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The discoid shapes of sun and moon were also felt to indicate the shape of celestial things.
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The scotch mint and other candies were spheroid, more recently moving toward a larger, discoid shape.
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Brittanys are also listed among the breeds that are commonly affected by Canine discoid lupus erythematosus.
* Focal palmoplantar keratoderma, a type of palmoplantar keratoderma in which large, compact masses of keratin develop at sites of recurrent friction, principally on the feet, although also on the palms and other sites, a pattern of calluses that may be discoid ( nummular ) or linear
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In some shell such as Nautilus and ammonites the generating curve revolves in a plane perpendicular to the axis and the shell will form a planar discoid shape.
The proteins of the membrane skeleton are responsible for the deformability, flexibility and durability of the red blood cell, enabling it to squeeze through capillaries less than half the diameter of the erythrocyte ( 7-8 μm ) and recovering the discoid shape as soon as these cells stop receiving compressive forces, in a similar fashion to an object made of rubber.
An additional form of coelomocyte, not found in other echinoderms, has a flattened discoid shape, and contains haemoglobin.
discoid and .
They are usually green due to the dominance of pigments chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b. The chloroplast may be discoid, plate-like, reticulate, cup-shaped, spiral or ribbon shaped in different species.
The group is closely related to the Euglenozoa, and share with them the unusual though not unique characteristic of having mitochondria with discoid cristae.
They are distinguished from the superficially similar vampyrellids mainly by having mitochondria with discoid cristae.
It grows from a discoid holdfast and branches four or five times in a dichotomous, fan-like manner.
A type of eczema may be described by location ( e. g., hand eczema ), by specific appearance ( eczema craquele or discoid ), or by possible cause ( varicose eczema ).
Multiple autoimmune disorders have been recorded with the neurovisceral and cutaneous genetic porphyrias including ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, celiac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis, diabetes, systemic and discoid lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, scleroderma, Sjogren's disease and scleritis.
The flowering heads usually radiate, sometimes discoid, with ( 1 –) 2 to 1500 + florets in racemiform ( club-shaped or pyramidal ), paniculiform or corymbo-paniculiform, or sometimes secund arrays.
Since then, a large number of discoid mesogenic compounds have been discovered in which triphenylene, porphyrin, phthalocyanine, coronene, and other aromatic molecules are involved.
If the diagnosis is in doubt, tests may be performed to rule out similar conditions such as Lyme disease, ringworm, guttate psoriasis, nummular or discoid eczema, drug eruptions, other viral exanthems, and especially secondary syphilis.
Can be misdiagnosed for other conditions like psoriasis, discoid lupus, etc.
Also known as discoid dermatitis, it is characterized by round or oval-shaped itchy lesions.
Pop singer Seal has a malar rash on his face due to discoid lupus.
These are discoid, i. e. they contain only disc flowers and lack the ray flowers.
Opah are deeply keeled, compressed and discoid fish with conspicuous coloration: the body is a deep red-orange grading to rosy on the belly, with white spots covering the flanks.
Increased, but harmful immune responses, can be divided into hypersensitivity disorders such as atopic dermatitis, and autoimmune disorders ( autoimmunity ), such as pemphigus and discoid lupus erythematosus.
* A discoid of a 13th-or 14th-century grave marker.
shapes and sun
That music of youth, with its little sins and absurdities that almost point out the sentimental affectation … appears to me like the carvings in the Alhambra, those peculiar arabesques that say nothing with their turns and shapes, but which are like the air, like the sun, like the blackbirds or like the nightingales of its gardens.
Besides these there are also depictions of human beings, guanacos, rheas, felines and other animals, as well as geometric shapes, zigzag patterns, representations of the sun, and hunting scenes.
The four shapes around the central cross are firesteels, which may be originally Serbian symbols dating back to their pagan tradition when the Serbs worshiped Dajbog, Slavic God of sun and fire, as the protector and major God of the Serbian Slavic tribe.
