It is defined by axonal degeneration in neurons of both the sensory and motor systems and initially occurs at the distal ends of the longest axons in the body.

* If the word ends in a consonant cluster, only the final consonant counts.

The petioles are short, and the leaves which cluster close to the ends of the shoots are pale green and downy with the result that the entire tree has a misty, frosty look.

* Kemble's Cascade in Camelopardalis is a chain of stars ( the waterfall ) that ends in open cluster NGC 1502.

In a consonant cluster, one consonant ends the preceding syllable and the rest start the following syllable.

The film ends as the other balloons in Paris come to Pascal's aid and take him on a cluster balloon ride over the city as the narrator states that other balloons took Pascal up to a magical world where balloons and children can be friends forever.

The flowers are arranged in small clusters on the ends of the branches or sometimes on the larger stems and trunk, each cluster is attached to the tree with red stalks.

Spontaneous fission ends up with a probabilistic distribution of daughter products, which sets it apart from cluster decay.

At the summit the trail arrives at a large cluster of radio transmitters and a service road that can take you down to Cougar Mountain Drive, but officially the trail ends here.

( 3 ) For anionics, these micelles appear to be roughly spherical assemblages in which the hydrocarbon tails come together so that the polar groups ( the ionized ends ) face outward towards the aqueous continuous phase.

An example is the RSSR linkage, which can be viewed as a four-bar linkage in which the hinged joints of the coupler link are replaced by rod ends, also called spherical joints or ball joints.

Detonation makes the pit critical by driving the ends inward, creating a spherical shape.

These are usually spherical vessels or " bullets " ( i. e., horizontal vessels with rounded ends ).

They have three HY-80 steel sections within the outer glass-reinforced plastic ( GRP ) fairing: a spherical hyperbaric chamber at the forward end to treat injured divers ; a smaller spherical transfer trunk ; and a cylindrical hangar with elliptical ends.

The surface hyphae are inflated, spherical to pear-shaped, 22 – 44 µm wide, covered by a network of interwoven hyphae 11 – 16. 8 µm wide with recurved cylindrical hyphal ends.

The cage is spherical but with ends open, and it typically has six openings around the perimeter.

That the Earth must be spherical was known since at least the time of Pythagoras ( 570-495 BC ), but this knowledge did not reach ancient folklore such as the Alexander romance where Alexander travels to the ends of a flat Earth.

* Reaction flasks, which are usually spherical ( i. e. round-bottom flask ) and are accompanied by their necks, at the ends of which are ground glass joints to quickly and tightly connected to the rest of the apparatus ( such as a reflux condenser or dropping funnel ).

Individual flowers are composed of six fused tepals forming a spherical to obovoid shape, constricted at the end to form a mouth around which the ends of the tepals show as small lobes or " teeth ", which may be of a different colour to the rest of the tepal.

The spherical ends are connected to two more rods that run vertically down to yet another machine.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines design as: " To conceive or fashion in the mind ; invent ," and " To formulate a plan ", and defines engineering as: " The application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems .".

The known structures of bacterial telomeres take the form of proteins bound to the ends of linear chromosomes, or hairpin loops of single-stranded DNA at the ends of the linear chromosomes.

The informal organization represents an extension of the social structures that generally characterize human life – the spontaneous emergence of groups and organizations as ends in themselves.

The informal organization represents an extension of the social structures that generally characterize human life — the spontaneous emergence of groups and organizations as ends in themselves.

The Thorp Prairie sits atop the basalt flows and ends at a deep canyon of Miocene columnar basalt structures carved by Swauk Creek whose headwaters are at Blewett Pass along US 97 to the north.

" The Latter Day Saints combined it with " the spirit of nineteenth-century Romanticism " and, as a result, " never sought to recover the forms and structures of the ancient church as ends in themselves " but " sought to restore the golden age, recorded in both Old Testament and New Testament, when God broke into human history and communed directly with humankind.

In addition, the two gate concourse structures were built to allow for possible future expansion on their respective southwestern ends ( which is why gates A1-A2 and B1-B2 do not currently exist in the new facility ).

The theoretical upper limit of accuracy is around 90 %, partly due to idiosyncrasies in DSSP assignment near the ends of secondary structures, where local conformations vary under native conditions but may be forced to assume a single conformation in crystals due to packing constraints.

: The way in which the Bildungstrieb differed, perhaps, from other such forces was in its comprehensive architectonic character: it directed the formation of anatomical structures and the operations of physiological processes of the organism so that various parts would come into existence and function interactively to achieve the ends of the species.

Where docks are given sloping sides, openwork timber jetties are generally carried across the slope, at the ends of which vessels can lie in deep water or more solid structures are erected over the slope for supporting coal-tips.

In embryos from bicoid mutant mothers, the head and thoracic structures are converted to the abdomen making the embryo with posterior structures on both ends, a lethal phenotype.

At the ends of veins sporangia, or spore-bearing structures, are protected by leaf margins, which curl over them.

At some schools, the Homecoming rally ends with a bonfire ( in which old wood structures, the rival school's memorabilia and other items are burned in a controlled fire.

The 81st Fighter-Interceptor Wing was on constant alert, with aircraft typically parked at the ends of runways and their crews on duty in nearby makeshift structures.

Todd explained his choice to place the large apartment buildings on the ends of the block, rather than the center of it, saying that, " Larger structures in midblock would have cut the sunlight and would have destroyed the small scale of the midblock areas as well .”

But unlike Classical structures, which operate through trabeation, the gable ends of many buildings are actually bearing-wall structures.

Nevertheless, Guinness World Records stated that the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is long by including other aggregate structures such as land bridges on the ends, and an under-sea tunnel in another part of the city that was part of the same Jiaozhou Bay Connection Project.

While he was grounded in the fluid phrase structures and wider variety of possible schematic layouts that came from Haydn and Mozart, his deepest innovation was to work from both ends of a sonata form, conceiving of the entire structure, and then polishing themes which would support that overarching design.

There were ventral fins with rudders at the aft ends of the outer two hulls and elevons on the trailing edges of the connecting structures.

This long book was dismissed by a number of journalistic reviewers, such as Adam Mars-Jones, who objected to Booker employing his generalizations about conventional plot structures prescriptively: " He sets up criteria for art, and ends up condemning Rigoletto, The Cherry Orchard, Wagner, Proust, Joyce, Kafka and Lawrence-the list goes on-while praising Crocodile Dundee, E. T.

The most impressive buildings located at the north and south ends of the harbor include blocks of rooms near the waterfront ( probably warehouses ); fishtanks ; monumental complexes decorated with sculpted marble ( possibly sanctuaries of Aphrodite and of Isis whose cults the 2nd c. CE writer Pausanias attests at the town ), mosaic pavements, and wall-painting ( either sacred structures, lavish seaside villas, or rich public benefactions ); and a small Christian basilica.