(n.) A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.
(fem. a.) Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not even a late red card for the substitute Kike Sola could tarnish the Basque club’s joy as they ended Barça’s hopes of repeating their 2009 feat when they won all six competitions they contested: the Champions League, La Liga, the King’s Cup, the European Super Cup, the Spanish Super Cup and the Club World Cup.
(2) The frequency of infertile marriages in rural areas of Papua New Guinea has been reported by a number of people: 24.3% in Tabar in 1953; 17% in Tigak, 4.1% in the Solas area, and 2.8% in Lemankua.
(3) 27, 3677; Bertini, I., Briganti, F., Luchinat, C., Scozzafava, A., & Sola, M. (1991) J.
(4) The aim of this work is to answer the question as to whether the TiO2 semiconductor integrated into the toothbrush "Denta-Sola" has any effect on the removal of plaque.
(5) Sola Tayo, an associate fellow at Chatham House, says the characterisation of the herdsmen as militants obscures the abuses they also face.
(6) A modified combined indirect ophthalmoscope and magnifying loupes with illumination was made by mounting a pair of Zeiss loupes below the SOLA indirect ophthalmoscope eye-piece.
(7) It has been found that in cell system the scavenging effects of sinB and solA, as judged by ESR spin trappings, on hydrpxyl radicals (.OH) are greater than vitamin E and vitamin C and the scavenging effects on superoxide anion (O2) are greater than vitamin E but lower than vitamin C. With respect to the Fenton reaction, sinB has the strogest scavenging effect on .OH (77%) and solA has strong scavenging effect on .OH (63%), both of them larger than that of vitamin E (35%) and vitamin C (56%).
(8) Because of this discriminatory effect between hydroxide and bicarbonate, the tin compound can be useful in certain experimental conditions as seen for the study of the anion "carrier" of the red cell membrane ("cousin, J.L., Motais, R. and Sola, F. (1975) J. Physiol.
(9) (A marvellous post-independence cartoon captured the situation perfectly: it showed an overcrowded train, with people hanging off it, clinging to the windows, squatting perilously on the roof, and spilling out of their third-class compartments, while two Britons in sola topis sit in an empty first-class compartment saying to each other, “My dear chap, there’s nobody on this train!”) Nor were Indians employed in the railways.
(10) Sola Adesola, senior lecturer, Oxford Brookes University , Oxford UK, @AGPUK Higher education in Africa: Race is an invention Read more Start innovation hubs: We need huge amounts of money supporting innovation.
(11) David Robertson, director of the Solas Centre for Public Christianity and a Free Church of Scotland minister in Dundee, is also doubtful.
(12) With the use of the electron spin resonance spin trapping method, the scavenging effects of schizandrol A (solA) (5 x 10(-4) M) and schizandrin B (sinB) (5 x 10(-4) M) have been studied and compared with the effects of vitamin E (5 x 10(-4) M) and vitamin C (5 x 10(-4) M).
(13) It was really moving,” said Enrique Sola Campillo, a volunteer, of the first few moments of the day.
(14) The following lenses or lens coatings were found to be suitable for use by PUVA patients: Orcolite UV 400, Orma UVX, Rodenstock Lambda 400, Sola UV Gard 400 and Polaroid polarizing lenses.
(15) The properties of PP1M, together with those of smooth muscle PP1M [Alessi, D., MacDougall, L. K., Sola, M. M., Ikebe, M. & Cohen, P. (1992) Eur.
Soma
Definition:
(n.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
Example Sentences:
(1) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
(2) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(3) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
(4) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
(5) For those synapses that were close to the soma the time constant for decay for the non-NMDA component, which was voltage insensitive, ranged from 4-8 ms. 7.
(6) We find that the labelled cell has a myelinated axon, but that the axon loses its myelin within 50 microns of the soma and has not yet been traced further.
(7) The soma of the injured neutron has a dense perinuclear ring of RNA.
(8) The effective electrical geometry under the conditions of control and 0.5 mM PNB sufficient to completely abolish the postsynaptic potential were determined from analyses of the membrane charging curves assuming the lumped-soma-short-cable model.
(9) Sequential recordings of spike amplitudes from the axon hillock, soma, and lateral dendrite suggest that the generator of the axotomy-induced component is localized to the normally passive soma and proximal dendrite.
(10) In order to determine whether there is a relationship between soma diameter and oxidative enzyme activity of alpha-motoneurons, we investigated the alpha-motoneurons innervating the different portions within a rat gluteus medius muscle.
(11) In oestrogen-treated preparations, tuberoinfundibular arcuate neurons responsive and unresponsive to accessory bulb stimulation could be distinguished by the frequency of successful antidromic propagation into the soma.
(12) These cells were also NSE positive and were characterized by the presence of soma action potentials.
(13) It is concluded that barium ions have at least 2 points of attack in the ganglion: 1, on the soma membrane of the neurones, and 2, on the presynaptic terminals controlling them.
(14) By the end of this period the neuronal soma and the proximal dendrites appeared mature in terms of both morphology and synaptic input.
(15) Although the globular bushy cell axons were not completely filled from the soma of origin to terminal fields in the contralateral brainstem, a number of consistent anatomical features were distinguished in the population.
(16) Approximately 85% of Na channels in the soma are essentially indistinguishable from those in the giant axon with regard to gating properties and sensitivity to tetrodotoxin or saxitoxin.
(17) In slices cut parallel to the pyramidal neurons (perpendicular to the brain surface) one can study chemosensitivity of the various parts of the dendritic tree and the soma.
(18) It has not been possible to connect the efferent somas with the fibers.
(19) Interestingly, the M-cell soma which stains positive for AChE was ChAT negative.
(20) However, the distribution of the enzymes is indirectly correlated as high levels of particulate cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase are present in the soma of neurons with high concentrations of adenylate cyclase in their terminals.