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Tentacula


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Tentaculum

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Tentacular


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Radioimmunoassays carried out on acidic extracts of the same organs confirm the molecular results and lead us to conclude to the presence of substances strongly related to MK in the ovotestis as well as in the circumoesophageal ganglia (COG), and to ascertain that the MK-positive tentacular collar cells do not contain authentic MK.
  • (2) Cobalt filling reveals that axons of the medial neurosecretory cells project to the tentacular ganglion, near the optic gland.
  • (3) Individual tentacular bulbs form the proximal terminus for a closed hydraulic system.
  • (4) The most distinctive feature was an array of tentacular processes (0.1-0.2 micron in diameter and ca.
  • (5) No positive signal can be detected neither in pedal and visceral ganglia nor in the tentacular collar cells, in spite of previous immunocytochemical data.
  • (6) The experimental procedure consisted of detecting the effects of a brief tetanus, applied to tentacular and tegumentary nerves, on the amplitude of monosynaptic and unitary post-synaptic potentials (p.s.p.s) recorded in the left giant cell and generated by stimulating the test interneurone every 10 sec.
  • (7) Broad front invasion was associated with papillary and superficial tumors while tentacular invasion was associated with solid tumors and a generally poorer prognosis.
  • (8) Furthermore, the possible functional significance of its close connection to the food-capturing tentacular apparatus is discussed.
  • (9) Neurons in the cerebropleural ganglia (CPG), photoreceptors in the eye, optic ganglion cells, and statocyst hair cells of the nudibranch mollusk Hermissenda crassicornis responded in specific ways, as recorded intracellularly, to stimulation of the chemosensory pathway originating at the tentacular chemoreceptors as well as to stimulation of the visual pathway originating at the photoreceptors.
  • (10) Dorsal lesions cause an underestimation of tentacular strike often associated with defects in maintaining ocular convergence.
  • (11) Since they can cause pedal and parapodial contractions they may mediate reflex contractions elicited by tentacular stimulation.
  • (12) The 5-HT system interconnecting the CNS and the tentacular sensory organs in pulmonates is a suitable model for studying the postulated developmental role of 5-HT neurons.
  • (13) Neoadjuvant intra-arterial chemotherapy followed by partial cystectomy should be the most applicable conservative therapy with high radicality for invasive bladder cancer, when: 1) the patient has localized invasive cancer showing good response (greater than or equal to PR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, 2) the tumor is stage T3a or less and without findings of tentacular invasion (INF gamma) by pre-operative biopsy, and 3) pre-operative multiple biopsy is performed as deeply as possible along the prearranged incision line.
  • (14) This immunocytochemical study of 5-HT neurons and fibers in the nervous system of C. aspersa corroborate previous findings and describe new 5-HT neurons and their connections, mainly between the central nervous system and the tentacular sensory organs.
  • (15) These include the presence, in Cyanea, of an obvious tentacular nerve tract and nerve nets associated with clusters of cnidocytes in the tentacles.
  • (16) Stimulation of the cerebral upper labial (UL) and anterior tentacular (AT) nerves produced excitatory postsynaptic potentials in L cells.
  • (17) Both UI-IR and UII-IR were also observed in a cuff-like arrangement of fibers surrounding the proximal portion of the supralabial nerve, as well as in a few fibers in the anterior tentacular nerves.
  • (18) Although no neurosecretory cell bodies occur in the tentacular ganglion, neurosecretory axons penetrate into the optic gland cells.
  • (19) In very advanced growth stages, however, they were also seen surrounding (and occasionally clogging) blood vessels, or in tentacular formations coming from a necrosis border and polarized towards the vessels.
  • (20) This rotation, however, is usually underestimated, tentacular ejection thus missing the prey.

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