(n.) That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning.
(n.) Hence, an element or first principle of any art or science; a beginning of any knowledge; a first step.
(n.) An imperfect organ or part, or one which is never developed.
(v. t.) To furnish with first principles or rules; to insrtuct in the rudiments.
Example Sentences:
(1) The final pattern can thus be related to the cytoplasmic organization of the rudiment.
(2) In contrast, rudiments of internal organs provided their own contingent of endothelial precursors, a process termed vasculogenesis.
(3) Chondrogenesis and osteogenesis of the os penis were caused by androgens, while the rudiments of the os penis were formed independently of androgens.
(4) Results differed according to the germ-layer constitution of the grafted rudiments.
(5) Matrix volume increase accounted for almost 60% of the overall rudiment increase.
(6) This necrosis was strikingly more severe in the mandibular rudiment of the first branchial arch than in the maxillary.
(7) (2) When the transplantation reversed only the rostrocaudal axis, two days after the operation the rudiments of dorsal root ganglia were formed at the caudal (originally rostral) halves of the transplanted sclerotomes.
(8) Our results indicate that the area of hypertrophy and cartilage resorption may be established quite early in the rudiment before overt manifestation of these processes.
(9) These results indicate that 1) Engrailed-2 expression is suppressed in the most ventral neural tube owing to induction of the floor plate by the notochord, and 2) that the presence of an underlying notochord is not required for correct rostrocaudal expression, suggesting that multiple pathways act in the patterning of the rudiment of the central nervous system.
(10) Pancreas rudiments from 13-day rat embryos were cultured in the presence of dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) for up to 10 weeks.
(11) Finally, the importance of the interaction between stem cell and organ rudiment to normal thymic development is discussed in relation to the pathogenesis of thymic anomalies.
(12) Other performers on the night included award winners Goulding, Mars, Bastille and Rudimental, as well as Katy Perry, whose set resembled an Aztec scene with fluorescent dance outfits and laser beams.
(13) Complete paraffin serial sections of the heads of 14- and 15-day fetuses were cut in three planes to determine the location and shape of the earliest pouch rudiments.
(14) It has rudiments of the prefirst (Pp) and the seventh (Pm) rays.
(15) Pole cells thus formed in uv-irradiated embryos bear similarities to normal pole cells both in their morphology and their ability to migrate to the gonadal rudiments.
(16) There is a period in the development of chick adenohypophysis, which lasts five days of incubation and during which the adenohypophysis rudiment retained its capacity for lens differentiation despite the fact that it is already determined in the adenohypophysis direction.
(17) The numerical value of approximately 10(-7) cm2s-1 for D suggests that retinoids are not freely diffusible in the limb rudiment, but interact with the previously identified cellular retinoic acid binding protein.
(18) The epithelium seems to be necessary for the process of rudiment formation of the os penis and the corpus cavernosum penis.
(19) Particular identified circular and longitudinal muscle fibers, visualized by indirect immunofluorescence using a monoclonal antibody against leech muscle, outline the presumptive ganglionic territories even before the ganglionic rudiments become morphologically distinct and serve as anatomical landmarks to which the cell movements are related.
(20) Among five efts of the smallest size (26.54 plus or minus 2.20 mm snout-to-vent length), and displaying bright orange dorsal skin coloration, all carpal rudiments were cartilaginous.
Undeveloped
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the distinct dissimilarities of neural connections between rodents and primates indicate that the rodent's hippocampal formation might somehow have an undeveloped neural system of memory, or a different memory system from that of primates.
(2) Although the intellectual base of nursing is believed to be patient care, the role of clinical field studies in master of nursing programs is unstructured and undeveloped.
(3) Birds with undeveloped ovaries (immature), developed ovaries but not laying (mature), and after laying 3-8 eggs (laying), were used in the first series.
(4) The lower clearances in infant and young rats were considered to be caused by the undeveloped liver function to metabolize phenytoin.
(5) The FR 30 cells had irregular shapes and sizes; the amount of undeveloped rough endoplasmic reticulum and the number of lysosomes were increased.
(6) The result was not satisfactory in some cases with the undeveloped oval window.
(7) Further evaluation and more systematic studies are greatly needed in order to sensitize professionals and society at large to the undeveloped potential of the retarded and their response to this form of intervention.
(8) This is a case report of 2-month-old boy who had a peculiar physiognomy with a microcephalus and an undeveloped forehead.
(9) A population survey was therefore carried out to determine the prevalence of hypertension and cardiac murmurs in a random sample of people aged 25-64 years living in an undeveloped rural area.
(10) Survival of eggs of O. ostertagi and C. oncophora was evaluated by incubation for 24 hours at 20 degrees C of thoroughly washed, treated eggs followed by microscopic examination and differentiation into developed or undeveloped eggs.
(11) The present status of the undeveloped branch of high-performance immobilized-metal-ion affinity chromatography (HPIMAC) is reviewed.
(12) The developing nations, with all their differences, face strikingly similar problems in administration and nursing administration in particular: emphasis on tertiary hospitals, top-down hierarchies, undeveloped human resources, lack of high performance systems, lack of infrastructures for health service delivery, ineffective rural-urban links.
(13) These results suggest that lateral inhibitory processes may be relatively undeveloped or receptive fields do not develop to be as small as those of normal adults.
(14) In view of these results, partially fractionated reticulocyte lysates were tested for restoration of protein-synthetic activity in the undeveloped embryo lysate.
(15) Supranuclear gaze palsies characteristic of type 3 were noted from early childhood, although the major signs were undeveloped until early adult life.
(16) The purpose of the meeting was to explore the undeveloped research opportunities in the area of marine biology for the advancement of our understanding of human health problems and to provide information on the current status of marine biology laboratories.
(17) Since active inflammatory trachoma in childhood responds to tetracyclines, erythromycin, and sulphonamides the disease should be attacked in those undeveloped rural areas where it continues to lead to blindness.
(18) Abnormal findings such as deficits, undevelopment and metamorphosis, in the shape, size and configuration of nerve cells, myelin sheaths and vessels in consecutive transverse sections stained by Nissl and Klüver-Barrera method were not evident on examination under light microscope, and in cell bodies, dendrites, axons, myelin sheaths, synaptic complexes of nerve cell, neuroglia and vessels in the cerebral cortex, under electron microscope.
(19) Total mortality was 25.2%; in most of the fatal cases (90.6%) the fistulas were undeveloped.
(20) Sellar, it was widely assumed, would then sell the undeveloped site for a large profit.