(n.) The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cytoarchitectonic evaluation of the perisylvian cortex in the three cases examined in detail indicated that labeled areas included the ventral premotor cortex (area 6V); the precentral opercular and orbitofrontal opercular areas (PrCO and OFO); the second somatosensory area (S-II); the opercular cortex immediately anterior to S-II, possibly corresponding to area 2 of the S-I complex; and the central part of the insular cortex, including portions of the granular and dysgranular insular fields (Ig, Idg).
(2) If this pressure persisted until the start of the expansion, it would make the opercular suction pump inoperative, because it would blow away the flexible opercular flap which, as a passive valve, seals the widening opercular slit during abduction.
(3) Four different types of parietal opercular sulcus topography were recognized.
(4) The second contraction of the filament adductor muscles, at the end of the expansion phase, occurs when the opercular flap separates from the body of the fish, opening the opercular slit.
(5) Computed tomography revealed small brain with widened subarachnoid space, smooth surface of the brain, uniformly enlarged ventricles, wide sylvian cisterns, and lack of insular opercularization.
(6) Fronto-opercular and insular cortices of Japanese macaques were histochemically stained for cytochrome oxidase activity.
(7) In contrast, chloride cells of freshwater-adapted fish were not, or only faintly, stained both in gills and opercular epithelium.
(8) In a patient with clinical manifestations suggestive of brain malformation, computer-assisted tomography (CT) showed lissencephaly: agyria, pachygyria, absent opercularization, and colpocephaly.
(9) Because the integrated records of opercular movements only give an arbitrary estimate of changes in ventilation rate, direct measurements of the ventilation volume were performed in order to state the way of the dominant action of CO2.
(10) The primary findings consist of (1) a cerebral surface that is agyric or agyric with pachygyric areas, (2) a cerebral contour that is oval or "hourglass" due to lack of or incomplete opercularization of the brain, and (3) an abnormal gray-white-matter distribution in the cerebral hemispheres.
(11) Gills and opercular epithelia of the killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) homogenized and incubated with radiolabeled arachidonic acid were found to produce prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids.
(12) The effect of atriopeptin II (ANF) on the in vitro opercular epithelium was investigated by use of short-circuit current techniques.
(13) It was suggested that spinothalamic input could be relayed to both postcentral and opercular cortices.
(14) The respiratory apparatus, as in other teleosts, is driven by bilaterally symmetrical alternating buccal pressure and opercular suction pumps.
(15) One patient had left frontal macrogyria; the other had bilateral opercular polymicrogyria.
(16) Isolated opercular epithelia of killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) were mounted in an Ussing chamber.
(17) The spongy change was distributed through the cerebral cortex bilaterally and diffusely, but the left hemisphere was involved more severely and extensively than the right hemisphere, and the opercular portions of the frontal and temporal lobes were affected more than the remainder of those lobes.
(18) Glyptothorax pectinopterus has a well defined bilateral adhesive organ situated posteriorly to the mouth, between the opercular opening and the base of the pectoral fin.
(19) Nevertheless, inflow of water through the opercular slit is negligible, because flow reversal is counteracted by the kinetic energy of the normal water flow from the buccal to the opercular cavities.
(20) Golgi studies revealed significant differences in dendritic patterns between neurons of the left and right opercular regions of the frontal lobe (Broca's speech area on the dominant side) and between cells of the left and right precentral areas (the orofacial motor zones) just behind.
Piper
Definition:
(n.) See Pepper.
(n.) One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.
(n.) A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
(n.) A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
(2) SULB restored the activity of: MEZLO, PIPER, CPZ in Enterobacteria producing a penicillinase; PIPER, CTX and CAZ in Enterobacteria producing a broad-spectrum beta-lactamase; MEZLO, PIPER, CTX and CAZ in M. morganii producing a derepressed cephalosporinase.
(3) Pre-treatment with extract from the Cauline of Piper kadsura attenuated endotoxin-induced hypotension and lung injury, which may result from the PAF antagonistic effect of Piper kadsura.
(4) The DLA Piper report recommended a “wide ranging and comprehensive review” of kafala with a view to abolishing or phasing out “certain aspects” of the system and prioritising freedom of movement and the rights of workers.
(5) The following year, she gave birth to her first child, Piper Maru.
(6) Channel 4's alternative Christmas message, delivered by former model and presenter Katie Piper who was disfigured in a sulphuric acid attack, attracted 500,000 viewers.
(7) Some of the discos – or “pipers” as they were locally known, in homage to Rome’s legendary Piper nightspot – were visibly influenced by Andy Warhol’s multimedia experiments at the Dom nightclub in Manhattan, home to the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events, where the Velvet Underground would play amid lightshows, dancers and projections of Warhol’s films.
(8) With each walk he has attracted more followers like a pied piper.
(9) Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, also cautioned against state subsidy of news, warning "he who pays the piper calls the tune".
(10) John Piper, lead parade designer Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Piper, lead designer, Macy’s Parade Studio for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
(11) Some internal scenario planning by insurers is wise,” says Piper.
(12) The government confirmed in the DLA Piper report that 964 workers from Nepal, India and Bangladesh had died while living and working in the Gulf state in 2012 and 2013.
(13) A link between the generation of areca nut-related N-nitrosamines in the saliva, the induction of genotoxic damage in the oral mucosa, as judged by an increase in micronucleated exfoliated cells (MEC), and a low incidence of oral cancer was studied in 2 population groups characterized by their habit of chewing quids without tobacco: Guamanians, who chew areca nuts (Areca catechu) with or without the addition of betel leaf (Piper betle); Taiwanese, who use areca nut, betel leaf or inference and slaked lime.
(14) It is inconceivable that this or any future administration would attempt to recover prior subsidy payments,” says Piper.
(15) Disappointingly, the book ends before he marries and then divorces Billie Piper (of whom more later).
(16) But by remaining very publicly friends (Piper guested on his doomed return to TV on ITV's OFI Sunday in 2005 and attended Evans and Shishmanian's wedding in 2007), you made it possible to return to the public eye.
(17) Using a receptor preparation of rabbit platelet membranes, we identified a novel antagonist of PAF in the methylene chloride extract of a Chinese herbal plant, haifenteng (Piper futokadsura).
(18) A DLA Piper spokesperson: "We uphold the highest professional standards as a firm and this matter is being fully investigated."
(19) Shetty said: “Despite five years of promises, Fifa has failed almost completely to stop the World Cup being built on human rights abuses.” In the wake of a series of damning reports by NGOs, including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, and major investigations by media outlets including the Guardian, the Qatari government commissioned law firm DLA Piper to review the issue in 2013.
(20) Bioactivity-guided fractionation of a CHCl3 extract of the leaves of Piper aborescens afforded a new cytotoxic pyridone alkaloid, N-(3-methoxy-4,5-methylenedioxydihydrocinnamoyl)-delta 3-pyridin-2-one [1], as well as three known cytotoxic pyridone alkaloids, N-(3-methoxy-4,5-methylenedioxycinnamoyl)-delta 3-pyridin-2-one [2], piplartine [3], and piplartine dimer A [4].