Word Finder - cells

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A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

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A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

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A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

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Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.

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A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.

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The combatants spent the night in separate cells.

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• prison cell

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Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

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Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

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The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

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Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.

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A section or compartment of a larger structure.

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Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.

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A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.

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This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.

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The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.

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A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

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There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.

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The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

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The upper right cell always starts with the color green.

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In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.

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A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.

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Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.

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(communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.

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Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.

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(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

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I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.

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A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.

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The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.

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The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

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A cella.

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An area of an insect wing bounded by veins

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To place or enclose in a cell.

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A cellular phone.

Every second, millions of cells die in your body and millions are born.

In every cell of your body except your red blood cells exists a copy of your DNA.

Each of those new cells has a new copy of your DNA.

The body-cavity is largely occupied by processes from the large muscle cells of the skin.

Hansen counted the number of yeast cells suspended in a drop of liquid diluted with sterilized water.

These consist of enormous cells with nuclei so large as to be in some cases just visible to the naked eye.

The flasks were then well shaken, and the yeast cell or cells settled to the bottom, and gave rise to a separate yeast speck.

The epithelial layer consists of (1) so-called " indifferent " cells secreting the perisarc or cuticle and modified to form glandular cells in places; for example, the adhesive cells in the foot.

These cells are disposed in pairs, though the members of each pair are not always at the same level.

The preference exhibited by yeast cells for sugar molecules is shared by mould fungi and soluble enzymes in their fermentative actions.

Eventually he was able to prove that the biological doctrine of omnis cellula ecellula applies to pathological processes as well as to those of normal growth, and in his famous book on Cellular-pathologic, published at Berlin in 1858, he established what Lord Lister described as the "true and fertile doctrine that every morbid structure consists of cells which have been derived from pre-existing cells as a progeny."

There were, however, but few prisons in France adapted for the cellular system, and the process of reconstruction has been slow, In 1898 the old Paris prisons of Grande-Roquette, Saint-Plagie and Mazas were demolished, and to replace them a large prison with 1500 cells was erected at Fresnes-ls-Rungis.

Similarly the giant cells are produced at their periphery into a number of branching processes which bear similar end-organs on their surface and in some cases terminate in them.

A battery with a sufficient number of cells is connected to these two electrodes so as to pass a current through the mercury vapour, negative electricity proceeding from the mercury cathode to the iron anode.

It is largely used for the purpose of making standard electric cells, such for example as the Weston cell.

Then come the glandular surface (C), which is formed of smooth polished epidermis with numerous glands that secrete the fluid contents of the pitcher, and finally the detentive surface (D), of which the cells are produced into long and strong bristles which point A FIG.

The muscular tissue consists primarily of processes from the bases of the epithelial cells, processes which are contractile in nature and may be distinctly striated.

A further stage in evolution is that the muscle-cells lose their connexion with the epithelium and come to lie entirely beneath it, forming a sub-epithelial contractile layer, developed chiefly in the tentacles of the polyp. The of the evolution of the ganglioncells is probably similar; an epithelial cell develops processes of nervous nature from the base, which come into connexion with the bases of the sensory cells, with the muscular cells, and with the similar processes of other nerve-cells; next the nerve-cell loses its connexion with the outer epithelium and becomes a sub-epithelial ganglion-cell which is closely connected with the muscular layer, conveying stimuli from the sensory cells to the contractile elements.

By means of vibrations or shocks transmitted through the - Sub water, or by displacements in the balance or position of the animal, the otoliths are caused to impinge against the bristles of the sensory cells, now on one side, now on the other, causing shocks or stimuli which are transmitted by the basal nerve-fibre to the central nervous system.

At the fundus are placed the concrement-cells with their conspicuous otoliths (con) and the inconspicuous auditory cells, which are connected with the subumbral nerve - ring.

Sometimes the epidermis is considerably more developed by tangential division of its cells, forming a many-layered water-tissue.

And solar cells presently being developed in laboratories are doing several times better than the plants.

Here and there among the cells containing dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can sometimes be heard.

