(n.) The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ependymal cells developed luminal fronds that projected into the ventricle and the subpial glia displayed a very subtle gliosis in the form of thin multi-laminated processes.
(2) BPV-4 DNA was present in the residual papillomatous fronds of the renal cancer, but was absent from the carcinoma proper and for the splenic metastasis.
(3) Having reviewed 47 cases of vascular malformations of the stomach and duodenum, we propose an endoscopic classification for these lesions: Pattern I (flat or slightly protruded, bright red lesions with frond-like margin) is the most usual form of presentation.
(4) Carbon dioxide laser photocautery was used successfully intraocularly in human patients to seal fibrovascular fronds and retinal tears at the time of vitrectomy.
(5) "Fronds," characterized by contrast within the interstices of the lesion, were seen in three malignant lesions.
(6) Posterior or to this frond of neovascularization, intertwining intraretinal telangiectasia was observed.
(7) At its margin abutting the central fibrous body the atrioventricular (A-V) node exhibited numerous fronds and outcroppings, some forming loop connections from one part of A-V node to another.
(8) The stems of corn, millet, sugar cane and the banana leaf frond excite some clinical and pathological effects in the rabbit's eye when implanted either into the anterior chamber (AC) or subconjunctivally.
(9) Substance P was most abundant in the subintimal portion of the membrane, with occasional filaments coursing via synovial fronds to the intimal portion.
(10) Palm tree climbers use jigs which are woven from palm fronds.
(11) Management depends on a high degree of suspicion, and a sonogram is useful to visualize the papillary fronds in the cysts.
(12) Photograph: Phil Gates I turned over a frond and saw the long, slit-like rows of spores, then searched under a rocky overhang for signs of germination.
(13) There is then no further increase in frond number for 3 to 4 weeks, although DNA, RNA and protein synthesis continue at decreased rates and starch accumulates in the plants.
(14) Bacteria-free cultures of Spirodela oligorrhiza continue to increase in frond number for 2 to 3 days after transfer to darkness.
(15) Four argon laser techniques have been evaluated in the eradication of diabetic disk neovascularization: focal (nonfeeder) photocoagulation, feeder-frond photocoagulation alone, panretinal photocoagulation alone, and feeder-frond treatment combined with panretinal photocoagulation.
(16) During the day, under leafy huts, women learned to weave pandanus fronds and men crafted didgeridoos.
(17) A fluorescein-angiography displayed six years after the trauma a large neovascular frond and intraretinal neovascular network.
(18) However, only five of these were easily detectable in steady-state mRNA isolated from roots of the same plants, and the relative expression of each gene varied between the roots and the fronds.
(19) Amongst the other 10 women there were intratubal adhesions (n = 2), fronds attached to mucosal folds (n = 4), irregular blood vessels in mucosal folds (n = 2), unusual mucosal folds (n = 3) and black 'spots' within mucosal folds (n = 3).
(20) Thrombosis was associated with a delay in the growth and maturation of NV fronds, which resumed after reperfusion.
Frons
Definition:
(n.) The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
Example Sentences:
(1) A well-preserved mummified child from about A.D. 1200 was recovered fron Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona in 1971.
(2) The submaxillary glands and the kidneys of both diabetic Wistar strain and hypertensive rats contained significantly less glandular kallikrein than non-diabetic Wistar strain and hypertensive rats (reduction fron 40 to 76%).
(3) In a small rural community--Nord-Fron--almost 40% die outside institutions, 30% die in the local nursing home and only 30% die in hospitals.
(4) Dilution is seldom less than 6% but may exceed 40%, particularly when sampling fron neonates.
(5) Skin fron newborn mice or rats pretreated with this substance had increased epidermal mitotic activity which was inhibited cyclic AMP elevators.
(6) No significant changes were observed fron the start to the end of mineral water treatment.
(7) The readings were higher when the filter paper strips were placed between the fron halves of the upper and lower counterparts than when they were placed between the rear halves.
(8) Thus, although the frons width is apparently controlled genetically, it can also be influenced by temperature.
(9) Surgical liver biopsies were taken fron five patients suffering prolonged extrahepatic cholestasis, and five patients submitted to abdominal surgery excluding hepato-biliary diseases that were considered as controls.
(10) Dependence of the fron olfactory bulbar responses on NaCl concentration greatly varied from odorant to odorant.
(11) Instead, two product peaks elute near the solvent fron on reverse-phase HPLC.
(12) The patterns of the different wildtypes, species, and hybrids were used for taxonomic identification within the nasuta subgroup, in which the females are morphologically indistinguishable and the males differ only by the markings of their frons.
(13) According to the results of earlier investigations of other authors, there are differences between Escherichia-strains fron urinary tract infections and fron the feces of healthy persons with regard to their biochemical, hemolytic, necrotizing and pathogenic properties in mice experiments.
(14) The highest increase in the antibiotic activity, as well as in the enzyme inhibition was observed with respect to the compound with the hydrocarbon chain fron C12 to C16.
(15) Fron these observations the hypothesis may be suggested that nitroprusside inhibits platelet functions by mimicking the endogenous NO, and that the intracellular calcium metabolism is involved in the inhibitory activity of the drug.
(16) The 9 bp element V located in fron of the first 340 bp region appears in duplicated form as a direct repeat with sequence similarity to SV40 (or RNA polymerase II) enhancer sequences.
(17) Sixty oocytes fron 28 women, aged between 27 and 41 years, were analyzed.
(18) Fron a clinical standpoint, they are classified as benign tumors.
(19) The presence of the latter two markers distinguishes variant lines fron non-SCLC cell lines.
(20) The distribution of diagnostic radiographic changes between the right and left fron feet was equal.