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  A Certain White Ovoid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Said ovoid experienced a rapid decrease in altitude, terminated by virtually instantaneous deceleration upon contact with the terrain beneath.
Said shock waves were of such an intense nature that the elastic limit of the ovoid's casing was greatly surpassed, resulting in fractures, both numerous and severe.
The combined efforts of the equines and the entire complement of male personnel in the service of His Majesty were insufficient to restore the sundered ovoid to its original state.
www.arnspub.com /ArnsPub/MotherGoosePhD/ACertainWhiteOvoid.html   (103 words)

  
 Ovoid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The red, somewhat ulcerated, ovoid lesions at left are punched-out Peyer's patches caused by a parvovirus infection.
Canine Parvovirus (CPV) has an affinity for the rapidly dividing cells of the intestine, lymphoid tissues and the bone marrow.
Click on the photo to view a somewhat enlarged image (66K) of the intestine with ovoid lesions of the Peyer's Patches.
cal.vet.upenn.edu /pathterm/shapes/ovoid.htm   (71 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Designing of a beehive with ovoid shape of the brood space corresponding to the form of the bee-ball and to the conditions of bee-nest formation without utilising frames.
When the height of the first added cylindrical corpus is equal to the small radius of the ovoid, the new ovoid which we have after adding this corpus will also represent the Golden section, in which the ratio between its height and large diameter is equal to the ratios defined in the first ovoid.
ovoid features the ratios as per claim 1, as a ratio of its height to the large diameter of the ovoid.
www.wipo.int /cgi-pct/guest/getbykey5?KEY=00/72668.001207&ELEMENT_SET=DECL   (1230 words)

  
 Planet AvP: Literature: Anise: Payback
To the ovoids, if they were but aware, nature was facing the long drawn out agony of eons of fading to nonexistence.
The ovoid huffs and puffs as it moves toward a structure intended for shelter.
The queen ate eagerly, nothing was left, not a bone, not a morsel of flesh, nothing remained except a smear of blood on the wall and some splashings on the floor.
www.planetavp.com /features/literature/anise-3.shtml   (3130 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Small, ovoid buds open to medium-sized flowers (6-8 cm) which are double, open, fragrant and light camellia rose shaded darker.
Ovoid, medium-sized, rose red buds open to cupped, double rose-red flowers which age lighter.
Large, ovoid Neyron rose buds open to flowers that are large, cupped, or slightly quartered, double pale neyron rose, darker on the reverse, and with a stippling of dark Neyron rose on the center of the petals.
www.ag.iastate.edu /centers/cad/Croses.html   (541 words)

  
 Aquifoliaceae [Draft]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
3 mm, margin with 3 or 4 pairs of strong spines; pyrenes 2, ovoid or subglobose, 5--6 mm, 4--5 mm in diam.
46b. Terminal buds ovoid, 1.5--2.5 cm, bud scales densely shortly puberulent, margin entire; leaf blade elliptic, obovate-elliptic, or oblanceolate, 10--15.5 X 3--5.5 cm, lateral veins12--15 pairs; individual branches of male fascicles 3--7-flowered, 2 X dichotomous cymes; pyrenes glabrous or sparsely pubescent 99.
66b. Ovary ovoid, stigma large, trapezoid-conical; leaf blade thinly leathery, margin not undulate, sparsely and shallowly serrulate, lateral veins 8 or 9 pairs, raised on both surfaces, or adaxially flat 119.
flora.huh.harvard.edu /china/mss/volume11/Aquifoliaceae-AGH_edited.htm   (13779 words)

  
 Search Results for ovoid - Encyclopædia Britannica
either of a pair of large, ovoid organs that form most of the lateral walls of the third ventricle of the brain.
German faience ewer with an ovoid body and a long narrow neck, which has a hinged pewter lid, a slight lip, and a broad foot, usually bound with a ring of pewter.
These are aggregates of ovoid masses, resembling pillows or grain-filled sacks in size and shape, that occur in many basic volcanic rocks.
www.britannica.com /search?query=ovoid&ct=&fuzzy=N   (363 words)

