(n.) That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) The smooth endoplasmic reticulum present in the terminals of the offshoots of the light pinealocytes is possibly involved in pineal indoleamine synthesis.
(2) Yemen has long been the base of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, an offshoot of Osama bin Laden’s original group that has previously targeted Houthis.
(3) If you look at a map of Britain resized according to house prices, London and the south-east form a massive blob, and every other region and nation are mere stringy offshoots, like a fried egg that is all yolk.
(4) The past year has also witnessed the rise of ultra rightwing movements such as Reclaim Australia and the Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA), the local offshoot of a party inspired by the Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders.
(5) Captain America kicking open the door of what looks like a European mountain fortress suggests the Nazi offshoot Hydra might be rearing its many ugly heads once again.
(6) The technology in cellphones, from the screens to the processors that are in there, were offshoots of work that Darpa did.
(7) In rabbits, the functional behavior of the pial arterial offshoots (PAO), the pial arterial anastomoses (PAA), and the precortical arteries (PCA), was studied.
(8) Brazil is the home of several offshoots of football.
(9) He has worked at an offshoot of Morgan Stanley called Omega Land, as well as Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster's property investment company.
(10) Technically an offshoot of the Spyro franchise, Skylanders has become hugely popular in its own right.
(11) Besides supporting the theory that land vertebrates arose from an offshoot of the lineage leading to lungfishes, the molecular tree facilitates an evolutionary interpretation of the morphological differences among the living forms.
(12) We call on our supporters to join the demonstration against this, today at the Jamaica high commission .” Black Lives Matter UK, was launched last month as an offshoot of the international movement was set up in the US following the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida four years ago.
(13) In Libya, the Brotherhood's political offshoot did not do as well as expected in last year's elections – but still came second.
(14) Up to 40 people are to transfer to the new owners of a cheaper offshoot that had an existing staff of 17, including editor Oliver Duff.
(15) Do expect more offshoots of the main brand, along the lines of Virgin's two digital radio stations, Virgin Radio Classic Rock and Virgin Radio Xtreme.
(16) Treatment of this unusual complications is an offshoot of the modern management of the underlying disease.
(17) As an offshoot of a larger prospective cardiovascular population study, the present study aimed to determine the 12 months frequency of focal cerebral transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) in persons randomly selected after age stratification from the Copenhagen city population register.
(18) Since that last call home, Waheed had joined the al-Qaida offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra, fighting against Bashar al-Assad .
(19) He called Pineda a major operator in the cartel, an offshoot of the Beltran Leyva gang.
(20) National Counties building society and its Family building society offshoot will consider applicants up to the age of 89, while Bath building society does not have a set maximum age, but will be looking for proof of continued income.
Proliferous
Definition:
(a.) Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae.
(a.) Producing young by budding.
(a.) Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
(a.) Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
(2) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(3) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
(4) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(5) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
(6) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
(7) Proliferation assays using F3 showed that 15 (14 CD4+ and 1 CD8+) of the 18 isolated clones were specific for T. gondii.
(8) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(9) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
(10) During capillary growth when endothelial cells (EC) undergo extensive proliferation and migration and pericytes are scarce, hyaluronic acid (HA) levels are elevated.
(11) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(12) T cell costimulation by molecules on the antigen presenting cell (APC) is required for optimal T cell proliferation.
(13) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
(14) However, a highly significant upward shift of the proliferating cell compartment was observed in the cancer group, resulting in a specific modification of the [3H]TDR labeling pattern in 6 of 17 specimens.
(15) Anti-5'-NT antibodies had no effect on PHA-induced proliferation.
(16) The mechanism by which gp55 causes increased erythroblastosis and ultimately leukaemia is unknown, but a reasonable suggestion is that gp55 can mimic the action of erythropoietin by binding to its receptor (Epo-R), thereby triggering prolonged proliferation of erythroid cells.
(17) Extensive proliferation has been shown to accompany the de novo generation of LAK cytotoxicity.
(18) Proliferating cells were abundant and scattered throughout the stratified epithelium before the appearance of villi.
(19) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(20) Whereas the growth and division of normal cells is carefully regulated to meet the needs of the body, tumor cells proliferate autonomously and continually, eventually interfering with and destroying the functions of normal tissue.