(n.) A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.
(n.) A bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain Protozoa, which separate one at a time from the parent cell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once the effect of the 8% annual growth in debt interest payments and rising spending on unemployment benefit are stripped out, spending across government departments will have to fall by an average of 2.3% a year in real terms, said IFS economist Gemma Tetlow.
(2) Journalist Gemma Briggs, 34, did this with her first child, born in March 2010.
(3) The results show that the rate of gemmae formation is higher in self irradiated samples; the statistical significance of the results is discussed.
(4) Honey admitted that her daughter, Gemma, seven, recently wrote "a baby" on her shopping list.
(5) Someone like Gemma Arterton [Tamara Drewe] is so beautiful, and I know she has had incredible pressure put on her by Hollywood, and it is magnificent for someone like her to stand up and say, 'You know what, this is my shape'.
(6) Gemma Tetlow, a senior IFS analyst, said it still raised significant questions about how much money would be available for everyday budgeting.
(7) The stock isn't fantastic but I spy books by Jane Gardam and Claire Messud, David Mitchell and, er, Jordan, and it's impressive that a library so small has a section devoted to graphic novels, Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds and David Boring by Daniel Clowes in pride of place.
(8) Created by real-life mates Gemma Cairney, Georgie Okell and Georgia LA, it's a combination of interviews, bands and debates, with guests ranging from Richard Branson to No More Page 3's Lucy-Anne Holmes.
(9) He is survived by his wife, daughter Gemma, stepson Steven and stepdaughter Rebecca.
(10) Gemma Ellis, 28, a children's charity worker, has been "passionate about women's rights" since primary school.
(11) Abbott has "sparked amusement and risked criticism" - report Jessica Marszalek, Gemma Jones, Lanai Scarr, Lauren Novak and David Mills.
(12) Gemma Plumb, a forecaster with Meteogroup, said: "Everywhere has seen strong winds today.
(13) Upstairs from the shop, full of quirky impulse buys such as Gemma Correll's Pugs not Drugs tote bags and Emily Warren's papier-mâché busts, there's studio and workshop space, with screen-printing equipment and sewing machines for regular workshops of up to six people.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gemma Middleton fears her children’s opportunities will be limited We’ve lived here in Spain for seven years with my two children, 19 and 14. they were both born in the UK and none of us are eligible for Spanish citizenship because you have to have been here 10 years.
(15) The venom from the spider Araneus gemma contains an inhibitor of physiologic glutamate receptors and of glutamate binding sites in brain synaptic membranes.
(16) It took half an hour for Ji to get a sight at goal, and even then she was harried enough to shoot over following Gemma Davison’s through ball.
(17) Down the hall, another of Thornberry's caseworkers, Gemma Pritchard, 24, is talking to an Eritrean couple whose 16-year-old nephew was conscripted, deserted, and is now a refugee in Sudan; they want him to come and live with them.
(18) That’s when everything comes together – innovation, customer insight, creativity, communications and sales – and you get to demonstrate how these different elements work together, to create value and growth for a business,” says Gemma Greaves, MD of the Marketing Society, a networking club for marketing directors.
(19) The first episode, which features Jones, comedian Paul Foot and The Only Way Is Essex star Gemma Collins, makes ITV’s Loose Women look like a WI meeting.
(20) Second-year individuals of Gemma gemma also are randomly distributed, but its total population is aggregated because of its ovoviviparous habit.
Gemmule
Definition:
(n.) A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.
(n.) One of the buds of mosses.
(n.) One of the reproductive spores of algae.
(n.) An ovule.
(n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation.
(n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the external plexiform layer, a reduced number of mature dendrodendritic synapses and signs of harmed granule gemmules were observed.
(2) F1 knobs contain flattened synaptic vesicles and form symmetrical junctions with F2 knobs, gemmules, spines, and small-medium dendrites in synaptic islands, throughout the neuropil, and on the proximal dendrites and soma of the largest type of neuron.
(3) In electron micrographs of the external plexiform layer, the gemmules which arise from the distal dentrites of granule cells were also observed to be filled with reaction product, and these structures corresponded in size and location to the puncta observed in light microscopic preparations.
(4) Gametogenesis occurs shortly after gemmule hatching in both males and females but slightly later in males.
(5) F2 knobs are irregularly shaped, contain pleiomorphic synaptic vesicles and make symmetrical junctions primarily with gemmules and spines in synaptic islands.
(6) An excess of thyroid hormones therefore causes neuronal proliferation to end precociously leading to a reduction of the total number of gemmules.
(7) Cellular fragments phagocyted by the thesocytes during the gemmule formation undergo a condensation and rearrangement of their constituent elements before forming a definitive platelet.
(8) It has recently been claimed by Ramon-Moliner29, that reciprocal synapses between mitral (and tufted) cell dendrites and granule cell gemmules, which for more than 10 years have been thought to represent a major feature of the structural and functional organization of the olfactory bulb28, are non-existent or, at best, extremely rare.
(9) They are found primarily in "synaptic islands" making contact with gemmules, spines, small dendrites, and other synaptic profiles containing pleiomorphic synaptic vesicles (F2).
(10) The gemmules were observed to form reciprocal dendrodentritic synaptic junctions with mitral cell dentrites which lacked reaction product.
(11) Hypothyroidism may lead to cellular hypoplasia and reduced dendritic ramification, gemmules and interneuronal connections.
(12) They migrate with their growth cones oriented toward the olfactory bulb from the level of the anterior lateral ventricle into the granular layer of the olfactory bulb, where they differentiate into the definitive granule cells: their somata enlarge; the leading processes elongate, branch, sprout many gemmules, and become the peripheral processes; and the trailing processes become the basal dendrites.
(13) It is suggested that a granule-to-mitral dendro-dendritic synapse only forms next to an already existing mitral-to-granule synapse on the same gemmule.
(14) The large amount of geographic overlap of retinal and cortical terminals on gemmules, spines, and small dendrites found in the neuropil outside of synaptic islands logically would maximize axonal sprouting between these two sources.