(a.) Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spores of both parasites are oviform; those of M. acanthocephali are gigantic, 12-14 micron long and 6-7 micron broad, those of M. propinqui are only 3-4 micron X 1.25-1.50 micron.
(2) Other cell types within the hilus contain CI, such as basket cells, oviform-like and fusiform-like cells.
(3) Two types of oviform cell were found: (1) the conidia which had one nucleus and vacuolized cytoplasm and were not involved in the production of alkaloids; (2) the chlamydospores with two nuclei, homogeneous cytoplasm, and high content in lipids.
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.