(n.) A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.
(n.) A rather large spot or blotch of color.
Example Sentences:
(1) (1) Microdissection of an isolated afferent artery with or without macula densa (MD) has revealed that renin release is regulated by NaCl exposure to MD.
(2) The entire macula utricili had disappeared in 10-week specimens.
(3) The auditory function of the sacculus in amphibians is confirmed and special attention is paid to functional heterogeneity of the receptor epithelium in the saccular maculae.
(4) Resorption of soft drusen at the macula in response to laser photocoagulation has been demonstrated previously.
(5) Careful studies have failed to reveal any cause for this excessive permeability response at the macula or any constantly associated medical abnormality.
(6) Morphometric analyses of the macula densa in streptozotocin diabetic rats have revealed, that the volume density of the large lateral intercellular spaces, which are present in normal animals between the macula densa cells, decreases significantly in magnitude from 8.7 to 1.5% in diabetic animals.
(7) Based on experience from 30 patients the usefulness of high resolution B-scan echography and colour Doppler flow imaging for evaluating lesions of the macula is discussed.
(8) Ophthalmoscopic examination disclosed a single, white, elevated mass lesion surrounded by serous retinal detachment located in the upper part of the macula of the right eye.
(9) One hundred thirty-four consecutive eyes with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment involving the macula were evaluated with reference to the effectiveness of systemic steroids in preventing choroidal detachment after scleral buckling surgery and in facilitating both anatomic and functional success.
(10) A directed flow of calcium to developing otoconia from the supporting cells of the maculae is suggested.
(11) We studied sectioned maculae that were obtained from 41 patients with different genetic forms of RP: autosomal dominant (n = 11); X-linked (n = 9); and simplex (n = 21).
(12) Apart from the typical reticular pattern in the macula there were atrophic areas that could have resulted from progression of the dystrophy.
(13) The subjective signs of the syndrome are floating 'moths', photopsias presenting as a 'lateral lightning', sudden appearance of a central macula (central positive scotoma).
(14) Patients with macular lesions and central scotomata had larger amplitudes than patients with normal appearing maculae and no central scotomata.
(15) Examination showed bilateral serous detachment of the macula.
(16) Each hair cell is additionally polarized (III), in that its kinociliary group is inclined toward the plane of the macula surface, forming an angle of 40-60 degrees with it (Figs.
(17) These results demonstrate that the macula densa basement membrane and matrix material between extraglomerular mesangial cells is permeable to high molecular weight molecules and suggest unhindered diffusion of water and solutes within this area.
(18) An in vitro preparation of the saccular nerve, maintained in parallel, served to indicate the potential neural contribution to overall release from the macula.
(19) The cells are bound by maculae adherentes, zonulae occludentes and desmosome-like structures.
(20) In the distal tubule a macula densa segment was found in all nephrons of the reptilian and mammalian type.
Planetary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
(a.) Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.
(a.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet.
(a.) Caused by planets.
(a.) Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering.
Example Sentences:
(1) The future of work will be made up of jobs that don’t yet exist within industries and using technologies that are new, in planetary conditions that no human being has ever experienced.
(2) The results indicate that polyamino acids could have been formed thermally under a variety of possible prebiotic atmospheres and on planetary bodies of low atmospheric pressure.
(3) "We just do not know how to recall a planetary-scale technology once it has been released.
(4) As a planetary geologist, the author has analyzed results of the various space missions.
(5) Catalytic properties of aluminosilicates may play a role in the synthesis of biological molecules from simple gaseous molecules commonly found in planetary atmospheres.
(6) Her declaration of planetary rights invests ecosystems with similar legal safeguards to those won by humans after the second world war.
(7) Consideration is given of the mechanism for the formation of some of the products and implications regarding planetary atmosphere chemistry, particularly that of Jupiter, are explored.
(8) Mathematical analysis of acceleration generated by the planetary motion of the apparatus revealed a unique centrifugal force field which promises high retention of the stationary phase in the multilayer coil to perform efficient preparative-scale counter-current chromatography.
(9) After all, two Phobos probes had failed in 1988, plans to launch Phobos-Grunt in 2009 were abandoned very late in the day and Russia has not launched its own planetary mission since 1996 when Mars-96 burnt up over the Pacific and South America after a rocket failure.
(10) Kevin is an astrobiologist and a planetary scientist by trade, and while his primary area of research is the Jovian moon Europa, currently all the excitement at JPL is focused on the red planet.
(11) We and many other civil society organisations have been much better at saying what is wrong with the current system than providing a positive new story about how we can flourish while living within planetary ecological limits.
(12) This calls for a new logic; abundance within planetary boundaries.
(13) In the lateral coil position the retention was found to be affected by the direction of the planetary motion and the head-tail elution mode.
(14) Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPrize and asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources, knows Elon Musk and SpaceX well.
(15) Past transformations that saw planetary temperatures soar took millions of years to occur.
(16) Each method has been shown to potentially reduce temperature on a planetary scale.
(17) I really have no other purpose than to make life interplanetary.” Bill Nye, chief executive officer of the Planetary Society and host of the popular TV show Bill Nye the Science Guy, was in the audience and described the energy of the crowd as “extraordinary”.
(18) "One important outcome of these rankings is the ability to compare exoplanets from best to worst candidates for life," said Abel Méndez, director of the planetary habitability laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico in Arecibo.
(19) What those numbers mean is that our economic system and our planetary system are now at war.
(20) The Mars500 project was designed to assess the reaction of the human mind and body to the stresses of a potential spaceflight to Earth's nearest planetary neighbour.