The apicesof the pyramidal perikarya are turned towards the free surface of the cortex.
The typical cells of this layer are pyramid-shaped, the apices of the pyramids being directed towards the surface.
The air can therefore penetrate through the spiral vessels from the leaves even to the apices of the roots.
The essence of friction consists in the constant renewal of polar change, because thereby an infinite number of projecting points or apices are alternately brought into contact.
Free digital apices or points constitute the most perfect organ of touch, because this is then divided into two parts and because the nail increases the amount of resistance.
It is only the tension of the surfaces of bodies against each other, of the apices of divided radii.
Sepals are generally of a more or less oval, elliptical or oblong form, with theirapices either blunt or acute.
This union generally takes place at the base, and extends more or less towards the apex; in Phyteuma the petals are united at their apices also.
Tubercles very prominent, longitudinally attached to the stem, the apices crowned with pea-shaped cushions of short bristles, and numerous radiating spines, some of which are fully 2 in.
Flowers small, numerous on the apices of the stems, rose-coloured, lined with purple; they are developed in summer.
Stem simple when young, proliferous at the sides when old, the young plants developing from the apices of the tubercles, and not in the axils, as is usual.
Apices of the hemelytra entire; the three pairs of legs similar in shape; beak three-segmented; abdomen not keeled or hairy.
Whenever the syrup is properly granulated, which happens usually in about 18 or 20 hours, the plugs are removed from the apices of the cones, and each is set on an earthen pot to receive the drainings.
Width defined as maximum coronal dimension measured along line perpendicular to line defined by apicesof paracone and metacone.
Footnote 1: Length defined as maximum dimension of the labial half of the crown measured parallel to a line drawn through the apices of paracone and metacone.
The calculus resembled a prune in size, of a crescentic form, with one of the apices detached, and was apparently composed of uric acid, coated with the ammoniaco-magnesian phosphate.
The elaters are never fusiform, the apices always abrupt in their acumination, and the sculpture irregular and uneven.
The episporic network shows all degrees of perfection or imperfection, and the elater also varies somewhat both in the apices and distinctness of longitudinal striae.
The elaters of uniform diameter, the apices abruptly narrowed to a blunt point, turned to one side, will serve to distinguish this species from the whole T.
The Palpi are small and triangular, with their blunt apicesclothed with a very few scattered bristles.
The Palpi are small, their apices never actually touching each other; they are more or less blunt, not differing much in shape in the different genera (Pl.
Generally, the terga are about two thirds of the length of the scuta, rarely only half their length; generally, they are separated from the apices of the scuta by about their own length, rarely by twice their own length.
Seen externally, all these valves project considerably, and curl a little inwards, with their apices generally worn and truncated.
From the hollows on the under sides of the scuta, for the lodgment of the males; from the umbones of the scuta and of the carina being situated on the apices of these valves; and from all the characters of the mouth, S.
The capitulum is very nearly as wide at its summit as at its base, owing to the divergence of the apices of the valves.
Length in proportion to the breadth of the capitulum variable, owing to the varying degree to which the scuta and terga have their apices produced.
The valves are small, the apices only just crossing each other, and are composed of yellow chitine, with mere traces of calcification.
Peduncle, narrower, but generally longer than the capitulum; upper part encased with small calcareous scales, with their apices curved inwards, and overlapping each other.
We have thus before us a series of triangles with their apices at the focus of the ellipse, and their bases on the contour of the curve.
In collecting clavaria special attention should be given to the character of the apices of the branches, color of the branches, color of spores, the taste of the plant, and the character of the place of its growth.
Resupinate; hymenium densely covered with small granules that are divided at the apices in a penicillate manner.
Third unicuspid usually smaller than fourth; upper unicuspids usually with pigmented ridge extending from apices medially to cingula, uninterrupted by antero-posterior groove; post-mandibular foramen usually absent.
The swellings form pointed hillocks, the apices of which are pierced with from one to three orifices.
The archegonial groups occupy the apicesof short branches (fig.
The sexual organs, with the exception of the antheridia of Sphagnum, are borne at the apices of the main shoot or of branches.
The teeth are two on each side of the mandible, with their apicesdirected forwards.
Grew says that "when the attire or apices break or open, the globules or dust falls down on the seedcase or uterus, and touches it with a prolific virtue.
In these instances most of the flowers were abortive, but a few were fertile, which he attributes to the dust of the apices having been wafted by the wind from other plants.
He states that the germ is never to be seen in the seed till the apices (anthers) shed their dust; and that if the stamina be cut out before the apices open, the seed will either not ripen, or be barren if it ripens.
The apices of the cones within the eye, a´b´c´, are formed by the rays brought to foci upon the retina by the crystalline lens.
In the plano-concave lens the triangular prisms may be considered as placed with their apices towards each other, and so would tend to disperse the coloured rays in the opposite direction, to form spectra at t t.
One common feature of these fresh-water shells, whether Neritinae, Navicellae, or Melaniae, is the extensive erosion of the apices and surrounding parts of the shells.
The crystals, which at first were very small, will become larger, and form hollow truncated pyramids, the apices whereof will point downwards, and their bases be even with the surface of the liquor.
It shoots into eight-sided crystals, having the apices of the pyramids pretty obtuse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
