(n.) A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The initial step in the ultrasonic examination of the pancreas is display of the anatomical detail of the portal vasculature which provides a guidepost to the pancreas.
(2) Specific glial cells may be utilized as guideposts by growing axons, allowing them to recognize the appropriate pathway, or conversely, glial cells may inhibit axons from growing along an inappropriate pathway.
(3) The major nerve branches serving the mandibles, maxillae, and labium are established by peripheral pioneer neurons, which project their axons into the central nervous system via a set of guidepost cells.
(4) Increasing the cell-substratum adhesivity of these guideposts results in an increase in the percentage of neurites spanning a given width of the low-adhesivity substratum.
(5) Their growth cones migrate along a stereotyped pathway, where they encounter a series of guidance cues, including preaxonogenesis afferent neurons (guidepost cells).
(6) The accurate recognition and quantitation of these conditions represent guideposts to treatment and prognosis.
(7) Apparently, filopodial contact with high-adhesivity guideposts enables neurites to extend across intervening low-adhesivity substrata.
(8) When performing a middle fossa approach, the superior semicircular canal, the greater petrosal nerve, and a window through the tegmen tympani into the attic are useful guideposts.
(9) It is concluded that informed decisions about self-care are best made by considering a variety of factors, with age being merely a guidepost.
(10) Calcium concentration measurements along pioneer neurites suggest that calcium ions also are transferred from pioneer neurons to these coupled guidepost cells.
(11) Here, we describe a system, the developing wing of the fruitfly, in which we have tested simultaneously two putative guidance mechanisms, physical constraints to axon growth (channels) and the position of neuronal somata (guideposts), using surgical techniques.
(12) The work of Shatz' laboratory (Chun et al., 1987; Ghosh et al., 1990) suggests that neuropeptide-containing neurons, transiently present, serve as guideposts for thalamocortical axons coming in to innervate specific cortical areas.
(13) Dissociated chick embryo dorsal root ganglion neurons are cultured on a substratum consisting of areas of high-adhesivity substratum-bound laminin (i.e., model adhesive guideposts) separated by a low-adhesivity agarose substratum.
(14) This guidance is effective in the absence of such potential additional cues as guidepost neurons and physical channels.
(15) To test this "guidepost" hypothesis, everting wing discs were raised in vitro to allow surgical manipulation.
(16) For the genetics of neural circuits and behavior, and synaptic guidepost molecules.
(17) The hypothesis implies that high adhesivity between extending axons and guidepost cells facilitates axon extension across low-adhesivity tissues or spaces between guidepost cells.
(18) The oldest children (like the adults) were more likely to prepose when clauses than were younger children, a finding which suggests that with increasing awareness of the information needs of the listener, children begin to use preposed adverbial clauses as information 'guideposts'.
(19) Thus, during the early stages of cerebellar ontogeny, when the migration pathway through the molecular layer is sparsely populated with cells and processes, the vertical process of a granule cell may seek actively a path of least resistance, utilizing 'contacts' with surrounding objects for avoidance, rather than as guideposts imperative for directing migration.
(20) The concepts of neutrality, anonymity, and abstinence, though of importance as guideposts in the conduct of an analysis, have conceptual limitations that not infrequently bind the analyst in a stance that is not useful for the progress of the analysis.
Signpost
Definition:
(n.) A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
(2) Social prescribing schemes, by their nature, vary considerably but generally provide a way for GPs and other primary care professionals to offer or signpost to non-clinical referral options instead of, or alongside, clinical ones,” says the report’s author, David Buck.
(3) Eddie Howe’s team had decent spells of possession but they could not create anything of clearcut note and Petr Cech reached his heavily signposted milestone as the Premier League’s clean-sheet king without needing to make a serious save.
(4) Endoscopic signs of recent hemorrhage from an ulcer were significant signposts to rebleeding.
(5) They say jobcentres only "signpost" the existence of food banks and dispute the link between welfare changes and a surge in their use.
(6) The fury of these respondents comes as no surprise, but Washington should treat it with deadly seriousness all the same, for this latest outrage is another fateful signpost on the road to a potential security and geostrategic disaster that may ultimately make Afghanistan look like a sideshow.
(7) There are Quo signposts on all the walls, so nobody gets lost.
(8) Many food banks act as signposting organisations, with agencies on hand to offer help to people for the issues that led them to the bank in the first place.
(9) However, ministers continued to insist this only amounted to "signposting" in the right direction.
(10) Dementia challengers website: This site signposts carers looking after a person living with dementia to a wide range of online support services and resources.
(11) Sensible teachers will look at that as the broadest of signposting."
(12) The relaying of pathways and installation of signposts, information boards and memorial sites cost €10m and took three years but has been a success with locals and visitors.
(13) Local charities like Off Centre can build strong partnerships with like-minded organisations, including NHS mental health services, to signpost and provide a more holistic service for young people.
(14) We let out a cheer, executed a U-turn, and set out down the sandy track signposted towards the beach.
(15) Bird travelled along the valley road, colliding with oncoming vehicles and a stone wall before turning off the road signposted 'no through road' to Doctor Bridge, Boot.
(16) UTV claimed the station was failing in its commitment, signposted to the then BBC governors in 2001, to "expand the range and scope of sports coverage".
(17) The internet can't decide Read more Memes aren’t always signposts to a brave new world, however; sometimes they feel positively retro.
(18) Certainly, I can't think of another slum in Europe that has broad, well-signposted cycle paths on which stately middle-aged women in headscarves pedal their groceries home.
(19) In the middle of the walkway, a big red signpost informs that tipping street performers is optional.
(20) Rather than just providing an online directory of services local authorities must signpost the most effective resources.