(n.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.
(n.) Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
(n.) Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
(n.) A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.
Example Sentences:
(1) As an extension of the previous study which indicated that mesoglea is a primitive basement membrane which has retained some characteristics of interstitial extracellular matrix, the present study was undertaken to analyze the role of mesoglea components during head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris.
(2) Using serial-sectioning techniques for conventional transmission and high-voltage electron microscopy, we characterized the ultrastructural features and synaptic contacts of the sensory cell in tentacles of Hydra.
(3) The neuron differentiation pathway in hydra is usually assumed to be the following.
(4) The extent of the growth changes in maximal work output during 10 s (MWO10), 30 s (MWO30), and 90 s (MWO90) of maximal repetitive knee flexions and extensions assessed on a modified Hydra-Gym machine was investigated in 84 boys and 83 girls, 9-19 yr of age.
(5) Substance P-like immunoreactivity was found in Hydra attenuata mainly but not exclusively in the nerve and interstitial cells, localized in the cytoplasm and on the cell surface membranes.
(6) Hydrozoans such as Hydra vulgaris, as with all classes of Cnidaria, are characterized by having their body wall organized as an epithelial bilayer with an intervening acellular layer termed the mesoglea.
(7) These results are the first demonstration that the dense-cored vesicles of Hydra neurons contain a neuropeptide.
(8) Nematocyte differentiation from interstitial stem cells in hydra occurs in a highly position-dependent manner along the body axis.
(9) The presence of Arg-Phe-amide (RFamide)-like peptides in dense-cored vesicles in neurons of the peduncle of Hydra was demonstrated by immunogold electron microscopy.
(10) History will judge Syria’s descent into a hydra-headed war as a stain on the world’s conscience.
(11) The multiple manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus recall the ancient Greek monster the Hydra.
(12) Hydra) has raised some interesting evolutionary questions as to the function of intragranular nucleotides.
(13) Captain America kicking open the door of what looks like a European mountain fortress suggests the Nazi offshoot Hydra might be rearing its many ugly heads once again.
(14) Intact hydra treated for 24 h with oligomycin gradually lose their head structures and the distal ends form feet.
(15) This substance is specific for the foot as evidenced by the following findings: (1) It is present in the animal as a steep gradient descending from foot to head, paralleling the foot-forming potential of the tissue (2) It does not accelerate head regeneration, nor do the head factors of hydra discovered by Schaller (1973) and Berking (1977) accelerate foot regeneration.
(16) This study concerns application of the Hydra attenuata assay to detect the developmental toxicity potential of various aqueous samples.
(17) Feeding behavior in hydra is initiated by the association of glutathione (GSH) with a putative external chemoreceptor.
(18) Because it is self-inflicted, hydra-headed and increasingly beyond our control, both politically and economically, at a time when Britain is losing friends fast by peeing on their chips.
(19) The tentacles in hydra have characteristics of both spacing patterns and number-regulating patterns in that their number under some circumstances changes with the size of the animal and under others does not.
(20) Every epithelial cell is continuously displaced with neurons toward either head or foot in an adult hydra.
Multifarious
Definition:
(a.) Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold.
(a.) Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical rows.
Example Sentences:
(1) And across the board Turkey’s multifarious print and broadcast commentators are asking whether the government will reinstate capital punishment and, if so, why, and why now.
(2) Because the histology of the plasma cell granuloma is multifarious, TBLB shows various results.
(3) This author favors the concept of a single disorder with multifarious manifestations.
(4) Although the differentiation of mononuclear phagocytes is fundamental to their multifarious activities, their differentiation is incompletely understood-particularly in vivo.
(5) Especially interesting for human sciences are nutritional-constitutional researches on German populations in the 19th century, because in this century multifarious varieties exist within the German settlement.
(6) Nethertheless the lack of the specificity of the clinical manifestations and the slowly progressive evolution of this disease, primary hyperparatiroidism must be suspected in the presence of his most common multifarious complications.
(7) In reality, most of the benefit savings in the past five years have not come from the multifarious changes to entitlements that have caused such individual horror stories, nor from sanctioning claimants for alleged breaches of conditions – the biggest driver of food bank use – but from changing the measure by which benefits are uprated from the retail price index to the consumer price index and then freezing increases for three successive years.
(8) The displacement of the emphasis of multifarious formed of.
(9) Unwanted effects are multifarious, involving many systems of the body.
(10) The reactions of the cells to the cytostatics mentioned were so multifarious in the 3 groups of tumours that no conclusions of general validity could be drawn.
(11) It acts as the molecular orchestrator of nonspecific host defense mechanisms against multifarious insults.
(12) The pathogenesis is multifarious, but the most important cause is believed to be formation of air embolism during insertion and cementation of the femoral component followed by air embolism in the heart.
(13) But the occasion is charged with passion and humour - a tribute night to Joe's main inspiration, Woody Guthrie; just one of the multifarious influences that flowed like tributaries into the river, the phenomenon of music, psychedelic drugs, politics, anti-politics, art, sex, rebellion, celebration, squalor and calamity that rushed through the Haight Ashbury neighbourhood of San Francisco 40 years ago to reach what was for some the revolution's climax, and for others its nadir and moment of dissipation during the Summer of Love in 1967.
(14) Subglottic stenosis is a clinical diagnosis which describes multifarious histopathological forms of narrowing within the subglottic larynx.
(15) Iraq's disintegration has affected the city in multifarious ways.
(16) Only in 1 patient of 11 by means of multifarious biopsies the diagnosis could be ascertained preoperatively.
(17) For the valuation of the dynamics of the EFg in a period up to 6 months after an acute myocardial infarction the EFg was multifariously controlled.
(18) The spirit of this wish was followed mostly by accident, because the unfinished and multifarious drafts he left when he died made it extremely difficult for scholars to reconstruct.
(19) Diseases of the lungs are not very common, but are highly multifarious.
(20) Voluntary cough registered in subjects with obstructive chronic bronchitis appeared in the recordings as a marked multifarious sound, an increased mono-sound or a connected double-sound.