(n.) A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results are consistent with the hypothesis that during the early stages of cerebellar development the Bergmann fiber palisades organize the orientation of the parallel fibers in the longitudinal plane of the folium.
(2) In the lateral wall of folium VII there was a small anomalous region innervated by the contralateral eye.3.
(3) In a superficial folium of the dorsal paraflocculus of high decerebrate rabbits, extracellular unitary spikes were recorded from a Purkinje cell, while two parallel fibre beams impinging onto that Purkinje cell were separately stimulated in the molecular layer.
(4) The low-threshold region from which saccades could be evoked with stimulus intensities less than 10 microA was confined to lobule VII in seven monkeys; in the other five monkeys it included a posterior part of lobule VI (folium VIc).
(5) A single injection at the fifth postnatal day produces hypogranular cerebella whereas a single injection at birth produces, in addition, a disorderly cytoarchitecture of the folium and alteration of Purkinje cell positioning (Bejar et al.
(6) The content of constituents in Folium pyrrosiae was calculated from the relevant peak height or peak area.
(7) Histotypic migration of [3H]thymidine pulse-labeled granule cell neurons in cerebellar folium explants was monitored in the presence of antibodies to cell adhesion molecules and quantified by automatic image analysis.
(8) Seven oncogenes (c-myc, L-myc, N-myc, v-erbB, c-fos, Ha-ras and mos) were used as the probe to detect the total RNA of every part (cerebellum, temporal folium, frontal folium and occipital folium) in human brain from 2 cases of 6 mon fetus and the total RNA in fetal development (4 mon, 5 mon, 6 mon, 7 mon, and newborn) of human brain tissue by RNA dot hybridization analysis.
(9) Three active constituents in seven species of Folium Pyrrosiae (mangiferin, isomangiferin and chlorogenic acid) have been determined.
(10) At the middle of cerebellar development, around 2nd postnatal week in rat and 12-16 embryonary days in chick, a new polyanionic transient accumulation, presumably chondroitinsulphate, became present at the medullary region following the longitudinal axis of folium and limiting the forming granular layer, being this substance mainly related with polarity processes by controlling or guiding the growing cones of afferent fibers, which enter massively to cerebellar cortex.
(11) Among the 78 control cases, no cholecystic stones were excreted, inspite of the Magnesium Sulfate, Folium Cassiae and fatty meals administered to many cases with constipation.
(12) Although the basic types of operations carried out by cerebellar cortex may be similar in all folia, the mosaic of afferent sources, intrinsic organization and efferent destinations appear to be unique for each folium.
(13) Taste buds were found in the epithelium of only one side of each folium.
(14) Six new antiallergic and antimicrobial principles, thunberginols A, B, C, D, E, and F, were isolated from Hydrangeae Dulcis Folium, the fermented and dried leaves of Hydrangea macrophylla SERINGE var.
(15) When the neighborhoods were extended with fixed orientation with respect to the axis of the folium, the hexagonal arrangement disappeared.
(16) In the third stage, the dendritic arbor becomes flattened in the plane transverse to the folium and somatic spines disappear.
(17) Hippocampal neuron densities in three areas (H1 zone, end folium, and dentate gyrus) were counted in each of 32 temporal lobectomy excision specimens using the technique of Mouritzen Dam.
(18) By omitting the component NH4NO3 and doubling the amount of KNO3 in MS medium, the Panax quinque folium cells cultured in such medium grew more rapidly and their saponin content was much higher than that cultured in regular MS medium.
(19) Stretch of a single wrist muscle excited P-cells over a distance of about 1 mm in the long axis of a folium, a span which is at most half the length of parallel fibers.
(20) An aqueous extract of Orthosiphonis folium, given orally, enhances considerably ion excretion in rat to a level comparable to that obtained with furosemide.
Infinite
Definition:
(a.) Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.
(a.) Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of God; -- opposed to finite.
(a.) Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious.
(a.) Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; -- said of certain quantities.
(a.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated.
(n.) That which is infinite; boundless space or duration; infinity; boundlessness.
(n.) An infinite quantity or magnitude.
(n.) An infinity; an incalculable or very great number.
(n.) The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(2) After 14 days of storage the reduction factors were infinite, 30 and 5, respectively.
(3) The culture pattern presented by the primary cultures did not appreciably change after passaging in vitro for periods of up to 2 years, even after infinite cell lines were established.
(4) At infinite dilution both steroids are well resolved, the trans isomer being eluted before the cis isomer.
(5) However, the maximal lysis of target cells at an infinite number of effectors was significantly less for normal compared with leukaemic targets.
(6) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
(7) In this (proliferative) model small doses of weakly antigenic tumors grow infinitely large (i.e.
(8) The aim was to create an infinite number of ways in which the story could be read – though Pears emphasised that Arcadia was not an interactive novel.
(9) We have found that the frequency of the allele which favours recombination increases in finite populations, and decreases slightly in infinite populations.
(10) I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal saviour.
(11) Les Misérables is a game with destiny: it dramatises the gap between the imperfections of human judgments, and the perfect patterns of the infinite.
(12) The theoretical function described coherences between recording sites of small separation for linear, non-dispersive, dissipative waves moving on an infinite homogeneous plane medium, and driven by spatio-temporally noisy inputs.
(13) The changes in the integral of the extracellular action potentials (EAPs) generated by an infinite homogeneous fibre in an infinite homogeneous and isotropic volume conductor were studied at different radial distances (yo) from the fibre axis, depending on the propagation velocity (v), duration (Tin) and asymmetry of the intracellular action potential (IAP).
(14) The Macdonald-Dietz model for superinfection in malaria is a time-dependent infinite-server queue.
(15) The deterministic model (assuming infinite population size and random mating) predictions of the final gene frequency were exceeded only if there was reproductive compensation.
(16) Differential pencil beam (DPB) is defined as the dose distribution relative to the position of the first collision, per unit collision density, for a monoenergetic pencil beam of photons in an infinite homogeneous medium of unit density.
(17) Using fundamental concepts of hydrodynamics in porous media, we have rederived the Lumpkin-DèJardin-Zimm (LDZ) model for the gel electrophoresis of reptating, infinitely long, worm-like chains, such as DNA.
(18) Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation expresses it thus: "From the Pythagoreans onward, through the Renaissance to our times, the oceanic feeling, the sense of participation in the mystery of the infinite, was the principal inspiration of the wingèd and flat-footed creature, the scientist."
(19) Pressure-volume curves from nine ferrets (including the above six) revealed almost infinitely compliant chest walls so that lung and total respiratory system curves were essentially the same.
(20) An orderly process of dealing with asylum claims at the earliest point would be infinitely preferable to desperate families laying siege to central European railway stations, risking their lives clinging on to vehicles at Calais or suffocating in vehicles transporting them across borders.