(a.) Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant.
(n.) An extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the preaxial side of the pollex.
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Rudiment
Definition:
(n.) That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning.
(n.) Hence, an element or first principle of any art or science; a beginning of any knowledge; a first step.
(n.) An imperfect organ or part, or one which is never developed.
(v. t.) To furnish with first principles or rules; to insrtuct in the rudiments.
Example Sentences:
(1) The final pattern can thus be related to the cytoplasmic organization of the rudiment.
(2) In contrast, rudiments of internal organs provided their own contingent of endothelial precursors, a process termed vasculogenesis.
(3) Chondrogenesis and osteogenesis of the os penis were caused by androgens, while the rudiments of the os penis were formed independently of androgens.
(4) Results differed according to the germ-layer constitution of the grafted rudiments.
(5) Matrix volume increase accounted for almost 60% of the overall rudiment increase.
(6) This necrosis was strikingly more severe in the mandibular rudiment of the first branchial arch than in the maxillary.
(7) (2) When the transplantation reversed only the rostrocaudal axis, two days after the operation the rudiments of dorsal root ganglia were formed at the caudal (originally rostral) halves of the transplanted sclerotomes.
(8) Our results indicate that the area of hypertrophy and cartilage resorption may be established quite early in the rudiment before overt manifestation of these processes.
(9) These results indicate that 1) Engrailed-2 expression is suppressed in the most ventral neural tube owing to induction of the floor plate by the notochord, and 2) that the presence of an underlying notochord is not required for correct rostrocaudal expression, suggesting that multiple pathways act in the patterning of the rudiment of the central nervous system.
(10) Pancreas rudiments from 13-day rat embryos were cultured in the presence of dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) for up to 10 weeks.
(11) Finally, the importance of the interaction between stem cell and organ rudiment to normal thymic development is discussed in relation to the pathogenesis of thymic anomalies.
(12) Other performers on the night included award winners Goulding, Mars, Bastille and Rudimental, as well as Katy Perry, whose set resembled an Aztec scene with fluorescent dance outfits and laser beams.
(13) Complete paraffin serial sections of the heads of 14- and 15-day fetuses were cut in three planes to determine the location and shape of the earliest pouch rudiments.
(14) It has rudiments of the prefirst (Pp) and the seventh (Pm) rays.
(15) Pole cells thus formed in uv-irradiated embryos bear similarities to normal pole cells both in their morphology and their ability to migrate to the gonadal rudiments.
(16) There is a period in the development of chick adenohypophysis, which lasts five days of incubation and during which the adenohypophysis rudiment retained its capacity for lens differentiation despite the fact that it is already determined in the adenohypophysis direction.
(17) The numerical value of approximately 10(-7) cm2s-1 for D suggests that retinoids are not freely diffusible in the limb rudiment, but interact with the previously identified cellular retinoic acid binding protein.
(18) The epithelium seems to be necessary for the process of rudiment formation of the os penis and the corpus cavernosum penis.
(19) Particular identified circular and longitudinal muscle fibers, visualized by indirect immunofluorescence using a monoclonal antibody against leech muscle, outline the presumptive ganglionic territories even before the ganglionic rudiments become morphologically distinct and serve as anatomical landmarks to which the cell movements are related.
(20) Among five efts of the smallest size (26.54 plus or minus 2.20 mm snout-to-vent length), and displaying bright orange dorsal skin coloration, all carpal rudiments were cartilaginous.