(a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.
(a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
(a.) Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.
(a.) In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) 29 punctures were practiced on 19 patients, 9 women and 10 men of ages comprised between 34 and 94 years, with lesions in different organs of the abdominal cavity diagnosed by ultrasonography with real time equipment and lineal 3.5 and 5 MHz transducers.
(2) With this modification one obtains, for sparsely ionizing radiation, a quality factor which is proportional to the dose average of lineal energy, y.
(3) A direct relationship between total plasmatic salicylate and its free fraction was found together with an inverse proportion between percentage of total free--salicylate and plasma pH and a lineal correlation between plasma free--salicylate and salicylate obtained in spinal fluid.
(4) Some have speculated that it may be a clever trap because, if the children are liable for capital gains tax and are forced to sell their shares, the only person they can sell to is a lineal descendent of Lang Hancock – that is, Gina Rinehart.
(5) The application of lineal discriminative function ensured 93.1% of the right answers.
(6) The relationship between the volume and pressure in the aorta within the physiological range is a lineal function.
(7) To assess lineality in families of bipolar I probands, the authors used direct interviews of family members to reclassify families initially categorized as unilineal by family history.
(8) The lineal sizes of the head exceed those determined by electron microscope approximately by 25%.
(9) The lineal regression model relating mortality and burial data was deaths = 15.94 + 0.80 burials.
(10) These findings highlight the need to systematically assess lineality in all families considered for bipolar I linkage studies and support the preferential inclusion of unilineal families in linkage studies.
(11) Laventiana is also more primitive than Saimiri (= Neosaimiri) fieldsi from the same fauna, further increasing the likelihood that the latter is a lineal ancestor of modern squirrel monkeys.
(12) Second, the mean lineal intercept and tangent diameter varied from 0.048 to 0.058 cm and 0.034 to 0.040 cm, respectively, and did not provide a good concept of the minimum pore size neck dimensions for the specimen.
(13) Twenty measurements were made in fourteen subjects; for CO a good lineal correlation was found (r = 0.81).
(14) They were based on the field magnetic effect and with good lineality.
(15) These responses are consistent with microdosimetric predictions in that recoil protons from neutron interaction are shifted to lower lineal energies as neutron energies increase.
(16) This result demonstrates that in the 6-cell embryo the pair of anterior (AB) blastomeres on the right is equivalent to the pair on the left, and that the extensive differences in fates between lineally homologous derivatives of these cells on the two sides of the animal must be dictated by cell interactions, most of which are likely to occur early in embryogenesis.
(17) In addition, the individuals comprising Semai fission groups are kinsmen which implies that the number of independent genomes represented is markedly less than the number of individual migrants (the lineal effect).
(18) Intrahepatic pO2 rapidly fell to zero and pCO2 increased in a lineal fashion when the total hepatic circulation was interrupted.
(19) Lineal regression analysis shows a correlation coefficient of 0.809 between 7 days and 14 days colonies.
(20) TE manifested its maximum effect in suppressing cancer in mice during the 20th generation of a lineal descent following the injection of the original liver extract into a mother of the cancer proband.
Pineal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both treatments depressed nocturnal pineal melatonin content in rats and hamsters.
(2) In this study, pinealectomy did not alter the inhibitory effect of testosterone on neuroendocine-gonadal activity in the male rat, suggesting that the pineal gland does not mediate the response of the rat hypothalamic-pituitary axis to testosterone.
(3) Only methoxyindole acetic acid was detectable after incubation of unstimulated and alpha-adrenergic-agonist-treated pineal glands.
(4) Striated muscle fibres were found in each of twenty consecutive pineal glands cultured from individual neonatal rats.2.
(5) Parallel changes in free T4 and the free T4 index indicate adequacy of the index in representing pineal-induced changes in free T4.
(6) The results indicate that, regardless of the photoperiod, no clear functional relationship can be found between the avian pineal gland and thyroid function, although a transitory increase in T4 levels was seen in both pinealectomized and sham-operated birds shortly after the operations.
(7) The pineal of certain lizards possesses a finger-like projection that extends toward the parietal eye.
(8) A putative pineal metabolite, 5-methoxyindole-3-acetic acid, was quantified in human urine by a gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric method.
(9) These data suggest that SCN plays a significant role in controlling the rhythmic activity of LHA, VMN and the pineal gland.
(10) The smooth endoplasmic reticulum present in the terminals of the offshoots of the light pinealocytes is possibly involved in pineal indoleamine synthesis.
(11) The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to pineal influences on parturition.
(12) The possibility of pineal gland involvement as a part of "neuroendocrine dysfunction" in some of the psychiatric diseases has received special attention in recent years.
(13) Using thin layer chromatography on fluorescent silica gel plates, 5 indoles were identified and 6 unknown substances isolated from the pineal incubate and from both extracts.
(14) A similar gold labelling of organelles was observed in the ependyma and pineal neurons.
(15) These data suggest that neither the pineal nor the eyes are central components of the circadian pacemaking system in Dipsosaurus, nor is melatonin critically involved in maintaining its organization.
(16) When outcome was examined in patients who were stuporous or comatose on admission, a significant increase in septal shift was found among patients with a poor outcome, but there was no significant relationship between outcome and degree of pineal or aqueductal shift.
(17) The pineal organ of the cat was studied by postembedding gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) immunocytochemistry.
(18) Pineal serotonin is stored in equilibrium in two compartments, i.e., the parenchymal cells and the adrenergic nerves and thus is most probably reduced in both sites.
(19) Pineals incubated in hormone-free medium and unincubated glands served as controls.
(20) Further, the present study shows that neither the alpha 1- nor beta-adrenoceptor density of the pineal declines as rats age.