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  • 121lapillus — (plural lapilli)) the otolith in the utriculus of the pars superior. It is held in a vertical position against the cells of the utricular macula which is innervated by the anterior branch of cranial nerve VIII (the stato acoustic nerve).… …

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  • 122utriculith — lapillus (plural lapilli)(the otolith in the utriculus. It is held in a vertical position against the cells of the utricular macula which is innervated by the anterior branch of cranial nerve VIII (the stato acoustic nerve). Movements of the… …

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  • 123endoplasmic reticulum — Cell Biol. a network of tubular membranes within the cytoplasm of the cell, occurring either with a smooth surface (smooth endoplasmic reticulum) or studded with ribosomes (rough endoplasmic reticulum), involved in the transport of materials. See …

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  • 124joint — /joynt/, n. 1. the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture. 2. a connection between pieces of wood, metal, or the like, often reinforced with… …

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  • 125fish-finder — ▪ fishing also called  Netsonde,         in commercial fishing, high frequency sonar device for locating schools of fish. It transmits sound waves downward and receives echoes from the bottom of the sea, or from intervening schools of fish, also… …

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  • 126Gilman, Alfred G. — ▪ American pharmacologist in full  Alfred Goodman Gilman   born July 1, 1941, New Haven, Conn., U.S.       American pharmacologist who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with American biochemist Martin Rodbell (Rodbell,… …

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  • 127neural stem cell — ▪ biology       largely undifferentiated cell originating in the central nervous system (nervous system, human). Neural stem cells (stem cell) (NSCs) have the potential to give rise to offspring cells that grow and differentiate into neurons… …

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  • 128antitelephone — noun A hypothetical device, used in thought experiments on causality, that could be used to send signals into ones own past …

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