The epithelium of the duodenum consists of four or five layers of compactly arranged cells, near the center of an oval mass of fairly dense mesoblast.
At the latter point is an oval or disc-shaped area that is several times as thick as the surrounding wall; it probably represents the gizzard structure of the adult.
The bile sac, bs, is an elongated oval body with thin walls, lying to the right of the pylorus, its connection with the liver was not seen.
They are irregularly oval in cross section, and extend in an antero-posterior direction for a distance about equal to their long axis as seen in cross section.
The portrait of a young man of the good old times, with laughing black eyes and rosy lips, hung in an oval gilt frame at the head of the rustic bed.
Two portraits were hanging there--one, that of a young man of the good old times, smiling with red lips and brown eyes, a pastel in an oval frame.
She tossed the black curls from her oval face, smiled back at him, and stood demurely waiting his approval of her apparel.
It was a marquis ring with an oval turquoise in the center, hemmed with eight rubies and bordered with ten beautifully cut diamonds.
Belle-Ann slowly closed her dictionary and a look of deep disappointment touched her pretty oval features.
The apparel might have been duplicated; but the oval face under the Panama hat had no replica.
The spaces between the oval marks were covered with white down and feathers, stuck on with the yolk of a turtle's egg, as I judged by the gluten and by the shell lying near the place.
Round each of them were drawn two black circles, one towards each end; and between them were four oval black patches, at equal distances round the stone, made apparently with charcoal.
This done, she dabbed powder on her face out of a small oval glass pot--a habit of hers to which he had never grown accustomed.
Her face seemed to have grown longer; and there were hollows in the fine oval of the cheeks, in consequence of which the nose looked larger, and more pinched.
The hampers should always be round or oval in form, as fowls invariably creep into corners and destroy their plumage.
Above the piano hung an old fashioned oval mirror, directly opposite to the window in whose recess Edwin and Toinette were sitting.
She had woven her thick black hair in braids, which she wore in a singular fashion, crossed under her chin, so that the pale oval face seemed set in a dark frame.
Everywhere and in all races coarse features and deviations from the oval form of skull are observed in rude populations.
Fruit: Clusters of poisonous oval white berries with dark purple spot on end, formed from the pistils.
When decorticated, the stem is mottled over with minute dottings arranged in a quincuncial manner, and its oval scars are devoid of the ordinary sculpturings.
The circular or oval scars of this genus are probably impressions made by a rectilinear range of aerial roots placed on either side.
The reflection in the oval mirror once more caused her discomfort.
The warm, brown mass of it, rolled up and back from her forehead, showed all the perfect oval of her face.
That which fascinated his gaze was a series of half-length portraits in oval frames, representing his parents, himself, his sisters, and brothers.
Still she wore it rolled up and back from her forehead, showing the perfect oval of her face.
The image of her charming oval face and well-set head ceased to satisfy her.
Sitting before the toilet-table, her reflection in the great, oval mirror pleased her.
Helen drew in her breath with a little sigh of content, while taking a final look at herself in the oval glass.
We believe, however, that it is more correctly a purple flag in the centre of which the quarterings are displayed on an oval shield surmounted by a crown and encircled by the collar of the order of the Golden Fleece.
The cones, produced in great abundance, are short and oval in shape, the scales with rugged indented edges; they are deep purple when young, but become brown as they ripen.
They are ovalin section, but their maximum contour represents closely that of a pear with the stalk removed.
In the Autumn every branch becomes clustered with the oval blue-black fruit presently covered with a fine purple bloom; and until mellowed by the early frosts, this fruit is very harsh and sour.
The hair is characteristic, also the oval face and cast of features.
He pointed to the three airboats drawn up on the top of the dome; speedy black craft, bearing the red oval and winged bullet.
Unlike the others, he was armed, with a knife and pistol on his belt, and on the breast of his black tunic he wore a scarlet oval patch on which a pair of black wings, with a tapering silver object between them had been superimposed.
He raised his arms to fight off whatever it was, and opened his eyes, to find that he was staring directly at the red oval and winged bullet of the Society of Assassins.
She proposed leaving to Lord John Russell, and did in fact leave him, an estate in Kennington--where the Oval now is.
Her face, like that of her aunt, was oval in its form, and her complexion was dark and clear.
Thus, an oval and an elongate egg produce respectively an oval and an elongate blastosphere.
In fact, the original distribution of mass in the material of the egg is carried directly on to the following stages of development (oval eggs of triton, insects, etc.
The lake was oval in shape, and an imaginary line drawn from shore to shore at its center would measure more than a mile.
They are of an oval form, and the seats extend all around.
They saw that the amphitheatre was of an oval form, and was built with seats rising one above another, all around, to a great height.
The protuberances of the back are roughly shown by oval markings, which are here continued on the legs.
The nostril is the largeoval marking directly in front of the eye.
A univalve shell frequently represented is of an oval shape, pointed at each end, with a longitudinal lip and a short spire at one extremity.
Just as he reached the small oval hatchway leading below, two heavy explosions in quick succession almost burst the drums of his ears.
Ten feet above him was the oval aperture leading to the fire-control platform.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oval" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words: oval form; oval shape
