(a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.
(a.) Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.
(a.) Of pertaining to the parietes.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals.
(a.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.
(n.) One of the parietal bones.
(n.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(2) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(3) Beta 1 activity increased during the first 10 min of KB in occipital and to a lesser degree in parietal regions.
(4) The present study was planned in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the PTFE surgical membrane as a parietal peritoneal substitute.
(5) Three animals received unilateral lesions which included both the inferior parietal lobule and a portion of adjacent dorsal prestriate cortex (IPL-PS).
(6) This dye is concentrated and secreted by the parietal cells.
(7) Five daily injections of TGF beta-1 or -2 were administered subcutaneously over the frontal and parietal bones of seven-week-old mice.
(8) The distribution of cells at the stage of DNA synthesis and mitosis in all the parietal peritoneum speaks of the absence of special proliferation zones.
(9) The pineal of certain lizards possesses a finger-like projection that extends toward the parietal eye.
(10) There were no differences in brain metabolic rates in lateral cortical areas (frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes).
(11) 5-Bromo-indoxyl acetate esterase was likewise absent from the parietal vascular cells of the central artery.
(12) Duodenal ulcer patients also exhibit an increase in the number of parietal cells, which results in an increase in maximum acid output.
(13) Moderately higher GLUT3 mRNA levels were detected in the parietal lobe of the cerebrum, hippocampus, and cerebellum than the levels of GLUT1 transcripts.
(14) And the maxima of the alpha-power and of the alpha-peak-power are mostly located parietal instead of occipital.
(15) Anosognosia is a well-known manifestation of non-dominant parietal lobe lesions and typically lasts a few days.
(16) This exogenous protein tracer could be seen in apical vacuoles and phagosomes in the cuboidal parietal epithelium.
(17) Fewer labeled cells appeared after parietal, temporal or occipital cortex injections.
(18) In 18 of the 118 stomachs the focal concentration of the parietal cells near the duodenum was greater than the other part of the antrum, reaching more than 50% of the parietal cells of the average fundic gland.
(19) Histological verification revealed a group with consistent parietal damage but also a subgroup with relatively small lesions to dorsal or lateral hippocampus in addition to parietal damage (PC + HIP).
(20) Cellular mechanisms underlying the actions of antisecretory agents were studied with dispersed canine fundic cells; aminopyrine accumulation monitored parietal cell (PC) function.
Ventral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to dorsal.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(2) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(3) By 3 d in the chick embryo, the first neurons detected by antibodies to Ng-CAM are located in the ventral neural tube; these precursors of motor neurons emit well-stained fibers to the periphery.
(4) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
(5) The effects of clozapine on the spontaneous firing rate of noradrenergic (NE, locus coeruleus), dopaminergic (DA, zona compacta, ventral tegmental area) and non-dopaminergic (zona reticulata) neurons was studied in chloral hydrate anesthetized rats.
(6) Differences between parental and nonparental birds in VIP profiles were detected in the ventral portion of the infundibular region.
(7) The dominance of XBMP-4 over activin may account for the ability of injected XBMP-4 RNA to 'ventralize' whole Xenopus embryos.
(8) This column is located ventral and lateral to the dorsolateral division of the trigeminal motor nucleus, and just medial to the descending trigeminal nerve rootlets.
(9) Lumbosacral spine films revealed only minimal degenerative changes, while lumbar myelogram showed L4-L5 and L5-S1 ventral extradural defects.
(10) The ventral root dissection technique was used to obtain contractile and electromyogram (e.m.g.)
(11) The ventral tract ends almost entirely in the anterior lobe with the majority of fibres terminating contralateral to the side of the hemisection.
(12) Descending neurons have opposite structural polarity, arising in the brain and terminating in segmental regions of the fused ventral ganglia.
(13) It was found that within the dorsal part of the well known pressor area there is a narrow strip, 2.5 mm lateral from the mid line, starting ventral to the inferior colliculus and ending in the medulla close to the floor of the IV ventricle, from which vasodilatation in skeletal muscles is selectively obtained.
(14) Injection of the tracer substance wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) directly into the basilar pontine nuclei using a ventral surgical approach resulted in the labeling of somata in many areas both rostral and caudal to the basilar pons.
(15) Contact guidance has been suggested to direct NC cells ventrally in the trunk, but this has been subject to doubt (see Newgreen and Erickson, 1986, Int.
(16) These additional projections were interpreted as entering the CN by a ventral route.
(17) Cytochrome oxidase histochemistry revealed patchy patterns of the enzyme activity in transverse sections through the caudal part of the ventral subnucleus of the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus, interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus, and layer IV of the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus in the cat.
(18) Zebrin II-negative Purkinje cells are present in a continuous region encompassing the rostromedial part of the valvula, the lobus transitorius, lobe C1 and the ventral part of lobe C2, and in a small, lateral zone of the posterior part of the caudal lobe.
(19) To test whether congenital nemaline myopathy (NM) might have a neurogenic basis, we evaluated the number and frequency distribution of L5 motoneuron cell bodies and their myelinated ventral root (VSR) axons in a typical case.
(20) Fractionation of the supernatant from ventral or dorsal hypothalamic homogenates resulted in a bimodal distribution of IR-TSH.