(n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
Example Sentences:
(1) After being thawed at room temperature, the two CM samples were compared as to their pH, spinnbarkeit and ferning patterns, and it was found that they are quite similar.
(2) Crude ferredoxin preparations were obtained from blue-green algae, green algae, ferns, and higher plants.
(3) A typical fern-like pattern was demonstrated by the crystallized mucus of the healthy individuals.
(4) Water ferns (Salviniaceae) and seed ferns (Pteridospermae) are known as the arbitrary type of Lycopsida which did not reach the state of shot structure of the body.
(5) Astrocyte endfeet of the GLM became irregular in contour, protruding in a fern-leaf fashion into the pial connective tissue.
(6) Thus, the fern bioassay may be an inexpensive means of detecting both chronic low dose and episodic high dose inputs of mutagenic pollutants into aquatic ecosystems.
(7) Cervical mucus from 6 demonstrated a 3 to 4+ fern phenomena, indicating significant endogenous estrogen production.
(8) Two of the epitopes (I and III) are widely conserved in 34 kDa proteins (presumably B-36 homologues) from the various species tested (Chlamydomonas, moss, fern, oat, onion, carrot, and bean).
(9) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(10) Parameters studied were Schirmer's test, lacrimal meniscus height, break-up time, fluorescein and rose Bengal stains, conjunctival impression cytology, mucus staining, and the ferning test.
(11) The only parameter that correlated with sperm migration into post-partum mucus was ferning formation.
(12) ), Fern Probstmeyer, Robert McCombs, Jean P. Brunschwig, and Vladimir Vonka.
(13) Two glucosides to enhance histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells were isolated from rhizomes of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) by column chromatography on Sephadex LH-20 and droplet counter-current chromatography, and named braxin A1 and A2.
(14) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
(15) Ferning was present in 29% of pipette samples, averaging 0.41 mm2 in the form of FR in the total series.
(16) The anisotropic period, 7 days long, is inscribed within the ferning period.
(17) Axonemes from the heterosporous water fern Marsilea vestita were fixed in the presence of tannic acid and examined by thin-section electron microscopy.
(18) Powdered bracken fern mixed with a basic commercial diet (1:4 by weight) was fed to a group of 40 ICR strain mice for 20 weeks after the implantation of a glass bead into the bladder.
(19) I’m obviously a big supporter of the change, I think there are a lot of strong arguments in favour of the change.” Key has previously said he would prefer a new flag featuring the silver fern on a black background.
(20) For all the memorable showdowns between Paxman and Tony Blair, it was Fern Britton who extracted the critical admission from Blair that he would have wanted to remove Saddam whether or not Iraq had WMD.
Frond
Definition:
(n.) The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ependymal cells developed luminal fronds that projected into the ventricle and the subpial glia displayed a very subtle gliosis in the form of thin multi-laminated processes.
(2) BPV-4 DNA was present in the residual papillomatous fronds of the renal cancer, but was absent from the carcinoma proper and for the splenic metastasis.
(3) Having reviewed 47 cases of vascular malformations of the stomach and duodenum, we propose an endoscopic classification for these lesions: Pattern I (flat or slightly protruded, bright red lesions with frond-like margin) is the most usual form of presentation.
(4) Carbon dioxide laser photocautery was used successfully intraocularly in human patients to seal fibrovascular fronds and retinal tears at the time of vitrectomy.
(5) "Fronds," characterized by contrast within the interstices of the lesion, were seen in three malignant lesions.
(6) Posterior or to this frond of neovascularization, intertwining intraretinal telangiectasia was observed.
(7) At its margin abutting the central fibrous body the atrioventricular (A-V) node exhibited numerous fronds and outcroppings, some forming loop connections from one part of A-V node to another.
(8) The stems of corn, millet, sugar cane and the banana leaf frond excite some clinical and pathological effects in the rabbit's eye when implanted either into the anterior chamber (AC) or subconjunctivally.
(9) Substance P was most abundant in the subintimal portion of the membrane, with occasional filaments coursing via synovial fronds to the intimal portion.
(10) Palm tree climbers use jigs which are woven from palm fronds.
(11) Management depends on a high degree of suspicion, and a sonogram is useful to visualize the papillary fronds in the cysts.
(12) Photograph: Phil Gates I turned over a frond and saw the long, slit-like rows of spores, then searched under a rocky overhang for signs of germination.
(13) There is then no further increase in frond number for 3 to 4 weeks, although DNA, RNA and protein synthesis continue at decreased rates and starch accumulates in the plants.
(14) Bacteria-free cultures of Spirodela oligorrhiza continue to increase in frond number for 2 to 3 days after transfer to darkness.
(15) Four argon laser techniques have been evaluated in the eradication of diabetic disk neovascularization: focal (nonfeeder) photocoagulation, feeder-frond photocoagulation alone, panretinal photocoagulation alone, and feeder-frond treatment combined with panretinal photocoagulation.
(16) During the day, under leafy huts, women learned to weave pandanus fronds and men crafted didgeridoos.
(17) A fluorescein-angiography displayed six years after the trauma a large neovascular frond and intraretinal neovascular network.
(18) However, only five of these were easily detectable in steady-state mRNA isolated from roots of the same plants, and the relative expression of each gene varied between the roots and the fronds.
(19) Amongst the other 10 women there were intratubal adhesions (n = 2), fronds attached to mucosal folds (n = 4), irregular blood vessels in mucosal folds (n = 2), unusual mucosal folds (n = 3) and black 'spots' within mucosal folds (n = 3).
(20) Thrombosis was associated with a delay in the growth and maturation of NV fronds, which resumed after reperfusion.