Nodules Sentence Examples

The nodules on the roots of leguminous plants are induced by the presence of a minute organism now known to do no injury to the plant.

Nodules due to eel-worms (Nematodes) are produced on numerous classes of plants, and frequently result in great losses-e.g.

The term coprolites has been made to include all kinds of phosphatic nodules employed as manures, such, for example, as those obtained from the Coralline and the Red Crag of Suffolk.

The phosphatic nodules occurring throughout the Red Crag of Suffolk are regarded as derived from the Coralline Crag.

An acre used to yield on an average 300 tons of phosphatic nodules, value £750.

Phosphatic nodules occur also in the Chloritic Marl of the Isle of Wight and Dorsetshire, and at Wroughton, near Swindon.

Beds and nodules of chert are abundant in the upper parts of the limestone; at Bakewell it is quarried for use in the Potteries.

The existence of the root nodules had long been recognized, but hitherto no adequate explanation had been afforded as to their function.

Upon the roots of leguminous plants characteristic swollen nodules or tubercles are present.

The nodules increase in size, and analysis shows that they are exceedingly rich in nitrogen up to the time of flowering of the host plant.

Larger quantities of deposit may be conveniently collected by means of the dredge, which can be worked in any depth and brings up large stones, concretionary nodules or fossils, of the existence of which a sounding-tube could give no indication.

Secondary products, such as glauconite, phosphatic concretions and manganese nodules, occur though less frequently than in the hemipelagic sediments.

The dredge often brings up large numbers of nodules formed upon sharks' teeth, the ear-bones of whales or turtles or small fragments of pumice or other volcanic ejecta, and all more or less incrusted with manganese oxide until the nodules vary in size from that of a potato to that of a man's head.

The manganese nodules afford the most ample proof of the prodigious period of time which has elapsed since the formation of the red clay began; the sharks' teeth and whales' ear-bones which serve as nuclei belong in some cases to extinct species or even to forms derived from those familiar in the fossils from the seas of the Tertiary period.

The skin was strengthened by a number of small deeply-embedded bony nodules.

In the Chalk of the south-east of England nodules of marcasite with a fibrous radiated structure are abundant, and in the Chalk Marl between Dover and Folkestone fine twinned groups of "spear pyrites" are common.

In whatever form they were originally deposited they often suffer complete or partial solution and are redeposited as concretionary lumps and nodules, often called coprolites.

Phosphatic nodules and concretions, with phosphatized fossils and their casts, occur at various geological horizons in Great Britain.

Bands of black nodules, highly phosphatic, are found at the top of the Bala limestone in North Wales; beds of concretions occur in the Jurassic series; and important deposits are known in the Cretaceous strata, especially in the Lower Greensand and at the base of the Gault.

The Cambridge Greensand, rich in phosphatic nodules, occurs at the base of the Chalk Marl.

At the base of the Red Crag in East Anglia, and occasionally at the base of the other Pliocene Crags, there is a " nodule bed," consisting of phosphatic nodules, with rolled teeth and bones, which were formerly worked as " coprolites " for the preparation of artificial manure.

Strutt has found that phosphatized nodules and bones are rich in radioactive constituents, and has brought this into relation with their geological age.

Over a large part of the central Pacific, far removed from any possible land-influences or deposits of ooze, the red-clay region is characterized by the occurrence of manganese, which gives the clay a chocolate colour, and manganese nodules are found in vast numbers, along with sharks' teeth and the ear-bones and other bones of whales.

As small concretionary nodules, it occurs disseminated through sandstone at Kommern in the Eifel.

For most of these the lightest spongy but sweet turfy peat must be used, this being packed lightly about the roots, and built up above the pot-rim, or in some cases freely mixed before use with chopped sphagnum moss and small pieces of broken pots or nodules of charcoal.

Nodules of 'pyrites have been found in prehistoric barrows and elsewhere under conditions suggesting their use as a primitive means of producing fire.

In coal it not infrequently forms bands and nodules known as "brasses," and may also be finely disseminated through the coal as "black pyrites"; but much of the so-called pyrites of coal is really marcasite.

Blende, is also found sporadically in sedimentary rocks; for example, in nodules of clay-ironstone in the Coal Measures, in the cement-doggers of the Lias, and in the casts of fossil shells.

Certain flat oval nodules from a decomposed lava (augite-andesite) in Uruguay present a cavity lined with quartz crystals and enclosing liquid (a weak saline solution), with a movable air-bubble, whence they are called "enhydros" or water-stones.

The lateral toes may be completely absent, but more often are represented by the hoofs alone, supported sometimes by a very rudimentary skeleton, consisting of mere irregular nodules of bone.

Next in antiquity to hydraulic lime is Roman cement, prepared by heating an indurated marl occurring naturally in nodules.

The nodules are not prepared in any way, but simply burned at a moderate red heat.

In the Cambrian limestones, as in their more recent analogues, layers and nodules of chert and phosphatized material are not wanting.

