(n.) A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
(v. t.) To decorate with, or as with, a lappet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distal fibular physis also begins as a transverse structure that becomes undulated and has extensive peripheral lappet formation.
(2) However, as the tibia enlarges diametrically and the epiphyseal ossification center matures, the physis becomes increasingly undulated, with peripheral lappet formation.
(3) In D. dendriticum, however, no secreted layer exists between the inner bothrium surface and the host intestinal villi and the inner bothrium surface of this species appears to be lobed or lappet formed.
(4) C. eberhardi is a small species with primitive characters (cephalic papillae arranged in square, body not flattened dorso-ventrally and without internal lateral cuticular thickenings, tail with well developed median point and two tiny lateral lappets, one pair of distinctly precloacal papillae).
(5) The development of O. petersi, O. belemensis and O. spinosa is similar to that of O. bacillaris: the larvae are in the adipose tissue of various mosquitoes; the infective stages are characterized by the longitudinal salient ridges of the cuticule, the long tail ended by two lappets, the well-developed glandular oesophagus; the female genital anlage lies in the anterior half part of the body, but is not very far from the median line.
(6) The animal cargo, worth $113,715, reportedly included: two lappet-faced vultures, two serval cats, two impalas, two black verreaux’s eagles, three elands, four giraffes, four ground hornbill, five spring hares, six oryx, seven kori bustard, 10 dik-dik, 20 Grant’s gazelle, 68 Thomson’s gazelle, and a secretary bird.
(7) sp., fourth species of the genus, is frequent and associated with the morphologically similar species, D. gracile (Rud., 1809); D. robini differs from D. gracile by structure of caudal lappets of female, vagina, microfilaria and area rugosa.
(8) n. The new genus is differentiated from Mathevotaenia, Markewitchitaenia and Atriotaenia by being craspedote, possessing a large seminal receptacle, the presence of a hermaphroditic canal leading into the genital atrium, and by having two opposable, muscular lappets on the anterior margin of each sucker.
(9) Parasitic third-stage larvae had the 6 internal labial papillae on small elevations without lappets around a small mouth; large, oval amphidial pits; ribbonlike lateral alae for most of their length, but with the anterior 30-40 microns of the alae cordlike; and phasmidial apertures on the body cuticle ventral to the lateral alae.
(10) Infective larvae (cuticle of the second stage) had the 6 internal labial papillae on prominent bluntly rectangular lappets in a star-shaped arrangement around a large triradiate mouth, small triangular or round amphidial pits, flattened ribbonlike lateral alae, and phasmidial apertures opening on the ventral surface of the lateral alae.
Wattle
Definition:
(n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
(n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
(n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
(n.) Barbel of a fish.
(n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
(n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
(v. t.) To bind with twigs.
(v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
(v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The group given the small multilamellar positively charged liposome also showed significant delayed-type hypersensitivity (wattle swelling) (P less than or equal to 0.05).
(2) Beta stimulation with isoproterenol markedly reduced R and increased Q in normothermic birds, suggesting the presence of beta receptors in the wattle vasculature.
(3) The presence of cytoplasmic dihydrotestosterone receptors in the lungs, the comb, the wattle, and the ear lobes of the cock was demonstrated by sucrose density-gradient centrifugation.
(4) The mud and wattle huts in which pupils were taught have now been replaced with seven permanent classrooms.
(5) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian When she was a child living in a Tudor cottage in rural Cheshire, the walls were lumpy, and badly painted, wattle and daub.
(6) The faecal output of strongyle eggs was significantly related to breed, polledness, presence of wattles and age.
(7) Wattle reactions to an Eimeria tenella antigen and phytohemagglutinin (PHA) were studied in chickens infected with E. tenella.
(8) Until now the school has used temporary mud-and-wattle structures with grass-thatched roofs that sway in the wind or, in rough weather, simply collapse.
(9) Instead, let Australia summon up the sentiments of Henry Lawson's iconic 1891 poem, Freedom on the Wallaby , for today it is not the rebel's blood but a callous disregard for the vulnerable that "stains the wattle".
(10) The preoperative diagnosis may be suggested by the "turkey wattle sign" (i.e., fluctuation in the size of the mass with bending the head downward).
(11) Nitrogen and atom-% 15N excess (15N') were determined in the bones, the feathers and the remaining body (skin, lungs and windpipe, head with comb and wattle, lower leg without bones and with skin, pancreas and fatty tissue).
(12) Alpha blockade with phenoxybenzamine also resulted in pronounced vasodilatation, suggesting tonic alpha-sympathetic tone in the wattle vasculature under normothermic conditions.
(13) During moderate cooling, vasoconstriction in the feet and wattles of broody hens (but not of non-broody hens) freed non-nutrient blood flow for redistribution to the brood patches.
(14) Although delayed hypersensitivity was confirmed by delayed wattle reaction in 2-month-old chickens sensitized with living S pullorum, the sensitization did not markedly affect phagocytic and bactericidal activities.
(15) 5-HT and NE each depressed significantly the wattle response in 3 and 6 week old chicks.
(16) At 6 weeks of age, chickens were injected with 100 micrograms purified PHA-P. Wattle thickness measurements were taken 4, 24, 48, 72 and 96 h after injection.
(17) Injections were given 12 h prior to, at the time of, and at 12 and 24 h after an intradermal wattle injection with PHA-P.
(18) A rare case of a symptomatic venous anomaly of the parotid gland is described in a 14-year-old female patient who presented with Turkey Wattle sign.
(19) The study was undertaken in spring (n = 263 goats) and autumn (n = 165); the breed, age, polledness, absence or presence of wattles, and reproductive status were recorded for each goat.
(20) A double-wattled cassowary died following a clinical course of severe diarrhea, anorexia, and polydypsia.