Definition & Meaning | English word AMPULLARY
AMPULLARY
Definitions of AMPULLARY
- Of or pertaining to an ampulla, as:
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using AMPULLARY in a Sentence
- On the other hand, when low-frequency electric fields are generated by external sources instead of the fish itself, a different class of electroreceptor organs is used for this passive electrolocation, called ampullary organs.
- He was part of a team of clinicians and scientists which led to the world's first microinjection baby via human ampullary coculture in 1991.
- Morphology and distribution of the ampullary electroreceptors in wobbegong sharks: implications for feeding behaviour.
- The ampullae of Lorenzini pick up electric information from the water, and send it to the ampullary organ, which is used to process the stimuli.
- Unlike the freshwater Siluriformes from which it evolved, Plotosus has evolved long ampullary canals in its electrosensory organs (originally termed "ampullae of Lorenzini", though now the name is not used) as the voltage gradient across the skin is less than in fresh water and so they must extend deeper into the fish where the difference will be more marked in order that the maximal voltage be registered.
- The endolymph surrounds the ampullary cupula which contains hair cells within the semicircular canals.
- The alcohol apparently causes the ampullary cupula in the semicircular canal to become lighter than the surrounding fluid (endolymph), which causes the system to become sensitive to gravity in addition to rotational acceleration.
- Gymnotiforms have two classes of electroreceptive organs, the ampullary receptors and the tuberous receptors.
- They have a specialized electric sense made up of tuberous and ampullary electroreceptors located over the skin surface and innervated by the electrosensory lateral line.
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