(n.) A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
(n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.
Example Sentences:
(1) Casts of lacunae and canaliculi along with the underlying matrix could be visualized in these preparations.
(2) This kind of distribution of microfilaments was always associated with resorption lacunae, and F-actin, vinculin, and talin zones correspond roughly to the edge of lacunae.
(3) As lacunae develop, both syncytial and cytotrophoblast are exposed to maternal blood.
(4) A cartilage is regarded as 'cell-rich' if its cells or their lacunae occupy more than half of the tissue volume.
(5) Intravenous urography reveals the presence of a persistent lacuna in a calix or of the pelvis, radiologic evidence of the abnormal papilla.
(6) Under the scanning electron microscope, the clear dentine tubules in the resorption lacuna, the shallow, unclear resorption lacuna with deposition of the hard tissue and the various steps between them were observed.
(7) Localised tumour forms present either in the form of large polycyclic lacunae, sometimes invaginated or as vast ulcerations with irregular nodular margin, or as due to parietal infiltration and exoluminal development of the tumour mass and neighbouring adenopathy.
(8) The resorbant organ, rich in odontoclasts, cementoblasts, fibroblasts, and macrophages, formed prominent resorption lacunae in root dentin.
(9) Signs of osteolysis, such as enlarged osteocyte lacunae surrounded by a metachromatic zone in toluidine blue stained sections, and confluence of osteocyte lacunae in microradiographs, were compared with the fluorochrome labelling pattern.
(10) These had networks which formed the floor of each stomata and the roof of each lacunae.
(11) Besides greater detailization of the prevailing diameters of the pores, the method of poremetry allows the information to be obtained concerning the distribution of not only sizes of central canals of osteons but also smaller pores characterizing the system of lacunae of osteocytes and canals connecting them.
(12) Osteocyte viability within the femoral head was assessed by counting empty osteocyte lacunae in five random high-power fields of hematoxylin- and eosin-stained sections.
(13) Lipohyalinosis, initially referred to as the underlying pathologic vascular lesion specific for lacunae, is found most commonly in a subset of patients with severe hypertension associated with multilacunar dementia.
(14) These areas were characterized by a matrix of amorphous blue ground substance with lacunae that contained enlarged and slightly atypical cells.
(15) The condition was diagnosed by biopsy of a cranial bone lacuna.
(16) When ascorbic acid is added to the hormone-supplemented medium, differentiating chondrocytes organize their matrix leading to a cartilage-like structure with hypertrophic chondrocytes embedded in lacunae.
(17) The occlusion of arterioles underneath the site suggests that circulation through the lacunae at this stage is indirect.
(18) The second most common cause of dementia, cerebrovascular disease, produces dementia only when there is destruction of brain tissue, as in individuals who have multiple strokes or who have hypertensive vascular disease leading to multiple lacunae.
(19) Macrophages and giant cells did not form pits or resorption lacunae on the bone substrates as osteoclasts did.
(20) These MNC express an osteoclast phenotype and form resorption lacunae on calcified matrices.
Lexical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a lexicon, to lexicography, or words; according or conforming to a lexicon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
(2) Subjects read text passages and occasionally responded to lexical-decision probes.
(3) Results are interpreted in light of current models of lexical and sentence production.
(4) The influence of morphemic relationships on the repetition priming effect, which is presumed to provide an index of lexical organization, was examined in several experiments.
(5) Target discrimination accuracy was inversely related to the phonological complexity of strings containing targets in Experiment 3, supposedly because lexical access through which target discrimination is enhanced becomes more difficult as phonological complexity increases.
(6) These findings suggest that cognitive variables mediate right visual field advantages to lexical decisions in males and females.
(7) College-aged subjects typically show a brief rise time (300-500 msec) for lexical access.
(8) Parents unknowingly adjust the structure and dynamics of speech to the constraints of infant capacities, detach prosodic musicality from lexical structure, and use it in particularly expressive forms for the delivery of the first prototypical messages.
(9) Broca's aphasia is characterized by disorders on the phonemic, syntactic and lexical level of linguistic description.
(10) Two lexical decision experiments compared semantic and repetition priming by masked words.
(11) The results of Analysis 2, based on response latencies from 6 lexical tasks other than lexical decision, revealed a virtually identical linear relationship.
(12) The objective is to comment on some plausible mutual implications of generally attested pathologies and normal models of lexical retrieval for production, particularly with respect to the roles of semantic and syntactic categories.
(13) In a naming task, no differences were found between the two types of novel compounds, but lexicalized compounds resulted in shorter latencies than did novel compounds.
(14) We built a depressive word-list (Mood-list) and a neutral word-list (Neutral-list) and used a computer for the lexical-decision task.
(15) The present study investigated these inconsistencies by manipulating nonword foil lexicality (i.e., the similarity of nonword foils to words), semantic priming, and word frequency in two lexical decision experiments.
(16) In addition to words drawn from the relevant lexical domains, nonsense words and words from inappropriate syntactic categories also were presented to the patients.
(17) The form in which phonological information is stored in the lexical entries of young children, and how this form changes over time, are questions which are difficult to address, given the limitations of current methodologies.
(18) Schuberth and Eimas (1977) reported that semantic priming and frequency have additive effects on RTs in lexical decision tasks, whereas Becker (1979) reported that the same two factors interact.
(19) These data suggest that the problems agrammatic subjects show with verbs in sentence comprehension, and the general lexical access deficit also recently claimed to be part of the agrammatics' problem, may not extend to the real-time processing of verbs and their arguments.
(20) This article addresses the questions of how and when lexical information influences phoneme identification in a series of phoneme-monitoring experiments in which conflicting predictions of autonomous and interactive models were evaluated.