The work of numerous observers has shown that the free nitrogen of the atmosphere is brought into combination in the soil in the nodules filled with bacteria on the roots of Leguminosae, and since these nodules are the morphological expression of a symbiosis between the higher plant and the bacteria, there is evidently here a case similar to the last.

When these plants were examined they had small swellings or nodules on their roots, while those grown in sterile sand without soil-extract had no nodules.

Now these peculiar nodules are a normal characteristic of the roots of leguminous plants grown in ordinary soil.

The experiments above mentioned made clear for the first time the nature and activity of these nodules.

They are clearly the result of infection (if the soil extract was boiled before addition to the sand no nodules were produced), and their presence enabled the plant to absorb the free nitrogen of the air.

The nitrogen of the air is absorbed by the nodules, being built up into the bacterial cell and later handed on to the host plant.

The green plant, however, always keeps the upper hand, restricting the development of the bacteria to the nodules and later absorbing them for its own use.

It should be mentioned that different genera require different races of the bacterium for the production of nodules.

In this way secondary abscesses, secondary tubercle glanders and nodules, &c., result; in typhoid fever there is secondary invasion of the mesenteric glands, and clumps of bacilli are also found in internal organs, especially the spleen, though there may be little tissue change around them.

In limestones of various kinds it occurs as nodules and bands of chert and flint, being in this case of organic origin.

At Potton, phosphatized nodules may be obtained, and here a hard bed, the "Carstone," lies at the top of the formation.

The cells forming the limbs of the ectodermic folds secrete nodules of calcite, and these, fusing together, give rise to six (or twelve) vertical radial plates or septa.

The excrement from this large colony has changed the carbonate of lime in the soil and the coral nodules on the surface into phosphates, to the extent in some cases of 60-70%, thus forming a valuable deposit, beneficial to the vegetation of the island itself and promising commercial value.

Nodules of flint when removed from the chalk which encloses them have a white dull rough surface, and exposure to the weather produces much the same appearance on broken flints.

Although the flint nodules often lie in bands which closely follow the bedding, they were not deposited simultaneously with the chalk; very often the flint bands cut across the beds of the limestone and may traverse them at right angles.

Among the rocks of the continents nothing exactly the same as this remarkable deposit is known to occur, though fine dark clays, with manganese nodules, are found in many localities, accompanied by other rocks which indicate deep-water conditions of deposit.

Many shales contain great numbers of ovoid or rounded septarian nodules of clay ironstone.

The groundmass consists of optically anisotropic baked clay minerals and abundant dark brown nodules.

The upper beds of the third limestone are often dark colored, and contain layers of black chert in nodules.

Histological examination of cutaneous nodules showed dense infiltration of CD30 + atypical lymphoid cells in the deep dermis.

The Museum also possesses a flint miner's pick used for extracting flint nodules.

Note the intact immature nodules and the ruptured lesions showing white hyphae.

Dump of iron-rich material - a small heap of low grade iron ores, including a few nodules of coal Measure ironstone.

Chest x- ray may show signs of nodules or hilar lymphadenopathy.

Also important for symbiotic nitrogen fixation is a specialized set of cytochromes required for respiration in the low oxygen concentration found in legume nodules.

Furthermore, when brain volume was corrected for the volume of tubers and subependymal nodules, gray-matter deficits were still apparent.

Three years later, he fulfilled the diagnosis criteria for RA, with biopsy findings of rheumatoid nodules.

Alder roots have nitrogen fixing nodules on their roots.

These clays contain round nodules of limestone with ammonites preserved in green calcite crystal tho there are very difficult to clean.

The rhizomes form pinkish nodules in early spring from which shoots develop in April.

The slide shows the crystalline nodules on the lining of the chest.

They have now found some nodules on the surface of his R lung.

A perfect solution tube can be seen in the roof and large chert nodules abound.

On the Ocean beds lie immense riches in the form of manganese nodules - roughly 10,000 tons per square mile.

Some of these forms of bacterium live freely in the soil others live in root nodules.

You can only have a liver transplant if you have no more than 3 tumor nodules and none are more than 5 centimeters across.

Respiratory signs and skin nodules also occur and myxomatosis is very often fatal.

The eruption consists of firm inflammatory papules and nodules at the sites of injury.

His maps on the distribution of carbonates, siliceous deposits and manganese nodules form the basis of understanding oceanic sedimentology.

Nodules can be a good source of whole fossils - they are rounded pale gray stones, often with faint horizontal striations in them.

Thyroid nodules are lumps which can develop in the thyroid nodules are lumps which can develop in the thyroid gland.

Abnormal thyroid tissue within these nodules produces too much thyroid hormone.

Uncommon types of benign thyroid nodules are due to subacute thyroiditis, silent thyroiditis or Reidel's thyroiditis.

The Baltic amber or succinite is found as irregular nodules in a marine glauconitic sand, known as "blue earth," occurring in the Lower Oligocene strata of Samland in East Prussia, where it is now systematically mined.

The results have shown that, when a soil growing leguminous plants is infected with appropriate organisms, there is a development of the so-called leguminous nodules on the roots of the plants, and, coincidently, increased growth and gain of nitrogen."

