Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing vacuoles or a vacuole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with vacuoles; minutely vesicular, as a protozoan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Full of vacuoles, or small air cavities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
vacuoles
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective formed into or containing one or more vacuoles or small membrane-bound cavities within a cell
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Examples
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With the notochord he homologised the supporting rod in the proboscis of _Balanoglossus_, which like the notochord arises from the dorsal wall of the archenteron, and has a vacuolated structure.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Owing to some unknown cause these little organisms are gathered together in the large vacuolated cells of the salivary glands of the mosquito, and when the mosquito bites a man or any other animal they pour down through the ducts with the secretion and are thus again introduced in the circulation.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Sap vacuoles must be distinguished from spores, on the one hand, and the vacuolated appearance due to plasmolysis, on the other.
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In hibernating woodchucks, the cells of the adrenal cortex were found to be vacuolated and shrunken.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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The diameter is about 50µ; the vacuolated ectoplasm passes gradually into the granular endoplasm.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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Genus ACTINOPHRYS Ehr. The body is spherical and differentiated into granular endoplasm and vacuolated ectoplasm, but the zones are not definitely separated.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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D, et al. (2001) CuZn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) accumulates in vacuolated mitochondria in transgenic mice expressing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked SOD1 mutations.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Casper C. Hoogenraad et al. 2010
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Autopsy also revealed findings consistent with lysosomal storage disease, such as clusters of vacuolated myocytes, as well as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, such as myocyte disarray, small vessel disease, and myocardial scarring.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009
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At the same time, these cells were vacuolated in comparison to the corresponding cells of the wild type.
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In vivo, histone administration resulted in neutrophil margination, vacuolated endothelium, intra-alveolar hemorrhage and macro - and microvascular thrombosis.
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