tubule

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The cells become larger, so they adapt by forming the same size of tubule with fewer cells.

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A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

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noun

A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tubule.

noun

A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

Example sentences

The cells become larger, so they adapt by forming the same size of tubule with fewer cells.

Conclusion It was concluded that all the three desensiting agents were effective in the dentine tubule occlusion.

Lower molecular weight fragments of antibodies are usually reabsorbed in the proximal tubule of the nephron.

Group C (Novamin) and D (Proargin) showed 83.1% and 69.1% tubule occlusion respectively.

If you keep duplicating the DNA, at some point a single cell is enough to form the tubule, which it does by bending around.

An example of the contrary: Your eyes would be misplaced if the process from cell clump to mat to tubule failed due to chemical signaling failure, but the whole embryo tends to be spontaneously aborted when gestation fails so catastrophically.

Ah, of course, the machines cannot truly be thinking because true thought is solely achievable via secular, quantum-tubule-based souls, which are had by all humans (regardless of cognitive condition!) and most (but not all) animals and nothing else.

Quote examples

A "micro" tubule is smaller than a "nano" tubule?

Take for instance the behavior of kinesin, that stalk-like molecule seen marching in a stately way down a tubule, with two “feet” in alternating step, towing a large vesicle.