(a.) Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
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Rootlet
Definition:
(n.) A radicle; a little root.
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(1) This column is located ventral and lateral to the dorsolateral division of the trigeminal motor nucleus, and just medial to the descending trigeminal nerve rootlets.
(2) Ultrastructurally these glands had apical microvilli with associated glycocalyx and long anchoring rootlets.
(3) They make it possible to dissect, by spending minimal time and making less efforts, the vertebral canal both within several vertebrae and its nearly full length, providing a wide view of the spinal cord, rootlets, and intervertebral ganglia.
(4) Morphology of the mature spermatozoon is modified from that of the classic primitive or ect-aquasperm type by having 1) the acrosome embedded in the nucleus (the only known example within the Mollusca), 2) a deep basal invagination in the nucleus containing proximal and distal centrioles and an enveloping matrix (derived from the rootlet), 3) laterally displaced periaxonemal mitochondria, and 4) a tail extending from the basal invagination of the nucleus.
(5) The distal ends of cut dorsal rootlets were apposed to the fetal tissue.
(6) The caudal portion of the exposed zone of the VCN is in the vicinity of the rootlets of the glossopharyngeal (IX) nerve, and the ventral portion is close to the terminal part of the vestibulocochlear (VIII) nerve.
(7) Prominent, striated rootlets were observed during both the follicular and luteal phases of the cycle.
(8) In both systems, contraction or relaxation of the ciliary rootlets could serve in sensory transduction or adaptation.
(9) In each patient, neuralgia was successfully eliminated by microvascular decompression and by section of the upper rootlets of the vagus nerve.
(10) It is composed of a distal centriole (basal body), a proximal centriole, a striated rootlet 2-3 micron long which is composed of a bundle of 4-6 nm filaments, and an arched rootlet, also striated, which is composed of a relatively loose bundle of 9-11 nm filaments.
(11) During the first week after birth, at least one capillary was directly related to each rootlet, generally over about half the length of the transitional zone.
(12) In Rhinolasius, one receptor possesses a short bulbous cilium without a rootlet, with a septate desmosome of the pleated sheet (comb) type and a weakly developed electron-dense band beneath it.
(13) Type 2 rootlets turn ventrally to run in the glia limitans in the transverse plane of the cord before emerging.
(14) No variations in bundle length (nor changes in rootlet periodicity) were observed in tissue fixed under conditions of calcium activation.
(15) At an early stage of the development of the terminal web (13 days), fodrin 240 and a small amount of myosin are expressed, and a few actin-associated cross-linkers are present between the rootlets.
(16) It consists of a 2 mm deep microsurgical lesion directed at a 45 degrees angle in the posterolateral sulcus and penetrating the dorsal root entry zone in its ventrolateral aspect, at the level of all the rootlets considered involved in spasticity (and pain).
(17) The procedure was carried out at each sensory rootlet considered to be responsible for the harmful spasticity and pain.
(18) A number of lateral horn cells could be activated antidromically by stimulating the ventral rootlets.
(19) Near the anterior part of the cell, all eight rootlets serve as attachment sites for large numbers of cytoplasmic microtubules which occur in a single row around the circumference of the cell and closely parallel the cell shape.
(20) The procedure involves lumbar laminectomy with stimulation of the rootlets (fascicles) of the second lumbar to the first sacral posterior roots bilaterally; those rootlets associated with an abnormal motor response, as evidenced by sustained or diffused muscular contraction, are divided leaving intact rootlets associated with a brief localized contraction.