(a.) Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.
(a.) Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The coronary arterial anatomy in 26 univentricular hearts, its relation to the morphologic characteristics of the ventricles and rudimentary chambers, and its surgical implications were analyzed.
(2) Mechanisms are suggested whereby rudimentary appetitive programs already encoded along facing dendrite membrane pairs within the specialized intrafascicular milieu, may trigger and control nipple search and suckling in the still blind and only primitively mobile neonate.
(3) Arterial complications are usually associated with cervical ribs or rudimentary first ribs, but 12 per cent have occurred in patients with no osseous abnormality.
(4) The following differential signs were underlined: initial symptoms, such as rudimentary cenesthopathia, stable insomnia, etc., preceding the formation of delusions; appearance of episodic exacerbations in the form of short-time acute paranoiac states; a combination of paranoiac delusion with stable phasic affective disorders; unusual possession of delusional patients expressed in bizarre delusional behaviour, etc.
(5) The occupational health services available to health service staff are often rudimentary.
(6) We report 5 newborns with a contracted lesser pelvis, imperforate anus (severely stenotic and ectopic anus in 1 case), absent or rudimentary urinary tract, and defective or absent external genitalia, vagina, and uterus but normal gonads.
(7) British people’s privacy is being put in danger because organisations are failing to get rudimentary security right, the information commissioner’s office warned on Monday.
(8) The structure of the rudimentary prostates of Ellobius lutescens is maintained intact after 6 days of organotypic culture in the absence of male hormones.
(9) In the 1930s, Piraeus was a rudimentary harbour; it was bombed by German planes in the second world war.
(10) Although he only had a rudimentary education, it is from him that I acquired my passion for language and learning.
(11) For differential diagnosis rudimentary supernumerary digit, cutaneous horn and granuloma pyogenicum are to be considered.
(12) Since gonadogenesis in day-12 rat embryos is rudimentary, with gonadal differentiation of sex not yet apparent, the increased weight suggests that sex-linked genes exist which influence body growth prior to gonadal endocrine activity.
(13) Although all were quadriparetic due to postoperative mechanical deformation of the cervical region, they were able to use the affected limbs to make postural adjustments and for standing and rudimentary ambulation.
(14) All gonads were constituted by rudimentary ovarian stroma with different states of hyalinization.
(15) The oculoauricular reflex is a physiological and bilateral phenomenon, often rudimentary in man.
(16) This rudimentary accessory ray caused a splay foot deformity that made it difficult for the patient to walk comfortably in shoes.
(17) The two rudimentary pouches lying posteriorly were not outlined by delimiting arteries.
(18) eye contact) from unambiguous to ambiguous message conditions, suggesting awareness of the differences in these message types at a rudimentary level.
(19) The degeneration of ovarian follicles and the formation of cell cords (rudimentary seminiferous tubules) were seen in the cortex.
(20) The term "rudimentary meningocele" seems appropriate for these lesions.
Wingless
Definition:
(a.) Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first, the 28A region, gave three recessive lethals and also contains three known visible mutants, spade (spd), Sternopleural (Sp) and wingless (wg); a complex pattern of genetic interaction in the region incorporates both the new and the previously known mutants.
(2) This derepression is independent of two known activators of en expression: en itself and wingless.
(3) Autoregulation graduates to wingless independence, but is transient, and is superseded by an engrailed-independent mode of maintenance.
(4) report cloning of a Drosophila homolog (Dint-1) of the mouse int-1 gene and show that this gene is identical to wingless+.
(5) We show that this out-of-context activation occurs in cells belonging to the anterior compartments of the three thoracic and the A1 to A8 abdominal segments and that it requires the normal function of the polarity genes wingless (wg) and engrailed (en).
(6) We report here that this choice is mediated by wingless (wg), in a function distinct from its early role maintaining en expression.
(7) The segment polarity genes engrailed and wingless are expressed in neighboring stripes of cells on opposite sides of the Drosophila parasegment boundary.
(8) The question we sought to answer was whether in wingless embryos the proximal wing muscles could form a normal pattern in the absence of the humerus and distal wing skeletal elements.
(9) Fleas are small, reddish-brown, wingless insects with a laterally compressed body and a pronounced third pair of legs adapted to leaping.
(10) The wingless (ws) condition is not, therefore, due to a ZPA deficiency.
(11) These results suggest that wingless regulates accumulation of arm protein by a posttranscriptional mechanism.
(12) According to this view, expression of wingless is normally maintained only in those cells receiving an extrinsic signal, encoded by hedgehog, that antagonizes the repressive activity of patched.
(13) Finally, the supracoracoideus muscle was absent in all but one wingless embryo we examined in the present study.
(14) The segment polarity gene wingless has an essential function in cell-to-cell communication during various stages of Drosophila development.
(15) From the study of mutational mosaics in the wingless locus we conclude that mutations in this gene can be autonomous in mosaics.
(16) The subdivisions of the Drosophila embryo, called parasegments, are defined by the interface between cells expressing the homeoprotein Engrailed and cells expressing the secreted protein Wingless.
(17) The ubiquitous effects of ectopic wingless expression may indicate that most cells in the embryo can receive and interpret the wingless signal.
(18) Finally, the decreased motoneuron number in the wingless LMC, when compared to normal after the cell death period, cannot be totally accounted for by the additional loss of cells that occurred during the cell death period in the wingless LMC.
(19) The phenotype of heatshocked HS-wg embryos resembles the segment polarity mutant naked, suggesting that embryos that overexpress wingless or lack the naked gene enter similar developmental pathways.
(20) Furthermore, the products of engrailed, wingless and hedgehog are essential for maintaining the normal pattern of expression of patched.