  
 Family Pratice News: Ovoid Appendix on US Rules Out Acute Appendicitis - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
Among 100 control patients in his study, 37 appendixes were ovoid, 33 were round, and 30 were partly ovoid and partly round.
Among 174 patients with right lower quadrant pain, 37% had an ovoid appendix, 24% had a round appendix, and 39% had an appendix that was both round and ovoid.
Acutely inflamed appendices were never strictly ovoid, said Dr. Rettenbacher at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BJI/is_3_10/ai_60300620   (400 words)

  
 Ovoid Humanity
Ovoid Humanity is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
His functionless cancer cell with its one primitive activity of self-division, localized out-of-time, is a biological throwback in type to the huge ethereal ovoid cell-forms of the first root-race.
Even the human physical body will have become greatly changed, and towards the end of the round will be an ovoid or globe emitting light.
www.experiencefestival.com /ovoid_humanity   (1663 words)

  
 Ovoid Shape of the Vermiform Appendix: A Criterion to Exclude Acute Appendicitis--Evaluation with US -- Rettenbacher et ...
(Fig 4) and were ovoid and round in 21 (19%) of 108 patients.
The appendiceal cavity is empty, and the shape appears ovoid.
Diagonally striped areas are for appendices that are partly ovoid and partly round.
radiology.rsnajnls.org /cgi/content/full/226/1/95   (4210 words)

  
 Glass Dumps from the Glass Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Glass Dumps are usually seen as either paperweights if they are tall and good quality, or "door stops" if they are squat, poor quality, and/or bruised/damaged by years of abuse.
They are large sized, ovoid like the one on the left or round with a flattened base, and usually made of green bottle glass.
They often have internal decorations made from metal foil like the one on the left, or air bubble patterns, or a design of flowers picked out in a very fine white powder, like the lower section of the example shown left.
www.glassencyclopedia.com /glassdumps.html   (831 words)

  
 The Shapes Used in Northwest Indian Art
These oval like shapes vary in size proportions depending on the kind of subject or creature they are used to symbolize but all ovoids have the same common qualities whether they are long and slender or fat and round.
Larger ovoids may be used to form the head of a subject, eye sockets, major joints, wings, tails or fins.
Ovoids can be solid (completely color filled) or open with inside space.
www.freespiritgallery.ca /nwshapes.htm   (304 words)

  
 s-pinus_sp.html
long, ovoid or globular-ovoid when closed, very broad when open, each scale with a thick appendage and a minute spine: seed 3-4 mm.
long, ovoid when closed, globose ovoid or depressed when open, the scale-appendages relatively thin, each with a recurved spine: seed 4-4.5 mm.
long, very persistent, ovoid when closed, globose-ovoid or depressed when open, the scale-appendages very thick, each with a stout incurved spine: seed 6-7 mm.
www.ibiblio.org /botnet/flora/small/s-pinus_sp.html   (878 words)

  
 #template_BFNA_ProvPubl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sexual condition autoicous, paroicous or synoicous; perigonia axillary, or on short branches proximal to perichaetium; perichaetial leaves not differentiated.
  Capsule brown, 1--1.5 mm, inclined, ovoid to oblong-ovoid, becoming ± wrinkled when dry; operculum to 0.3 mm; peristome teeth 16, united below by a pale yellow or hyaline membrane, the teeth in 8 groups of 2, irregularly split and perforated, smooth or very finely papillose.
  Capsule brown, 1--1.5 mm, inclined, ovoid, becoming ± wrinkled when dry; operculum to 0.3 mm; peristome evenly spaced, lanceolate, divided nearly to the base into 2(--3) filaments, smooth to papillose or sometimes ± striolate.
www.mobot.org /plantscience/BFNA/V1/DitrDistichium.htm   (759 words)

