(n.) A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
(n.) A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.
(n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.
(n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
(v. t.) To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
(v. t.) To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
(v. t.) To wrinkle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
(2) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
(3) 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).
(4) We have now found that these cells, cultured as a monolayer, are able to undergo rapid morphogenesis forming ridges and balls around collagen fibres, when soluble collagen type I is added to the medium.
(5) Besides the rough, wrinkled, and brown or black surface of the fingertips, microwrinkles of the epidermis occur on the skin ridges, which have so far not been described.
(6) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
(7) The narrow intercellular ridge is smooth, whereas the epithelial cells have small cytoplasmic knobs between the cilia.
(8) The calculations revealed that local hypoxia and lipoprotein accumulation may occur at the ridges, leading to subsequent intimal thickening and ridge growth.
(9) The quality of the alveolar ridge and the denture as well as the functional status of the craniomandibular system were evaluated in detail.
(10) The use of an intraoral alveolar ridge soft tissue expander to aid in reconstruction of the alveolar ridge is described, and the results in five cases are reported.
(11) Sixty-three per cent of the implants were operated in immediately after tooth extraction, whereas the rest were installed in a healed bony alveolar ridge.
(12) 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.
(13) The innervation to the rete ridge is uniquely absent in the rabbit.
(14) The atrial complex was a common chamber with an attempt at division into two parts by a circular ridge of tissue; the ventricular complex was formed by three chambers which were all communicating between each other in the superior margin of their muscular interventricular septum.
(15) The other main sites of expression are the genital ridge, fetal gonad and mesothelium.
(16) Cells with demarcated borders showed rearrangement of microvilli into globular chains or ridges which lined up with the branching membrane.
(17) With the mobilization of the two halves of the face it is possible to approximate the orbits, simultaneously elongating the center of the face and normalizing the maxillary alveolar ridge.
(18) The air pressure in the skin cup was continually adjusted (using an electromechanical servo-control system) to pull the skin upward and to hold it perfectly flat across the upper ridge of the Teflon cylinder.
(19) Clinical findings as well as fingerprint ridge counts were typical of the syndrome.
(20) By design these plants are adjacent to the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and such a location would seem ideal for an experiment on the wedding of nuclear and fossil sources of energy.
Rugose
Definition:
(a.) Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.
Example Sentences:
(1) This choice is controlled by a parameter of rugosity (the atomic radius).
(2) Stimulation of acid secretion rearranges 80K to a more rugose pattern filling the entire cell.
(3) The alterations caused by the atheroma do not seem to be induced by local modifications or rugosity, but by slow modifications of the local diameter.
(4) A clinical pilot study oriented toward the practical value of gastric fold assessment offers the follow: (1) Younger patients (below 60 years) with carcinomas may have rugose stomachs as opposed to the more usual presentation in the elderly.
(5) Under appropriate conditions of growth colonies showing fine wrinkling (rugosity) of their surface and characteristic of certain BCG strains can be distinguished from colonies with a smoother non-rugose morphology that are characteristic of some other BCG strains.
(6) The placental unit consists of: (1) an umbilical stalk; (2) the smooth, proximal portion of the placenta; (3) the distal, rugose portion; (4) the egg envelope; and (5) the maternal uterine tissues.
(7) In the foal with chronic disease, the mucosa of the large intestine was thickened, rugose, and mottled red-tan.
(8) In the third period, after week 15, the endolymphatic sac more or less seems mature with a rugose appearance in its proximal portion and a more even, slit-like appearance in the distal portion.
(9) There was a very marked difference between the two strains in the evolution of such 'drop-colonies', and it appeared that the lateral spread of fine rugosity from those of the Pasteur strain represented an enhanced ability of small numbers of bacilli to take up the nutrient.
(10) Attachment sites are highly vascular, rugose elevations of the maternal uterine lining that interdigitate with the fetal placenta.
(11) C. pyloridis has a smooth not a rugose surface and multiple unipolar flagella of the sheathed type, each with a terminal bulb.
(12) Pathology of the VA and ES was studied by measuring the sizes of the VA and ES, paying particular attention to the proximal rugose portions.
(13) The viruses dealt with are canavalia acronecrosis, mosaico de canavalia, cassia yellow spot, cowpea green vein-banding, cowpea rugose mosaic and cowpea severe mottle.
(14) It is characterized clinically by a curious rugose thickening of the palms with an accentuation of the normal dermatoglyphic ridges and sulci.
(15) A group of 16 male patients with infertility had dermatitis of the scrotum and groins giving lichenified oedematous skin; the resulting thickening and loss of rugosity produced a characteristic appearance that we have termed wash leather scrotum.
(16) In vitro exposure of full-term placentae to solutions of trypan blue and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) reveals little uptake by the smooth portion of the placenta but rapid absorption by the surface epithelial cells of the distal, rugose portion.
(17) A histologic and anatomic investigation of the symphyseal region in rabbits did not reveal a bony fusion between the two halves of the mandible; these two bones are united in the anterior part by a synchrondrosis, and a definite histologic suture with interdigitating bony rugosities and interposed connective tissue, in the posterior part.
(18) The mild form showed only bilateral rugose thickening of the palate, whereas the severe form showed gingival hyperplasia in addition to changes in the palatal mucosa.
(19) The distal rugose portion of the placenta is the fetal attachment site.
(20) The surface of egg shell was relatively smooth, without rugose albuminous coat.