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Examples
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This morning I removed a silly number of screws to take off the top cover of the case, and the used carpenter's Goop wood case to resecure the end-plate.
Phasmatodea#7@Nightlight AAR badger 2004
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As previously mentioned, the end-plate of my Moog Etherwave theremin that the pitch antenna is mounted on broke off while in transit home last night, snapping the wire connection to the circuitboard off.
Phasmatodea#7@Nightlight AAR badger 2004
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Lacking C-clamps, I used a couple of small nails to hopefully hold the end-plate in place while it cures.
Phasmatodea#7@Nightlight AAR badger 2004
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It seemed that a molecular understanding of the end-plate currents was within reach, and it became clear to me that I wanted to work on the molecular aspects of synaptic transmission, and on the development of synapses, which is what I have been doing since.
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Within the muscular fiber the nerve terminates in a special expansion, called by Kühne, who first accurately described it, a motor end-plate (Fig. 637).
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There it at once spreads out, ramifying like the roots of a tree, immediately beneath the sarcolemma, and becomes imbedded in a layer of granular matter, containing a number of clear, oblong nuclei, the whole constituting an end-plate from which the contractile wave of the muscular fiber is said to start.
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We may have tactile (touch) ends of various kinds, and the similar olfactory and gustatory end organs; or the nerve may conduct efferent impressions, and terminate in a gland which it excites to secretion, in a muscle end-plate, or in fact, anywhere, where kataboly can be set going and energy disengaged.
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We had very good early pace and continued to be strong, despite losing my front wing end-plate when Heikki tried to overtake me.
A1 GP news editor@pitpass.com 2010
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He beat the other new teams into submission at the same time as having to contend with a missing front wing end-plate after an unsuccessful 11th lap challenge from the Heikki Kovalainen.
A1 GP news editor@pitpass.com 2010
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We had very good early pace and continued to be strong, despite losing my front wing end-plate when Heikki tried to overtake me.
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