(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.
Indusium
Definition:
(n.) A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower.
(n.) The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet.
(n.) A peculiar covering found in certain fungi.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rostral part of the anterior limb of the anterior commissure (RAL) and the indusium griseum of the brains of Gunn rats and Wistar rats were examined quantitatively to assess the effects of hyperbilirubinaemia on the developing nervous system.
(2) The histopathology of the indusium griseum (IG), a displaced hippocampal anlage, was studied in five patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and five controls.
(3) A quantitative study of changes in total cell number was carried out in the indusium griseum and anterior commissure from fetal life to old age in the mouse brain.
(4) Mitotic activity in the indusium griseum levels out at 3 months postnatum with mitotic and pyknotic cells present in roughly equal numbers thereafter.
(5) Neurogenesis and gliogenesis in the indusium griseum were studied in semithin sections and with the electron microscope.
(6) The changes in the number of mitotic and pyknotic cells were recorded in the indusium griseum, anterior commissure, subependymal and ependymal layers over the same period.
(7) It was not possible to separate the indusium griseum from the cingulate cortex until birth.
(8) A similar increase in mitosis was found at 5 days postinjection in the indusium griseum.
(9) One hour after the injection, radioactivity was found to be selectively concentrated in specific neurons of the septum, the hippocampal complex (precommissural hippocampus, cornu Ammonis, gyrus dentatus, subiculum), the indusium griseum, the amygdala and in certain areas of the cortex.
(10) The indusium griseum, which demonstrated the highest binding for corticosterone of all brain regions in the autoradiograms, was taken as reference and defined as 100% relative labeling (RL).
(11) The number of glia in the indusium griseum was similar in both groups but the Gunn rats showed a decrease of about 20% in the number of neutrons in this region.
(12) Other extra-hypothalamic regions displaying a low-to-moderate density of immunoreactive fibers were the indusium griseum, the hippocampus, the fimbria of the fornix, the subcommissural organ, the medial habenula and, occasionally, the medial periaqueductal gray.
(13) First, the structure of pyramidal cells progressively changes from those in the indusium griseum which have predominently round or oval somata and a preponderance of apical and few basal dendrites to those in layer V of retrosplenial cortex and area 23 which have pyramidal shaped somata and a great number of basal dendrites which branch frequently and spread horizontally for hundreds of microns.
(14) Only a few loci of basic FGF synthesis are detected by in situ hybridization and include layers 2 and 6 of the medial (cingulate) cortex, the indusium griseum, fasciola cinereum, and field CA2 of the hippocampus.
(15) A quantitative histological examination of brains from mice aged 25, 28 and 31 months of age showed that there was no loss of neurons from the indusium griseum and the number of glia per 100 neurons also remained constant.
(16) An autoradiographic study of neuronal and glial production was carried out in the indusium griseum of mice.
(17) A quantitative study of the development of the indusium griseum was carried out in mice.
(18) The immunocytochemical features of the indusium griseum (IG) were compared with the corresponding hippocampus in 5 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 5 age-matched nondemented individuals using antibodies against beta-amyloid, the A68 protein (Alz-50 antibody), tau, ubiquitin and synapsin I. beta-Amyloid-positive plaques were prominent in the AD hippocampus but were not present in the IG.
(19) What was key to observe was whether or not there was an indusium, a tiny veil, over the sorus.
(20) The transition from one cellular layer in the indusium griseum to five cellular layers in area 23 is made by the addition of layers II, III, IV and VI in retrosplenial cortex to the one ganglionic layer of the indusium griseum and subiculum.