apical
Example Sentences
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When the condition occurs, doctors typically see that a patient's left ventricular apical, which is located within the heart, balloons.
From Salon
Just in front of it lies the polychate worm version of the apical meristem in plants: a place where stem cells continuously generate new body parts called the posterior growth zone.
From Scientific American
As these filaments grew during the part of the cell cycle between divisions, called interphase, they became preferentially associated with the apical, actin-rich cortex — a layer of proteins just inside the cell membrane.
From Nature
Once this trunk-to-be grew just above the top of the 3-foot-high fence, I cut its top back to the 3-foot height, releasing the remaining buds from the suppressing effect of apical dominance.
From Washington Times
In spite of the similarities to animal tissue folding, such folding in just one or possibly two choanoflagellate species means it probably evolved independently from animals using the commonly inherited apical actin-myosin ring.
From Scientific American
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