(n.) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
(n.) The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.
(n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
(n.) The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
(n.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
(n.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(2) Tissue sections, taken from foliate and circumvallate papillae, generally revealed taste buds in which all cells were immunoreactive; however, occasionally some taste buds were found to contain highly reactive individual cells adjacent to non-reactive cells.
(3) Examination of rabbit foliate papillae by electron microscopy revealed for the first time the existence of a dividing cell within a taste bud.
(4) Exposure to ethanol from E12 to PN5 resulted in a large loss of P cells and retarded the foliation of the cerebellum.
(5) Fissurations forming lobules arose largely independent of the external granular layer by directed expansion of the central fiber core while normal parallel foliation is an elaboration of the lobular surface controlled by growth forces defined by both distribution of the external granular layer and the underlying fiber core with associated Purkinje cells.
(6) Individual differences in pattern of foliation and body representation occur.
(7) Small tubulo-alveolar salivary glands, the von Ebner's glands, are located beneath the circumvallate and the foliate papillae.
(8) NSE-positive fibers then penetrated the epithelium as isolated fibers, primarily in the foliate and circumvallate papillae, or as brush-shaped units formed by a multitude of fibers, especially in the fungiform papillae and in the apical epithelium of the circumvallate papilla.
(9) Foliate and vallate buds demonstrated homogeneous dense substance within the taste pores while fungiform pores were frequently empty.
(10) To examine this hypothesis further, we used electron microscopy to examine taste pores of both vallate and foliate papillae from Rhesus monkeys before or after stimulation with thaumatin or sucrose.
(11) the filiform, fungiform, foliate and circumvallate papillae.
(12) The single circumvallate papilla and fungiform papillae were initiated during the early part of the 13th day, followed on the 15th day by differentiation of filiform and foliate papillae and raised nodules of lingual tonsilar tissue.
(13) Morphological evidence of degeneration includes pyknosis of Purkinje cells and abnormal foliation patterns.
(14) Plasma glycine concentration increased in foliate deficiency and decreased with oestradiol treatment.
(15) Pseudomorphous foliated texture and cross-cutting relationships indicate replacement of talc by sepiolite.
(16) The circumvallate and foliate papillae are characterized not only by their position, but also by presence of several taste buds which open through the external orifice of the gustatory canal into the cavity of the vallum, or furrow, which divides the two folds of the lingual mucosa.
(17) alpha-Gustducin messenger RNA is expressed in taste buds of all taste papillae (circumvallate, foliate and fungiform); it is not expressed in non-sensory portions of the tongue, nor is it expressed in the other tissues examined.
(18) This reorientation of the expansion appears to be related to the cortical changes which have been described and marks the onset of foliation.
(19) Labelled fibers innervated the ipsilateral foliate papilla only, but both ipsi-and contralateral sides of the single circumvallate papilla.
(20) Ganglia of various shape and size were observed on or near the fungiform, filiform and foliate papillae.
Lamina
Definition:
(n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.
(n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.
(n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus (Vc), the collaterals of one half of the periodontium afferent fibers terminated mainly in lamina V at the rostral and middle levels of Vc.
(2) It appears that the effects of monocular lid suture upon MIN are in most respects similar to the effects of monocular lid suture previously reported for the A laminae.
(3) In contrast to this, adrenalectomy decreased ANP levels markedly in the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis and preoptic periventricular nucleus, which are reportedly involved in the central regulation of salt and water homeostasis.
(4) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
(5) The surface phenotypes of bovine intestinal leukocytes isolated from the intraepithelium (IEL), lamina propria (LPL) and Peyer's patches (PPL) of the small intestinal mucosa of normal adult cows were determined using monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific to adult bovine peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL).
(6) Glycogen, lipid, basal lamina, and canaliculi were present in all cases.
(7) A complete review of the literature was made which shows that most chondrosarcomas occur in middle-aged males originating most often from the posterior cricoid lamina, next from the thyroid cartilage.
(8) Based on their localisation and histology these are classified into three types (Epstein's pearls, Bohn's nodules, Dental lamina cysts).
(9) These laminae included the dentate hilus and strata oriens, pyramidale and lacunosum-moleculare of CA1.
(10) This method has also been successfully used in humans and rabbits to demonstrate specific antibody production by single lamina propria plasma cells.
(11) CD8 positive cells were detected randomly in all regions of the mucosa, whereas CD4 positive cells tended to be clustered in the superficial portion of the lamina propria.
(12) Of particular interest was the presence of dense-core vesicles in some of the glial cells, and that of a basal lamina underlying the perivascular glial cells.
(13) The total height of the lamina mucosa decreased from 700 to 275 microns.
(14) Injections with extensive spread of horseradish peroxidase show that many cells of lamina 4B and the large pyramidal neurons of upper lamina 6 also project extrinsically but their terminal sites have not been identified.
(15) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
(16) The sucker, covered with basal lamina, has a constant volume; its layer of muscles resists deformation and supports the stability of the arch.
(17) The development of the first molar was examined from the dental lamina stage through apposition.
(18) In both of these groups, the inoculated bacteria were recovered from the colon, and T hyodysenteriae was demonstrated in the colonic crypts, epithelium, and lamina propria.
(19) Although there was an increased concentration of angiotensin II binding sites in the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis, the median preoptic nucleus, and the paraventricular nucleus after dehydration, these changes did not reach statistical significance.
(20) FG or WGA-HRP labeled neurons were found mainly in laminae V and VII, in the lateral group of lamina IX, in Clarke's column (CC) and in the dorsal funiculus.