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radial

[ray-dee-uhl] / ˈreɪ di əl /


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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

Years earlier, Beck had undergone a radial keratotomy* to correct his vision.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

But wrist and hand could not have originated as a package deal, as Thorogood proposed, because lungfish and other living and fossil lobe-finned fishes have radials or wrist bones without having digits.

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

The radials and temporals were large, tortuous, and fibrous.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield




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