stellate
IPA: stˈɛɫeɪt
noun
- (cytology) Ellipsis of stellate cell.. [(cytology) Any cell that has radiating dendritic processes]
verb
- (geometry) To extend the edges or planes of a polyhedron to form a new shape.
adjective
- Shaped like a star, having points, or rays radiating from a center.
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Examples of "stellate" in Sentences
- It's a stellate blowout evulsion.
- Stellate masses tend to be chatoyant.
- Hairs are common, and are most typically stellate.
- Cortical spiny stellate cells are found in layer IV.
- Fibroblasts were numerous and spindle or stellate shaped.
- This indumentum is a mixture of simple and stellate hairs.
- Belly often with a midventral row of enlarged stellate scales.
- * Unusual pattern ( "stellate" or star-like) in iris of the eye
- Compound of small stellated dodecahedron and great dodecahedron.
- The stellate ganglion lies in front of the neck of the first rib.
- It shares the vertex arrangement with the stellated truncated hexahedron.
- It features the famous black and white picture of Che — except this time there are two stellate black marks on his forehead bullet holes.
- Most of the fibrogenic cells in the liver are a-smooth muscle actin-expressing myofibroblasts and most are derived from the transdifferentiation of hepatic stellate cells.
- These are placed, six together, in the interior of long-stalked, ovate, mucronate, smooth, deep brown follicles, of a tough papery texture, and lined with a thin fur of stellate hairs.
- And now it looks as if they just might have found an answer, something called a "stellate ganglion block," which involves injecting a small amount of local anaesthetic into a complex of nerves located in the neck.
- Therapeutic ultrasound is not recommended during pregnancy, over tissues such as the eyes, heart, spinal column, growing bones, testes, epiphyseal plates, carotid sinuses, cervical stellate ganglion, and vagus nerve.
- Ox-rays (UROGYMNUS ASPERRIMUS) grow to a great size, their backs being so armoured with thick-set stellate bucklers on a horn-like skin, that to secure them a heavy-hefted weapon and a strong right arm are necessary.
- Seven humerus bones formed a stellate pattern with a skull at their center, supported in turn by what might have been portions of sternum or scapula, then a vertical column of more humerus bones, which met at last a semicircle of vertebrae curving upward on either side and ending in a pair of skulls.
- Orchids, old gold and violet, cling to the rocks with the white claws of the sea snatching at their toughened roots, and beyond the extreme verge of ferns and orchids on abrupt sea-scarred boulders are the stellate shadows of the whorled foliage of the umbrella tree, in varied pattern, precise and clean cut and in delightful commingling and confusion.