Sentence examples for lacunae the from inspiring English sources

Osteoclasts occupy small depressions on the bone's surface, called Howship lacunae; the lacunae are thought to be caused by erosion of the bone by the osteoclasts' enzymes.

Self said that Sebald's work was "a forensic phenomenology that took into account the very lacunae, the repressions and the partial amnesias that are the reality of lived life".

Kingsolver says that "when I understood that I was writing about the lacunae – the missing pieces – I knew that I had to write about Trotsky, because he's an erased person.

Between the spindle-shape resorption lacunae, the collagen fibril layer was incomplete and covered with needle-shape crystals.

While nuclear areas harboring active CTs revealed wide-spaced channels and lacunae, the Barr body apparently retained only a rudimentary channel system representing the collapsed ANC.

Synchrotron X-ray tomography, using undecalcified specimens, is a promising technology recently applied to image both osteocytic canaliculi and lacunae, the latter being prolate (rugby ball-shaped) structures 10-20 μm in length along the long axis [ 11– 13].

Diabetes impacted the spacing of the lacunae, while the perlecan deficiency had a profound influence on the pericellular fluid annulus.

Small channels (canaliculi) radiate from the lacunae to the osteonic (haversian) canal to provide passageways through the hard matrix.

It was observed that HA specifically targeted the chondrocytes as it was primarily found within the lacunae surrounding the cells.

Fourth, it addresses the lacunae in the literature regarding studies of NSI in developing countries.

We wished to analyze the lacunae in the stroke knowledge in our population.