(n.) Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.
(n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
(n.) A charge representing the clover leaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results obtained with the bifoil balloon were better than with the other types of balloon catheter, with an increase in aortic area of + 118% vs. + 74% (monofoil) and + 76% (trefoil) (P less than 0.05).
(2) The compounds which are found in the whole trefoil embryo (T), the lobeless part (LL), and the polar lobe (PL) respectively, and the mean quantities (nmol.
(3) The Trefoil balloon was then used in 3 children with congenital valvular stenoses (2 pulmonary and 1 aortic stenosis).
(4) Forages included alfalfa, cicer milkvetch, birdsfoot trefoil and sainfoin with respective CP concentrations of 26.0, 28.7, 26.3 and 20.0%.
(5) To ensure continued transvalvular blood flow the authors have developed the "Trefoil balloon" consisting of three identical angioplasty balloons mounted on a single catheter.
(6) Nails with conventional strength and in trefoil leaf formation are superior to other designs.
(7) Indirect immunofluorescent staining with antiserum raised using a synthetic peptide based on the predicted C-terminal sequence of this protein, designated intestinal trefoil factor, demonstrated that it is primarily expressed and secreted onto the intestinal surface by goblet cells, suggesting that it may be an important component of intrinsic mechanisms for defending mucosal integrity.
(8) Dental hypoplasia correlated with a small interpedicular diameter at L1, L2 and L3, and Harris lines with a small midsagittal diameter at L1, L3 and L5, a small area at L5 and a more trefoil canal at L4 and L5.
(9) But Oates thinks the common blue should be doing better; its food plant, bird’s-foot-trefoil , will grow in gently cut garden lawns, its caterpillars can also feed on agricultural clovers in “improved” grassland.
(10) A new balloon (Trefoil balloon) was developed to avoid complete interruption of blood flow during percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty.
(11) The results of trefoil valvuloplasty in twelve patients with pulmonary stenosis compared favorably to those of patients treated with single balloons.
(12) Total nonstructural carbohydrate digestion tended to be highest for sainfoin and birdsfoot trefoil, whereas structural carbohydrate digestion was highest (P less than .05) for alfalfa and cicer milkvetch.
(13) In 31 consecutive patients with trefoil-bifoil balloon valvuloplasty, there was no inhospital mortality.
(14) Antibody to purified trifoliin binds to the root hair region of 24-h-old clover seedlings, but does not bind to alfalfa, birdsfoot trefoil or joint vetch.
(15) BAV can be performed using a single balloon (one balloon, one shaft), multiple balloons (multiple balloons, multiple shafts), or complex balloon configurations (bifoil or trefoil balloons on a single shaft) by the retrograde (femoral or brachial) or antegrade (transseptal) approach.
(16) Under fluoroscopy, the balloon was completely inflated then the contrast medium immediately withdrawn, a procedure of seven to 23 seconds with the single-balloon catheter and five to nine seconds with the trefoil catheter.
(17) Ammonia-N concentration in the effluent and CP degradation tended to be lowest with the sainfoin diet and highest with the birdsfoot trefoil diet.
(18) The Trefoil balloon is a promising new device for percutaneous valvuloplasty and, perhaps, coronary angioplasty.
(19) We used a single balloon (Trefoil 3 X 12 mm) in eight patients and two balloons in 12 (Trefoil 3 X 10 mm + 19 mm).
(20) Single (25 mm in diameter, trefoil 3 x 12 mm, bifoil 2 x 19 mm) and double (18 and 15 mm, 18 and 18 mm, 18 and 20 mm) balloons were used in 24 and 52 patients respectively.
Trifolium
Definition:
(n.) A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover.
Example Sentences:
(1) An in vitro experiment was conduced under bacteriologically controlled conditions to examine the effect of light on the production of pectin methyl esterase (PME) and pectin polygalacturonase (PG) in the root exudates of Trifolium alexandrinum inoculated with an efficient strain of Rhizobium trifolii.
