(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.
Opening
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Open
(n.) The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.
(n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.
(n.) Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business.
(n.) A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings.
Example Sentences:
(1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
(2) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(3) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(5) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(6) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(7) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
(8) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
(9) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(10) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(11) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(12) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(13) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
(14) At 100 microM-ACh the apparent open time became shorter probably due to channel blockade by ACh molecules.
(15) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
(16) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(17) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(18) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
(19) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(20) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.