(n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
(n.) A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer.
(n.) A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob.
(n.) See Knop.
(v. i.) To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The narrow intercellular ridge is smooth, whereas the epithelial cells have small cytoplasmic knobs between the cilia.
(2) The histochemical study of the LDH in the Trout embryo during the early organogenesis shows a specific localization in notochord cells, in mesodermic cells of the terminal knob and in some prosencephalic neuroblasts.
(3) Motor axons possessed elongate, irregularly shaped boutons en passant and morphologically variable boutons terminaux; the latter included huge endings with knobbed projectiles arising from thick collaterals, or smaller, round boutons from thin collaterals.
(4) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
(5) As with established cell lines, formation of zeiotic knobs at the isolated Type 1 cell surface appeared closely related to microfilamentous nets located beneath the plasmalemma.
(6) The isolated cells have an ovoid soma, a dendrite of variable length which terminates in a cilia-bearing knob and an axon, also of variable length.
(7) In addition, some reacted with either knob protrusions or caveolae of the host erythrocyte membrane; one reacted with a parasite-derived antigen present in the erythrocyte cytoplasm.
(8) "It might be that you think it's just a knob on the front panel, but maybe installing it requires you disassemble the front panel, and actually you need a mechanic to come and fit it," argues Rowley.
(9) wt from 80 to 95 kd in different knob-producing isolates of P. falciparum and is absent in knobless variants.
(10) To investigate environmental influences on the development of the olfactory epithelium, semi-thin sections were taken from the nasal septum of newborn and 30-day-old rabbits; the epithelial thickness and the number of olfactory knobs, supporting cells, dark basal cells, and receptor cells were compared.
(11) The spores of Rif-18 are pleomorphic and frequently exhibit terminal knobs.
(12) To investigate the involvement of actin filaments in concanavalin A (Con A)-induced cap formation and cytochalasin B (CB)-induced zeiotic knob migration, the distribution of F-actin was studied in Con A-treated and CB-treated Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (EATC) by fluorescence microscopy using heavy meromyosin conjugated with a fluorescent dye, N-(7-dimethylamino-4-methylcoumarinyl) maleimide, (DACM-HMM).
(13) 205 subjects each chose a "most pleasant" sound delivered through an earphone by turning the control knob on a continuously variable audio oscillator.
(14) Knobs which appear on the membrane of the infected erythrocytes adhere to the endothelium, causing the obstruction of cerebral microvessels.
(15) Cytoadherence of infected erythrocytes in vivo is associated with the presence of knobs on the erythrocyte surface, but we and others have shown recently that cytoadherence to C32 melanoma cells may occur in vitro in the absence of knobs.
(16) Systemic administration of the anti-inflammatory agent indomethacin blocked vascular leakage due to endothelial gap formation but had little or no effect on trophoblast knob penetration of vessels.
(17) After crossectomy which remains the most important stage, a short stripping is performed in an upward direction, substituting a packing for the olive shaped knob normally used.
(18) Under scanning electron microscopy, O. viverrini eggs looked like musk-melon skin; they had prominent shoulders and long knobs.
(19) Six culture-adapted knob-positive Plasmodium falciparum parasites, four of which were nonbinding in an in vitro cytoadherence assay, were tested for the presence of the knob-associated histidine-rich protein PfHRP1.
(20) Instead, there were free and spiral nerve terminals in the interstitium, and epilemmal knob-like or bouton-like endings surrounding non-encapsulated muscle fibers.
Winder
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.
(n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like.
(n.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer.
(v. t. & i.) To fan; to clean grain with a fan.
(n.) A blow taking away the breath.
(v. i.) To wither; to fail.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author and journalist Robert Winder detailed in his book Bloody Foreigners how Charles Dickens, in creating the character of Fagin for Oliver Twist , refashioned a real social problem.
(2) Darren Winder, an economist at Cazenove, is gloomy.
(3) Students scrambled “like ants, people screaming, ‘Get out!’” Winder said.
(4) It’s about making sure there are more books available that people will feel they are entitled to pick up and browse,” said Simon Winder, publishing director of Penguin Classics.
(5) | Robert Winder Read more Which brings us to housing.
(6) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Newcastle University Runner-up : University of Reading Runner-up : University of Bradford Social and community impact Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dr Belinda Winder and Lynn Saunders from Nottingham Trent University with Paul Sinha and their social and community impact award for The Safer Living Foundation.
(7) Next door, students heard a loud thud and then a volley of gunfire, Brady Winder, 23, told the newspaper.
(8) These data, coupled with the inhibition of actomyosin ATPase by calponin (Winder, S. J., and Walsh, M. P. (1990) J. Biol.
(9) We have tested the hypothesis of Winder and Walsh [(1990) J. Biol.
(10) Winder also posted on Facebook: Hey everybody, I am safe.
(11) Corresponding preventive measures were proposed to lower the labour intensity of female electric coil winders.
(12) Simon Winder, publishing director at Penguin, called him an "utterly remarkable man".
(13) 279, 65-68] that calponin phosphorylation is not involved in smooth muscle regulation in vivo, as has been suggested from in vitro studies [Winder, S. J.
(14) A camera equipped with 50 mm macro-objective lens, with automatic flash and winder is attached to a motor-operated rotatable stand.
(15) Darren Winder at Cazenove said the key driver of the improvement was likely to have been a rebuilding in inventories, which fell to exceptionally low levels in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of this year as manufacturing firms cut production levels.
(16) "Do you think that I planned and plotted, or lost a wink of sleep, scheming to spend a considerable part of my life trying to identify hog-slappers, cheese-winders' clerks, or theatre fireman's night companions?"
(17) Histological study of lungs from horses with mild, moderate and severe chronic small airway disease consistently revealed a greater density of lesions in the diaphragmatic lobes (Winder and von Fellenberg, 1988).
(18) So there’s some Chinese and Japanese and Arabic writing in there, as well as different religious texts,” said Winder.
(19) It’s about the incredible importance of having books lying around, and getting away from the curriculum.” Winder said it had been a “crushing responsibility” to select the 100 titles Penguin is offering.
(20) The article contains a hygienic assessment of the working conditions of female coil winders engaged in high-powered electric engines' assembling.