinical stage were statistically significant predictors of disease progression when analyzed with Kaplan-Meier survival curves.
(7) The thermodynamics of this self-association have been evaluated by studying the temperature- and concentration-dependence of the mean residue ellipticity at 220 nm.
(8) In addition, it appears that the population of Elschnig type III nerve heads includes higher elliptical values than that for the Elschnig type II nerve heads.
(9) Protein unfolding was detected by ellipticity changes at 222 nm with increasing concentrations of guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl).
(10) Ontogenetic data on developmental stages I-IV of 3678 melanosomes based on geometric considerations (length, width, shape, and area) showed that MSH did not induce a complete transformation from spherical phaeomelanosomes to elliptical eumelanosomes.
(11) On 62 of 100 pediatric bladder sonograms a small, elliptical, hypoechoic structure was observed on the middle of the anterosuperior surface of the urinary bladder.
(12) The spatial extension of these megalospermatocyte populations is spherical to elliptical, some of them look like a section of a spiral around the longitudinal axis of the seminiferous tubule.
(13) In the case of the inclined model and a vertical beam the diffusion field was elliptical, with a still more diffuse transition to the fields above and below than in the case of the vertical model and a horizontal beam.
(14) CD measurements gave equal [theta] values for lysozyme and derivative at the two negative ellipticity bands at 208 and 220 nm.
(15) LH-RH nerve processes terminated mainly in the infurdibular radix within an elliptical zone surrounding the bases of the infundibular recessus.
(16) Similar, but far smaller, effects were seen in a region with an elliptical cross-section and when the flow was made pulsatile.
(17) The correlation showed the advantages of planning using optimal schemes in volumes with an elliptical and irregular section by the criteria of homogeneity of target contour irradiation, the lessening of radiation exposure beyond the target and an increase in the absolute value of minimum dose rate at the border of an irradiated volume.
(18) There was no positive ellipticity, and the spectrum was not characteristic of collagen.
(19) (b) Chemical input is received from unidentified presynaptic neurons containing either round or elliptical vesicles.
(20) The kinetics of regain of the native ellipticity in the far- and near-UV spectra have been investigated during the refolding at pH 7.8 and 20 degrees C of guanidine-unfolded, nonreduced hen egg white lysozyme.
Paraboloid
Definition:
(n.) The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.
Example Sentences:
(1) The paraboloid is found in cytoplasmic processes projecting into the follicular lumen and in perikarya of the follicular cells.
(2) The sinuses are subsequently arranged into 4 classes, according to their similarity to solids of revolution such as: semi-ellipsoid (class a: 15% of specimens); paraboloid (class b: 30%); hyperboloid (class c: 47%) and cone (class d: 8%).
(3) In normal adult eyes and in eyes 21 days after lens removal, the paraboloid portion of the photoreceptor inner segments, and in some cases the perinuclear cytoplasm of the photoreceptor cells, contained the antigen.
(4) The present study suggests that the chick paraboloid not only is a field for active glycogen metabolism, but also becomes a storage of glycogen.
(5) A comparison of salmonella findings and E. coli titre showed that with increasing E. coli contamination the proportion of positive salmonella findings also increased (paraboloid curve).
(6) Double cones consist of a larger chief member which shows a thin tapering outer segment, a large heterogeneous oil droplet and a prominent paraboloid.
(7) Histamine-like immunoreactivity was localized within paraboloids of certain cone photoreceptors by use of two different antisera directed against histamine.
(8) Branching glycosyltransferase seemed to appear after phosphorylase was activated and these enzymes became higher in their activity with the differentiation in the paraboloid in the fetal and early postnatal periods.
(9) Native glycogen in the paraboloid stained brown, while histochemically synthesized polyglucose stained brown or purple.
(10) Overproduction of polyglucose particles was not found in the paraboloid of the retina incubated in the medium in vivo.
(11) Glycogen synthetase and phosphorylase activities in the paraboloid glycogen of the accessory cone of the chick retina were studied electron histochemically, while the paraboloid glycogen was observed by electron microscopy.
(12) Some of the paraboloid of the accessory cone of the chick retina contained abundant glycogen granules, but some showed no glycogen granules.
(13) Rod inner segments display an ellipsoid but no oil droplet or paraboloid.
(14) Polyglucose particles synthesized by phosphorylase activity in the chick paraboloid were located in the cytoplasmic matrices and expanded them widely.
(15) These enzyme activities appeared in the cytoplasmic matrices of the developing paraboloid in the photoreceptor inner segment almost simultaneously at the 17th day of incubation.
(16) These results show that (i) the shape of a fine tip is not conical but resembles more closely a paraboloid of revolution, and (ii) for this shape to be maintained throughout growth, accretion (rate of mass uptake per unit area) cannot everywhere be the same on the surface of the tip but must decrease as the diameter increases.
(17) A delay in formation of ellipsoid and paraboloid occurred, especially in membrane discs of the external segment of photoreceptor.
(18) Preincubation of eyecups in Ringer's containing 10 microM histamine selectively increased the immunoreactivity of these photoreceptor paraboloids.
(19) The specimens were embedded for routine electron microscopy and the paraboloid of the accessory cone was observed by electron microscopy.
(20) Electron microscopy revealed that the paraboloid in all experimental groups appeared to have many vacant spaces at the sites of polyglucose particles, as after the amylase digestion test.