(n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
(n.) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
(a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
(v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
(v. t.) To make or cause to taper.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) The cases of S-type were changed to those of ST-type, which emphasized the Tapering type factors.
(3) The former possess a variety of spines, axonlike processes and sometimes an unmyelinated axon, and are presumably interneurons, while type IIB cells show a thick tapering axon that is probably myelinated.
(4) He presents measures for the management of withdrawal symptoms and relapse, focusing on the use of a slow taper over 3 to 6 months.
(5) In the experiments which covered exposure time from 4.5 to 17.0 s, we found that it started slowly, the reflectance increased rapidly once the surface temperature of the lesion reached approximately 90 degrees C. After this rapid rise, the reflectance began to taper off until no change in reflectance was recorded.
(6) During the 3-month tapering-off period eight initially improved patients (36%) in the cyclosporin group worsened, as did six (55%) in the placebo group.
(7) Special complications included postoperative renal deterioration, especially after tapering of megaureters.
(8) Yes, at the 2010 Conservative conference the party announced a similar cliff-edge at the higher rate tax threshold as a way of effectively means-testing child benefit payments, but that was eventually removed and replaced with a less egregious taper at the 2012 budget.
(9) Myocardial fibers were elongated and thinner (tapered) in the tips of papillary muscles.
(10) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(11) Bad pun aside, investors are concerned that the company's high growth-rates are tapering.
(12) In addition, after incubation in ATP, they are intermingled with, and converge onto the surfaces of, thick, tapered filaments, which we have tentatively identified as of myosin-like nature.
(13) The spheroids grew exponentially with a volume-doubling time of approximately 24 h up to a diameter of approximately 580 microns and then the growth rate tapered off, more for spheroids grown at the low than at the high oxygen tension.
(14) The tapered tubes and constricted tubes are of special importance.
(15) It involves the deep white matter symmetrically, tapering off toward the cortex.
(16) Those on antihypertensive medication prior to enrollment without documented diastolic hypertension had their medication tapered and discontinued, and then met BP criteria (33% of cohort).
(17) It has not yet been possible to enumerate these tapered rods by culture methods, but as judged by visual appearances in the histological sections, they seemed to outnumber all other bacteria in the cecum and the colon by a factor of as much as 1000.
(18) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
(19) The imaging system consists of a ZnS(Ag) screen, two tapered fibers, an image intensifier, and a Polaroid film.
(20) The micropyle canal measures 8 microns at the opening and tapers to 3.6 microns as it penetrates the membrane.
Tapet
Definition:
(n.) Worked or figured stuff; tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ophthalmoscopic examinations performed during recovery revealed changes of slight increase in tapetal islets, suggestive of a slight progression and organization within the tapetum followed by an arrest of the toxic insult within the tapetal tissue.
(2) Golden tapetal reflex without dark adaptation disappeared after 4 hours of dark adaptation, i.e.
(3) The development of the tapetal cell surface and associated structures in Avena has been followed from cell formation to senescence.
(4) Within the tapetal cells a few mitochondria and profiles of smooth endoplasmic reticulum are scattered peripherally while the majority of the cell organelles are clustered near the centrally located vesicular nucleus.
(5) Subsequent to that time the tapetal rodlets failed to accumulate electron-dense material, did not accumulate zinc, and degenerated primarily into spherical inclusion bodies of varying electron density.
(6) These observations led to this comparative study on several morphological, histochemical and biochemical parameters on mature ferrets, dogs and cats including: (1) the number of center tapetum cell layers, (2) thickness of center tapetum, (3) presence of a microtubule-like structure in each tapetal rod, (4) presence of electron-dense cores in tapetal rods after prolonged fixation in glutaraldehyde, (5) retention of reflection or color of tapetum after prolonged glutaraldehyde fixation, (6) zygomatic bones of eye orbits, (7) zinc content in tapetum, (8) cysteine in the tapetum, (9) cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase in liver, (10) thickness of retina from center tapetum, (11) anterior view of skull configuration, and (12) lateral view of skull configuration (jaw and teeth).
(7) Inner segments of both rods and cones were observed in the tapetal region.
(8) The disease initially could be diagnosed by findings of night blindness and ophthalmoscopic signs of tapetal hyperreflectivity in affected dogs that were approximately 1 year old.
(9) This is the first reported example of a nutritionally related degeneration of tapetal cells.
(10) This species possesses a choroidally located tapetum lucidum in the superior fundus and over this tapetal area, melanosomes are absent from the RPE cells.
(11) All cells in tapetal and nontapetal areas contained fluorescent inclusions with similar emission spectra (maximum = 539 nm).
(12) The cat medial interlaminar nucleus (MIN) receives inputs almost exclusively from tapetal retina, suggesting that the MIN has a special role in dim-light vision.
(13) The stripes occurred in one or both eyes in the non-tapetal fundus of the two lower quadrants.
(14) Fusions of an RNase gene and the reporter gene beta-glucuronidase to the A. thaliana A9 promoter demonstrated that in tobacco the A9 promoter is active solely in tapetal cells.
(15) A six-year-old boy with XRP having a tapetal reflex is described.
(16) In anthers, expression was detected at an earlier stage of flower development with GUS activity restricted to the tapetal cell layer.
(17) Lesions consisted of localized areas of hyperreflexia in the tapetal fundus, often associated with hyperpigmentation.
(18) It is speculated that the hereditary defect may be defective synthesis of the tapetal rodlet matrix or of the zinc-complexing substance of the tapetum.
(19) Light and electron microscopic features showed marked thinning and atrophy of the outer both the tapetal and non-tapetal retina appeared to be involved.
(20) In the non-tapetal fundus, dysplasia appeared as areas of decreased pigmentation.