  
 Antique Medicine Bottles Dr Cannon's Medicine Chest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
These jugs have two basic shapes, ovoid and cylindrical shape has either rounded shoulders that taper into the neck or a ridge at the shoulder with either a cone or a funnel forming the top.
The first is an ovoid jug, 15 1/2 inches tall and impressed only with a 3 on the shoulder, indicating a 3-gallon capacity.
My slightly ovoid jug, 11 inches tall, is impressed “True Fruit” / Fountain Syrup / J. Hungerford Smith Co. / Rochester, N.Y. The company was incorporated in 1890, with Smith receiving 55% of the stock, so we know that the ovoid shape persisted into the 1890s.
www.glswrk-auction.com /mc08.htm   (782 words)

  
 Southern Ovoid Sewer Replacement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Geelong Trunk Sewer Strategy is designed to ensure Barwon Water continues to meet residential and industrial growth in the Geelong region, particularly in fast-growing areas such as Leopold, Drysdale and Clifton Springs.
This strategy includes $7 million to replace the 85-year-old Southern Ovoid Sewer (originally constructed using reinforced concrete ovoid shaped pipes) between the Geelong Racecourse and Reserve Road, Marshall.
As the Southern Ovoid Sewer Replacement Project is to be constructed under several key arterial roads as well as the Geelong Racecourse, it was impractical to use trench pipe construction.
www.humes.com.au /projects/SOvoidSewerReplcmnt.htm   (999 words)

  
 Camassia in Flora of North America @ efloras.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bulbs solitary or clustered, tunicate, ovoid to globose; tunic fl or brown.
Fruits capsular, ovoid to ellipsoid or subglobose, dehiscence loculicidal.
Capsules dull green, ovoid to ellipsoid, 10–25 mm; seeds 6–12 per locule; s British Columbia to c California.
www.efloras.org /florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=105373   (508 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The plant “shepard’s purse” forms seed capsules that are either triangular or ovoid.
A pure-breeding triangular strain is crossed with a pure breeding ovoid strain.
Two F1’s are then crossed and the following is observed: 152 triangular individuals and 8 ovoid individuals.
biology.dbs.umt.edu /bio223/BIOL223HW3A.doc   (1147 words)

  
 Immunohistochemical Characterization of Cells in Adult Human Patellar Tendons -- Chuen et al. 52 (9): 1151 -- Journal ...
ovoid tendon cells were significantly higher than those of elongated
Figure 4 IHC staining of TGFß1 in healthy human patellar tendon showed that the immunopositivity in (A) elongated tendon cells (scored 2) is higher compared with (B) ovoid tendon cells (scored 1).
Figure 5 IHC staining of BMP13 in healthy human patellar tendon showed that the immunopositivity (A) of elongated tendon cells (scored 2) was higher compared with (B) ovoid tendon cells (scored 0).
www.jhc.org /cgi/content/full/52/9/1151   (2604 words)

  
 Pinus massoniana in Flora of China @ efloras.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Seed scales suboblong-obovoid or subsquare; apophyses rhombic, slightly swollen or flat, slightly transversely ridged; umbo flattened, slightly sunken, blunt or shortly mucronate in apical part of cone.
The timber is used for construction, railway sleepers, mine timber, furniture, wood pulp, etc., and the trunk as a source of resin and tannin, and for cultivating fungi.
Seed cones ovoid or conical-ovoid; bark gray-brown toward base of trunk, irregularly scaly and flaking
www.efloras.org /florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200005343   (233 words)

  
 Kamikaze by Michael P Calligaro
The young Ovoid strained his mind trying to get his ship out of its predicament, but was not up to the task.
The Ovoid's sorrow lessened a bit, and he rolled out, lurching as his more pointed sides rolled end over end.
He selected three Fourth Ovoids and the four of them followed the First Sphere down to the hanger where the human waited in its ship.
www.mystikeep.com /stories/kamikaze.htm   (2125 words)

  
 Does an ovoid or a spheroid shape have greater structural strength?
Does an ovoid or a spheroid shape have greater structural strength?
Please assume there are no additional support structures for the hollow shell, such as the tetrahedrons that support a geodesic dome.
I wonder if you could direct me to the results of any experiments that have subjected spheres and ovoids made of the same material of the same thickness to tests of structural strength.
www.madsci.org /posts/archives/nov2000/975597475.Ph.q.html   (420 words)

