(n.) A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune.
(n.) A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.
(n.) A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.
Example Sentences:
(1) At 24 or 48 hours after ischemia, 63Ni, 99TcO4, and 22Na were preferentially concentrated in the damaged striatum and hippocampus, whereas 65Zn, 59Fe, 32PO4, and 147Pm did not accumulate in irreversibly injured tissue.
(2) This report is an overview of the data and has incorporated some additional findings of the influence of the ACTH4-9 analog, Org2766, on neuronal excitation, especially in the hippocampus.
(3) Immunocytochemical analyses of the hippocampus demonstrated that alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-isoxazole-4-propionate receptor subunits are present in the cell bodies and dendrites of pyramidal cells.
(4) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
(5) of rats resulted in cell death and terminal degeneration in entorhinal, insular, and posterior cingulate cortices, and in the CA1, CA3 and dentate gyrus sectors of hippocampus.
(6) We examined the effect of propentofylline on two adenosine actions in the rat hippocampus; the A2-mediated stimulation of 3H-cAMP accumulation and the A1-mediated inhibition of 3H-ACh release.
(7) One month after unilateral transection of the fimbria-fornix an almost complete lack of cholinergic fibers persists in all layers of the dorsal hippocampus and fascia dentata ipsilateral to the lesion when compared to the contralateral hippocampus or to unlesioned control rats.
(8) However, at those times, autoradiographic images of the hippocampus and piriform cortex appeared distinctly different for [14C]2-deoxyglucose and [6(-14)C]glucose.
(9) increase in amplitude in both, hippocampus and neocortex was observed with MK 801 and ketamine and these agents also showed longer lasting influence.
(10) The hippocampus plays an essential role in the laying down of cognitive memories, the pathway to the frontal lobe being via the MD thalamus.
(11) The binding profiles obtained in these areas were clearly distinct from those obtained in the CA1 layer of the hippocampus and in the pontine nuclei, regions enriched in M1 and M2 sites, respectively.
(12) These results suggest that DA and NA, when injected into the MSN, heighten the functional level of the hippocampus.
(13) Morphological results demonstrated that 30 Gy irradiated animals showed extensive necrosis primarily in the fimbria, which extended into the internal capsule, optic nerve, hippocampus, and thalamus.
(14) Additionally, the amount of mRNAs for preproenkephalin as well as for the cellular proto-oncogenes c-myc, c-fos and c-H-ras, which are thought to be mediators of intracellular signal transduction, was determined in hippocampus in these same animals.
(15) The results are taken to support a transmitter role for AVP in the rat hippocampus.
(16) A train of conditioning stimuli to either of the midbrain nuclei produced inhibition of evoked population spikes recorded in the CA1 pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus.
(17) Among the five brain regions studied, hippocampus had the highest concentration of type I receptors, whereas cerebral cortex had the highest concentration of type II receptors.
(18) In chronical experiments the ERG of 5 rabbits were recorded before and after stimulation of the hippocampus.
(19) Evidence for such heterosynaptic depression in the hippocampus has been found for inputs that are inactive or weakly active during the stimulation of a conditioning input, but this depression does not depend on any pattern of test input activity and does not seem to last as long as LTP.
(20) One PCR product hybridized to a 4.0 kb RNA concentrated in subpopulations of putative glutamatergic neurons including mitral cells of the olfactory bulb, pyramidal cells of layer V of the cerebral cortex, pyramidal cells of the piriform cortex, and pyramidal cells of field CA3 of the hippocampus.
Mermaid
Definition:
(n.) A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite this exemption, things still managed to go tits-up early last year, when the social network deleted an image of Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue .
(2) So let's dry our guilt-induced " mermaid tears " – as these polluting plastic particles are poetically known – and face this issue.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Parakeet and the Mermaid’ at Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition, Tate Modern.
(4) Ditto the Little Mermaid’s Ariel, whose desire not just to change her circumstances but change her physical form has made her an unlikely object of identification among some younger members of the transgender community – a girl who believes herself literally born in the wrong body.
(5) The levels of two- and three-ring aromatics ranged from very low for the site outside Mermaid Sound and for one site within the Sound, to low for the four other sites within the Sound.
(6) The human and fishman MTs displayed a stoichiometry of 12 g atoms of Cu(I) per mol, while rainbow trout and mermaid MTs bound only 10.
(7) It is a figurehead maybe, although one that is less svelte mermaid than bullying bouncer.
(8) Sirenomelia, or the mermaid syndrome, is the most extreme example of the caudal regression syndrome.
(9) In the 80s, Cher's acting career was big news: she carved a niche as a tough mother with a heart in Face and Mermaids, and won an Oscar in 1988 for the quick-witted Moonstruck, in which she played a no-nonsense New Yorker falling in love over opera.
(10) Samples from sites within Mermaid Sound closest to the town and port of Dampier showed noticeably higher levels than those from outside; the present study does not allow the source of the PAHs to be determined.
(11) As the perceptive sports writer Jerry Izenberg once said: “If they trawl the Ohio river for a thousand years, they are more likely to find a mermaid than an Olympic gold medal.” It is a rebuttal that Ali himself would have found heartbreakingly funny – and true.
(12) And that, increasingly, people aren’t prepared to go to all the trouble of going out to eat at their favourite restaurant – not when they can have the same food while sprawling on the sofa in a novelty mermaid blanket watching Homeland .
(13) A family of synthetic genes was constructed encoding a rainbow trout metallothionein (MT), a human MT, and two chimeric molecules which contained respectively (i) the N-terminal (or head) domain of human MT followed by the C-terminal (or tail) domain of a fish MT (termed mermaid MT) and (ii) the head domain of fish MT fused with the tail domain of human MT (denoted fishman MT).
(14) I just shot the Mermaid Parade in New York and it killed me,” he says.
(15) But," he Hanks-ishly adds, "shop can be good, too …" After college, he was cast in the TV show Bosom Buddies and caught the eye of Ron Howard, who cast him in his breakthrough role in Splash, a ridiculous but, thanks to Hanks, charming modern-day update on The Little Mermaid.
(16) Medical intervention is very important, especially for teenagers who are already in puberty,” says Susie Green, chair of Mermaids and mother of a trans daughter.
(17) A five-year-old with a fascination for butterflies and caterpillars and mermaids who began talking about suicide … Our child lives as a girl now and her school describes her as "calm, mature, bright-eyed and intelligent".
(18) The English singer has since recorded many of these with US band Wilco as The Mermaid Avenue Sessions .
(19) The Mermaids website is quite negative,” she says.
(20) Coral-rock oysters were collected in September 1982 from six locations in the area of Mermaid Sound in North-Western Australia.