(n.) Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves.
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Velum
Definition:
(n.) Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate.
(n.) See Veil, n., 3 (b).
(n.) A thin membrane surrounding the sporocarps of quillworts Isoetes).
(n.) A veil-like organ or part.
(n.) The circular membrane that partially incloses the space beneath the umbrella of hydroid medusae.
(n.) A delicate funnel-like membrane around the flagellum of certain Infusoria. See Illust. a of Protozoa.
Example Sentences:
(1) MRI revealed cranium bifida and agenesis of anterior medullar velum.
(2) To compare biochemical differences between bivalves with and without endosymbiotic chemoautotrophic bacteria, specimens of Solemya velum, a bivalve species known to contain bacterial endosymbionts, and the symbiont-free soft-shelled clam Mya arenaria, were collected from the same subtidal reducing sediments during October and November 1988.
(3) The Z-plasties facilitate effective dissection and redirection of the palatal muscles to produce an overlapping muscle sling and lengthen the velum without using tissue from the hard palate, which permits hard palate closure without pushback or lateral relaxing incisions.
(4) We now report that, compared to controls, rats with acute EAE exhibit fewer detectable mast cells in their dura mater and velum interpositum.
(5) The superior medullary velum was not recognized in 10 cases and the corpus medullare in 5.
(6) Its efficacy is generally accepted, and its use, especially in cases of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, is the only treatment of the palatal velum at present practiced.
(7) The axons originate in dorsal dendrites, run dorsally along the border of the gray matter and pierce the velum medullare on the contralateral side.
(8) While coughing the movement of the velum is purely passive because of the exspirational thrust.
(9) The velopharyngeal closure patterns can be grouped into five categories according to the manner of the velum and lateral pharyngeal wall movements.
(10) Few 5-HT nerve terminals occurred only on the roof of the fourth ventricle (velum medullare, lamina epithelialis of the tela chorioidea), and the surface of the choroid plexus epithelia was devoid of such nerves.
(11) The inferior medullary velum and tela choroidea were removed intact from the fourth ventricle, post-osmicated, dehydrated, critical point dried, coated with palladium-gold and examined in a Cambridge Stereoscan S4 scanning electron microscope.
(12) The clinical presentation, radiological findings, and surgical management of two cases of meningioma arising from the velum interpositum without dural attachment are described.
(13) The delta 13C and delta 15N ratios of the amino acids are very similar to the isotope ratios previously found in both the endosymbionts and whole tissues of S. velum.
(14) Five patients evaluated via multi-view videofluoroscopy were found to have incongruous movements between the velum and lateral aspects of the pharyngeal walls.
(15) They are lined on the inside towards the distal part of the velum by thin epithelium and towards the proximal part by ciliated sensory cells.
(16) The cerebellum, the beginning of which was already noted at stages 13 and 14, consists of (1) a rostral part that arises from the alar plate of the isthmic segment and will form the superior medullary velum and part of the corpus cerebelli; and (2) a caudal part that develops from rhombomere 1.
(17) The measuring principle is described and the movements of the velum during speech production are demonstrated in cleft palate patients with different speech results.
(18) In individuals without pharyngeal flap surgery the velum was displaced in the anterior direction and its position could be influenced by the pushback of the mandible.
(19) In addition to this permanement neurogenous myoclonus, there are also rhythmical contractions of the velum, usually considered to be psychogenous.
(20) The second procedure is for use after exeresis involving all or almost all of the soft palate and a half of the posterior pharyngeal wall, and makes use of velum palatinum reconstruction.