Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In entomology, at or near the base; proximally.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a basal manner
Examples
“Its epithelium is of the simple columnar type, the cells being long, with generally basally located nuclei.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“The tribal Indians encountered by the 19th century U.S. Cavalry, on the other hand, were like every single primitive culture ever discovered in the wildernesses of earth: their lives, however natural and estimable, are intensely and basally physical -- incredibly hard, short, laden with toil and disease, and in any terms that we celebrants of their”
“The lack of resolution in more terminal internal nodes is common in studies using phylogenetic supertrees, but these studies also tend to have polytomous nodes basally as well”
“The above results show that when large phylogenies are used containing polytomous nodes basally in the tree the researcher may expect to have substantially reduced statistical power to detect non-random phylogenetic community structure.”
“Cnidarian sequences related to bilaterian "posterior" Hox (HOX9-14) branch basally to the latter in paraphyly.”
“In some cases, gene relationships among cnidarian groups are congruent with the species phylogeny: hydrozoan sequences are sister-group to scyphozoan sequences, with anthozoan sequences branching basally to this ensemble.”
“The earliest steps in animal evolution remain obscure, but can be illuminated by comparative studies between the most basally branching animal groups, notably sponges, cnidarians and ctenophores.”
“I have many payroll sheets, tax forms, etcetera .. basally calculators / spredsheets I set up in excel so I can do things quickly over the years.”
“Egr-1 − / − mice basally exhibited airspace enlargement as assessed by mean linear intercept (MLI) [34], relative to corresponding wild-type controls, whose magnitude exceeded that of cigarette smoke-exposed wild-type mice.”
“Above dark brown, with an olivaceous wash, the fur being uniform dark brown to the base tipped with a slight tinge of olivaceous, the extreme tip slightly grayish in certain lights; below much lighter, the fur being dark brown basally and broadly tipped with pale buffy gray; ears and membranes black, naked, and with no trace of a whitish border.”
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