Here and there a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee or bumblebee without knowing why they do it.

They normally were, and if they weren't, their screaming was muted by the magic of their cells.

He gripped the bars of his cell and pressed his face against them, trying to see into the neighboring cells.

Rhyn considered how he might use the demon, as he had once before.  He didn't answer, pushing the door open to the cell block.  Nearly all the cells were empty.  "Where is everyone?" he asked.

Clenching the book, he stepped into the familiar dungeon with its two small cells.

He agreed with Pasteur that the presence of living cells is essential to the transformation of sugar into alcohol, but dissented from the view that the process occurs within the cell.

Hansen pointed out that this was by no means the case, for it is more difficult to separate the cells from each other in the gelatin than in the liquid.

To effect this some of the nutrient gelatin containing yeast cells is placed on the under-surface of the cover-glass of the moist chamber.

Those cells are accurately marked, the position of which is such that the colonies, to which they give rise, can grow to their full size without coming into contact with other colonies.

Hansen showed that the microscopic appearance of film cells of the same species of Saccharomycetes varies according to the temperature of growth; the limiting temperatures of film formation, as well as the time of its appearance for the different species, also vary.

This observation led him to further work, and he succeeded in showing that in vascular organs the presence of cells in inflammatory exudates is not the result of exudation but of multiplication of pre-existing cells.

The spermatozoa differ from those of other animals in having the form of cells which sometimes perform amoeboid movements.

The Daniell type consists of a teak trough divided into five cells by slate partitions coated with marine glue.

The force of the set of accumu- Accumu- lator cells provided is such as to give sufficient power lators.

From them are developed two distinct types of histological elements; the genital cells and the cnidoblasts or mothercells of the nematocysts.

The genital cells are simple wandering cells (archaeocytes), at first.

According to Wulfert [60] the primitive germ-cells of Gonothyraea can be distinguished soon after the fixation of the planula, appearing amongst the interstitial cells of the ectoderm.

The muscle-fibres arise as processes from the bases of the epithelial cells; such cells may individually become sub-epithelial in position, as in the polyp; or, in places where muscular tissue is greatly developed, as in the velum or sub-umbrella, the entire muscular epithelium may be thrown into folds in order to increase its surface, so that a deeper sub-epithelial muscular layer becomes separated completely from a more superficial bodyepithelium.

The sensory cells are slender epithelial cells, often with a cilium or stiff protoplasmic process, and should perhaps be regarded as the only ectoderm-cells which retain the primitive ciliation of the larval ectoderm, otherwise lost in all Hydrozoa.

The process carrying the otolith outer side of a or concretion hk, formed by endoderm cells, is tentacle, two enclosed by an upgrowth forming the " vesicle," nerves run round which is not yet quite closed in at the top. the base of the (After Hertwig.) tentacle to it.

We can distinguish (I) digestive endoderm, in the stomach, often with special glandular elements; (2) circu-, latory endoderm, in the radial and ring canals; (3) supporting endoderm in the axes of the tentacles and in the endodermlamella; the latter is primitively a double layer of cells, produced by concrescence OC-- = w.?"

The reproductive cells may be regarded as belonging primarily to neither ectoderm nor endoderm, though lodged in the ectoderm in all Hydromedusae.

As described for the polyp, they are wandering cells capable of extensive migrations before reaching the particular spot at which they ripen.

If the germ-cells are undifferentiated, the offspring may arise from many cells or from a single cell; the first type is (4) germinal budding, the second is (5) sporogony.

By a simple modification, the open pit becomes a solid ectodermal ingrowth, just as in Teleostean fishes the hollow medullary tube, or the auditory pit of other vertebrate embryos, is formed at first as a solid cord of cells, which acquires a cavity secondarily.

The difficulty is solved by the provision of a complete system of minute intercellular spaces which form a continuous series of delicate canals between the cells, extending throughout the whole substance of the plant.

This by successive divisions forms a group of four to eight cells, which subsequently pass through the blastoderm, and dividing into two groups become symmetrically arranged and surrounded by the rudiments of the ovarian tubes.