(n.) The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Caulobothrium longicolle (Linton, 1890) and Phyllobothrium gracile (Weld, 1855) (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea, Phyllobothriidae) have the same embryonic development with the following characteristic data: --a small number of vitelline cells (2 or 3) pass with the zygote in the ootype;--a non operculate thin egg-shell;--the entire and equal zyhote cleavage following by unequal divisions leading to the formation of four blastomere types (Macromeres, secondary Macromere, Mesomeres and Micromeres);--the differentiation of two syncytial embryonic envelopes during the preoncospheral phase.
(2) Processes from these cells extend into the wall of the ootype.
(3) Cilia and lamellae line the luminal surface of the oviduct and ootype, the lamellae running unidirectionally along the duct.
(4) The formation of the egg mass in the ootype, containing the oocyte, vitelline cells, numerous spermatozoa and Mehlis' gland secretion marks the beginning of eggshell formation.
(5) The role of DB cells (which enter the lumen more commonly in the ootype near the oviduct) remains unknown.
(6) In the peripheral nervous system, immunoreactivity occurs in the nerve plexuses supplying the subtegumental musculature, the oral and ventral suckers, and the muscular lining of the male and female reproductive ducts, including the ootype, uterus, cirrus pouch and gonopore.
(7) The secretions produced by the Mehlis' gland and the distal ootype in Schistosoma mansoni were identified as neutral glycoproteins.
(8) The cell bodies are positioned in the parenchyma surrounding the ootype and taper to axon-like processes that extend to the ootype wall.
(9) In both unisexual and paired mature females part of the lining of the ootype is reactive, especially near the entrance of the vitelline duct; this demonstrates that females can make ecdysteroids without mal contact.
(10) Cells displaying immunoreactivity to PYY and FMRFamide lie amongst the Mehlis' gland cells that surround the ootype.
(11) Processes of the two cell types converge on the ootype-proximal uterine wall, pass through the epithelium, and finally open into the lumen.
(12) Narrow cytoplasmic channels supported by microtubules deliver these secretory bodies to the ootype.
(13) All of 10 sera from patients with trichinellosis also reacted with schistosomes by immunofluorescence essentially recognizing testes, ovaries, ootype epithelium and ducts of the reproductive system.
(14) One group of PP-immunoreactive cells occurs at the junction of the vitelline and ovovitelline ducts, whilst another group is situated at the entrance to the uterus from the ootype.
(15) An ootype and a type of accessory reproductive gland not known from other Kronborgia spp.
(16) The terminal regions of these processes branch and anastomose and, in places, the swollen endings or varicosities form synaptic appositions with the muscle fibres in the ootype wall.
(17) Intense peptide immunoreactivity was identified in fibres in the wall of the ootype and in a surrounding population (greater than 100) of somata that were situated beyond Mehlis' gland cells and all of which were connected to the ootype wall by fine cytoplasmic connectives.
(18) testis 0-94 X 0.94; seminal vesicle 0-82 X 0-24; ootype 0-21 X 0-41; ovary 0-41 X 0-34; and egg 121 X 83 micrometer.
(19) It is concluded that the cells are neurosecretory in appearance and that, functionally, their secretions may serve to regulate ootype motility and thereby help co-ordinate egg production in the worm.
(20) In the peripheral nervous system, similar immunoreactivity occurs in the nerve plexuses supplying the sub-tegumental muscle layers and the muscular lining of various reproductive ducts, including the ootype, uterus and cirrus pouch.
Worm
Definition:
(n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
(n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
(n.) Any helminth; an entozoon.
(n.) Any annelid.
(n.) An insect larva.
(n.) Same as Vermes.
(n.) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
(n.) A being debased and despised.
(n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
(n.) The thread of a screw.
(n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
(n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
(n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
(n.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
(v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
(v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
(v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
(n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
(n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other filarial worms which are known to occur in the RSA are discussed.
(2) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
(3) The sectioned worm tissues from each developmental stage were embedded in Lowicryl HM 20 medium, stained with infected serum IgG and protein A gold complex (particle size: 12 nm) and observed by electron microscopy.
(4) glp-4(bn2ts) mutant worms raised at the restrictive temperature contain approximately 12 germ nuclei, in contrast to the 700-1000 present in wild-type adults.
(5) Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-ricin exhibited binding to schistosomula and adult worms, but not to cercariae or to freshly transformed schistosomula.
(6) Sera from S. mansoni-infected patients with a high specificity for the diagnostic S. mansoni-antigen cross-reacted with a corresponding component also in S. japonicum worms.
(7) To understand mechanisms involved in sex-specific gene expression in Schistosoma mansoni, a cDNA (fs800) was isolated that hybridized to an 800 nucleotide mRNA present in high levels only in mature female worms.
(8) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
(9) Antigen inhibition studies showed low and high levels of cross-reactivity with anti-worm and anti-egg antibodies, respectively, derived from both Chinese and Philippine patients.
(10) Only eosinophils adhered to 2 h newborn worms and only macrophages to 20 h ones.
(11) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
(12) The number of ovarian balls rises to about 6300 per worm, with the maximum being attained more rapidly in unfertilized than in fertilized females.
(13) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(14) Three bulls selected for high faecal worm egg counts and three bulls selected for low faecal worm egg counts were mated to Africander-Hereford cross cows.
(15) Among 30 villagers who were treated, 4 (13.3%) passed this species with an average of 2.5 worms per infection.
(16) Successful tests were carried out on 84 farms and 68% of these had resistant worms present.
(17) A higher retention rate of intestinal adult worms was observed in hydrocortisone-treated mice.
(18) No evidence was obtained for the involvement of monoamine oxidases in the metabolism of 5-HT in these filarial worms.
(19) Radiocarbons from glucosamine and leucine were incorporated into tissue glycogen of female worms much less than glucose.
(20) The heads were examined for adult and larval meningeal worms (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) by physical examination of the brain surfaces, and the Baermann technique, respectively, and for ear mites by examination of ear scrapings.