(n.) A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast.
(n.) An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk.
(n.) The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.
(n.) A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The plastron region is composed of elaborate stalked aeropyles above a highly dissected inner reticulum.
(2) The plastron region partially encircles the micropyle (anterior end) of the egg and extends along the dorsal surface to the posterior pole; it is delineated laterally by the hatch lines.
(3) Rib abnormalities (duplications, fusions, and spurs) were found in 55 of 2,016 plastron roentgenograms, sternal foramina were found in 135, and episternal bones were found in 51.
(4) The most useful features are the shape and structure of the plastronic area between the hatching pleats.
(5) Included are the gross structure and surface characteristics of the chorion, the basic architecture and internal components of the chorion proper, the location and function of the hatch lines, and the functional morphology of the plastron region as a respiratory structure.
(6) The cavity after bathing is subjected to ultrasound cavitation; fibrinous film and gauze plastrons, impregnated with hemostatic sponge, are placed in it with the proximal and distal ends connection to the tubular drainage in order to ensure permanent lavage of cavity with antiseptic solution and active vacuum aspiration of its content with the subsequent application of sutures on the wound, tight bandaging of a limb and its immobilization.
(7) Respiration is thought to be facilitated by openings at the base of the anterior pole as well as by openings through the "plastron" around the main body of the shell.
(8) Consistent with their primary function as a protective covering, the carapace and plastron are heavily keratinised.
(9) Bone cells and osteoid were more common in dermal bone biopsies from the carapace and plastron of captive juvenile desert tortoises than in adult desert tortoises.
(10) With consideration for the great variety of the forms of deformity of the plastron, simple and complicated forms of FCD are distinguished.
(11) Characteristic changes that can be demonstrated on roentgenograms occur with increasing age in the plastron (chest plate) of humans.
(12) The epidermis is much thicker over the plastron of the loggerhead turtle.
(13) A large, topographically well-placed Plastron incision, separation and reposition of the m. pectoralis and m. obliquus internus abdominis using cross-stitch sutures, as well as the careful manipulation of tissues, are of great importance.
Tortoise
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.
(n.) Same as Testudo, 2.
(n.) having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.
(n.) a tortoise-shell cat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
(2) Fingerprint analysis and S1 nuclease mapping analysis also showed that sequence boundaries of tortoise repetitive units exactly corresponded to RNA species.
(3) Such changes of EEG and behaviour were not found in tortoises that committed errors at first presentations of the task and only gradually learned correct solving.
(4) The phase of quick tension recovery was found to take place more rapidly in frog than in tortoise fibres: it was completed in approximately 30 msec (after stretch) and in approximately 20 msec (after release) in frog fibres (3 degrees C).
(5) However, monoamine storage organelles have not been found in tortoise thrombocytes.
(6) Both groups of goats were infested with small numbers of immature stages of the tortoise tick, Amblyomma marmoreum, and the yellow dog tick, Haemaphysalis leachi.
(7) A theory to explain its underlying physiology is presented, based on studies of the seasonal and cyclic variations in the tortoises' blood composition.
(8) It has been demonstrated that in the tortoise after hatching the round nucleus and its neurons are rather small, neuronal density is high.
(9) Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman star as neighbours Mrs Silver and Mr Hoppy, who are brought together when Hoppy whispers a magic growth spell to Silver’s pet tortoise, then attempts to bring the incantation’s power to fruition.
(10) The fatty acid composition of sphingomyelin (Spm) was studied in the total brain, the forebrain and the brain stem in frogs (Rana temporaria and Rana ridibunda), the tortoise (Emys orbicularis), the hen and the cat.
(11) Measurements have been made of heat production and changes in levels of phosphorylcreatine (PC), ATP and lactic acid resulting from contraction of tortoise muscle under anaerobic conditions.2.
(12) Pasteurella testudinis was cultured from the nasal cavity of all ill tortoises and one of four control tortoises.
(13) The development of the intramural plexuses in the tortoise, Geoclemys reevesii was inferior to that observed in the fowl: the meshes of both Auerbach's and Meissner's plexuses were coarser, and consisted of less number of nerve fibers.
(14) Most of the superficial fibres in both tortoise and terrapin muscles were multiply innervated, but end-plates were focal rather than diffuse.6.
(15) The amplitude of the delayed rectification current, when expressed either as normalized to the calculated membrane capacity or to the initial background current, is significantly larger in the frog than in the tortoise.
(16) Appearance of transversal and circular anastomoses between the afferent and efferent arterioles of the glomeruli, as well as transformation of their capillaries into nutritional capillaries in the tortoise kidneys under the alimentary dehydration ensures realization of the periglomerular and aglomerular renal arterial blood circulation.
(17) Periods of breath-holding are interrupted by episodes of continuous breathing in the aquatic turtle Pelomedusa subrufa, whereas single breaths and short periods of breath-holding alternate in the terrestrial tortoise Testudo pardalis.
(18) The primary and secondary immune responses to sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) have been characterized in the tortoise Mauremys caspica in terms of circulating antibodies and PFC response in two different seasons: summer and autumn.
(19) The tortoises did not develop fever in response to any of the pyrogens we tested.
(20) The report that Sendai virus was implicated in the genesis of rhinitis in tortoises could not be substantiated.