(n.) A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
(n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Supermarkets are slashing the price of cauliflower because a relatively warm start to the year has produced a glut of florets.
(2) Benign pleomorphic mesenchymal tumours (lipoma, fibroblastoma) are defined by large cells with multiple peripheral nuclei reminding of florets.
(3) Roll the florets in oil, then cook on the barbecue – towards the end of cooking if you are using charcoal, on low if gas – turning often: we're after a slow caramelisation here, not instant charring.
(4) The oxo acid stimulates the synthesis of ethylene when added to floret tissue, and tracer experiments have shown that (14)C is incorporated into ethylene from the labelled oxo acid.
(5) Floret giant cells and nuclear pyknosis were well demonstrated in this case, and characteristic bubbly nuclear vacuolations were also seen.
(6) Serves 4 to 6 2 handfuls of dried butter beans 2 heads of garlic 1 happy head of cauliflower, taken apart into challenging bite-sized florets 4 leeks, sliced across at 5mm intervals, then thoroughly rinsed A bunch of curly parsley, finely chopped A handful of extra-finecapers For the dressing 300ml extra virgin olive oil Juice of 1 juicy or 2 not-so juicy lemons 6 garlic cloves, peeled and well crushed Salt and black pepper 1 Soak the butter beans overnight in cold water, then drain and cook in clean water with the heads of garlic (this can take 2-3 hours).
(7) Each floret is bathed in a sticky secretion that is drawing honeybees, wasps, bumblebees, hover flies and a host of smaller diners, all stoking up before temperatures drop again.
(8) Histologically, there were varying proportions of moderately cellular solid areas and angiectoid areas, both featuring distinctive fibroblastic cells with what appeared to be multiple nuclei arranged in florets or wreaths.
(9) In addition to floret-type giant cells, a few osteoclast-like giant cells were present in a cellular area where tumor cells were focally arranged in a storiform pattern.
(10) Remove the leaves from the cauli, then cut the head into florets; halve or quarter any particularly large ones.
(11) Cut the broccoli into florets and chop the stalk into large chunks.
(12) This is a composite lesion which shows a loose connectival texture and a high cellularity with spindle cells, multivacuolated cells of irregular shape and hyperchromatic nuclei; moreover, there are characteristic multinucleated floret-like cells.
(13) Variants lacking outer membrane O-polysaccharide were devoid of A-layer and excreted stainable floret-like material of the surface protein (A-protein).
(14) Try blanching (in boiling water) or roasting a mixture of cauliflower and broccoli florets and stirring them in at the end.
(15) Spoon into bowls, and top with the remaining florets, and parmesan.
(16) Roast for about 20 minutes until tender and the broccoli florets are beginning to char.
(17) This tumor displays a mixture of fat cells, pleomorphic cells, floret cells, and bundles of mature collagen fiber.
(18) Serves 4 4 large baking potatoes, preferably maris pipers Sunflower oil, for deep frying For the gravy 20g butter 100g button onions, peeled 2 small carrots, sliced ¼ cauliflower, broken into small florets 2 tsp sugar 700ml vegetable stock 50ml red wine 1 tsp cornflour Salt and black pepper 1 tsp Marmite ½ tsp English mustard 1 Peel the potatoes then cut into chips.
(19) An important histologic criteria is the presence of floret-like multinucleated giant cells embedded in a myxoid stroma.
(20) Incorporation of label occurs readily from methionine and its derivative 4-methylmercapto-2-oxobutyric acid with apple, tomato or cauliflower floret tissue.
Tubulous
Definition:
(a.) Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow; specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower.
(a.) Containing, or consisting of, small tubes; specifically (Bot.), composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
(2) Developing seminiferous tubules and interstitial cells were first seen on day 26, and were well established one day later.
(3) Studies were performed to characterize the determinants of proximal tubule ammonia entry (and retention) in vivo.
(4) In conclusion, the ability of distal tubules to establish a significant pH gradient will contribute to the titration of non bicarbonate buffers, i.e., to titratable acid formation.
(5) In situ hybridization of SMG sections showed that Aeg-1 and Aeg-2 transcripts are produced by the cells of granular convoluted tubules.
(6) The NAD-dependent enzymes (except alpha-GPDH) showed a stronger reactivity in the proximal tubules, while the NADP-dependent ones were more reactive in the thick limb of Henle's loop and distal convoluted tubules.
(7) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
(8) Tubules and cells were released from slices of kidney cortex by collagenase.
(9) The results indicate that the conditions which inhibit the initiation of development are present in the Malpighian tubules and not in the midgut of the refractory mosquitoes.
(10) Many protozoa were in renal tubule cells, endothelial cells and brain.
(11) Fructose bisphosphatase, a gluconeogenic enzyme, is high along the major portion of the proximal tubule but plummets along the final millimeter of S3.
(12) Although a nephric loop (loop of Henle) is lacking, the tubules appear to be structurally well adapted for efficient ion and water reabsorption.
(13) They alter most immune functions and create a state of immunity deficiency; they damage the tubules which may lead to interstitial fibrosis and increased postglomerular capillary resistance furthering the trapping of macromolecules in the glomeruli; and they probably increase tissue permeability to macromolecules.
(14) The number of Sertoli cells per tubule cross section and the number of Sertoli cells per gonocyte were significantly decreased in the experimental testes.
(15) This short paper includes extracts from the original translations of Leeuwenhoek's descriptions of the histology of teeth, investigates his findings and demonstrates that in addition to describing dentinal tubules, he may have identified the presence of calcospherites within that tissue.
(16) In all dosage groups of the 90-day study special histological methods revealed a dose-dependent increase and enlargement of lysosomes in the epithelia of the proximal renal tubules.
(17) Peritubular capillary microperfusion was used to examine the effects of protein-free and hyperoncotic homologous plasma on fluid reabsorption by proximal convoluted tubules in the hydropenic rat.
(18) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
(19) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
(20) Although most renal cadmium transport occurs in proximal tubules indirect evidence suggests that distal tubules may also transport this heavy metal.