(a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
(a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.
(a.) Broadly elliptical.
(n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(2) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ronald Reagan meeting with Rupert Murdoch in the Oval Office on 18 January 1983.
(4) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
(5) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
(6) The nuclei in these typical onocytes appeared oval or spheroid.
(7) Afghanistan will be the main item on the agenda at a meeting on Wednesdaybetween Cameron and Barack Obama in the Oval Office on the main day of the visit.
(8) They are rounded or oval bodies visible to the naked eye, and situated ventrolaterally in the posterior mesonephros.
(9) Small oval cysts (less than or equal to 1 cm) with strong echo were all diagnosed colloid goiter.
(10) This model opened possibilities to study the filamentous form of P. ovale in vitro.
(11) Electron microscopically, the tumor cell nuclei were oval or polygonal and sometimes slightly invaginated, with a few prominent nucleoli.
(12) The proliferation zone is only a few cell rows thick and contains single cells with an oval shape and longitudinal fibrocyte-like nucleus.
(13) Furthermore, the long axis of the right and left atria was measured from the center of the apposed atrioventricular valve leaflets to the posterior atrial wall, and the sizes of the atrial chambers were defined using their widths at the prospective broadest points through the area of foramen ovale.
(14) The septum primum, as the valve of the foramen ovale, has been previously described as a mobile, echogenic line or dot in the left atrium.
(15) The authors described a fluoroscopic method of guiding percutaneous needle penetration of the foramen ovale.
(16) "I'm led to believe that Notts County used to play their home games at Trent Bridge, The Oval hosted an FA Cup final and Bramall Lane used to be a cricket ground, but are there any other cricket grounds that have hosted either league or international football matches?"
(17) The earliest perfect ring-shaped formation of the foramen ovale is observed in the 7th fetal month and the latest in 3 years after birth.
(18) Magnetic resonance revealed oval corresponding hypointense foci both on T1-and T2-weighted images.
(19) Arterial oxygen tension was lower in patients with a patent foramen ovale (mean 55 [SD 14] vs 62 [16] mm Hg, p = 0.038).
(20) Peripheral blood specimen showed abnormal lymphoid cells with an oval to cleaved nucleus, rather condensed chromatin, occasional prominent nucleolus, and basophilic cytoplasms with vacuoles which seems to be a T-cell counterpart of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia with mixed cell types.
Ovoid
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Ovoidal
(n.) A solid resembling an egg in shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
(2) GABA-immunogold reaction has revealed the presence of this inhibitory transmitter in most axon terminals containing ovoid-pleomorphic vesicles within the molecular layer, including those resembling climbing fiber-terminals.
(3) Bouton-like terminals were found to be of two types according to their vesicle content, namely, boutons with ovoid, clear synaptic vesicles forming Gray type-1 synapses and boutons with pleomorphic clear synaptic vesicles forming Gray type-2 synapses.
(4) The vaginal ovoid irradiation alone should be limited to very selected cases.
(5) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
(6) Varying widely in size and configuration, these structures are usually somewhat ovoid but can be elongated, gently squared, or asymmetric.
(7) By contrast, the principal sensory nucleus is distinguished by its high density of small to medium-sized (8-20 micron) round or ovoid neurons.
(8) The following species features of this animals are associated with their adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia: organization of alpha-granules, mitochondria, the contractile system (microtubes, F-actin), ovoid form of platelets.
(9) Rat TSH cells were ovoid or angular to stellate, and contained granules ranging in size from 60-175 nm.
(10) In some myelinated fibres there were pseudomyelinic ovoids.
(11) The isolated cells have an ovoid soma, a dendrite of variable length which terminates in a cilia-bearing knob and an axon, also of variable length.
(12) The notable absence of this complication in our patients at a mean follow-up of 41 months (range 3-71) documents that this ovoidal composite graft is a reliable tool in the treatment of aortic root pathology.
(13) The earliest lesions of the patch stage of Kaposi's sarcoma show a slightly increased number of cells with small ovoid nuclei around preexistent structures, accompanied, in some cases, by sparse infiltrates of lymphocytes and plasma cells.
(14) 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.
(15) An ovoid cell was similar to a gemistocytic astrocyte.
(16) 4) Islet cells in the pancreatic tissue of the minor duodenal papilla were rich in B-cells which were round to ovoid in shape and sharply outlined.
(17) A second type was smaller, fusiform or ovoid and generally bipolar; a significant number of these were immunoreactive for the releasing hormone LHRH.
(18) Giant (greater than 40 mu) and large (26-40 mu) neurons are distinguished primarily by size and possess similar ultrastructural features: extensive areas of rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), a prominent perinuclear Golgi complex, numerous mitochondria and pigment granules and a large, ovoid nucleus which occasionally contains intranuclear rodlets.
(19) They can be summarized as: mesial shifting of the maxilla, dimensional increase of the mandibular body, ovoidal upper arch with a deeper palatal vault, tapering or trapezoidal lower arch.
(20) Our findings show that round or ovoid GABA-immunoreactive neurons were abundant in both subdivisions.