(a.) Short and thick; short and strong, as bristles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scanning electron microscopy showed the appearance at the culture surface of immature cells with gross surface abnormalities including large numbers of blebs, stubby microvilli and long pleomorphic microvilli.
(2) The characteristic triangular face, stubby nose, peripheral pulmonic stenosis, a history of prolonged neonatal jaundice and evidence of hepatic parenchymal disease were present as well as bilateral small kidneys and delayed puberty.
(3) The patients are normal at birth and in early childhood present with short-limbed dwarfism, thick body build, long trunk, normal head, moderate lumbar lordosis and broad, stubby hands and feet.
(4) Standing just 6ft and weighing a mere 13st 8lbs, his short reach of 71 inches and stubby arms forced him to develop the unorthodox method of springing towards his opponents in order to land his blows.
(5) Secondary lamellae are represented by stubby projections which generally have a biserial arrangement.
(6) Map distances between the resistance gene and the mutant aristapedia and between the mutants aristapedia and stubby wing were highly variable in all populations.
(7) The spine abnormalities in the experimental animals consisted of a reduction of stubby and mushroom-shaped spines and a predominance of long and tortuous spines.
(8) Two forms, "long" and "stubby" are described for M. coryphaenoidium.
(9) Following induction of long-term potentiation in subfield CA1 of the hippocampal slice from 26-month-old rats, shaft synapse numbers increased by 44% and sessile spine synapses (synapses on stubby, headless spines) by 72%, with the more common mushroom-shaped spine synapses statistically unaltered.
(10) Purkinje cells, impregnated with the rapid Golgi method, in a patient with primary degeneration of the granular layer showed abnormal orientation of the perikaryon and dendrites, reduction in size of the dendritic arbor, absence of spiny branchlets, and large numbers of stubby spines and hypertrophic spines on secondary dendritic branches; stubby spines and thorn-like formations were seldom observed on the primary dendrites and perikaryon of some Purkinje cells.
(11) In contrast, stubby spines decrease by more than half and no change occurs in mushroom spines with macular PSDs or in dendritic shaft synapses.
(12) In addition, Purkinje cells in this patient showed club-shaped deformities in the distal region of primary dendrites, which were filled with radially oriented, short dendrites covered with stubby spines and hypertrophic spines.
(13) We present 2 cases with typical features including sparse, coarse and stubby, kinky hair, depigmented skin, pudgy face, arrow-shaped upper lip, hypotonia, Babinski signs bilaterally, profound psychomotor retardation with disability of head control or rolling over, and poorly controlled myoclonic jerks.
(14) Rare honeycomb-like structures, dense filamentous aggregates, dense granular deposits, stubby mitochondria and membrane-bound aggregates of spherical and tubular particles were also observed.
(15) Tissue adjacent to tumour showed sloughing, squamous metaplasia, pleomorphism and cell surface projections of stubby microvilli or tortuous microridges.
(16) The normal ameboid spermatozoa bear several stubby and needle-like filopodia at the lamellipodial margin.
(17) Common clinical features included normal birth weight, postnatal asphyxia, convulsions, severe psychomotor retardation, normal growth, and a distinct pattern of dysmorphias consisting of trigonocephalic head with prominent metopic suture, long and markedly curved eyelashes, a stubby nose, increased distance between nose and upper lip, high-arched palate, misshapen ears with virtually absent lobules and prominent anthelices which are curved in a sharp angle, and hemangiomata.
(18) Cells remained fully motile in CD and even stubby flagella continued to move, indicating that flagellar shortening did not selectively disrupt machinery necessary for motility.
(19) Each time he posed for a picture, he leaned back, squinting, his stubby index fingers pointed in the air.
(20) The luminal cell surface is covered with uniform stubby microvilli and solitary cilia.
Tubby
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duke’s ancestor Hugh Lupus – the king’s head huntsman or grand veneur , a tubby man nicknamed gros veneur , from which derived the family surname – came across with William the Conqueror and was granted a chunk of Cheshire to protect the region from the Welsh.
(2) But marketing material won’t be enough to give you a proper understanding, warns Eleanor Tubby, graduate recruitment officer at Bird and Bird.
(3) The predicted location for a human homolog of tubby is HSA 11p15.
(4) Tubby Reddy, chief executive of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic committee, told the Associated Press: “As he stands right now, he’s free [to compete].” Pistorius potentially faces up to 15 years in prison after being convicted of the South African equivalent of manslaughter, but could receive a suspended sentence and avoid jail altogether when he returns to court on 13 October.
(5) Several recessively inherited forms of obesity exist including the obese mouse, the diabetes mouse, fatty rat, the fat mouse, tubby mouse and the corpulent rat.
(6) His campaign speeches are broadcast from chilly, overcast London to the Karachi faithful, many of them women who hold portraits of their tubby, moustachioed leader.
(7) During his years with Real Madrid, an increasingly tubby but still marvellously effective Puskas struck up a famous partnership with the Argentine centre-forward, the domineering Alfredo Di Stefano.
(8) Marcus Christenson 75: Ezequiel Lavezzi, Paris St-Germain, Argentina; age 27, forward Despite all scientific regimes available to the modern footballer, thank goodness there is still room in the game for a player nicknamed El Pocho, or Tubby.
(9) Best warning Brazil: "Out-sized" Goias striker "Tubby" Walter , warning Flamengo he would "lie down and roll over them" in the Brazilian Cup.
(10) Fly through the future North of the Gherkin, a tower nicknamed the Can of Ham for its odd tubby form is currently being built.
(11) Beyond that, no one outside of CBS Television City has a clue what to expect when the “tubby kid”, as David Letterman called him , starts beaming into US living rooms.
(12) It has been described as a "tubby spaniel" by its admirers and as a "destructive nocturnal rat" by its critics.
(13) A tubby, barefoot man with broken teeth and wild eyes opened the door.
(14) This report describes the development of obesity syndromes in mice caused by two autosomal recessive mutations, fat (fat), located on chromosome 8, and tubby (tub), located on chromosome 7.