(n.) A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. See Illustr. under Cuttlefish.
(n.) A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India.
(a.) Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assumption is made that, for eumelanins, there is only one nitrogen atom per monomeric unit, and thus, the empirical formula for the average monomeric Sepia melanin backbone chromophore was determined.
(2) In an earlier communication, we have presented the results of our study on in vitro interaction of bleomycin with collagens of sepia, fish and rat skins using spectrophotometry.
(3) Studies with radiolabelled polyethylene glycol (PEG4000) and EDTA show that the Sepia blood-brain barrier is as tight as the endothelial barrier of mammals.
(4) To add effects to a photo, select one from the menu - sepia, film reel - and swipe upwards to the photo from the icon representing that effect.
(5) This antiserum recognizes a 44 kDa (G alpha) and a 36 kDa (G beta) protein band from Sepia photosensory membrane preparation.
(6) The only catecholamines found present in nervous tissue of Eledone, Octopus and Sepia were dopamine and noradrenaline.
(7) A modification of the Oldendorf arterial injection technique is used to show that glucose transport at the Sepia barrier is mediated by a Na+-independent hexose carrier resembling that of mammalian red cells and blood-brain barrier.
(8) The effect of an intravenous injection of squid-ink (sepia-melanin) solution on adult mouse spheroid alveolar epithelial cells was observed by the electron microscope.
(9) Among them there were Todarodes pacificus, Ommastrephes bartrami, Berrytenthis magester, Sepia officinalis.
(10) A new technique using a stimulating chronically-implanted electrode has allowed us to study the motor responses induced by electrical stimulation of the optic lobe in a freely swimming Sepia.
(11) Effects of noradrenaline and the related compounds adrenaline, dopamine, octopamine, tyramine, clonidine and isoprenaline were studied in isolated heart preparations from the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis L. 2.
(12) Mackay had a difficult conversation with David Cameron , and subsequently appeared on TV with a sepia tan and embarrassed, bulging eyes.
(13) The musculature of the fins of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Mollusca, Cephalopoda) was studied with electromyography to test predictions of the functional role of the various muscle masses.
(14) In contrast, at one week after injection of squid-ink solution, almost all alveolar macrophages were degenerated with destruction of the ectoplasm in which the ingested sepia-melanin particles were digested by lysosomes into fine particles, and the mitochondria of spheroid alveolar epithelial cells were degenerated and the inclusion bodies were hardly formed.
(15) The blood-brain interface was studied in a cephalopod mollusc, the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, by thin-section electron microscopy.
(16) The HSA results further confirm that the Sepia blood-brain interface is relatively tight to proteins.
(17) The blood-brain barrier in the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis has been studied with the freeze-fracture technique.
(18) Most of all, however, Dingell mourned the sepia-toned era when Democrats and Republicans actually worked together.
(19) Tyrosine-enzymatic and Sepia melanin are quite similar and tyrosine-chemical melanin is fundamentally different from the other two melanins.
(20) They reached the quarter-finals of the 1958 World Cup but had never been in the semi-finals of a major tournament and the challenge was to surpass those sepia-tinted images.
Septa
Definition:
(pl. ) of Septum
Example Sentences:
(1) A block of tissue bounded by the ostium of the coronary sinus, the pars membranacea, the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve and the atrial and ventricular septa is removed.
(2) As early as postnatal Day 2, NPY-I nerves were observed in connective tissue septa of the developing ovary.
(3) Interalveolar septa were hypercellular and multifocally thickened.
(4) (2) Septa and the papillonodules, when present, are the only solid portion of the tumor and contain blastemal cells admixed with their normal and aberrant derivatives.
(5) An automatic image analyser was used to monitor pathological changes in morphological structure, especially the size and distribution of collagen fibres, the thickness of the septa and the diameters of alveoli in the lung.
(6) It shows that the interalveolar septa are standard structures in their organization and dimensions both in the same animal and in different animals of the same species.
(7) The materials positive for the PAS and PTO reactions in alveolar septa are epithelial and endothelial basal laminas, which are nonargyrophilic.
(8) Their numbers are within normal limits when the plexiform lesions are mature with wide vascular channels and narrow intervening septa.
(9) Moderate pulmonary edema, characterized by substantial fluid cuffing around extra-alveolar arteries and veins and by fluid accumulation restricted to the thick sides of the alveolar septa, is associated with increased vesiculation in alveolar vessel endothelium.
(10) The technique demonstrates that the vascular distribution of the interdental and interradicular septa is different.
(11) Neutrophils and lymphocytes of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid increased and transbronchial lung biopsy specimens showed slight thickening of alveolar septa with infiltration of inflammatory cells.
(12) As the severity of the lesions increased so did the number of IgA-, IgG(Fc)- and in several cases non-immunoglobulin staining cells around the vasculature, bronchioles and in the alveolar septa.
(13) The muscle had a normal appearance and origin from the common tendon arising from the medial epicondyle of the humerus and from the surrounding intermuscular septa.
(14) Prospective studies have documented changes in interventricular septa of babies exposed to these drugs.
(15) In normal lung tissues, type IV collagen and laminin stainings were continuously linear in bronchial BM, blood vessel BM, around bronchial gland and along alveolar septa.
(16) On T2-weighted spin echo MR images, there was increased signal intensity within the masses, and the surrounding liver parenchyma was divided by linear septa in one of the two cases.
(17) Concentrations of p-IgA, alpha 2M, and IgM in BAL displayed RCE at least 10 times lower than in other external secretions, reflecting the unsignificant local synthesis of these components in alveolar septa.
(18) In In normal musculature, AChE positive reactions were localized at the ends of the muscle fibers where they are anchored on connective tissue septa by myotendinous junctions.
(19) This new approach revealed unknown connective tissue septa inside the orbit.
(20) Heart weights, including mean relative weights of the right and combined left ventricles and interventricular septa, were significantly greater in turkeys that died with PHS than in controls.