(a.) Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to examine the role of the basal ganglia (BG) in the regulation of basic movement parameters, we recorded extracellularly from pallidal neurons in conscious monkeys during the performance of a sequential wrist movement task which was composed of a series of holds and ballistic jumps.
(2) The tasks were designed to dissociate several modes and parameters of movement to see whether pallidal neurons would discharge in relation to one and not the others.
(3) A related growth factor, epidermal growth factor (EGF), has also been reported to be present in pallidal regions of rat brain.
(4) It is concluded that, of the compounds identified, solstitialin A 13-acetate and cynaropicrin have toxic potential in cell cultures, containing cells from the substantia nigra of the rat, the specificity of action to cells of the substantia nigra remains to be shown, and that a toxic action in the midbrain may contribute to the nigro-pallidal encephalomalacia, caused by the ingestion of the yellow star thistle by horses.
(5) This response pattern was present in 39% of the pallidal records, and appeared to be elicited by the auditory components of the CS and US.
(6) SITS was chosen for the pallidal injections because it is not taken up by fibers-of-passage.
(7) The proposed changes in nomenclature are based on the analysis of topographical relationships between nigral, pallidal, and cerebellar projections to the thalamus studied in 13 rhesus monkeys with the use of autoradiography technique.
(8) However, these two pallidal afferents arborize according to a different pattern in GPe and GPi.
(9) The first excitation was assumed to be monosynaptically driven since it was not affected by pallidal lesion or transsection of the internal capsule.
(10) He came within 10 minutes of passing much of that burden on to José Mourinho, whose Chelsea side once again looked pallid and likely to slump to a fourth league defeat, before a remarkable late recovery left the home side hanging on just to earn a point.
(11) In the human ventral nuclear complex there is a very clear histochemical distinction between nuclei which, on the basis of comparison with the monkey, probably form the pallidal, cerebellar and lemniscal relays to premotor, motor and somatic sensory cortex, respectively.
(12) A very high proportion of pallidal and entopeduncular neurons showed changes in firing rate during fluid injection.
(13) Statistical analysis reveals a marked difference between reconstructive surgery and simple thrombectomy, whereas fibrinolysis was found to be a useful but limited method used only in patients with pallid ischemia and in circulatory compensation.
(14) The contradiction which exists between akinesia with an abnormal activity of the medial pallidum and akinesia with bilateral pallidal lesions could only be apparent if akinesia was linked to the ineffective emission or to the interruption of messages to the thalamus.
(15) Neuroleptic administration augmented the responses to cortical stimulation in 12 of 34 pallidal neurons.
(16) A recent neuropathological study has reported decreased levels of dynorphin A immunoreactivity in striato-pallidal fibers in the brain of a patient with severe Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome (TS).
(17) This population was separate from the more numerous population of medium size globus pallidus cells projecting to the subthalamic nucleus and was also separate from the pallidal and especially peripallidal population of large cholinergic cells projecting to the cortex.
(18) We have tested the hypothesis that the basal ganglia initiate some one or several modes of movement by recording the change in discharge frequency of pallidal neurons during visually triggered step and visually paced ramp moves in relation to the visual stimulus onset, the change in the electromyograph (EMG), and the movement onset of trained rhesus monkeys.
(19) The bilateral modulatory effects of striatal stimulation may cancel out the circling behavior seen during pallidal stimulation, and cause only head turning.
(20) Oxidative phosphorylation was studied in isolated liver mitochondria from manganese-deficient mice and in those from a mutant strain, pallid.
Pastel
Definition:
(n.) A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.
(n.) A plant affording a blue dye; the woad (Isatis tinctoria); also, the dye itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) On one side of the road stands an orderly row of RDP houses, their gable ends neatly rendered in pastel shades of peach and tangerine.
(2) Pastel mink inoculated with parallel doses of ADV also produced antibody but did not develop AD.
(3) His pencil or pastel notes, readjusts, notes again with more emphasis the advancing or receding edge of a continually moving body.
(4) I go, I have no wish to make a scene, but disloyalty, much, Govey will never forgive you, you do know we have replaced your neon with one of Nancy's pastels?
(5) Try the tartelette de chocolate e avelã (hazelnut and chocolate tart, £2), or the classic Portuguese pastel de nata (custard tart, same price).
(6) In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky.
(7) Impaired semantic processing may result even when odors are simply rendered desaturated, or pastel because of the weakening of olfactory sensitivity with aging.
(8) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(9) There are mothers in pastel hijabs, men in T-shirts and longyis, and naked children clutching on to grandparents, jostling for space among puddles and dust, held back by guards with rifles.
(10) Katrantzou herself dresses uniformly in black – in her serene London studios, where quiet seamstresses in neon and pastels snip busily at tables, hers seems to be the only shadow.
(11) For a treat, two minutes’ walk from Nine Flowers is Cape Town’s palace hotel, the pastel pink Mount Nelson, famous for its afternoon tea .
(12) Go there today and you will walk from a room of 18th-century pastels to an empty gallery with Martin Creed's Turner prize-winning light being turned on and off.
(13) Seventy-two 3-mo-old pastel mink were fed diets that contained 0, 33, 60, 108, 194 or 350 ppm supplemental fluorine (F), as NaF, for 382 d to assess its effects on growth, fur quality, reproduction and survivability.
(14) Lady Edith still has an older man in her life, although her wardrobe seems to be getting crazier, with ever-larger headscarves and splashier pastels.
(15) "Everything is in shades and tones of pastel colours - cream, grey, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink - and only in the stark bright light at the height of the polar summer, when the sun is high in the sky, do you begin to see true whites among the other colours."
(16) When I asked a Swedish friend what the tent, pastel kitchen units, and perky crockery displays in All of Sweden is Baking brought to mind, she replied, immediately: “Ikea and summer weekend cabins.” Phillips has not even lost hope of selling the format to China, which has no tradition of covered ovens, let alone baking – despite the fact that one broadcaster has turned her down on the grounds that Chinese audiences won’t watch a television programme “that makes you fat”.
(17) About 39% of pastel mink infected naturally with Aleutin disease virus (ADV) exhibited an inapparent or nonprogressive infection.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artist Judy Watson, Bloom 2009 pigment, ink, pastel and acrylic on canvas 217.5 x 148 cm Oil and gas – but also coal.
(19) I agree with her because I always agree with people as they’re talking, and then I see the dodgems in question: squarish, pastel coloured, built for the slenderer figures of the past, so beautiful and evocative and Brighton Rock that they look poignant, almost vulnerable.
(20) But it is not only us; it is happening to people all around here and it is sad that our community is being broken up like this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gympie Street has mostly been renovated and is now painted in pastel colours.