(n.) The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.
(n.) The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.
(n.) The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.
(n.) The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.
Example Sentences:
Pedicel
Definition:
(n.) A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.
(n.) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.
(n.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.
(n.) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
(n.) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quantitative determination of the major saponins in fruit pedicels from the plant was made by thin layer chromatography-densitometry.
(2) Adults of the neotenic (paedomorph) Necturus maculosus possess in the upper jaw and the palate rather uniform, conical, monocuspid teeth arranged in a single line ("Zahnzeile"; monostichous pattern) and showing a broad dividing zone, which separates the pedicel and the distal crown.
(3) It was most similar to R. spinicephalum Campbell 1970 but differed by having fewer proglottids (15 to 26 vs. 36 to 49), smaller peduncle (110 to 146 vs. 330 to 470) and pedicels (100 to 180 vs. 170 to 370), fewer transverse septa (6 to 8 vs. 16 to 17), fewer total loculi per bothridium (22 to 30 vs. 32 to 34) and larger ovarian lobes (148 to 310 vs. 88 to 176).
(4) Loss of podocyte pedicels involves a gradual decrease in pedicel height beginning at the pedicel tip and progressing down the pedicel arm, formation of nublike protrusions and interpedicel microbridges (35 to 45 nm.
(5) The Böhm bristles of Lepidoptera occur in precise areas of the scape and pedicel of the antenna.
(6) In contrast, podocytic pedicel width along the glomerular basement membrane increased from summer activity to early hibernation, before significantly decreasing again by late hibernation.
(7) Six saponins were isolated from the fruit pedicels of Panax notoginseng.
(8) With the onset of proteinuria and oliguria, PAN rats exhibit loss of podocyte pedicels and podocyte major processes, an increase in pinocytotic activity, and an accumulation of cytoplasmic vacuoles and granules of variable size, shape, and electron density.
(9) Hydranth life spans can be extended to 20 days in isolated hydranths if, repeatedly, the pedicel is damaged by pinching and is allowed to partially regen-erate.
(10) Considerable hypervascularization is found in hepatocellular adenoma but not in FNH, although in FNH large vascular pedicel may be observed at the periphery.
(11) Experimental results showed that the root or pedicel area of the frog tooth was an intrinsic part of the tooth.
(12) The foregoing observations support the view that pedicel loss in puromycin aminonucleoside nephrosis may be due to a reduction in the glomerular epithelial polyanionic sialic acid surface coat.
(13) Repeated ovarian developmental cycles were responsible for the bi-ovipositional pattern as indicated by the presence of 2 dilatations in the ovariolar pedicel of bi-autogenous females and by the early stages of development of the ovaries (II and II B) observed 1-3 days following initial oviposition, later stages of maturation occurred progressively.
(14) They have cytoplasmic processes and pedicels which enclose narrow slits between them and that are apposed to a basal lamella.
(15) This study demonstrates that the type II cell has certain conelike morphologic features including a pale nucleus, complex synaptic pedicel, and multiple wrappings of the outer segment by microvilli of the pigment epithelium.
(16) In addition to GBM abnormalities, renal biopsy features included a slight mesangial matrix increase, occasional mesangial cell excess and often appreciable pedicel effacement.
(17) A flowback might be prevented by capillary effect of a "ball" of vesicles, which lies exactly above the outlet of the scale pedicel.
(18) There was no evidence that a loss of pedicel organization occurred with any of the three treatment times studied.
(19) No significant changes were observed in glomerular basement membrane thickness and width of podocyte pedicels.
(20) Some of the periplasmic bodies were connected to protoplasts by fine pedicels; others appeared free.