  
 Ovoid Carving
The Norwich Ovoid Carver is so named because although we do not know yet who he was but most of his stones seem to be found in the Norwich area and "Ovoid" because of their particularly rounded shape.
Some of the best examples are found in the old Norwichtown burying ground, but one can also find these rude semicircular stones in Windham, Groton, Preston, and Coventry.
All existing probates have been checked but no evidence has yet been discovered to establish the identity of this interesting pre-Hartshorne carver.
www.ctgravestones.com /gallery/ovoid.htm   (174 words)

  
 ovoid - OneLook Dictionary Search
Ovoid : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include ovoid: manchester ovoid, fetal ovoid, foetal ovoid, ovoid articulation
Words similar to ovoid: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, ovate, oviform, prolate, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=ovoid   (211 words)

  
 RED OVOID ATTACK - Joseph Nechvatal & Music2eye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
RED OVOID ATTACK - Joseph Nechvatal and Music2eye
Joseph Nechvatal’s 2001 Computer Virus Project 2.0 follows along the same lines as previous viral works by Nechvatal in 1992 - works where an unpredictable progressive virus operates on a degradation/transformation of an image.
Among the different techniques used here are models that result from embodied artificial intelligence and the paradigm of genetic programming.
www.computerfinearts.com /collection/nechvatal/redattack   (198 words)

  
 INFO-MINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Jean-Raymond Boulle, Co-Chairman of Diamond Fields Resources Inc., announced today that exploratory drilling completed 700 and 1300 metres west of the massive sulfide ovoid has significantly expanded the scale of the Voisey Bay Discovery.
The assays compare favorably in grade with previously released holes in the ovoid.
A preliminary mineable ore reserve for the ovoid area will be generated in the near future.
www.infomine.com /press_releases/dfr/pr0516dfr.html   (320 words)

  
 Ovoid Series Light Pipe
The Ovoid Series Light Pipe product is a dust and splash sealed system that is suitable for indoor and protected area use.
The large-scale ovoid shaped light guide provides continuous high luminance and uniformity in lengths up to 60' (18m) with a single luminaire.
Light guides are illuminated using conventional 1000W metal halide HID lamps.
www.tirsys.com /products/light-pipe/ovoid.htm   (135 words)

  
 Very early Redware Ovoid quart wax sealer jar, uncommon - 172   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Very early Redware Ovoid quart wax sealer jar, uncommon
This is an early hand thrown redware wax sealer preserve/canning jar which is earlier than most wax sealers due to the egg shape, ovoid body.
This is an uncommon shape for wax sealers and could be as early as the late 1700's.There are a few places where the brown glaze has worn off to reveal a red clay.
www.rubylane.com /shops/saltybayantiques/item/172   (258 words)

  
 Rugby football -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Because of this, governing bodies enforce the rules strictly.
Distinctive features common to both rugby games include the (An egg-shaped object) ovoid ball and the ban on passing the ball forwards, so that players can gain ground only by running with the ball or by kicking it.
In the League game, the scrum still exists, but with greatly reduced importance, and line-outs do not occur.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/rugby_football.htm   (2051 words)

  
 Snarkmarket: Sad, Sad Ovoid
You’ve seen those Zoloft commercials with the sketchy little ovoid characters, right?
Clive Thompson has an example, and a very mature disclaimer that I agree wholeheartedly with.
Personal injury attorneys and lawyers typically represent clients (plaintiffs) who have been injured either financially or physically due to the fault of another.
www.snarkmarket.com /blog/snarkives/gleeful_miscellany/sad_sad_ovoid   (143 words)

  
 Genus Rhodospirillum - Purple photobacterium does not require sulfur.
Cells spherical, ovoid, rod, vibrio, or spiral shaped; motile or non-motile; with or without gas vacuoles.
Sulfur globules stored inside he cells when grown with sulfide as electron donor.
These stable aggregates consist of a large colorless central bacterium surrounded by small green cells.
www.disknet.com /indiana_biolab/b410a.htm   (826 words)

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