(a.) Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.
Example Sentences:
(1) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
(2) Human beings associate in societies because of a primeval need and fundamental instincts.
(3) Last year ITV1 drama Primeval was saved from cancellation with a financing deal in which BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm that distributes the show overseas, took over from ITV as the biggest investor.
(4) But it's still his early pieces that pack the greatest punch, and that, thanks to the film-makers who have used them, give voice and vision to the dark, primeval realms of our imagination.
(5) The rough track is an unmarked turning across a primeval landscape of rock and sand under a vast cobalt sky.
(6) Most people don’t know Whitechapel and Primeval were both developed by the BBC.
(7) The existence of hot or cold "nutrient broth" or "primeval soup" is challenged on the basis of the recent geochemistry of soluble organic carbon in the oceans.
(8) Hodges, who was also behind Primeval and Charles II, will return to executive produce the second series of six episodes next year.
(9) At present, craniofacial biodynamics is the sole concept capable of shedding light on matters such as the evolution of the skull, its diversification and transformation down from the primeval primates.
(10) The simplest interpretation of our data is that all extant photosynthetic cells are descended from a single common ancestor that possessed a primeval photosynthetic mechanism.
(11) ITV1's drama Primeval wilted badly against BBC1's Doctor Who special, picking up 2.7 million viewers and a 14% share in the hour from 6.15pm.
(12) Proof of evolution beyond Australia's "primeval prejudices" stemming back to our colonial origins was the rise of Catholics in the Liberal party, with the prime minister, Tony Abbott, "part of the proof".
(13) Sky1 is has commissioned a multimillion-pound remake of Sinbad the Sailor, to be produced by Primeval makers Impossible Pictures, which it promises will have "the ambition of Lost and the pace of 24".
(14) Many of those who framed them are in the vanguard of the campaign to take Britain out of Europe, playing on primeval island fears of being ruled by Brussels’s faceless bureaucrats and some of its undemocratic institutions.
(15) It is as though these disorders had retained a phylogenetically lost unity and primeval capability of interchanging psychic and somatic structures and, so to speak, preserved them in the manner of a museum.
(16) ITV is cutting a further 600 jobs on top of 1,000 announced last year, as well as slashing £65m from its £1.1bn programme budget, with high-profile shows such as Primeval axed.
(17) Iron, molybdenum, and zinc, the most abundant transition elements in seawater, presumably complexed with compounds accumulated in the primeval sea in the course of chemical evolution forming compounds with subsequently evolved to form proenzymes or early enzymes with low activity and broad specificity.
(18) Certain class 5 protein variants were expressed by both bacterial clones, possibly reflecting either inheritance of primeval genes or horizontal transmission.
(19) BBC America, UKTV channel Watch and Germany's Pro7 also invested to fund two more series of Primeval.
(20) Another new Sky1 drama unveiled today is a 13-part remake of Sinbad the Sailor , to be produced by Impossible Pictures, the company behind Primeval.
Primordial
Definition:
(a.) First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.
(a.) Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell.
(n.) A first principle or element.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, in primordial follicles, FSH was restricted to the germ cell but was present in both the oocyte cytoplasm and germinal vesicle.
(2) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(3) This primordial role explains the wide variety of tissues, ranging from the central and peripheral nervous system to the vascular system, that are affected by FGF during the late embryonic, neonatal, and adult phases of development.
(4) Indirect immunofluorescence studies with four monoclonal antibodies raised against carp spermatozoa revealed that monoclonal antibody WCS 29 stained the outer membranes of primordial germ cells in larvae from 3 days after fertilization.
(5) After the treatment in toto of the embryos from various species of Anura by cAMP, the number of primordial germ cells (PGC) in genital ridges is strongly reduced; the most part of the PGC are found in the endoderm.
(6) Mouse lymphocytes and STO fibroblasts were negative, whereas F9 teratocarcinoma cells, intestinal epithelial cells, and rat fetal primordial germ cells were all found to be highly positive for APase activity, in agreement with published results on APase localization in these cells.
(7) This sequence of events suggests that receptor formation may be induced by innervation of primordial cells within the epidermis.
(8) Laparoscopic directed ovarian biopsies show primordial follicles in one and a corpus luteum in the other.
(9) Plastic responses in leaf form resulting from ontogenetic or external influences are initiated very early in primordial development and are brought about by effects on the rate and direction of cell division and expansion in different regions of the primordium.
(10) The primordial ratio was supposed to shift to the modern one guided by the action of primitive nucleotides.
(11) Evidence suggests that cAMP production is not a primordial step in the response to androgen since dibutyryl cAMP did not mimick the androgenic effect, theophylline did not potentiate the response and alpha,beta-methylene ATP, which competitively inhibits adenyl cyclase, failed to alter the androgenic effect.
(12) In the ooplasm the transosome takes part in the development of primordial yolk granules.
(13) Moreau de Tours's classical studies about haschisch had pointed out to a rich symptomatology: visual and auditive hallucinations preceded by the "primordial effect": "the dissociation of ideas".
(14) The resulting space is not homologous with the primordial amniotic cavity; instead, it is a transitory tropho-epiblastic cavity.
(15) In embryos with 6.5-6.7 mm NRL, a part of the primordial proper esophagus extended to the dorsal side of the primordial stomach.
(16) Besides this areas of the primordial germinogen cell generation are found among the cells lining the system of labyrinths and channels of the yolk sac tumour.
(17) It is concluded that exposure of B6 mice to a single dose of MC results in atresia of oocytes in primordial and small primary follicles.
(18) Primordial germ cells (PGCs), which formed in 78% of cases when the presumptive ventral half to the embryo was cultured, occurred in only 48% of cases when the two ventral vegetal blastomeres were cultured alone.
(19) Sympathetic neurotransmitters have been shown to be present in the ovary of the rat during early postnatal development and to affect steroidogenesis before the ovary becomes responsive to gonadotropins, and before the first primordial follicles are formed.
(20) Gonadal biopsy was done on the patients, which disclosed no evidence of primordial follicles in one and severe reduction in the other.