(n.) A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
(n.) A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
(n.) A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them.
(v. t.) To separate into tufts.
(v. t.) To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
(v. i.) To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
Example Sentences:
(1) This observation provides corroboration for the identification of the principal CCK-I neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as the centrally projecting middle tufted cell.
(2) The observed damage was similar: a decrease of the total length of the dendritic segments of the apical tuft and the basal arborization.
(3) The cell density in the tufts was 120 and 70 per cent greater than controls in AGN and RPGN, respectively.
(4) Approximately one-fourth of the cells contained cytoplasmic fibrillar bodies and amorphous fibrous tufts around the nuclear envelope.
(5) Stereociliary tufts in the tectorial region differ from those in the free-standing region in several ways.
(6) Severe mesangial insudation of material containing fibrinogen derivatives resulted in segmental tuft necrosis with almost complete replacement and destruction of the mesangial matrix.
(7) The anaxonic granule cell of the olfactory bulb is believed to inhibit mitral and tufted cells through reciprocal dendrodendritic synapses.
(8) Detached ciliary tufts (DCTs) have been observed in sputum, in cervicovaginal smears and, rarely, in fluid from the pouch of Douglas.
(9) Among the 58 Helicobacter-negative cases, similar changes were not observed in the ulcer edges, except for two cases which exhibited some cellular tufts.
(10) Monocytes were the predominant cell type among stained cells in glomerular tufts and crescents.
(11) At least six different cell types are recognizable: (1) nondifferentiated duct cells; (2) cells containing apical secretory granules; (3) goblet cells; the mucosubstances of type 2 and 3 are PAS- and Alcian-blue-positive, also reacting wih methenamine silver; (4) ciliated cells, containing a single cilium with the microtubular pattern 9+2; (5) tuft cells with extremely long and wide microvilli and a pear-shaped cell body; (6) migrating cells, mainly lymphocytes and some assumed eosinophils, showing reaction to Mg++-activated ATPase.
(12) The Tufts Assessment of Motor Performance (TAMP) was administered to 69 children (ages 6-18 years, X = 12.1, SD = 3.9) and 137 adults (ages 19-83 years, X = 46.7, SD = 20.0) with neurological and musculoskeletal impairments.
(13) The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had The time I tried to give myself a touch-up with clippers and shaved out a whole tuft of hair.
(14) Surface areas of tufts and crescents were separately determined by photographing glomeruli, projecting and tracing outlines of tufts and crescents, and cutting out and weighing the tracings.
(15) S. sanguis I strains adhered better than S. sanguis II strains and peritrichously fibrillar strains generally adhered better than tufted strains.
(16) An adhesion is considered as a nidus for segmental sclerosis; as the adhesion progresses, the related tuft regions turn into sclerosis.
(17) The terminal tuft of the distal phalanx is destroyed by pressure erosion.
(18) That's probably why Tufts has reneged on its agreement with the government on how it plans to deal with sexual assault on campus – administrators know it's unlikely that they'll have their funding pulled as a result of their non-compliance.
(19) They found, in the articulation of the upper limbs, in addition to generic signs of arthrosis, zones of bone reabsorption (vacuoles), especially as regard the wrist and hands, and irregularities of the tufts.
(20) Several stages of collagen assemblies were observed: intracellular packing of SLS-like aggregates surrounded by membrane containing areas with a clathrin coat; fine non cross-striated filaments connecting the cell membrane at 1 pole of the cells and collagen fibrils; tufts of filaments directly linked to collagen fibrils.
Undergraduate
Definition:
(n.) A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an undergraduate, or the body of undergraduates.
Example Sentences:
(1) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
(2) It has proven useful in developing attitudinal objectives, measuring achievement of these objectives and modifying teaching approaches in both undergraduate and continuing medical education.
(3) 31 junior high students and seven university undergraduates who graduated from the same junior high school seven years before were asked to draw a layout of the school campus.
(4) The 156-item scale demonstrated moderate internal consistency and high test-retest reliability in a sample of undergraduate women.
(5) The practicum was designed to meet two objectives in the undergraduate curriculum: (1) to give students experience in the care of patients and families in the community by using cancer as a model of a life-threatening disease requiring acute and chronic care, rehabilitation, etc.
(6) However, only the doctors who graduated from the two modern universities in Kuopio and Tampere were satisfied with their undergraduate health centre teaching.
(7) Major life events and daily hassles were examined in a sample of 102 university undergraduates.
(8) Since 1983, social scientists have collaborated with teaching staff at the Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia, to develop an integrated sociocultural curriculum for undergraduate students in community health.
(9) It is further hoped that this action will encourage the faculties of undergraduate schools to examine the way in which they prepare students for careers in medicine.
(10) Chelvan has been an outspoken human rights activist since his days as an undergraduate.
(11) Another issue identified by BASW is that universities are having major problems in finding enough placements for undergraduate social workers.
(12) The panel presents recommendations for using the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, which assesses the effectiveness of 169 types of prevention interventions, in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.
(13) Undergraduates dump each other with lines like: "Going out with you is like dating a Stairmaster."
(14) Imperial College [said] that 34% of their undergraduates are from non-EU, 64% of their postgraduates are non-EU," said Willis.
(15) One hundred and twenty-six asthmatics in a practice of 4012 patients were interviewed at home by an undergraduate medical student.
(16) This technique has been found to be a very useful aid in the teaching of occlusion to both graduate and undergraduate students.
(17) Female undergraduates (N = 50 and N = 46 in the two studies) were given cards containing the names of randomly-selected generic foods (e.g., cakes, melons) and were asked to "group the foods according to how you think about them when it comes to eating them".
(18) The subjects were undergraduate students (male = 240; female = 240) who responded to a vignette describing a sexual interaction between a father and daughter.
(19) Forty-three undergraduate and 12 graduate students provided numerical evaluations of their own outer beauty and inner beauty, both in class, and immediately following a pseudostuttering assignment.
(20) In order to find out the career preferences of Saudi medical undergraduates as they relate to anesthesiology, questionnaires were distributed and received from 40 pre-clinical students and 26 clinical students immediately after their two-week anesthesia posting.