(n.) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet.
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Wavy
Definition:
(a.) Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.
(a.) Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames.
(a.) Undulating on the border or surface; waved.
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(1) In MTC cases, a strong labelling was present over two types of aggregates: one composed of rigid, criss-crossing fibrils 7-10 nm in diameter, suggestive of amyloid, and the other consisting of loosely arranged fibrils, 4-7 nm in width, often wavy or poorly defined.
(2) Wavy fiber and colliquative myocytolysis of non-specific ischemic lesions were seen only microscopically in both peripheral and subendocardial areas of infarcted foci.
(3) Moreover, the basement membrane of the seminiferous tubule showed wavy lamellae and infolding to the seminiferous epithelium.
(4) Twenty three dogs were subjected to periods of ischemia, from 30 minutes to 4 hours; wavy fibers were present in 87% and 91% of the ischemic and non-ischemic samples respectively.
(5) A wavy arrangement of mitochondria, fragmentation and stacks of mitochondrial cristae were observed in 20-week-old SHR.
(6) The lines then take on a wavy and oscillating appearance, which is followed by scintillation of the pattern.
(7) Hunter-Schreger bands of cats circumscribed the teeth in relatively straight segments, but these bands showed pronounced waviness in dog teeth.
(8) The outer membrane appeared wavy with distortion of its tripartite structure.
(9) The collagenous fibers were arranged in longitudinal bundles, straight when stretched and wavy when unstretched, with a delicate network of fine elastic fibers coursing in all directions.
(10) We conclude that a rapidly growing renal mass in a young patient (less than 35 years old) that is shown to be complex and cystic by CT or sonography and that is hypovascular with fine, wavy neovascularity on arteriography is suggestive of adult Wilms tumor (75-80%).
(11) Although no characteristic findings indicative of neurogenic differentiation could be confirmed with anti-S-100-protein, a fair number of positive cells were seen in the area where the tumor cells were loosely arranged and displayed a wavy pattern.
(12) The first mesothelial mitoses appeared: in the first series (I) of experiments - in 24 h, in the second series (II) of experiments - 21 h. Further, proliferation of the mesothelium appeared in different parts of the tissue with various intencity and was of wavy character.
(13) The literature concerning these effects is reviewed and several experiments are reported which examined the apparent waviness and scintillating disappearances.
(14) And I don't mean being a wavy-haired, wealthy francophone from Massachusetts (although, in this climate, that's burden enough for a Republican nominee).
(15) HII is the more recently described multibranched, wavy-axoned horizontal cell.
(16) In addition to severe atrophy and degeneration of the generalized striated muscles and many foci of laminar necrosis of the cerebral cortex, the following abnormalities were observed: 1) hypertrophy of the myocardium, 2) fatty change of the liver, 3) focal sclerosis of the glomeruli and dilatation of the tubules of the kidneys, 4) hyalinous degeneration of the Langerhans' islands of the pancreas and 5) wavy change of the smooth muscle fibers of the muscularis propria of the gastrointestinal tract.
(17) The change most characteristic of the senescence of the retinal pigment epithelium was found to be the appearance of wavy undulating 12nm wide filaments having a periodicity of about 80nm after the 12th month.
(18) The wavy suture ring of the prosthesis makes it "low profile".
(19) Ultrastructurally, the primary cyst wall shows sloping villi with irregular wavy outlines.
(20) The wavy character of sympathectomy is thought to reflect integral behavior of the nervous cells subpopulation in the course of development of homeostatic reactions.