(n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon.
(n.) Hence, Satan.
(n.) A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco.
(n.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty physiologically characterized units were injected with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or Lucifer yellow CH (LY) and their processes were traced to the crista.
(2) The potential use of Lucifer Yellow exchange inhibition as a test for the screening of tumor promoters is discussed.
(3) One of her heroes, one of her mentors was Saul Alinsky,” he said, referring to the radical community organiser whose book, Rules for Radicals, he claimed contains an acknowledgement of Lucifer.
(4) Physiologically identified giant fibers were filled intracellularly with Lucifer Yellow.
(5) Ethidium bromide promises to be an important tool for use alone and alongside Lucifer yellow in the correlation of electrophysiology with histology.
(6) Thirty-six neurones were also double labelled using a combination of biocytin or Lucifer Yellow injection with tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunohistochemistry.
(7) Intracellular injection of the fluorescent dye, Lucifer Yellow, into neuron C1 was compared with serotonin immunofluorescent staining of the cerebral and buccal ganglia.
(8) The morphological characteristics of five types of local spiking interneurons in the metathoracic ganglion of the acridid grasshopper Omocestus viridulus L. have been revealed by intracellular injection of the fluorescent dye Lucifer Yellow.
(9) Intracellular recordings were made from 76 neurons belonging to various cell types in the lamprey spinal cord, and these neurons were subsequently stained with Lucifer yellow.
(10) The fluid phase marker Lucifer yellow did not reach lamellar bodies (LB) even after prolonged incubation time, whereas S-G was internalized and found in LB.
(11) Intracellular Lucifer yellow (LY) injection and subsequent fluorescence microscopy confirmed their nonpyramidal nature.
(12) Accumulation of lucifer yellow in the swollen compartment was insensitive to cycloheximide.
(13) Retinal ganglion cells were intracellularly injected with the fluorescent dye Lucifer yellow in fixed retinae from adult little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) captured in their natural habitat.
(14) One of the AS neurons, the caudal alternating SCP (CAS) cell, was injected with Lucifer yellow in adult nerve cords and was shown to have a large primary axon that extends into more anterior ganglia, as well as other, finer axons that are variable in number and arrangement.
(15) The two main neuronal markers presently available (lucifer yellow and horseradish peroxidase) are not satisfactory for correlating all three aspects.
(16) The electrical recordings were made by means of microelectrodes filled with either 1.5 or 3 M KCl or 1 M LiCl with 6% Lucifer yellow, the latter used for dye injection.
(17) The postnatal development of layer VI pyramidal neurons in the cat's striate cortex has been studied by means of intracellular injections of Lucifer yellow in aldehyde-fixed tissue (LYF technique).
(18) Motor neurons innervating the four proximal muscles of the fourth walking leg have been identified both physiologically and anatomically by staining the recorded motor neuron with Lucifer yellow through the microelectrode.
(19) The dendritic morphology of indoleamine amacrine cells in carp retina was investigated by identifying their fluorescent cell bodies by preloading with noradrenaline followed by iontophoretic injection of Lucifer Yellow in isolated and aldehyde-fixed preparations under microscopic control.
(20) Dye-coupling in an in vitro preparation of the supporting cells of the guinea-pig organ of Corti was evaluated by use of the fluorescent dyes, Lucifer Yellow, fluorescein and 6 carboxyfluorescein.
Luciferian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader.
(n.) One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians.