(a.) Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the locus ceruleus and nucleus basalis, where tangles have a loose or globose structure, correlations with neuronal counts were not significant.
(2) The flat acuity-luminance function of the falcon results from adaptations which increase the optical sensitivity of the eye compared with the globose eye of strongly diurnal falconiformes.
(3) An electron-microscopic study revealed that the subcortical NFT in NCS are made up of paired helical filaments in spite of their globose round shape.
(4) In the brain of embryos from normal females these cells had mainly a round or oval form (globose microglia).
(5) Corticobasal degeneration shows similar midbrain pathology and a round, filamentous inclusion in the substantia nigra, not unlike the globose tangle, but there is also focal frontoparietal cortical atrophy.
(6) The results suggest that the stem cells of the olfactory cells are globose basal cells and not basal cells proper, and that the shape of basal cells proper changes in relation to the active proliferation of stem cells.
(7) At autopsy prominent globose neurofibrillary tangles with variable cell loss, microglial nodules, and neuronophagia were found in the locus ceruleus, third cranial nerve complex, nucleus supratrochlearis, nucleus centralis superior, and nucleus basalis of Meynert with mild pallor of the globus pallidus, mild cell loss in the dentate nucleus of the cerebellum, and sparing of the superior colliculus.
(8) In Pythium species and in several related Oomycetes, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the nontranscribed spacer (NTS) region with one primer specific for the 5S gene revealed, with several exceptions, that the 5S rRNA gene was present in the rDNA repeat of those species with filamentous sporangia and was absent from the rDNA repeat of those with globose or unknown sporangia.
(9) Three major sporangial morphotypes were consistently observed on leaf blades: oval, globose, and fusiform.
(10) Cultures revealed rapidly growing yellow colonies on Sabouraud dextrose agar medium at 25 degrees C. Sporangiophores branched in sympodia and the sporangia were globose, 35-60 microns in diameter.
(11) When a single dose of BrdU was given to mice 9 days after axotomy, immunostaining for BrdU was found in the globose basal cells which were negative for MA903, but not in the basal cells proper which were positive for MA903.
(12) Furthermore, three pulses of BrdU resulted in numerous BrdU-immunolabelings in the globose basal cells and a few in the basal cells proper.
(13) At the 7th-8th weeks the hepatocytes show a globose shape, their surface is furnished with scattered and irregular evaginations and they are arranged in loose and narrow ribbons, separated by vascular spaces; the hepatocytes are tightly connected with haemopoietic cells, usually furnished with hyperchromatic nuclei.
(14) The colony morphology, the presence of globose sporangia bearing motile spores, the absence of aerial mycelium and the presence of meso-DAP in cell wall, ascribe this strain to the genus Actinoplanes.
(15) In the globose cauda (Nicander's region 8), the principal cells are reduced in height, and in addition to the features described in region 7, are characterized by a concentric array of rough endoplasmic reticulum in the basal cytoplasm.
(16) These axons terminate in characteristic globose structures resembling the glomeruli of the olfactory bulb.
(17) This pseudostratified epithelium consists of apical supporting cells, a middle layer of olfactory receptor neurons and a heterogeneous population of basal cells consisting of basal cells proper and globose basal cells.
(18) These results further confirmed that NCAM was expressed by both globose basal cells and receptor neurons but not by other cell types within the epithelium.
(19) Globose and club-shaped, one- and two-celled microconidia were formed especially 'en thrse'.
(20) Cunninghamella antarctica has conidiophores usually verticillately, pseudoverticillately and sympodially branched; and globose conidia with evident spines, 12-8-16micron in diameter.
Ovoid
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Ovoidal
(n.) A solid resembling an egg in shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
(2) GABA-immunogold reaction has revealed the presence of this inhibitory transmitter in most axon terminals containing ovoid-pleomorphic vesicles within the molecular layer, including those resembling climbing fiber-terminals.
(3) Bouton-like terminals were found to be of two types according to their vesicle content, namely, boutons with ovoid, clear synaptic vesicles forming Gray type-1 synapses and boutons with pleomorphic clear synaptic vesicles forming Gray type-2 synapses.
(4) The vaginal ovoid irradiation alone should be limited to very selected cases.
(5) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
(6) Varying widely in size and configuration, these structures are usually somewhat ovoid but can be elongated, gently squared, or asymmetric.
(7) By contrast, the principal sensory nucleus is distinguished by its high density of small to medium-sized (8-20 micron) round or ovoid neurons.
(8) The following species features of this animals are associated with their adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia: organization of alpha-granules, mitochondria, the contractile system (microtubes, F-actin), ovoid form of platelets.
(9) Rat TSH cells were ovoid or angular to stellate, and contained granules ranging in size from 60-175 nm.
(10) In some myelinated fibres there were pseudomyelinic ovoids.
(11) The isolated cells have an ovoid soma, a dendrite of variable length which terminates in a cilia-bearing knob and an axon, also of variable length.
(12) The notable absence of this complication in our patients at a mean follow-up of 41 months (range 3-71) documents that this ovoidal composite graft is a reliable tool in the treatment of aortic root pathology.
(13) The earliest lesions of the patch stage of Kaposi's sarcoma show a slightly increased number of cells with small ovoid nuclei around preexistent structures, accompanied, in some cases, by sparse infiltrates of lymphocytes and plasma cells.
(14) Except for its conidia, which are mostly reniform to allantoid rather than ovoid as is characteristic for W. dermatitidis, and the undecided mode of conidiogenesis, the isolate closely resembles W. dermatitidis in gross and microscopic morphology, thermotolerance, and general and neurotrophic infectivity patterns in mice injected intraperitoneally.
(15) An ovoid cell was similar to a gemistocytic astrocyte.
(16) 4) Islet cells in the pancreatic tissue of the minor duodenal papilla were rich in B-cells which were round to ovoid in shape and sharply outlined.
(17) A second type was smaller, fusiform or ovoid and generally bipolar; a significant number of these were immunoreactive for the releasing hormone LHRH.
(18) Giant (greater than 40 mu) and large (26-40 mu) neurons are distinguished primarily by size and possess similar ultrastructural features: extensive areas of rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), a prominent perinuclear Golgi complex, numerous mitochondria and pigment granules and a large, ovoid nucleus which occasionally contains intranuclear rodlets.
(19) They can be summarized as: mesial shifting of the maxilla, dimensional increase of the mandibular body, ovoidal upper arch with a deeper palatal vault, tapering or trapezoidal lower arch.
(20) Our findings show that round or ovoid GABA-immunoreactive neurons were abundant in both subdivisions.