(n.) One of several swimming birds or divers, of the genus Colymbus (formerly Podiceps), and allied genera, found in the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Growth rate coefficients for dark- and light-phase western grebes (Aechmophorus occidentalis) are compared with the Richards' growth model.
(2) Unlike the patients with Grebe disease, the latter two patients had involvement of the spine and particularly short humeri.
(3) The nesting flamingos and moulting grebes from the same water body were also infected to a great extent with these cestodes.
(4) those feeding on other birds (sparrow-hawk 33.00 mg.kg-1 in the dry matter of eggs, hawk 239.98 mg.kg-1 in fat) or those associated with water (great crested grebe 11.97 mg.kg-1, sea-gull 11.24 mg.kg-1 in the dry matter of eggs).
(5) The method is applied to samples of surface water, fat of a grebe and human adipose tissue for halogenated compounds.
(6) Adult cestodes were found in the red-necked grebe (Podiceps griseigena).
(7) And the Olympic torch completed its remarkable journey, the penultimate stage undertaken from Hampton Court to Tower Bridge on the prow of the gilded Gloriana, at the head of a flotilla of rowboats that drew curious glances from the cormorants, herons and great crested grebes in their haunts by Richmond Bridge.
(8) We have studied three patients with severe short-limbed dwarfism, only one of whom had the typical features of Grebe disease, whereas the other two had clearly distinct previously unreported skeletal dysplasias.
(9) It’s not a desert, though: on a walk you might spot cormorants or great crested grebes.
(10) Our search to find a convenient animal tissue to study alkane biosynthesis resulted in the finding that the uropygial gland (a modified sebaceous gland) of the eared grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) produces large amounts of alkanes.
(11) The significance of interspecific interactions as a structuring force in the enteric helminth communities of 4 species of grebes (Aechmophorus occidentalis, Podiceps grisegena, P. nigricollis, and P. auritus) was evaluated.
(12) Quantitative immunological comparisons of three avian proteins, transferrin, ovalbumin, and penalbumin, indicate that penguins are phylogenetically most closely related to loons, albatrosses, herons, and grebes.
(13) On re-evaluation of their clinical and radiographic features, only one of them had the typical features of the Grebe chondrodysplasia, whereas the other two appear to have clearly distinct, previously unreported skeletal dysplasias.
(14) Grebe chondrodysplasia has been established as an autosomal recessive trait.
(15) The tarn also provides food for diving birds such as great crested grebes.
(16) One of the siblings who did not have hip and knee dislocations clinically resembled Grebe chondrodysplasia, another severe acromesomelic dwarfing condition.
(17) Open daily 9am-midnight Directions: M4 tram to Buschallee Haubentaucher The next day is overcast – perfect conditions to visit Friedrichshain’s Haubentaucher (the German word for great crested grebe).
(18) The uropygial gland secretion of some grebes (Podicipediformes) had been shown to contain saturated and unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons and monoester waxes.
(19) However, radiological analysis suggests that while acromesomelic dysplasia, Hunter-Thompson type and Grebe chondrodysplasia are related, they are not identical.
(20) The condition is differentiated from other bone dysplasias with extreme limb shortness, in particular Grebe chondrodysplasia.
Lobate
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Lobated
Example Sentences:
(1) An analytical study was carried out on the different aspects presented by the nuclei (uni or multi-lobated); the nucleoli (compact, reticulate or dispersed); and the cytoplasm (immunoblastic, complex, intermediate).
(2) The observation that the separate prostatic lobes in man can react differently to growth promoting factors indicates that the lobation of the human prostate is not only of anatomical but also of physiological significance.
(3) Among the internal anomalies observed was abnormal lobation of the lung, resulting from a single treatment from day 6 to 15 of gestation (except for day 13), and abnormal lobation of the liver, induced from day 7 to 10.
(4) Histologic study of gastric B-cell low-grade lymphomas showed germinal centers of lobated shape and polyclonal nature, mainly polyclonal subepithelial plasma cell (except in one case) and neoplastic interfollicular B-cells of monoclonal character.
(5) Structural variations in the shape and lobation of lemnisci, abnormalities in hooks and body wall, and changes associated with monorchidism in males were noted.
(6) Vesicular cells deposit the basal layer of the periostracum, while lobate cells contribute materials to the overlying periostracal superstructure.
(7) On pyelograms, scarring was difficult to distinguish from fetal lobation.
(8) Fetal lobation was characterized as follows: there were fine, linear demarcations indenting the renal surface, separating normal lobes, consisting of a central pyramid and surrounding cortex.
(9) Epinephrine renal venography was used to study mass-like enlargements of normal renal tissue in 4 kidneys (3 with prominent septa of Bertin and 1 with marked lobation) in 3 patients.
(10) Computed tomography (CT) helped in demonstrating the hyparterial relationship of the right bronchus to the pulmonary artery, the course and termination of the scimitar vein, the mediastinal shift, unusual fissures, and abnormal lobation and bronchial distribution.
(11) lobation, spicula, notch, etc, sputum exfoliative cytology, fibrobronchoscopic examination, puncture biopsy of the lung must also be considered in order to ensure early diagnosis.
(12) The leukemia cells are predominantly small lymphocytes with irregular nuclei bearing notches and lobations.
(13) She had numerous visceral anomalies including polysplenia, a short pancreas, a preduodenal portal vein, malrotation of the bowel, azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava, bilateral hyparterial bronchi and symmetrical liver lobation.
(14) In each case, note was taken of the status of the spleen, the lobation of the lungs, the arrangement of the bronchi, the morphology of the atrial appendages, and the presence of any congenital malformations of the heart and great vessels and of any malformations of the abdominal organs.
(15) We present two unrelated female patients with a complex pattern of congenital malformations including encephalocele, oesophageal atresia, abnormal lung lobation, congenital heart defects, anal anomalies, liver, spleen and radial defects.
(16) The more primitive pancreas of lizards (17 species) also was surveyed; that of Varanus is of special interest because its structure is intermediate between the extended, tri-lobate pancreas of lizards and the compact pancreas of snakes and may represent a transitional link in the evolution of this organ.
(17) One prominent indentation of the renal surface, the interrenuncular junction, incorporates perirenal fat and invaginates the anterior surface of the upper third of the kidney to the hilum and is the most easily visible remnant of fetal lobation.
(18) These included 7 with space-occupying or tumour-like lesions, namely one with multiple cysts, three with haemangiomas, a lobated liver with multiple nodules of focal nodular hyperplasia, one with a metastasis which also had a small haemangioma and one with a hepatocellular carcinoma.
(19) Among the anomalies of the respiratory system, abnormal lobation was commonly associated, as well as hypoplasia of the lung.
(20) Deposition of the periostracum takes place within a slot that is situated between the so-called lobate and vesicular cells of the outer mantle lobe.