Sentences with phrase «called vegetative»

Fay said another possibility is a so - called vegetative roof, which uses plants to cool the rooftop and, as a result, the building.

Some are comatose, some in a state of unresponsive wakefulness (previously called vegetative), others are minimally conscious, and yet others are people suffering from locked - in syndrome (those who are conscious but completely paralyzed, and are sometimes able to move only their eyes).

Professor Brasier and Dr Webber studied C. fraxinea's genetic recognition system, called a vegetative compatibility (vc) system, in samples of the fungus from three different UK sites.

An encouraging development is the recent commercialization of biotech crops producing a novel type of Bt protein called a vegetative insecticidal protein, or Vip.

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This brings us to the central issue of Callahan's essay, the proper care of persons in the so - called «persistent vegetative state.»

The theological rationale for withdrawing feedings from the so «called «vegetative» person was first provided by such ethicists as Father Kevin O'Rourke, now director emeritus of The Center for Health Care Ethics in St. Louis.

A young Denver - based company has lofty ambitions to revolutionize the coffee industry through earthly means — incorporating the vegetative parts of fungi found in the root structures of mushrooms, called mycelium, to naturally alter flavor and mitigate negative qualities of bitterness in coffee.

They are microscopic, absorptive organisms that reproduce both sexually and asexually and are composed of mycelia, or a tube - like vegetative body (all of an organism's mycelia are called its thallus).

Moreover, it is called the «green cancer» due to the negative effects it has on the environment as well as its invasive characteristics: rapid growth, short generation time, its ability to both reproduce alone and vegetative propagation, and profuse production of seeds which are easily spread.

Vegetative propagation works because the end of the cutting forms a mass of non-specialized cells called a callus.

The dispute involved a patient who experienced severe brain damage from an infection following the removal of a benign tumour, resulting in what the physicians called a persistent vegetative state.

The shell of the drone is made from a mushroom - like material called mycelium and cellulose, the vegetative part of the mushroom is coated with protein that is used to make wasp nests waterproof.

This past week I've been in a somewhat vegetative state, moving just enough to click my mouse on 154 room transformations that took place over at Calling It Home.