(1) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(2) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
(3) A great deal of information about the spiral bacteria of the stomach has accumulated in the past 5 years.
(4) Somalia has faced drought; famine; decades of conflict, now involving the Islamist rebels of al-Shabaab among other groups; the absence of an effective, central authority; and spiralling food prices.
(5) Spiral neurons, their fibers and endings as well as inner and outer hair cells express NSE in the isolated organ of Corti in culture.
(6) The binding sites were mainly located on the stereocilia, the cuticular plate of hair cells, the head plates of Deiters' cells, fibrous structures in pillar cells, in the spiral limbus and tectorial membrane and basilar membrane, plasma membranes, mitochondria and the chromatin of various kinds of cells.
(7) When normalized with respect to scala cross-section, the process of tracer movement across the spiral ligament is similar in the basal and third turns.
(8) Tangent-screen studies uncovered neurasthenic spiral fields superimposed on hysterical tubular contractions of both eyes.
(9) The phi-model also gives the noble numbers and moreover orders them in a way that establishes connections with the morphogenetic principles used in models for pattern generation; the order has to do with the relative frequencies of the spiral patterns in nature.
(10) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
(11) Spiral-like primary dendrites were found and the orientation of secondary dendrites changed.
(12) The main uterine, radial and spiral arteries were identified in all patients.
(13) In animals receiving passive (unstimulated) implants, morphometric analysis of spiral ganglion cell density showed no significant difference in ganglion cell survival between the implanted cochleas and the contralateral control ears.
(14) Later, these vacuoles were divided into numerous vesicular spiral formation-centers, producing micronemes at the apical pole of young merozoites.
(15) During more extended exposure (60 and 90 days) the changes in hair cells of the spiral organ, which included nuclear deformation and disintegration of chromatin, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum membranes, became irreversible and caused the decay of injured cells.
(16) The company's value lies in its FM licence for London, with the audience for its national AM licence spiralling downwards in recent years.
(17) The spiral reinforcement at the same time prevents compression of the vein by surrounding cicatricial tissue as well as an aneurysmatic extension of the transplant.
(18) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(19) The balance is fragile and the threat of a spiral of decline is not an idle one.
(20) They ran in a spiral pattern in the distal part of the middle cerebral artery.
Tendril
Definition:
(a.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
(a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buds are transformed into tendrils with swollen extremities.
(2) Tendrils were found only in regions which had characteristics of poor fixation.
(3) The tendrils could then be seen in all portions of the proximal convoluted tubule and not exclusively in the initial portion as previously reported.
(4) Examples of this approach include Alstom who have invested in Brightsource (utility scale solar thermal) and Tidal Generation (tidal power); ABB is working with Aquamarine (wave power) and Trilliant (smart grid); Siemens with Tendril and a number of other smart grid companies; Monsanto with biofuels company Sapphire Energy .
(5) Microtubular changes in degenerating CF tendrils were observed.
(6) When samples of pea tendril tissue were incubated in the Wachstein-Meisel medium for the demonstration of adenosine triphosphatases, deposits of lead reaction product were localized between the membranes of the chloroplast envelope.
(7) In AD, however, increased vascular tendrils in form of endothelial abluminal processes and intraparenchymal abnormalities were evident in cortical and hippocampal regions, predominant in cases with severe pathology.
(8) In the granular layer, tendril and glomerular collaterals of climbing fibers were observed.
(9) Approaching Istanbul, 435 days after slinking into the sea in Gibraltar, the pair found the city’s tendrils reaching down the Thracian coast.
(10) One of the characteristics of Dadd's fairy paintings is the way grasses and tendrils are apparently randomly interposed between the onlooker and the world in the painting.
(11) The villi intertwine in different positions; both the villi and their tendrils are covered with dense layers of microvilli.
(12) Tendrils have been reported to radiate from luminal surfaces of proximal tubules in rat kidneys by Andrews and Porter ('74) using scanning microscopy, but they were not seen by Bulger et al.
(13) The tendril-like processes continued to increase in length until about the end of the second postnatal month.
(14) I can imagine him enthroned in his techno-lair in Manhattan, sampling news feeds from the old country, allowing tendrils of moist patriotism to penetrate his otherwise steely alien mind.
(15) The climbing fibers formed tendril collaterals and glomeruli.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest I would sit next to my mother on these afternoons and inevitably a tendril of tension would start emanating from the screen, and from her.
(17) The symptomatic form of livedo racemosa causes circumscribed, asymmetric lesions restricted to one half of the body, while the idiopathic form is characterised by arborization figures and livid tendril-like discolorations.
(18) A decade ago, the white tendrils of an iPod's headphones might have marked the wearer out as trendy; nowadays it makes them just one of the crowd, and Apple's in-ear headphones are too common to bother with.
(19) At least three types of urinary fibrillar material were observed: 10-12-nm-diameter fibrils similar to amyloid; 7-10-nm-diameter fibrils with characteristics of intracellular tonofibrils; and 15-30-nm-diameter fibrils suggestive of fibrin tendrils.
(20) These mixed-use habitats would extend upwards, outwards and deep underground in organic rings and tendrils.