Later, Johannes Kepler theorized that the distribution of distances of the planets from the sun could be explained by the shapes of the five Platonic solids.
He classified them by their shapes, and discovered in 1926 the " solar-illuminated aurora ", a phenomenon that can occur at twilight when the upper parts of an aurora are lit by the sun ; these aurorae can be as high as 1000 km above ground.
The Novaya Zemlya effect will give the impression that the sun is rising earlier than it actually should ( astronomically speaking ) and depending on the meteorological situation the effect will present the sun as a line or a square ( which is sometimes referred to as the " rectangular sun "), made up of flattened hourglass shapes.
Besides these there are also depictions of human beings, guanacos ( Lama guanicoe ), rheas, felines and other animals, as well as geometric shapes, zigzag patterns, representations of the sun, and hunting scenes.
shapes and moon
In 1985, it was updated with the moon being replaced by the " Cake " by using 3-dimensional computer graphics shapes to from the Central ' cake ' while still keeping the colour spectrum on the left.
Some tales speak of kitsune with even greater powers, able to bend time and space, drive people mad, or take fantastic shapes such as a tree of incredible height or a second moon in the sky.
Large crescent-moon wampums were hung from the necklaces to denote the maweomis which were set up in large crescent moon shapes, with the Grand Sachem at the center and his sachems at his side.
; The Lunar Hare: Ideas of the shapes seen in the moon range include the English " man in the moon ", the legend of Cain eternally carrying thorns there, and the Chinese legend of the Lunar Hare: It jumped into a fire to feed the Buddha, who sent its soul to the moon, where it mixes the elixir of life.
They might be revealed through round " moon doors " or through windows of unusual shapes, or windows with elaborate lattices that broke the view into pieces.
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The shapes were unmistakable and the Rising Suns were showing up, slightly brighter pinpoints in the gray gloom.
Even at this short distance they were only vague shapes, setting up the machine gun on a small knoll so that it could fire above the heads of the rest of the patrol.
If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.
When the smaller facet-planes of Analytical Cubism were placed upon or juxtaposed with the large, dense shapes formed by the affixed materials of the collage, they had to coalesce -- become `` synthesized '' -- into larger planar shapes themselves simply in order to maintain the integrity of the picture plane.
) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.
Formulas for the surface areas of simple shapes were computed by the ancient Greeks, but computing the surface area of a more complicated shape usually requires multivariable calculus.
The hybrids were crossed back onto the original Amaryllis belladonna and with each other to produce naturally seed bearing crosses that come in a very wide range of flower sizes, shapes, stem heights and intensities of pink.
Over the course of military history, projectiles were manufactured from a wide variety of materials, made in a wide variety of shapes, and used different means of inflicting physical damage and casualties to defeat specific types of targets.
Among the shapes he investigated were the cross-sections of trout.
This and subsequent dark spots were thought to have been caused by debris from the impacts, and were markedly asymmetric, forming crescent shapes in front of the direction of impact.
Several of these shapes were later taken over into minuscule book hand.
The technique got to Europe almost immediately, and Segundo de Chomon and others at Pathé took it further, adding clay animation, in which sculptures were deformed from one thing into another thing frame by frame in Sculpture moderne ( 1908 ), and then Pathé made the next step to the animation of silhouette shapes.
There were other variants of the simple iris as well and in these the mask opening or closing in front of the lens had shapes other than circular.
Participants in an early study by Beach and Swensson ( 1967 ) were shown a shuffled deck of index cards with shapes on them, and were told to guess which shape would come next in a sequence.
In the early days of heraldry, very simple bold rectilinear shapes were painted on shields.
As more complicated shields came into use, these bold shapes were set apart in a separate class as the " honorable ordinaries ".
Romanian did not initially get its and ( with comma ) letters, because these letters were initially unified with and ( with cedilla ) by the Unicode Consortium, considering the shapes with comma beneath to be glyph variants of the shapes with cedilla.
The haran ( Aspidistra ) and sasa bamboo leaves were often cut into shapes, and placed underneath or used as separators.
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