(n.) The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.
(n.) A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.
(n.) A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Exposure to short photoperiod increased the number of immunoreactive cell bodies within the anterior hypothalamus and preoptic area (AHPOA) and also increased the optical density for staining of immunoreactive cell bodies in the AHPOA and olfactory peduncle.
(2) In excised regenerating peduncles algae divide before digestive cells, and at the onset of digestive cell division mitotic cells were found to contain almost twice the number of algae as before excision.
(3) ruber, anterodorsolateral midbrain tegmentum, superior and inferior colliculi, pontine gray, cerebral peduncles, medial pontine reticular formation, raphe and vestibular nuclei did not affect the acoustic structure of the calls tested.
(4) The chief characteristics of stage 18 (approximately 44 postovulatory days) are rapidly growing basal nuclei; appearance of the extraventricular bulge of the cerebellum (flocculus), of the superior cerebellar peduncle, and of follicles in the epiphysis cerebri; and the presence of vomeronasal organ and ganglion, of the bucconasal membrane, and of isolated semicircular ducts.
(5) Individual axons leave the ventral peduncle and run dorsally in the transverse plane, entering the dorsal lateral geniculate complex from its ventral edge.
(6) All of those lesions were located in the brainstem or cerebellar peduncles and were identified by NMR, but missed by CT.
(7) This copper-chelating agent produces demyelination in the corpus callosum and superior cerebellar peduncles, and when treatment is stopped, there is rapid remyelination.
(8) In our case there was a "flow" of carcinomatous cells along the fistula, which entered the meningocele, invading the subdural space as far as the peduncle.
(9) The presence of Arg-Phe-amide (RFamide)-like peptides in dense-cored vesicles in neurons of the peduncle of Hydra was demonstrated by immunogold electron microscopy.
(10) The dorsolateral, lateral, and medial pontine nuclei and the middle cerebellar peduncle were effective stimulation-CS sites for training.
(11) Other precerebellar nuclei which send their cerebellipetal axons to the inferior cerebellar peduncle, such as the external cuneate nucleus, the lateral reticular nucleus and the arcuate nucleus, were normally preserved.
(12) In these pontocerebellar infarcts the middle cerebellar peduncle was the core of the affected territory.
(13) Conditioning-test procedures revealed that cerebral peduncle stimulation strongly blocked the thalamocortical (test) response, especially after ethanol, but thalamic stimulation (conditioning) had no effect upon the surface negative wave.
(14) Pathologically there was necrosis of the optic chiasma and focal areas of myelin sheath vacuolation or demyelination in certain areas of the brain, especially in the cerebellar peduncles.
(15) Section of the superior cerebellar peduncle just rostral to the deep cerebellar nuclei results in degenerating axon terminals within the contralateral inferior olive.
(16) These high intensity areas of internal capsule, brain stem and middle cerebellar peduncle on T2 weighted image would be significant for understanding pyramidal tract sign and cerebellar sign of this case.
(17) Postmortem studies were carried out upon five cases and showed either pathological changes in the cerebellum or a lesion involving the cerebellar peduncles in the brain stem.
(18) We concluded that in combination with intra-operative CSF drainage and the sitting position the infratentorial supracerebellar approach allows safe access to lesions situated in an area limited by the posterior part of the third ventricle, the fastigium level and both cerebellar peduncles.
(19) The centre for control of the four eye-muscle nerves in the anterior lateral pedal lobe receives many fibres direct from the statocyst and from the peduncle and basal lobes, but none direct from the optic lobe.
(20) Cerebellar cortex, cerebellar peduncles and spinocerebellar tracts were preserved.
Scape
Definition:
(n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
(n.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
(n.) The shaft of a column.
(n.) The apophyge of a shaft.
(v. t. & i.) To escape.
(n.) An escape.
(n.) Means of escape; evasion.
(n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
(n.) Loose act of vice or lewdness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pertinent themes in the history of responses to epidemic disease in the United States in the past two hundred years include an initial underestimation of the severity of the epidemic; the prevalence of fear and anxiety; flight, denial, and scape-goating as a result of fear; efforts to quarantine and isolate carriers and the sick; the assertion of rational policies by coalitions of business, government, and medical leaders; the recruitment of a special cadre of physicians to treat the sick; the similarity of responses to both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases; and the high cost of epidemics, which is shared by government, philanthropy, and private individuals.
(2) Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was cultured from 9 (8.7%) of the 103 bovine fecal samples and from 4 (3.9%) of the 103 bovine rectal mucosa scapings tested.
(3) Within the scape of a comparative long-term study between conservative and operative therapy of Perthes'-disease the effort was made to estimate the dimension of the psychic and social detraction in addiction to the method of treatment by a detailed inquiry of 116 patients as well as of their accompanying parents.
(4) The Böhm bristles of Lepidoptera occur in precise areas of the scape and pedicel of the antenna.
(5) Perú doesn't scape of that situation and for this reason, it is necessary that health professionals should have clinical therapeutical and epidemiological acknowledgements in order to be applied efficiently in benefit of the community.
(6) The most productive tissues for propagation were inverted scapes and peduncles, cultured in a modified Murashige and Skoog salt solution with added organic constituents and 1 mg per 1 (4.5 micron) 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 1 mg per 1 (4.4 micrometer) 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP).
(7) Leaf bases, scapes, peduncles, inner bulb scales and ovaries were cultured successfully in vitro and plantlets were induced readily at various concentrations of growth regulators.
(8) Longitudinal peripheral meniscus tears were fixed by the scape in inside-out technique.
(9) If you can handle the monotony of the vast ice-scape that unfolds, it is possible to navigate a ship with a strong hull and a good lookout nearly to the north pole at this time of year.
(10) Your way of encouraging people to make their own music with your new app, Scape , is a good example of a different sort of approach to working.
(11) The results also suggest that segments of the typically three-segmented larval antenna of Holometabola are not scape, pedicel, and one-segmented flagellum; at least segments 2 and 3 are of flagellar origin.
(12) Best immediate results were obtained in vipomas and insulinomas but a scape phenomenon was frequently observed.
(13) Therefore, it seems that the delinquent adolescent is the scape-goat of the family.
(14) Within the scape of his life-history the attempt is made to portray a man in his time and to waken his importance as ophthalmologist a significant still in our days.
(15) Inevitably, the discussion, which takes place in Eno's office in Notting Hill, London, barely touches on the record, Lux ; instead, it ranges over another of his new creations (an app called Scape), the value of art, and why numbers are like sausages.
(16) An average of 10 rooted plantlets was obtained from each scape or peduncle explant on the shoot-propagating medium.
(17) But blaming the BBC is just scape-goating, since in every other country with no BBC, newspapers are in equally dire straights.
(18) Mechanosensory organs in the scape and pedicel, the Böhm bristles and Johnston's organ, are innervated by AChE-positive neurons.
(19) Ventricular scapes were not seen at the end of the sinus pauses.