(a.) Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quantitative cytophotometry and ocular filar micrometry were used to monitor T-2 toxin induced alterations in chromatin and neuronal nuclear volume in supraoptic-magnocellular neurons of rat hypo-thalami.
(2) The filar electrode used is of a unique design that allows potentiometric measurements, steady-state voltammetry and absorption spectrophotometry to be performed on a few microliters of solution containing 0.1-1.0 mM protein.
(3) These inclusions are 3.4 mu or more long, 350 A in diameter, and comprised of a wall of helically arranged subunits and a dense, possibly filar, central core.
(4) Selected nucleoli in this area were measured at 2000x power using a digital filar micrometer.
(5) Data were obtained on changes in neuronal (perikaryal) RNA levels, protein contents and nucleolar volumes in cerebrocortical (layer III) and striatal (caudate-putamen) brain regions using quantitative azure B-RNA and Coomassie-protein cytophotometry and ocular filar micrometry.
(6) A filar micrometer eyepiece was used to count the number of nuclei larger than 14 microns in mean diameter in a 500 cell count on each slide.
(7) Direct and mediated electrolysis of the protein plastocyanin at a gold filar electrode is described.
(8) External and internal arterial diameters were measured by a digital filar micrometer eyepiece calibrated with a Microcode scaler.
(9) Using a Filar micrometer, 5 distances were masured on the buccal aspect: (1) from root surface notch to alveolar bone crest; (2) from root surface notch to coronal extent of the cementum; (3) from root surface notch to apical extent of the junctional epithelium; 84) from free gingival margin to apical extent of junctional epithelium; (5) from the coronal notch to the alveolar bone crest.
(10) In addition, ocular filar micrometry demonstrated increased neuronal nuclear volumes in all groups receiving T-2 toxin, and following an inverse trend to that seen with F-DNA stainability.
(11) A custom, platinum-iridium, exposed helical screw electrode (Medtronic, Inc.), 4.5-mm long, with a 17.8-mm2 surface area, was designed with a polyurethane covered 4 filar MP35N nickle conductor lead.
(12) ), affected mononuclear cells retracted from the cell surface, but remained anchored to the substrate by taut filar processes.
(13) The internal diameter of the dorsal aorta at the level of the sinus venosus and the internal diameter of the aortic arch arteries at their midpoints were measured in embryos at Stage 18 of development using a filar micrometer eyepiece and a dissecting microscope.
(14) Myelography with metrizamide clearly revealed the detailed intrathecal structures and allowed a classification of intraspinal lipomas into four types, in terms of their insertion into the conus medullaris: dorsal type, either with direct or indirect (via an intrathecal stalk) insertion of the extrathecal lipoma into the dorsal aspect of the conus medullaris; caudal type; combined type; and filar lipoma.
(15) The leakage was measured with a filar micrometer eyepiece under a dissecting microscope.
(16) Correlative data were obtained on changes in physicochemical properties of nuclear chromatin, chromatin dispersion, and nuclear volume of cerebrocortical (layer III) and striatal neurons using Feulgen-DNA (F-DNA) cytophotometry and ocular filar micrometry.
(17) External and internal arterial diameters were measured by a digital filar micrometer eyepiece.
(18) Correlative data were obtained on the severity of brain AChE inactivation and physicochemical changes in nuclear chromatin of cerebrocortical (layer V) and striatal neurons using Feulgen-DNA (F-DNA) cytophotometry and ocular filar micrometry.
(19) In the case of mouse CNS nuclei, the major and minor axes of the nuclei were measured with a filar micrometer.
(20) The second sirenomelic case with an intermediate degree of sacral hypoplasia had fusion of some of the sacral roots and ganglia, spinal ganglion cell heterotopias, filar lipoma and absence of the last sacral roots and ganglia.
Thread
Definition:
(n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(2) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(3) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(5) Santi Cazorla, Sánchez and Mesut Özil were all involved, and when the ball came back to Cazorla he made a fine threaded pass to Walcott.
(6) We've brought on two experts to answer your questions from 1-2pm BST in the comment thread on this article.
(7) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(8) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
(9) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(10) The left anterior descending coronary artery of dogs and the right common carotid artery of rabbits were subjected to partial constriction with suture thread (40-60% reduction in transluminal diameter).
(11) Neuronal thread protein is a recently characterized, approximately 20-kd protein that accumulates in brains with Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions.
(12) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
(13) Nematocyst capsules and everted threads from both species contained levels of glycine and proline-hydroxyproline characteristic of vertebrate collagens.
(14) Load transfer from ring to bone is concentrated at the first and last threads where the subchondral bone layer is penetrated.
(15) Furthermore, large numbers of neuropil threads are scattered throughout the nuclear gray.
(16) The histological findings of actinomyces spores, thread-like foreign material and detritus drew out attention to the rare manifestation of abdominal actinomycosis.
(17) Monofilament nylon threads are used as drains in free skin grafting; 2-0 or 3-0 nylon threads are usually applied.
(18) Monoclonal antibodies, raised independently in two laboratories against either pancreatic stone protein (PSP) or pancreatic thread protein (PTP), reacted with the Mr 14,000 protein(s).
(19) With the initial technique, the gastrostomy tube was pulled in by a thread introduced percutaneously into the stomach.
(20) P19 gave by proteolysis a protein of 14 KD (P14), at first named protein X and also called pancreatic thread protein or pancreatic stone protein.