radial
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The researchers found that radial glia depend heavily on the pentose phosphate pathway, a metabolic process that uses glucose to make materials needed by cells that are dividing rapidly.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
That’s where the group’s volunteers work in concert with Southern California Gas crews patching the scores of potholes created by extreme nature, not by radial tires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Warwick team, working with astronomers from the University of Colorado Boulder in the US, was interested in the four nearby systems because of a "substantial radial wobble".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
But the promised buildings have never materialised, and Crown Road, a four-kilometre circular road with 12 radial routes is still under construction.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
When taken out of the stocks his skin was cold and shrivelled; there was no perceptible pulsation in the temporal or radial arteries, and he complained of severe cephalgia ...
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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Instead only the most distal ones are homologous to digit bones; the proximal radials are homologous to the wrist bones and the long bones of the palm.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2020
The book focusses on six designs: arcs or waves, meanders, spirals, radials or explosions, cells and networks, and fractals.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2019
The federal government poured money into the brand new interstate system, encouraging radials, arteries and thoroughfares through dense urban neighbourhoods.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2018
In the deep violet light at 70 feet, the sight is shocking: steel-belted radials covering an area the size of 27 football fields.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2016
Evidently a member of the Chrysacantha group and near C. rhodanthus sulphureospinus, but differs in the much shorter tubercles, straw-colored spines, shorter radials, much longer centrals, and smaller darker flowers.
From North American Species of Cactus by John Merle Coulter