(a.) Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) This protein was not present in extracts from pears or apples.
(3) The pearly skin of these subjects becomes more translucent and the detail extra-perfect.
(4) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(5) The aim was to create an infinite number of ways in which the story could be read – though Pears emphasised that Arcadia was not an interactive novel.
(6) Computer taxonomic studies using the nucleotide and inferred amino acid sequence of the MOMP of C. pneumoniae IOL-207 and all known chlamydial MOMP sequences supported the designation of C. pneumoniae as a new species, but electron microscope studies suggested that the presence of pear-shaped elementary bodies (EBs) may not be a reliable taxonomic criterion.
(7) On admission, she had an asymmetrical pear-shaped tumor in the right supraclavicular region and severe hypercalcemia.
(8) Adsorption with extracts from apples and pears had no such effect.
(9) Boiling of spinach, pears, grapes, tomatoes, and wheat, treated with different EBDCs, resulted in 3-30% conversion to ETU.
(10) The stenosis appeared to be caused by a specific change in the pattern of growth leading up to an anterior narrowing ('pear'-like) of the cricoid ring and a conspicuous thickening of the subepithelial layer.
(11) The "startle response" ap peared earlier in the experimental ani mals, as did the development and re sponse of the electroencephalogram to novel stimuli.
(12) At least six different cell types are recognizable: (1) nondifferentiated duct cells; (2) cells containing apical secretory granules; (3) goblet cells; the mucosubstances of type 2 and 3 are PAS- and Alcian-blue-positive, also reacting wih methenamine silver; (4) ciliated cells, containing a single cilium with the microtubular pattern 9+2; (5) tuft cells with extremely long and wide microvilli and a pear-shaped cell body; (6) migrating cells, mainly lymphocytes and some assumed eosinophils, showing reaction to Mg++-activated ATPase.
(13) I was a dancing Fury; I'm told that Peter Pears came but I never saw him."
(14) Such a pear-like geometrical figure is, in fact, formed spontaneously by DNA collapsed under certain conditions in vitro (Eickbush & Moudrianakis, 1978).
(15) The character George Bowling bites into a frankfurter he has bought in an milk bar decorated in chrome and mirrors: "The thing burst in my mouth like a rotten pear.
(16) They were amacrine cells with a pear-shaped soma and dendrites distributed in 3 sublayers within the inner plexiform layer.
(17) We are talking about apples and pears when we compare the two.
(18) Children's author Allan Ahlberg, the mind behind much-loved titles Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum, has turned down a lifetime achievement award because it is sponsored by Amazon and the idea that his success "should have the Amazon tag attached to it is unacceptable".
(19) These axon endings are supposed to belong to afferent climbing fibers of cerebellum stimulating differentiation of pear-shaped neurons, localization of these fibers causing a certain succession in the development of perisomatic processes.
(20) The trichorhinopharyngeal (TRP) syndrome type I (Giedion, 1966) is characterized clinically by craniofacial dysmorphism with sparse hair, pear-shaped nose and long philtrum, and abnormalities of the extremities (disabling deformities of the hands and feet).
Rearly
Definition:
(adv.) Early.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
(2) Laboratory-reared Ixodes scapularis Say, Amblyomma americanum (L.), and Dermacentor variabilis (Say) were fed on New Zealand white rabbits experimentally infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (JDI strain).
(3) Heavy death losses (59%) occurred in adult Mystromys 3--14 days after muscle biopsies were taken from their rear legs.
(4) Maternal age had a significant effect (P less than .05) on live body weights of broilers reared either separately or intermingled.
(5) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
(6) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(7) Infected ticks were reared from larvae feeding on each of 11 rabbits taken from the same site.
(8) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
(9) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
(10) This time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the Accra Plains (Ghana) and infected by S. typhimurium.
(11) Serum somatomedin A was significantly reduced in the growth-retarded rats as compared to those whose growth was enhanced by rearing in small litters.
(12) This measure was significantly greater by 17.2% in chicks trained for 140 min than in dark-reared controls.
(13) It was caused at the frequency close to 100% in dysgenic offsprings reared above 25 degrees C, of which gonads were morphologically clearly different from those of usual GD sterility, whereas there was no indication of GD-3 sterility at temperatures below 24 degrees C. Temperature sensitive period of GD-3 sterility was estimated to the prepupal stage by shift-down experiment.
(14) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
(15) In contrast, when hamsters reared under LD conditions at 25 degrees C for 12 weeks were transferred to SD, testicular regression was associated with a decrease in plasma testosterone and the total LH binding per two testes and an increase in LH binding per unit testicular weight.
(16) Nevertheless, there are farms on which satisfactory results are obtained in rearing calves with low Ig levels.
(17) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
(18) There were no significant differences in the adrenal weights of males or females, but females reared by bisexual pairs had larger absolute and relative adrenals than females reared in populations.
(19) sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis group to be recognized in the Neotropical Region.
(20) In cats that viewed lines of the same orientation with both eyes during rearing, a substantially smaller proportion of units were selective for orientation; the preferred orientations of these units also tended to match the orientation to which the cats had been exposed.