(2) Activity-directed fractionation of Trifolium pratense resulted in isolation of the isoflavone biochanin A, a potent inhibitor of metabolic activation of the carcinogen benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) in cells in culture.
(3) Leghaemoglobin from the subclover, Trifolium subterraneum cultivar Woogenellup, has been fractionated into at least four electrophoretically distinct components using the ion-exchange chromatographic procedure described by Appleby et al.
(4) Anomalous nodulation of Trifolium subterraneum (subterranean clover) roots by Rhizobium leguminosarum 1020 was examined as a model of modified host-specificity in a Rhizobium-legume symbiosis.
(5) ), 2) tall fescue-red clover (Trifolium pratense L.), or 3) tall fescue-alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) or were barn-fed, 4) tall fescue hay, 5) orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.)-alfalfa hay, or 6) tall fescue silage from late October to early April during each of 5 yr.
(6) The cyanogenic polymorphism in Trifolium repens L. (white clover) has been used as the basis of a study of the genetic control of cyanogenesis.
(7) Diets of fresh kale (Brassica oleracea) and ryegrass (Lolium perenne)-clover (Trifolium repens) herbage were fed to growing sheep in three experiments.
(8) Partially purified linamarase from Trifolium repens (genotype Lili acac) plants was kinetically characterized.
(9) Important pasture and forage plants shown to contain phyto-oestrogens include Trifolium subterraneum L, notably the cultivars Dwalganup, Mt.
(10) Plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) concentrations were measured in normal (control) Corriedale X Merino (comeback) ewes and in clover-infertile comeback ewes which had grazed oestrogenic Yarloop clover (Trifolium subterraneum L. cv.
(11) and white clover (Trifolium repens)), were accustomed to indoor feeding on a ration of C3-plant material (cut pastures and barley meal).
(12) When 2,4-dinitrophenol and carbon dioxide were applied together to dormant seeds of Trifolium subterraneum L. (subterranean clover), 2,4-dinitrophenol did not disturb the breaking of dormancy which carbon dioxide usually induces in legume seeds.
(13) Quantitative expressions of character difference between reciprocal crosses have been studied by different researchers in a number of plant species, such as Epilobium, Zea mays, Oryza sativa, Hordeum sativum, Triticum aestivum, Trifolium hybridum, Linum usitatissimum, Nicotiana rustica, and others.
(14) )-ladino clover (Trifolium repens L.) or 2) Kentucky blue-grass (Poa pratensis L.)-white clover (Trifolium repens L.).
(15) Interestingly, these two latter strains differ from the other R. trifolii strains in nodulation rates on rare clover species in the Trifolium cross-inoculation group.
(16) Tumor-like structures appeared on the roots of Medicago sativa, Alysicarpus vaginalis, and Trifolium pratense inoculated with a non-nodulating strain of Rhizobium trifolii or with irradiated cultures of either of two nodulating Rhizobium strains.
(17) Particles of HTCV2, about 38 nm in diameter and with distinct morphological subunits, were serologically closely related to particles of similar morphology (RCCV2) present in a mixture of cryptic viruses (RCCV-M) from red clover (Trifolium pratense), and were distantly related to white clover cryptic virus 2, also of similar morphology.
(18) Sixty-four intact lambs and twenty-four lambs fitted with a duodenal cannula were weaned at 6 weeks of age and grazed pure species swards of either lucerne (Medicago sativa), white clover ((Trifolium repens), ryegrass (Lolium perenne) or prairie grass (Bromus catharticus) for 6 weeks.
(19) trifolii TA1 to infect the homologous host Trifolium subterraneum cv.
(20) In trifluralin treated seedlings of Trifolium repens, root tips increased in diameter and decreased in length, cell elongation was decreased, cell wall deposition was abnormal, root hairs were deformed, and a marked reduction was seen in the number of infection threads induced by the bacterial symbionts.