Sentence examples similar to lacking rays from inspiring English sources

Some have both disk and ray flowers in the heads, but others lack ray flowers.

Since then, its discoveries have starred in ScienceNOW stories about gamma ray bursts at the fringes of the galaxy (24 April 1998), gamma ray bursts possibly spawned by black holes (15 June 1998), and gamma ray bursts that appear to lack gamma rays (20 October 1999), among others.

He said doctors had died of radiation sickness because, lacking X-ray film, they stand next to patients undergoing tests to check results on a fluoroscopy screen.

Lacking X-ray images, we cannot be certain whether tongue movements are also involved in Koshik's speech imitations.

The disciform head, a special derivative of the radiate type, resembles the discoid head in lacking the marginal rays, but the outer flowers are pistillate, with a tubular, rayless corolla.

We wanted to discover novel chemotypes for 2 targets which lacked x-ray data, CCK2 and 11beta-HSD1.

Our data shows that TB10.4 stimulation followed by multi-cytokine analysis allows discrimination between active disease and latent infection and should enhance classification of subjects, particularly those who are difficult to diagnose (ie HIV-positive or extrapulmonary TB) and at sites which lack x-ray and/or culture facilities (Fig. 4).

Monkeys were selected to be naive to prior mycobacterial exposure on the basis of a negative Mantoux skin reaction using Old Tuberculin Statens Serum Institutee (SSI), Copenhagen), a negative result in the Primagam® kit measuring M.bovis/M.avium PPD specific IFNγ release in whole blood cells (Biocor Animal Health, Omaha, Nebraska, USA), and clean chest X-rays lacking any signs of TB (see below).

The 41.7 mm C. regani taken in an open net fished to a depth of 5110 m in the southeastern Atlantic is a late transforming female that retains only 3 4 of the 8 10 pelvic-fin rays found in the larvae; pelvic-fin rays are lacking in the other 184 female specimens of this most common whalefish (figure 2 e).

Though specific population and catch data are lacking, the longtail butterfly ray is thought to be susceptible to overfishing due to its low reproductive rate and the fact that pregnant females often abort their young when captured.

As in Down's syndrome and other genetic syndromes [ 36] evidence of cord compression is rare {3}, and evidence is lacking that cervical X-rays have validated predictive value for subsequent acute dislocation/subluxation at the atlantoaxial joint [ 30, 65].