(a.) Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty two kinds of strains and substrains of mammalian cells were cultivated on a gyratory shaker to obtain cell aggregates.
(2) To eliminate germ cells, the dissociated cells were cultured for 14 h, and then somatic cells attached to culture dishes were harvested and aggregated by gyratory culture for 24 h. The aggregates were then transplanted into ovarian bursa in ovary-ectomized nude mice.
(3) PLA801-95D cells from monolayer cultures were suspended and allowed to form spheroid aggregates for 3 d on a gyratory shaker.
(4) The course of growth and LPS production of two strains of type cultures of Escherichia coli (ATCC 11229, ATCC 25922), one E. coli mutant strain P400 and one type strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 15442), grown partly by repeated cultures in BHI and partly also in minimal medium or in 1:10 diluted PC broth in a gyratory shaker (60 rpm) at 30 degrees C, was monitored respectively by counting the cfu and by simultaneous determination of LPS by means of the three miniaturized LAL-tests, i.e.
(5) Gyratory epilepsy is relatively uncommon and may either represent a benign form of primary generalized epilepsy or occur secondary to a focal cortical lesion.
(6) Cell suspensions obtained by the dissociation of unincubated chick embryo blastoderms were allowed to reaggregate on a gyratory shaker for 24-48 hours.
(7) Neural retina cells, recovered from the dissociation procedure, were cultured on a gyratory shaker and the aggregate dimaeters formed in the presence of DMA or DMA-serum dialysate, following DMA-pretreatment, or in appropriate control cultures measured.
(8) In organ culture, PLA801-95D (0.2 mm in diameter) were confronted with 0.4 mm round precultured heart fragments (PHF), then co-cultured on a gyratory shaker.
(9) A series of modified gyratory bayonets instruments is described.
(10) The Norman Foster-led scheme was set to transform London’s iconic square from a heavily trafficked and dangerous gyratory into a more enjoyable and accessible space, closely linked to its prominent cultural neighbours.
(11) The effects of normal and malignant cells on the aggregation of embryonic cells in gyratory shaker cultures were compared.
(12) Prominent proliferation of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum in shaken cells may be due to the consumption of glycogen for energy release as a result of gyratory rotation.
(13) Fragments of endometrium consisting of epithelium and stroma were obtained during early pseudopregnancy and cultured on a gyratory shaker.
(14) Mouse lung adenocarcinoma cell line (LA795) cells were allowed to form tumor cell aggregates after 3 days in a gyratory shaker culture system.
(15) The gyratory shaker method was employed to produce heterotypic aggregates from mixed suspensions of muscle, liver, and neural retina cells and the tissue-specific positioning of cells after 24 h in culture was determined from histological and autoradiograph sections.
(16) Slightly more visible are the removal of the gyratory systems at Piccadilly Circus and elsewhere, and the X-shaped pedestrian crossing at Oxford Circus, devices that rebalance the relationship of pedestrians to vehicles in favour of the former.
(17) To overcome this, we cultured chick embryo myoblasts as a suspension of single cells in gyratory rotation in medium without added Ca2+.
(18) The rate and extent of tranylcypromine biotransformation was affected by whether incubation was on either 30 degrees or flat brackets with a gyratory shaker.
(19) The stereological technique was used to quantify glycogen areas and endoplasmic reticulum in fetal rat hepatocytes cultured for 24 hr in monolayer (monolayer cells) or following shaking by gyratory rotation (shaken cells).
(20) The spermatozoa provide both forward and gyratory motions of the bundle, and the corkscrew complements bundle propulsion by converting part of the rotation into forward movement.
Spiral
Definition:
(a.) Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
(a.) Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
(a.) A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.
(a.) Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(2) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
(3) A great deal of information about the spiral bacteria of the stomach has accumulated in the past 5 years.
(4) Somalia has faced drought; famine; decades of conflict, now involving the Islamist rebels of al-Shabaab among other groups; the absence of an effective, central authority; and spiralling food prices.
(5) Spiral neurons, their fibers and endings as well as inner and outer hair cells express NSE in the isolated organ of Corti in culture.
(6) The binding sites were mainly located on the stereocilia, the cuticular plate of hair cells, the head plates of Deiters' cells, fibrous structures in pillar cells, in the spiral limbus and tectorial membrane and basilar membrane, plasma membranes, mitochondria and the chromatin of various kinds of cells.
(7) When normalized with respect to scala cross-section, the process of tracer movement across the spiral ligament is similar in the basal and third turns.
(8) Tangent-screen studies uncovered neurasthenic spiral fields superimposed on hysterical tubular contractions of both eyes.
(9) The phi-model also gives the noble numbers and moreover orders them in a way that establishes connections with the morphogenetic principles used in models for pattern generation; the order has to do with the relative frequencies of the spiral patterns in nature.
(10) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
(11) Spiral-like primary dendrites were found and the orientation of secondary dendrites changed.
(12) The main uterine, radial and spiral arteries were identified in all patients.
(13) In animals receiving passive (unstimulated) implants, morphometric analysis of spiral ganglion cell density showed no significant difference in ganglion cell survival between the implanted cochleas and the contralateral control ears.
(14) Later, these vacuoles were divided into numerous vesicular spiral formation-centers, producing micronemes at the apical pole of young merozoites.
(15) During more extended exposure (60 and 90 days) the changes in hair cells of the spiral organ, which included nuclear deformation and disintegration of chromatin, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum membranes, became irreversible and caused the decay of injured cells.
(16) The company's value lies in its FM licence for London, with the audience for its national AM licence spiralling downwards in recent years.
(17) The spiral reinforcement at the same time prevents compression of the vein by surrounding cicatricial tissue as well as an aneurysmatic extension of the transplant.
(18) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(19) The balance is fragile and the threat of a spiral of decline is not an idle one.
(20) They ran in a spiral pattern in the distal part of the middle cerebral artery.