(a.) Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once a liver abscess as a sequel to amebic dysentery was diagnosed and once a megaloplastic anemia with symptoms of a funicular myelopathy following a vitamin B12 deficiency syndrome.
(2) The authors describe a case of ante partum fetal death due to a true funicular knot combined with relative shortness of the cord as a results of a double nuchal coil.
(3) No detectable responses can be evoked from these neurons when stimulation is applied to sites rostral to the lateral cervical nucleus and the dorsal column nuclei, suggesting that the dorsal and dorsolateral funicular branches of these neuron's axons terminate in the lateral cervical nucleus and the dorsal column nuclei, respectively.
(4) In order to determine the funicular courses of the axons contributing to the spinothalamic pathway, thalamic injections of horseradish peroxidase were combined with ipsilateral ventral or dorsolateral thoracic spinal cord lesions.
(5) The spinal cord was transected at the level of calamus scriptorius either completely (spinal preparation) or partially (funicular preparation).
(6) The possibilities of diagnosing funicular complications are discussed but these are not apt to avoid the rare cases of sudden fetal death as a result of vascular occlusion in the ante partum period.
(7) The importance of funicular hernias as the most serious umbilical cord complication is discussed with reference to this case and the literature.
(8) The shunt is a molded Silastic tube with wire coils at each end to prevent collapse, and its funicular collar and rim obviate sudden expulsion.
(9) The dorsal nucleus of Clarke, the lateral cervical nucleus (cat), the intermediolateral cell columns of the thoracic and upper lumbar levels, and selected groups of ventral horn neurons formed moderate to darkly reactive cell clusters, whereas fusiform and multipolar cells of Waldeyer in the marginal layer, small fusiform neurons in the ventral gray, funicular cells in the white matter, and ventral horn neurons of varying sizes tended to stand out against the neuropil as singly reactive neurons.
(10) The contribution of midline medullary bulbospinal neurons to descending inhibition from the locus coeruleus (LC) and the funicular trajectories of coeruleo- and raphe-spinal fibers mediating inhibition of spinal nociceptive transmission were examined in different experiments.
(11) In this puppy, as opposed to six studied previously, thoracolumbar myelomalacia also occurred symmetrically in the dorsal horns and adjoining funicular white matter.
(12) In order to enhance visualization of the pelvic, lumbar and kidney-hilar nodes, a combined lymphangiography should be done through both bipedal and funicular routes.
(13) Of the 58 neurons tested for response to isolated dorsal column and dorsolateral funicular stimulation, 24% were activated from both tracts.
(14) Finally, I reached the symbol of Rio itself, the Cristo , where I was joined by the crowds who'd taken the funicular or minibus.
(15) The purpose of this study was to determine the funicular location of descending catecholamine (CA) fibers innervating the lumbar spinal cord from the dorsolateral pons (DLP).
(16) Partial cystectomy with excision of the funicular urachal ligament was performed.
(17) The funicular pathways that elicit forelimb stepping were investigated with stimulation and lesion of the cervical white matter in decerebrate cats with the lower thoracic cord transected.
(18) The descending tract terminates largely in the medial funicular nucleus and the commissural nucleus of Cajal in the region of the obex.
(19) In adult cats the successive degeneration technique has been used to demonstrate the existence and distribution pattern of lateral funicular fibers to the dorsal column nuclei (DCN) originating from the brachial and thoracic cord.
(20) Fiber degeneration in the DCN consequent to this second operation is not contaminated by damage to dorsal roots or by interruption of lateral funicular afferents from lumbo-sacro-coccygeal segments.
Polygon
Definition:
(n.) A plane figure having many angles, and consequently many sides; esp., one whose perimeter consists of more than four sides; any figure having many angles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gap junctions were of different sizes and frequently composed of a small number of connexons organized in polygonal aggregates or linear arrays.
(2) The isolated outer sheath was observed as a triple-layered, closed vesicle carrying a polygonal array by electron microscopy.
(3) Electron microscopically, the tumor cell nuclei were oval or polygonal and sometimes slightly invaginated, with a few prominent nucleoli.
(4) Delimitation of the pathological process in the lung is characterized by an increase in the number of T- and B-lymphocytes and considerable predominance of polygonally shaped cells with cytoplasmic outgrowths of different lengths and their subsequent replacement by a cell form transitory between T- and B-lymphocytes.
(5) At day 12-15, some nodules consisting of polygonal cells were formed in all culture conditions, and these nodules were mineralized 2-3 days later.
(6) The majority of the choline acetyltransferase-immunoreactive neurons had fusiform, oval, or polygonal somata with somatic diameters greater than 20 microns and contained deeply invaginated nuclei surrounded by copious cytoplasm.
(7) One type of cells had polygonal morphology, showed density-dependent contact inhibition at confluence in vitro, showed lectin-binding characteristics of endothelium (but only moderate positivity for factor VIII antigen), demonstrated induction of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase when exposed to astrocyte-conditioned media, and responded to insulin by a pronounced increase in DNA synthesis.
(8) The first type included large multipolar neurons with triangular or polygonal perikarya and typically 3-5 dendrites emerging from the poles of each cell.
(9) Type II neurons had multipolar or polygonal cell bodies, which measured an average 31 micrometer by 43 micrometer and emitted four to seven primary dendrites.
(10) "En face" views of the epithelial cells showed capping protein distributed in a polygonal pattern coincident with cell boundaries in intestinal epithelium, sensory epithelium of the cochlea, and the pigmented epithelium of the retina and at regions of cell-cell contact between chick embryo kidney cells in culture.
(11) Polygonal, foamy macrophages were found in 12 cases.
(12) The subcultured HNC and ADPKD cells retained characteristic epithelial polygonal and elongated shape and positive immunofluorescent staining for cytokeratin.
(13) The slightly prominent apices of the superficial epithelial cells are more or less polygonal in shape and covered with short microvilli among which small granules as possible morphological expression of a secretory activity are detectable.
(14) Initially, they grew as individual polygonal cells, tending to form tight confluent monolayers with poorly defined intercellular boundaries.
(15) A 3rd type displayed a polygonal outline and increased cytoplasm.
(16) While the arteries show a long stretched spinle or lancet like form they change over blunt, oval, triangular or rhomboid forms into polygonal cells with spiked border lines at the venules.
(17) Also PMA was found to cause a profound change in astrocyte morphology; cells were converted from flat, polygonal, undifferentiated cells to process-bearing cells.
(18) On these substrata, cultured astrocytes changed their shape from flat and polygonal to stellate in the absence of hormones or growth factor supplements.
(19) The cells have a spindle, round or polygonal shape with neoplastic and pleomorphic features that grew in multilayers without contact inhibition.
(20) The rate constant for clearance as described in the paper represents a non-invasive method for rapid evaluation of the uptake capacity of the liver and, in particular, with regard to the polygonal cells of the liver parenchyma when IDA derivatives are employed.