(a.) Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some pupal motor neurons, however, show a marked non-linear response to depolarizing current injection (Fig.
(2) The four distinct neuroblasts proliferating in the early larval and late pupal stages are identical; they lie in the cortex above the calyces of the mushroom bodies (corpora pedunculata), proliferating over a period twice as long as that for the other neuroblasts.
(3) The P cytotype-like effects include suppression of snw germline hypermutability, snw somatic mosaicism, pupal lethality, and gonadal dysgenic sterility.
(4) As the period of exposure to the low temperatures increased, pupal survival decreased.
(5) Thus it appears that a cerebral neuropeptide specifically inhibiting JH I synthesis by the CA is present in Manduca on day 4 of the last larval instar, a time when the hemolymph titer of JH must drop to ensure the occurrence of pupal commitment.
(6) Genetic information on 25 enzyme polymorphisms in Drosophila subobscura, the location of corresponding genes, and cytological and genetic maps of the chromosomes are presented, as well as photographic maps of the salivary gland chromosomes in the third instar larva and white-case early pupal stages.
(7) Hook decoration with pig brain tubulin was used to assess the polarity of microtubules which mainly have 15 protofilaments in the transcellular bundles of late pupal Drosophila wing epidermal cells.
(8) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
(9) Cautery off the midline produced asymmetries in the pattern of pupal commitment; when placed close to the midline, such cauteries prevented pupal commitment in the region "downstream" of the cautery, suggesting that a signal (diffusible or transducible) emanates from the midline.
(10) In the pupal brains, ecdysteroid receptors reappear in a new population of neurons.
(11) The lethal phase of various apparent null mutants was determined and found to occur mainly in the pupal stage.
(12) These proteins are later sequestered by the pre-pupal fat body.
(13) The effects of the insect growth regulator diflubenzuron (DFB) were observed on the larval-larval and larval-pupal moulting cycles of Tenebrio molitor, after treatment at ecdysis.
(14) Expression of the ets-2 gene occurs throughout development, but is highest during the embryonic and pupal stages.
(15) Following exposure, samples of flea eggs were processed for microscopic examination and seeded onto carpet swatches containing flea-rearing medium in order to assess egg hatch, and larval, pupal, and adult development.
(16) The velocity preferences of larval and pupal blackflies were studied experimentally by comparing the colonization of plastic strings placed in different velocity ranges; and also by investigating the simuliid microdistribution under natural conditions in the river.
(17) A comparison of the polytene NC-chromosomes with those from the pupal bristle forming cells reveals an unexpected discrepancy: while both chromosome complements exhibit a constant banding pattern it is not possible to homologize the two tissue specific patterns by identifying homologous band-sequences.
(18) To facilitate studies of the development and physiology of these receptor cells, we have produced primary in vitro cultures of cells dissociated from pupal male antennae.
(19) We studied the shortening of the Sarcophaga lectin mRNA, because this mRNA shows acute phase expression on injury of the larvae and programmed expression in the pupal stage.
(20) Utilizing this pupal system, the heat-responsive period for increasing crossing-over in the Drosophila genome has been defined for the X chromosome and a portion of chromosome 2.
Pupil
Definition:
(n.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.
(n.) A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
(n.) A person under a guardian; a ward.
(n.) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(2) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(3) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
(4) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(5) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(6) The pupils at the Royal Blind School, Edinburgh, were surveyed and it was found that 40% of the 100 pupils had definitely inherited severe eye disease.
(7) The teacher said his school believed it was aware of all the pupils who had been present, and that Nuttall was not among them.
(8) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
(9) For data sampled at a high rate (approximately 200 Hz) pupil velocity deviations from zero can simply be used, giving a satisfactory inaccuracy of about 5 ms. For data sampled at a low rate (less than 50 Hz), e.g.
(10) On neurological examination, he showed stupor,pupils and eye position were normal.
(11) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
(12) Posterior synechiae, pupil deformations, grave uveitis with hypotonia of 4-10 mm Hg are rapidly developing.
(13) Effects of topical administration of a single dose of 2% pilocarpine on intraocular pressure (IOP) and pupil diameter were evaluated in normotensive eyes of 10 clinically normal cats over 12 hours.
(14) Changes in pupil size indicated a substantial cholinergic effect on the iridal sphincter musculature.
(15) The nineteen pupils so discovered had more exercise-induced bronchial lability than equivalently exercised controls.
(16) Theory and practice of urology generates three types of professionals: doctors, who study at universities and obtain their licence by making a demonstration before the Protomedicato Tribunal; surgeons, who acquire their surgical techniques through a teacher-pupil training relationship outside universities; and empirics, who were in charge of performing surgical operations.
(17) The evolution and characteristics of diabetic rubeosis were studied in 33 eyes, and the following vascular abnormalities were found: (1) Dilated leaking capillaries around the pupil; (2) irregular or slow filling of the radial arteries; (3) superficial arborising newly formed vessels, usually starting in the chamber angle; and (4) dilatation and leakage of the radial vessels either before or after the development of neovascular glaucoma.
(18) Characteristic clinical features were present in 19 patients, including a gradual obtundation after the initial hemorrhage in 16 patients and small nonreactive pupils in nine patients (all with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 7 or less).
(19) Ed Miliband's education package is less generous than some hoped Read more The Labour leader said the coalition is directly to blame for a trebling in the number of classes with more than 30 pupils from 31,265 in 2010 to 93,345 in 2014, as a result of opening free schools in areas where new schools are not needed.
(20) Of these, 61.2% said they had been subjected to a pupil writing an insulting comment about them on a social network or internet site, 38.1% said a student had made comments about their competence or performance as a teacher, and 9.1% said they had faced allegations that they behaved inappropriately with pupils.