Sentences with word «peduncle»

They were positioned on top of movable stalks called peduncles to help it more easily search for food and look out for predators.
Some unilateral lesions of the central vestibular pathways, especially unilateral involvement of the flocculonodular lobe of the cerebellum or the supramedullary part of the caudal cerebellar peduncle, produce a head tilt and ataxia directed toward the side opposite to the lesion, and a nystagmus with the fast component towards the side of the lesion.
All three types are required to have peduncles (stems) that don't detach by themselves from the fruit after drying.
The extremely long, curved and annular constriction of the Calyx at junction with the peduncle is also a notable feature of this variety.
Try and keep both halves as even as possible and try not to break the peduncle if you can: that little stub just adds so much to the overall look of the finished dish.
The results showed that all five scents elicited a similar response in parts of the dogs» brains involved in detecting smells, the olfactory bulb and peduncle.
Hydra has a gene that instructs nerve cells to produce a molecule that powers the peduncle's contractions.
The peduncle was apparently «refined during evolution and relocated more to the middle of the body,» says Hans Meinhardt, a theoretical biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany.
Shimizu and Fujisawa injected calligraphy ink into the peduncle and noted that the pumping action there is suggestive of the beating of a heart.
Another gene active in the peduncle is related to one that, in higher organisms, functions prominently in embryonic heart tissue.
Even in humans, heart tissue originates at the tip of the embryo, where Hydra's peduncle would be.
The term «pedunculated» means attached to a base by means of a peduncle or slender stalk.
Contributing factors include the size of growth, its location, the length of the peduncle and more.
The tumor is usually the same color as the gum tissue, has a smooth surface, and may be attached to the gum via a peduncle (a stalk - like structure).
From these sites virus may enter the CSF from where it spreads to the cerebral cortex, optic tracts and nerves, cerebral peduncles, and spinal cord.
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