(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
(2) The radiographic features of renal coccidioidomycosis parallel those of renal tuberculosis, with feathery, moth-eaten calices, infundibular constriction and caliceal ballooning, and eventual calcification of granulomas.
(3) Then Murray goes on the front foot, jabbing away a volley to make it 40-15, but Federer then wrong-foots his foe with a feathery forehand at the net to hold.
(4) After a subsequent week of strict diabetic control, the feathery streak-like opacities had almost disappeared.
(5) Ballooning and feathery degeneration of hepatocytes, complete absence of fatty change, frequent occurrence of intracytoplasmic hyaline bodies, dissection of pseudolobules by fibrous septa and fibrosis around single cell were notable features.
(6) Beyond that, a ridge of feathery trees from where Isis snipers had been taking potshots at Kurdish positions.
(7) The stable forms differed from each other, but all had a tendency to brown rather than yellow pigmentation, to feathery submerged mycelium and to abnormal macroconidia.
(8) Following one month of poor diabetic control, a 54-year-old patient presented with a unilateral posterior subcapsular cataract, consisting of numerous fine, feathery, streak-like opacities radiating from a dense, round, central, posterior, subcapsular plaque.
(9) The calicivirus has a feathery edge, a six-pointed star with a dark hollow in the center (Star-of-David) appearance), and surface hollows that appear round or oval.
(10) irradiated colonies after initial 48 hours incubation at 37 degrees C and 10-20 days ageing at room temperature (22 to 25 degrees C), gave rise to feathery outbrusts.
(11) His feathery mohawk is even more preposterous than that of the man he's just replaced.
(12) People in morning coats and feathery hats arrive for a late lunch, no doubt straight from an investiture at nearby Buckingham Palace.
(13) Arthrography is preferred because it reveals superior anatomic detail thereby making differentiation between an encapsulated calf cyst, with smooth walls, and rupture, with irregular feathery margins, possible.
(14) "The hillside formed a tapestry of the blues and violets of flowering wild thyme," he recalled, "punctuated by bushes of wild rosemary, feathery shoots of wild fennel and the spring growth of oregano and winter savory – the poetry of Provence was in the air and tender tips of wild asparagus, invisible to the profane, were breaking the ground everywhere.
(15) Light microscopic examination revealed feathery, eosinophilic deposits on all three tissues; electron microscope studies showed the exfoilative deposits to be composed of a fine meshwork of fibrils ranging in size from 200-300 A. Fibrils were found on the apical surfaces of the epithelial cells, as well as on and throughout the epithelial cell basement membranes.
(16) Direct slit-lamp examination showed bilateral or unilateral, gray, band-shaped, and feathery opacities that sometimes appeared in whorled patterns.
(17) The coat protein of particles of sweet potato feathery mottle potyvirus (SPFMV) extracted from Ipomoea spp.
(18) In recent years similar brown, feathery forms of M. canis have been reported from monkeys but not from cats.
(19) Howard Jacobson Softcore porn is the literary equivalent of those feathery wimp-whips and talcum'd cufflinks you see in the windows of sex toy shops.
(20) SF were rather feathery and of slightly curvilinear appearance in living versus fixed, acetone-extracted cells.
Pinnate
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Pinnated
Example Sentences:
(1) The pinnate structure of the temporal muscle results from the internal tendons, which attach to the coronoid process.
(2) The lengths and pinnation angles of muscle fibers in the medial gastrocnemius (MG) muscle have recently been measured in freely moving cats [Hoffer et al., Progr.
(3) This region appeared to be composed of extrafusal fibers that were shorter and of more oblique pinnation than those in other regions.
(4) The loss of fiber force due to (pinnate, not equivalent) angulation is compensated for by the reduced shortening of fibers in multipinnate arrays.
(5) They are important in those groups of muscles which pass over major joints with changed courses or manifest pronounced pinnation with different courses of their septa.
(6) Conversely, the hamstrings, with small pinnation angles, appeared to be designed to permit large excursions.
(7) The suggestion may also apply to the development of the pinnate structure of muscles of higher vertebrates.
(8) Fiber length and angulation in the complex M. adductor mandibulae externus 2 of a lizard were measured stereotactically; these values correlate well with the hypothesis that the muscle shows equivalence and demonstrate that angulation for pinnation is less constant.
(9) Classical pinnate muscles contain many relatively short fibers positioned in parallel but at an angle to the whole muscle, reducing the per fiber force contribution.
(10) The medial pterygoid muscle with its 7 Sehnenspiegel has the most complex pinnate structure.
(11) The differences in angulation and length observed for the fibers of anatomical muscles may reflect two distinct mechanical requirements: arrangement for pinnation, reflecting an increase in physiological cross-section and arrangement for equivalent placement of sarcomeres, possibly associated with coordination.
(12) The understanding of intermediate architecture, including issues of compartmentation, pinnation, and concatenation, remains more elusive, as some morphologically distinct muscles may be functionally equivalent.
(13) The basic pinnate structures caused by Sehnenspiegel in the jaw muscles are already present in newborn animals.
(14) The medial head contains fewer type I fibers and is composed of relatively longer myofibers (15-20 mm long), also arranged in a pinnate fashion but less heavily invested with connective tissue.
(15) Therefore, if twisting has been minimized in New World monkeys as suggested by their thin corpora, other changes in the craniofacial musculoskeletal complex, such as different muscle recruitment or pinnation patterns, may be responsible.
(16) This region is largely composed of short fibers (5-7 mm long) arranged in a pinnate fashion and heavily invested with connective tissue.
(17) Three architectural patterns that deserve discussion are the classical arrangement of fibers in pinnate patterns, the more recent assumption of sarcomere equivalence, and the issue of compartmentation.
(18) Correlation of the m. triceps surae parts and degree of its pinnateness do not reveal any definite differences in connection with the complexion.
(19) Postnatal development of the masticatory musculature takes place on the basis of the pinnation existing prior to birth and consists in secondary pinnation.
(20) The PCSA of each muscle was calculated as muscle volume times the cosine of the angle of fiber pinnation divided by fiber length, where published fiber length:muscle length ratios were used to estimate fiber lengths.