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apical

adjective as in tiptop

adjective as in uppermost

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BBM encodes a transcription factor that regulates embryonic development, while WUS encodes a transcription factor that maintains stem cell identity in the shoot apical meristem region.

The measurements were taken at the neurons' distal apical dendrites of the visual cortex, which receive top-down signals, and at their cell bodies, which receive bottom-up signals.

Caries-related parameters included root canal fillings, apical rarefactions and caries lesions.

When the condition occurs, doctors typically see that a patient's left ventricular apical, which is located within the heart, balloons.

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Just in front of it lies the polychate worm version of the apical meristem in plants: a place where stem cells continuously generate new body parts called the posterior growth zone.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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