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  • noun Plural form of crista.

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Examples

  • Those jagged little edges you see in Figure B.2 are called cristae.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • Those jagged little edges you see in Figure B.2 are called cristae.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • Those jagged little edges you see in Figure B.2 are called cristae.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • They look like a maze with jagged edges called cristae.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • They look like a maze with jagged edges called cristae.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • They look like a maze with jagged edges called cristae.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • While the outer membrane is relatively increased mitochondrial activity and proliferation is smooth, the inner membrane is condensed with folds almost universally associated with health-enhancing called cristae, and it is on these cristae that Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) - the primary fuel of life - is metabolic ameliorations.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows cureself 2010

  • The usual position of the kidneys, G G*, is on either side of the lumbar spine, between the last ribs and the cristae of the iliac bones.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The arching form of the diaphragm, and the lower level which the pubic symphysis occupies compared with that of the cristae of the iliac bones, occasion this difference in the measure of both the thorax and abdomen.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The semicircular canals, the ampullae, the utriculus, and the cristae acusticae of the canals are normal in their general form and relations to one another as well as in their histological conditions (2 p. 529).

    The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916

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