(n.) A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.
(n.) A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.
(v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick.
(v. t.) To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Notch locus in Drosophila encodes a transmembrane protein required for the determination of cell fate in ectodermal cells.
(2) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
(3) For histometric evaluation, the radicular notches were used as reference points.
(4) Conversely, in 66 of 80 pregnancies the absence of a notch was associated with the livebirth of an infant beyond 32 weeks gestation, with a birthweight above the 5th centile.
(5) The left subclavian artery was prominent in 33 cases, signs indicating a collateral circulation (rib notching, internal mammary artery) were present in 26 cases.
(6) Notched tympanograms were typical of neonatal ears for a 220-Hz probe tone.
(7) Radiographic manifestations include endosteal sclerosis of the neurocranium with loss of the diploë, osteosclerosis and hyperostosis of the mandible with absence of the normal antegonial notches, endosteal sclerosis of the diaphyses of long bones (including metacarpals and metatarsals), and osteosclerosis of the pelvis.
(8) For the experimental studies, fractures of the jaw bone in terms of oblique osteotomies from angle to sigmoid notch of the mandible of the Malaysian monkeys were made by using #700 fissure bur and reduced and fixed them in terms of interosseous wiring.
(9) Lymphadenopathies were classified by the criteria proposed by Yoshinaka et al., type I: poorly-defined borders, diffuse internal echoes; type II: well-defined borders, diffuse internal echoes; type III: well-defined borders, notchings, strong internal echoes.
(10) Here, we examine a group of six recessive mutations, the facets (fa, fa3, fag, fag-2, fafx and fasw), which affect eye and optic lobe morphology and have been previously shown to be associated with the insertion of transposable elements into an intronic region of Notch.
(11) Another frequent finding was partial or total obstruction at the tentorial notch, often in combination with reduced or absent activity along the superior sagittal sinus.
(12) In one patient, the fibrous band extended from the distal pole of the patella to the intracondylar notch, tethering the patella inferiorly.
(13) This thin flap, usually extending from the hyoid bone to the sternal notch at the central part of the anterior neck, provides a skin island of about 4 by 8 cm.
(14) The chest roentgenographic findings in Takayasu's arteritis include widening of the ascending aorta, contour irregularities of the descending aorta, arotic calcifications, pulmonary arterial changes, rib notching, and hilar lymphadenopathy.
(15) In two cases the epidermoid, located mainly in the cerebello-pontine angle, spread into the middle cranial fossa; in three the epidermoid extended from the parasellar cisterns to the posterior cranial fossa; in six patients the epidermoid, enlarging the tentorial notch, occupied extensively both cranial fossae.
(16) This post-transcriptional regulation is suppressed in embryos mutant for the genes Notch and Delta; where all cells expressing RNA accumulate protein.
(17) The femoral intercondylar notch width was measured in 93 patients with chronic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) insufficiency (Group 1), in 62 patients with an acute tear of the ACL (Group 2), and in 38 fresh anatomic specimen knees (Group 3).
(18) Deep notch cases had more retrusive mandibles with a shorter corpus, smaller ramus height, and a greater gonial angle than did shallow notch cases.
(19) The acicular alpha structure has been shown to exhibit the best fatigue properties for Ti-6A1-4V alloy in the notched condition.
(20) The anatomical relations of the semilunar notch of the ulna were studied in radiographs, taken in a strict lateral view, from 100 patients with elbow dislocations.
Reniform
Definition:
(a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Except for its conidia, which are mostly reniform to allantoid rather than ovoid as is characteristic for W. dermatitidis, and the undecided mode of conidiogenesis, the isolate closely resembles W. dermatitidis in gross and microscopic morphology, thermotolerance, and general and neurotrophic infectivity patterns in mice injected intraperitoneally.
(2) pneumocysts with reniform bodies and degradation inclusions within macrophages, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis (PCP) could be detected in 100% of cases.
(3) The pneumocysts presented as circular structures of 5 microns in diameter and of brilliant green-yellow fluorescence surrounding two mirror image reniform structures.
(4) This round to oval to slightly reniform structure was bound by a single limiting membrane and composed of an electron dense, slightly granular matrix without evidence of crystalloid formation.
(5) The 6 carcinoids with an insular pattern primary in the ovary or metastatic to it from the ileum displayed granules that were pleomorphic (dumbbell and reniform shaped) and varied from 90 to 410 mum, with an average diameter of 210 mum.
(6) The kidney thus keeps its reniform shape but does increase in size (bean or orange to grapefruit pattern).
(7) Instead of normal reniform shape, the kidneys appeared "inverted pyriform" or "inverted triangular".
(8) The histologic type of surgically resected specimens was a diffuse proliferation of atypical lymphoid cells with monocytoid appearance, i.e., abundant pale cytoplasm with distinct cell border and small reniform nucleus.
(9) The reniform shape was usually preserved and was present in 19 of 20 cases with CT and 13 of 15 cases with sonograms.
(10) At 3 and 4 h small cells with a reniform nucleus accumulate in the connective tissue core of the choroid plexus.
(11) Resected small-bowel specimens from patients with the reniform configuration revealed focal ischemic changes.
(12) These ultrastructural features combined with the frequent reniform nuclei and scattered lysosomes suggested histiocyte differentiation.
(13) Hydrodynamic comparisons were made between conventional valves (CV) and equivalent sized reniform valves (ERV) that would adapt to the same anulus.
(14) These killer cells included large cells with azurophilic granules in the cytoplasm and with a reniform nucleus, thus resembling large granular lymphocytes.
(15) The leukemic cell count increased rapidly; the cells became large and the nuclear outline, which had been reniform, became lobulated.
(16) This article describes a mitral bioprosthetic valve consisting of three bovine pericardial leaflets with a "reniform" base.
(17) This cell is a large lymphoid cell with strong alpha-naphthyl esterase activity concentrated in a limited area in the cytoplasm usually at the indentation site of a slightly reniform nucleus.
(18) By means of multilayered plastic reconstruction using serial semithin epoxide sections, it has been demonstrated that besides typical follicles there are some other ones in the thyroid gland of newborns: follicles that have a local thickening on one side, follicles that have reniform proliferates with a cavity, and also follicles with two cavities.
(19) Cytomorphologic features of EG were seen in all cases including Langerhans' cell histiocytes having oval to reniform shape nuclei with nuclear grooving and abundant pale cytoplasm.
(20) Ultrastructurally, the cells showed sparse organelles except for prominent paranuclear Golgi apparatus, frequent reniform nuclear indentations, and ruffled cytoplasmic membranes.