Stellate

Word STELLATE
Character 8
Hyphenation stel late
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Stellate"

What do we mean by stellate?

Arranged or shaped like a star; radiating from a center. adjective

Star-like in form; star-shaped; arranged in the form of a conventional star; radiating from a common center like the rays or points of a star: as, stellate leaves; the stellate groups of natrolite crystals.

A stellate microsclere, or flesh-spicule in the form of a star. noun

Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star. adjective

Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center. adjective

Shaped like a star, having points, or rays radiating from a center. adjective

Arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center adjective

A stellate cell

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The word "stellate" in example sentences

* Unusual pattern ( "stellate" or star-like) in iris of the eye ❋ Talk (2010)

Most of the fibrogenic cells in the liver are a-smooth muscle actin-expressing myofibroblasts and most are derived from the transdifferentiation of hepatic stellate cells. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And now it looks as if they just might have found an answer, something called a "stellate ganglion block," which involves injecting a small amount of local anaesthetic into a complex of nerves located in the neck. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2010)

Therapeutic ultrasound is not recommended during pregnancy, over tissues such as the eyes, heart, spinal column, growing bones, testes, epiphyseal plates, carotid sinuses, cervical stellate ganglion, and vagus nerve. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It features the famous black and white picture of Che — except this time there are two stellate black marks on his forehead bullet holes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Seven humerus bones formed a stellate pattern with a skull at their center, supported in turn by what might have been portions of sternum or scapula, then a vertical column of more humerus bones, which met at last a semicircle of vertebrae curving upward on either side and ending in a pair of skulls. ❋ John Connolly (2005)

These are placed, six together, in the interior of long-stalked, ovate, mucronate, smooth, deep brown follicles, of a tough papery texture, and lined with a thin fur of stellate hairs. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Ox-rays (UROGYMNUS ASPERRIMUS) grow to a great size, their backs being so armoured with thick-set stellate bucklers on a horn-like skin, that to secure them a heavy-hefted weapon and a strong right arm are necessary. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Orchids, old gold and violet, cling to the rocks with the white claws of the sea snatching at their toughened roots, and beyond the extreme verge of ferns and orchids on abrupt sea-scarred boulders are the stellate shadows of the whorled foliage of the umbrella tree, in varied pattern, precise and clean cut and in delightful commingling and confusion. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Digging, furrowing the surface in stellate patterns, moulding pellets which to the tenderest ripple are but the plaything of a moment, so are the lives of the shy crustaceans spent. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The wound was large and everted, with an irregular stellate appearance. ❋ John Connolly (2002)

He began construction at Belur and Halebid of temples in a distinctively ornate Hoysala style, especially featuring a high, richly carved plinth of stellate plan. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Path: gopher stellate. health.ufl.edu/osha (1/94). ❋ Unknown (1994)

Otpen One was a rocky tree-clad islet crowned with the stellate mass of ❋ Unknown (1951)

Both the corolla and calyx are covered with stellate hairs, among which are embedded shining oil glands, to which the fragrance of the plant is due. ❋ Various (N/A)

-- The concentric rings are all but invisible, the hilum is stellate. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the center of the figure the allantois, _al_, is seen as an irregular cavity, lined with a single layer of columnar or cuboidal cells, and surrounded by a thick mass of loosely arranged, stellate mesoblast cells. ❋ C. M. [Illustrator] Reese (N/A)

Two bundles are found by themselves in the tissue of stellate cells. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

_Panicum Crus-galli_ three or four bundles are met with amidst the stellate cells. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

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