(a.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.
(a.) Wavering; not steady; flickering.
Example Sentences:
(1) The properties of reconstituted potato virus X and those of assembled potato virus Y protein are considered as well as the suitability of other flexuous viruses for reconstitution studies.
(2) The extratesticular segment of the efferent duct divides initially into two and then into three or four smaller flexuous ductuli to constitute the head of the epididymis.
(3) The effects of ionic strength of the solution (changed by varying NaCl concentrations or buffer molarity) on the precipitation with polyethylene glycol (PEG) 6000 were studied on phytopathogenic viruses of different morphology: the isometric red clover mottle virus (RCMV), rod-shaped tobacco mosaic virus, flexuous potato virus X (PVX) and bacilliform alfalfa mosaic virus.
(4) The UV-irradiation was found to induce formation of the RNA-protein cross-links and intraviral RNA chain breaks in the particles of flexuous potato virus X (PVX).
(5) Effects of pH of extraction buffers, pH and titer of trapping antisera and their combinations, virus acquisition time and virus host on the trapping efficiency of flexuous potato viruses X, S and Y (PVX, PVS and PVY) in immune electron microscopy were evaluated.
(6) The testicular ductuli are more thicker and the epididymal ductuli are more thin, long and flexuous.
(7) Some bile canaliculi display a flexuous course and show lateral sacculations.
(8) By electron microscopy, the precipitated fimbriae appeared as aggregated bundles of long, relatively straight filaments which were disaggregated to individual flexuous filaments at pH 10.5.
(9) The isolate is an aflagellate, motile rod which moves in a gliding, flexuous manner; the organism is capable of digesting starch and agar, but not cellulose and gelatin.
(10) Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain P15 produces not only pyocin R1 and phage PS10, but also a substance having a flexuous rod structure, the nature of which is so far unknown.
(11) Recent experiments on the disassembly and assembly of some flexuous plant viruses and their proteins are described.
(12) Dilatation is particularly located at the base of the broad ligament and gives to uterine veins with wide smeets a flexuous feature with wide contrasted clusters.
(13) A flexuous ropelike structure protruding at one end of the capsid is sometimes observed in partially degraded virions stained with uranyl acetate.
(14) It was concluded that the flexuous rod-like particles are not related to pyocin R1 or phage PS10, but represent a new pyocin, which we have designated as pyocin F1.
(15) However, we have experienced various cases not only in which side effects of the infusion drug appeared, but also in which treatment had to be discontinued because of infections and flexuous caused by the intraarterial infusion catheter.
(16) Histologic examination of subcutaneous tumor biopsy specimens revealed a diffuse infiltration of monocytes with flexuous nuclei.
(17) Another flexuous bacteriocin was also found and named pyocin F2.
(18) There are at least ten viruses identified in the literature that resemble definitive potyviruses in having flexuous filamentous particles and inducing the formation of "pinwheel" cytoplasmic inclusions in infected cells but that are transmitted by eriophyid mites, whiteflies or soil fungi and not by aphids, the vectors of the definitive potyviruses.
(19) Electron microscope studies of the network reveal a characteristic flexuous configuration.
(20) The microbial characteristics of the isolated strain include the formation of flexuous gray aerial mycelium with smooth to rough spores, irregular in size.
Meander
Definition:
(n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
(n.) A tortuous or intricate movement.
(n.) Fretwork. See Fret.
(v. t.) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
(v. i.) To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
Example Sentences:
(1) They harvest shellfish standing in the water or meandering through mangrove forests on the shore.
(2) BMWs, Porsches and Land Cruisers meander through Luanda past beggars missing limbs due to the civil war or polio.
(3) As the contest meandered and the stadium went close to quiet there was a jocular moment when Pardew hopped in irritation at a United challenge and the manager dropped his ever-present notebook on the pitch.
(4) This packing loosens towards the middle of the junction until, at its basal extremity, the septa (ridges in replicas) are widely separated and follow independent meandering courses.
(5) The result is a meandering popularism that ignores questions about where the country might end up and fixates on the most cynical of political games.
(6) • Rorbu for four from £140 a night, svinoya.no Grande Hytteutleige, Geirangerfjord Facebook Twitter Pinterest Waterfalls, vertiginous green slopes and a meandering, idyllic waterway explain why Unesco-protected Geirangerfjord is one of Norway’s premier tourist spots.
(7) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
(8) I wanted to write a book that was big and odd and meandering, and I did and it was.
(9) Subtractive feedback models must continuously adjust the axis of rotation throughout a saccade, and they generate meandering, dysmetric gaze saccades.
(10) He had already come close when, gifted the chance by a weak Julian Speroni punch, he lofted a shot into the unguarded net towards the end of a first 45 minutes that had tended to meander.
(11) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
(12) Some meandering evaginations were also observed as, rarely, were small spherical or bulbous projections.
(13) The similarity in size of the openings of T tubules and caveolae and the meandering path of the tubules are sufficient to account for the paucity of observed openings.
(14) The cytoskeleton, marked by antibodies to desmin and filamin is composed of a mainly longitudinal, meandering and branched system of fibrils that contrasts with the plait-like, interdigitating arrangement of linear fibrils of the contractile apparatus, labeled with antibodies to myosin and tropomyosin.
(15) From here the contest meandered for a while on a Shanghai night becoming ever more sultry.
(16) After a deliberately hazy and meandering first half – one that lulls both reader and characters into a false sense of security – the second part of the novel barely breathes.
(17) London 2012 chairman Lord Coe, who has spent the week defending his organisation against blame for the G4S meltdown, said he believed that while the torch meandered through London it would stoke enthusiasm as it had among the millions who have seen it criss-cross the country over the past 63 days.
(18) Inspired by the idea of a city built around an airport (she grew up in Hounslow, near Heathrow), it leaves behind the constraints of any one genre, meandering through R&B-inflected garage (Beach Mode), instrumental grime (Backhand Winners) and Omar S-style stripped-back melodic techno (Eternal Mode).
(19) The endoplasmic reticulum in such cells is reduced to a few (perhaps only one) meandering, broad cisternae, which delimit broad fields of cytoplasmic matrix occupied almost solely by scattered, single ribosomes.
(20) As the match threatened to meander away from United, Giggs finally introduced Van Persie, for a first appearance due to a knee injury since 19 March, and Welbeck, on 66 minutes.