(n.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 1 day in vitro the explants were partly encircled by epithelium which had proliferated from the cut edges of the explant and from rete ridges near the cut edge (epiboly).
(2) None of the rete-depleted ovaries exhibited normal follicular differentiation regardless of the presence or absence of the surface epithelium, whereas follicles developed normally in all the implants containing the rete system.
(3) An investigation of the tissue distribution of CMB-2 showed that the puberty, CMB-2 is secreted into the rete testis and accumulates in the epididymis in high concentration.
(4) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
(5) The innervation to the rete ridge is uniquely absent in the rabbit.
(6) The 5alpha-reductase and 3alpha-hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase enzyme activities have been measured in epididymal tissues and the control of these activities by androgens and the rete testis fluid appreciated.
(7) The effects of EDTA, and of varying pH on the capillary permeability in the rete mirabile have been investigated: EDTA had to be added to the perfusate in excess to the total content of Ca++ and Mg++ in plasma in order to elicit changes in the permeability.
(8) Thus, the pattern of sensory innervation in the glabrous rat snout skin is similar to that found in other furred species described to date, but in addition, the sensory innervation of ridged skin in the rat also resembles that of epidermis organized into rete pegs.
(9) Signal from the ipsilateral rete mirabilis is increased.
(10) These results are discussed in relation to the presumed dilution of seminiferous tubular fluid in rete testis fluid and the role of androgen-binding proteins in the transport of steroids.
(11) These features include a central dermal nevocytic component with a peripheral extension of a junctional component, elongated epidermal rete ridges, bridging of nests of melanocytes at the dermo-epidermal junction, nests of melanocytes at the sides of rete ridges as well as at their bases, and concentric eosinophilic fibrosis.
(12) Fluid was collected from the seminiferous tubules and rete testis of the treated and control groups at 1, 8, 12, and 24 hr intervals.
(13) Cells of the rete ovarii differentiate to form granulosa cells as well.
(14) Since the rete mirable ofthe eel swimbladder is a pure vascular preparation, it is most useful for the study of themorphology, the permeability, and the metabolism of the endothelial cells and for the analysis of the chemical structure of their basil laminae.
(15) The presence of sexual differentiation structures was investigated : coelomic epithelium, stromal characteristics, follicles sexual cords, medullary tubules, rete ovarii, hilar cells, mesonephric remnants and coelomic epithelium inclusions.
(16) The present observations indicate that the previous descriptions of the urodele carotid labyrinth should be corrected: a vascular ring exists around the common carotid artery and the latter shows a corresponding narrowing at the entrance to the carotid labyrinth; the vascular ring forms the most proximal part of the external carotid rete; the central chamber occupies only a part of the proximal end of the carotid labyrinth; the internal carotid rete and the external carotid rete constitute a continuous rete mirabile; and a distinct furrow exists in the boundary between these two portions of the rete mirabile.
(17) The epithelium was histochemically and ultrastructurally similar to that of the rete testis, and the tumor was considered to be of rete testis origin.
(18) Deep elongation, branching-off of rete processes and the narrowing of each junction of branches were frequently observed.
(19) This condition is characterized by a decreased caliber of the internal carotid arteries and bilateral occlusion of the anterior and middle cerebral arteries with visualization of an extensive collateral network of tortuous blood vessels of the rete mirabile type at the base of the brain.
(20) The production of anti-sperm antibodies is attributed to: 1) granuloma formation; 2) increased permeability of epithelial barriers in the rete testis and epididymis; and 3) transport of phagocytic cells to regional lymph nodes.
Rote
Definition:
(n.) A root.
(n.) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
(n.) The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.
(n.) A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.
(v. t.) To learn or repeat by rote.
(v. i.) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their three Rs are rigour, rightwing history and rote learning.
(2) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
(3) Materials-based occupation, imagery-based occupation, and rote exercise have been examined individually by several researchers.
(4) Four different tasks were employed (serial learning, paired learning, rote learning, and visuolinguistic transfer), some requiring a single trial learning modality others a multitrial learning modality.
(5) The report says incursions were becoming more regular: “In anticipation of the entry of Australian warships (foreign war vessels) into Indonesian territorial waters, already occurring more and more often, it is necessary to increase Indonesian sovereignty in carrying out more patrols in and around the waters of Rote Ndao and Dana Island, so that foreign warships do not enter Indonesian territorial waters again,” it says.
(6) They found 17 cases in which dorsal vertebral hyperostosis was indiscutable and in which there was acquired stenosis of the cervical canal related to the bony proliferations that had developed on the anterior face of the cervical canal and to the type of cells described by Forestier and Rotes-Querol on the anterior and lateral faces of the vertebral column.
(7) (1) Vigilance and reaction time test were the most useful in evaluation of effects of various doses of the medication; the memory tasks showed similar, but less definite, trends; and rote calculation and block design were of no particular value in this study.
(8) Infantile delivery also frequently serves to take the curse off self-publicity; sleight of hand for those who find "my programme is on BBC2 tonight" too presumptuous and exposing, and prefer to cower behind the low-status imbecility of "I done rote a fingy for da tellybox!"
(9) The important thing is to stop the boats and and the Australian people are extremely pleased that’s what's happened Tony Abbott The Indonesian police chief on Rote, Hidayat, was quoted by Fairfax as saying the cash “was in $100 bank notes” and wrapped in six black plastic bags.
(10) The values regarding maximum doses published in the German Pharmacopeia ("Rote Liste") can be defined as being more or less the product of the volume of distribution and the toxic concentration in the plasma.
(11) The present study examines the hypothesis that motor responses added into rote tasks would modulate the sensation-seeking activity and impulsive errors of hyperactive (ADD-H) children.
(12) The real problem is that GCSE language courses provide no proper preparation for language work, concentrating as they do on rote learning and minimal understanding of grammar.
(13) The ABC this week broadcast footage of asylum seekers receiving treatment for burns they claim they suffered when navy personnel forced them to hold hot engine pipes as they were towed back to Indonesia's Rote Island.
(14) The three experiments described aimed to establish whether the achievements of idiot savant calendrical calculators were based solely on rote memory and arithmetical procedures, or whether these subjects also used rule-based strategies.
(15) A cohort of 40 children was assessed for their abilities on 44 variables which involved reading, spelling, vocabulary, short-term memory (STM), visual skills, auditory-visual integration, language knowledge, rote knowledge and ordering ability as they developed from five to eight years old.
(16) It was Dec who, on Saturday night, almost rugby-tackled the defeated Boyle away from the audience and the cameras when he noticed that she seemed intent on flashing her underwear: a sign – along with her the fact that her congratulations to the winners sounded slow and learned by rote – that she was dangerously on edge.
(17) It is suggested that if change in the biomedical system is a goal of a critical clinical anthropology, the impact will be greater where objective and broad causal connections can be demonstrated with minimal use of rote or polemic arguments.
(18) Meg Hillier, MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, which contains Grillo’s school, the Bridge Academy, makes the point that his success is particularly exciting because “it shows that Hackney schools are not just about exam results and rote learning, they’re about teaching wider life skills.
(19) Under our experimental conditions, rote associative learning either remains intact or recovers satisfactorily with 1 month of abstinence in alcoholics.
(20) While most drug interactions can be avoided by thinking in terms of groups, pharmacokinetics and probabilities, some learning by rote is required, e.g.