(n.) A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
(v. t. & i.) To turn round; to gyrate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The plastic - most of it swept from coastal cities in Asia and California - is trapped indefinitely in the region by the North Pacific Gyre, a vortex of currents that circulate clockwise around the ocean.
(2) It is not news that microplastic – which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration defines as plastic fragments 5mm or smaller – is ubiquitous in all five major ocean gyres .
(3) These end-to-end contacts were observed in every second gyre on the four lines surrounding the core of the axoneme at stage 3.
(4) Several sites link to the original text that accompanied the photograph when it was first used three years ago, in an online journal of the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project, in which the ice block is described as 'extraordinary'.
(5) Possible extensions of density between the gyres have been located, but these are below the significance level of the electron density map.
(6) Fortunately, Merkl said the issue is starting to rise up the political agenda, helped by the sight of giant gyres of marine debris and by people from the developed world going on beach holidays and finding plastics clinging to their bodies.
(7) Multilamellar sheets consisted of as many as 10 or 12 closely spaced gyres.
(8) The expedition was a joint effort between three non-profit groups: Eriksen's 5 Gyres Institute, the Algalita Foundation, and the Ocean Voyage Institute.
(9) These include Algalita Marine Research Foundation (founded by captain Charles Moore, who first raised the issue of microplastics in oceans), 5 Gyres, and Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation (ASC), with whom Abigail Barrows works to collect surface water samples from around the world for her research into microfibers.
(10) Most of the histone core is contained within the inner surface of the superhelical DNA, except for part of H2A which extends between the DNA gyres near the terminus of the DNA.
(11) As seen by scanning electron microscopy, the mitochondrial helix in the developing midpiece of mouse testicular spermatozoa is dextral in direction and consists of spherical mitochondrial units arranged in an orderly array of four units per gyre: three appearing in face view and a fourth hidden from view at the back of the gyre.
(12) Mitochondria further elongated and end-on touching appeared with every third gyre on the five longitudinal lines that surround the core of the axoneme (stage 4).
(13) A similar extension of a portion of histone H4 between the DNA gyres occurs close to the dyad axis.
(14) First and most surprising, the prominent coiling of the chromosomes is strongly chiral, with right-handed gyres predominating.
(15) Much of this rubbish accumulates in large ocean gyres, which are circular currents that collect plastics in a particular area.
(16) The center-to-center distance of each gyre is approximately 650 A, and the hollow structures are ca.
(17) With a change in microtubular array, the ridge surface of the nuclear helix becomes flattened and depressed; the gyres of the nuclear helix increase in number.
(18) During helical shaping of the acrosome, the microtubule bundle is closely associated with the posterior one gyre of the acrosomal helix with the same pitch as in the nuclear helix.
(19) We test nonsense when we could "gyre and gimble in the wabe".
(20) The boundary between successive gyres of the subfiber are obscured at the completion of condensation resulting in the formation of a homogenous 250- to 300-nm fiber that is the native centromere.
Gyri
Definition:
(n. pl.) See Gyrus.
(pl. ) of Gyrus
Example Sentences:
(1) The glial mantle is thicker in the sulci than on the gyri.
(2) A sharply circumscribed, vascular, connective tissue mass which replaced the cortex of several adjoining cerebral gyri is described.
(3) Mean regional blood flow values in the most ischemic gyri two to 15 minutes following arterial occlusion were 21% to 23% of the corresponding values in the opposite, nonischemic hemisphere.
(4) Removals of the orbital gyri to the presylvian fissure caused severe and long lasting impairment of this differentiation.
(5) The responses obtained from circular muscle originating from either the centripetal or centrifugal gyri of the ascending colon did not differ significantly.
(6) Significant activation confined to both superior temporal gyri has been observed when normal subjects hear words played backwards, listen to non-words, and perform category judgements on pairs of heard real words.
(7) Propagation of paroxysmal activity through the anterior ventral thalamic nuclei and cingulate gyri was observed in all cases with temporal or frontal mesial focus.
(8) Samples from the supramarginal and prefrontal gyri were studied after Bodian's impregnation.
(9) The indentations and protuberances of the cranial bones in the region of the middle cranial fossa were regarded as reflecting prominent indentations of the gyri and were attributed no pathological significance.
(10) The tumor resembled hyperemic hypertrophic gyri and was well demarcated.
(11) A proportion of neurons in the basal forebrain have axon collaterals that project to both anterior (precruciate gyrus) and posterior (marginal and suprasylvian gyri) cortical areas or to medial (precruciate gyrus) and lateral (ectosylvian and anterior suprasylvian gyri) cortical areas.
(12) Lesions were approached most commonly through the posterior middle or posterior inferior temporal gyri.
(13) Cortical gyri were never seen prior to 32 weeks gestational age.
(14) The remaining three patients (group 2) had abnormal gyri of variable topography and extension, with bulging grey matter and ventricular deformity.
(15) The arachnoid around the post-fixed chiasm was thickened and adhered to the bilateral rectal gyri.
(16) Of the vestibular cells in the nucleus ventralis posterior lateralis, 23% projected to the sensorimotor cortex, some with collaterals to both pre- and postcentral gyri.
(17) The ventral coronal and anterior sigmoid gyri project mainly to the dPRN and vPRN respectively.
(18) The excisions encroached upon Heschl's gyri in some cases, whereas, in others, this region was spared.
(19) In an attempt to test this hypothesis, the cross-sectional areas of pyramidal cells in layer 5 of the foot and tongue areas of the precentral gyri were measured in 12 cases of the classical sporadic form of ALS, and in 10 control subjects.
(20) The results show that: (1) the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGNd) projects to the former three gyri.