For this reason proposals have been made to plant in the place of weeds low-growing leguminous plants, the growth of which will not only prevent impoverishment and loss of soil during the rains and conserve moisture in the heat, but will also have the effect of enriching the soil in nitrogenous constituents through the power leguminous plants possess of absorbing nitrogen from the air through nodules on their roots.

It is made from septaria nodules which are dredged up on the Kent and Essex coasts and consist of about 60% of calcium carbonate mixed with clay, the mass being sufficiently indurated to remain coherent under water.

Pyrite nodules - rusty brown, heavy, ball-like concretions - are also common.

Nodule (rheumatoid nodule) - firm nodules arising under the skin in areas of high pressure.

Rhizobium bacteria in the nodules fix atmospheric nitrogen and make it available to the legume plant.

Siderite nodules from the Coseley fossil assemblage contain an abundant, diverse, and well preserved coal measures flora.

In some cases, surgical removal of the nodules may be needed.

In the elderly only small nodules of active thymic tissue can be found.

Uncommon types of benign thyroid nodules are due to subacute thyroiditis, silent thyroiditis or Reidel 's thyroiditis.

In May 2005, Timberlake had an operation to remove nodules from his throat.

The doctor observes the front of the neck for swelling and may gently manipulate the neck and palpate the front and side surfaces of the thyroid gland at the base of the neck, looking for nodules or tenderness.

Ninety percent of patients with NF-1 have tiny tumors called Lisch nodules in the iris (colored area) of the eye.

Diagnosis of NF-1 will be confirmed by manipulation of the skin to reveal moveable, small, solid lumps (nodules) and the presence of coffee-colored spots on the skin of the trunk and pelvis.

Two or more nodules and six or more discolored spots are usually definitive for a diagnosis of NF-1.

Diagnosis of NF-2 also relies on manipulation of the skin to indicate the presence of nodules and evaluation of hearing and vision to determine any impairment.

The disease is called a granulomatosis because it is characterized by the formation of granulomas, which are small lumps or nodules of inflammatory cells in the patient's tissues.

These nodules most commonly occur over the knee and elbow joint, as well as over the spine.

Medication or surgery may also be necessary to control heavy menstrual flow or to remove polyps (growths or nodules) from the bowels.

Kaposi's sarcoma-A cancer characterized by bluish-red nodules on the skin, usually on the lower extremities, that often occurs in people with AIDS.

The most severe type of acne includes both nodules and cysts.

Acne conglobata, a more common form of severe inflammation, includes numerous, deep, inflammatory nodules that heal with scarring.

Doctors call these areas implants or nodules.

Occasionally, the doctor may use an ultrasound or MRI to look for nodules or implants in the abdomen to supplement the diagnosis.

The symptoms of basal cell carcinoma will either be small, pearly nodules or what appear to be flat, waxy scars.

Other types of pimples include nodules, or very inflamed, sore bumps, and cysts, or pus-filled, inflamed lesions.

Nodules and cysts may appear on the surface of the skin.

Cysts and nodules should never be extracted.

The nodules from the "blue earth" have to be freed from matrix and divested of their opaque crust, which can be done in revolving barrels containing sand and water.

Beckerite, a rare amber in earthy-brown nodules, almost opaque, said to be related in properties to gutta-percha.

The nodules are penetrated by cracks,;but the material can be worked on the lathe.

The nodules, in particular, appear to play the important part in the process.

In the neighbourhood of Nottingham, and other places in the Midlands, barytes forms a cementing material in the Triassic sandstones; amber-coloured crystals of the same mineral are found in the fuller's earth at Nutfield in Surrey; and the septarian nodules in London Clay contain crystals of barytes as well as of calcite.

Steenstrup in several places on the west coast enclosed as smaller or larger nodules in the basalt.

This iron is considered by several of the first authorities"on the subject to be of meteoric origin,' but no evidence hitherto given seems to prove decisively that it cannot be telluric. That the nodules found were lying on gneissic rock, with no basaltic rocks in the neighbourhood, does not prove that the iron may not originate from basalt, for the nodules may have been transported by the glaciers, like other erratic blocks, and will stand erosion much longer than the basalt, which may long ago have disappeared.

This iron seems, however, in several respects to be unlike the celebrated large nodules of iron found by Nordenskiold at Ovifak, but appears to resemble much more closely the softer kind of iron nodules found by Steenstrup in the basalt;' it stands exposure to the air equally well, and has similar Widmannstaten figures very sharp, as is to be expected in such a large mass.

A few other minerals may be noticed, and some have been worked to a small extent - graphite is abundant, particularly near Upernivik; cryolite is found almost exclusively at Ivigtut; copper has been observed at several places, but only in nodules and laminae of limited extent; and coal of poor quality is found in the districts about Disco Bay and Umanak Fjord.

In mineralogical collections rounded nodules of brown glass, varying from the size of a pea to that of an orange, may often be seen labelled marekanite.

Certain bacteria of the nitrogenfixing class enter into association with the roots of green plants, the best-known examples being those which are met with in the nodules upon the roots of clover, peas, beans, sainfoin and other plants belonging to the leguminous order.