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91Basal cleavage — Cleavage Cleav age, n. 1. The act of cleaving or splitting. [1913 Webster] 2. (Crystallog.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a… …
92basal body — noun Date: 1902 a minute distinctively staining cell organelle found at the base of a flagellum or cilium and identical to a centriole in structure called also basal granule, kinetosome …
93basal ganglion — noun Date: circa 1889 any of four deeply placed masses of gray matter (as the amygdala) in each cerebral hemisphere called also basal nucleus …
94basal metabolism — noun Date: 1913 the turnover of energy in a fasting and resting organism using energy solely to maintain vital cellular activity, respiration, and circulation as measured by the basal metabolic rate …
95basal granule — noun see basal body …
96basal nucleus — noun see basal ganglion …
97Basal dendrite — A basal dendrite is a dendrite that emerges from the base of a pyramidal cell that receives information from nearby neurons and passes it to the soma, or cell body …
98Basal shoot — A basal shoot, root sprout, adventitious shoot, water sprout or sucker is a shoot or cane which grows from a bud at the base of a tree or shrub or from its roots. Root suckers may emerge some distance from the originating plant such as in Rhus… …
99Basal electrical rhythm — The Basal electrical Rhythm (BER) determines the frequency of the contractions in the GI tract.The Interstitial Cells of Cajal are pacemaker cells located in the GI tract wall. These cells have a rhythmic depolarisation from 65mV to 45mV and then …
100basal bud — (BRYOZOA: Gymnolaemata) The bud arising from the basal wall of the parent zooid; see distal bud …
