tubule

Definitions

Examples

• To explore how the tubules evolved, the team examined hormone signals in a dozen other beetle species.

• Fruit flies use four of these tubules to filter their blood-like fluid.

• In 2016 a group at Harvard’s Lewis Lab used 3D printing to re-create the nephrons’ tubules, complete with a vascular network for blood flow—but they only stayed alive for a little over two months.

• But if the lymph capillary is a closed tubule at its commencement this does not follow.

• The fine chitinous tubule is especially conspicuous in connection with these largest goblets.

• Inner and outer aperture of the tubule of the same size; their diameter equal to their length and distance.

• Foraminal tubule stout, cylindrical, usually somewhat contorted; its orifice irregular in outline.

• This tubule, which does not extend beyond the surface of the cellular coat, is liable to be broken off in dried specimens.