(n.) A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily.
(n.) The middle portion of the sternum in some animals; the mesosternum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Agrobacterium tumefaciens was capable of directing the transformation of Gladiolus sp., a monocot genus belonging to the family Iridaceae.
(2) Scanning electron microscope studies demonstrated that cells of Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains attach to cells on the cut surfaces of corn and wheat seedlings and to gladiolus disks.
(3) The major component of the Gladiolus style mucilage was shown to be an arabinogalactan-protein.
Sternum
Definition:
(n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
(n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
(2) Specimens from the bone marrow taken were by trephine biopsy from the sternum, ala ossis ilii and spine.
(3) The resections included an average of three ribs (range, two to five) and, in seven cases, part or all of the sternum.
(4) Radiologically, the clavicles, the sternum and the first ribs are grossly enlarged with complete fusion between them.
(5) Upper thoracic fractures that involved the clavicles, scapula, sternum, and ribs were present in four patients.
(6) Abnormal radionuclide concentrations were observed in the sternoclavicular, sternocostal, and manubriosternal joints, in the ribs, and in the sternum.
(7) For the sternum, humerus and ilium-ischium, however, ossification in A2 fetuses increased to the levels observed in the PF and C groups.
(8) diastasis recti abdominis with pericardial hernia, ventral defect of the diaphragm, partial defect of the sternum, and tetralogy of Fallot.
(9) In the remaining seven patients, sternal and mediastinal debridement with rewiring of the sternum was successfully applied.
(10) Three patients had anatomical variants of the sternum.
(11) A unique feature of the AF-associated musculoskeletal syndrome is osteolytic lesions that occur most frequently in the clavicle, sternum, long bones, and ilium.
(12) In affected lambs, lesions were seen consistently in the elbows, shoulders, sternum, and spine.
(13) The sliding splint-staples, generally two, are placed in staggered positions behind the sternum (11 cases--funnel chest) or in front of the sternum (2 cases--pigeon chest).
(14) The microvascularization of the sternum of the child has been studied by a method of India ink injection and by histology.
(15) The indications for keeping sternum open were enlarged heart, myocardial edema, severe depression of myocardial contractility and reduced lung compliance due to pulmonary edema.
(16) forehead for 0-3 days, chest for 4-5 days, sternum for 6 days and later).
(17) Quiet inspiration before and after phrenicotomy was always associated with a caudal displacement of the sternum and a cranial displacement of the seventh rib; the second rib, however, was either motionless or also showed an inspiratory caudal displacement.
(18) The structure and morphology of the sternum from 33 West African dwarf (WAD) and sixteen Danish Landrace breed goats were studied radiographically.
(19) In five anesthetized and vagotomized dogs the sternum was split and the anterior right lung field exposed.
(20) The healing process in the longitudinally divided sternum was evaluated from the SPECT study.