morphological change
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmorphologicalandchange
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morphological
adjective
uk/ˌmɔː.fəˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌmɔːr.fəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
biologyspecialized
relating to the scientific study of the structure and form of animals ...
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change
noun
uk/tʃeɪndʒ/us/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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(Definition ofmorphologicalandchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In the present study, we investigated themorphologicalchangeand viability of parenchymal microglial cells after transient ischemia and reperfusion.
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We have tried to elucidate the mechanisms of growth andmorphologicalchangeof bacterial colonies from this viewpoint.
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They concentrate on phonetic and phonological change,morphologicalchange, syntactic change and interactions among these.
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Reviews 445 incorporation of other factors that might contribute tomorphologicalchangein the computation (including frequency and semantics).
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Corresponding with themorphologicalchangethere is a modification of the markers of these cells.
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Butmorphologicalchangehas not been as regular.
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Usually the direction ofmorphologicalchangeis from relatively less productive forms to relatively more productive forms.
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Themorphologicalchangein preantral follicles was monitored everyday throughout their culture.
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They also demonstrated that cell-cycle arrest precedesmorphologicalchange.
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English, for example, has stem-sharing causativization that involves nomorphologicalchangeand is subject to numerous semantic constraints.
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Moreover, acoustic signals, in contrast to visual signals or other characters used in social display, may be particularly easy to alter, as changes in rhythm do not necessitatemorphologicalchange.
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Anhydrobiosis is commonly identified bymorphologicalchange.
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Joseph (1998) points out thatmorphologicalchangeis often tied to particular lexical items, and hence its spread may be sporadic.
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It should also be noted that not everymorphologicalchangecan be considered to be an adaptive trait or to have an exact correspondence with a functional benefit.
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Analogy would be much more useful as an explanation ofmorphologicalchangeif we had some principled way of describing and constraining the operation of analogy.
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These may subsequently be modified bymorphologicalchangeimposed by the current representations.
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While hydrodynamic processes respond instantaneously tomorphologicalchange,morphologicalchangerequires the redistribution of sediment.
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Modern molecular biology has shown that genetic rates of change are relatively uniform and not well related tomorphologicalchangerates.
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Two mosquito fossils have been found that show very littlemorphologicalchangein modern mosquitoes against their counterpart from 46 million years ago.
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Thismorphologicalchangehelps to prevent further synaptic modifications that could jeopardize the information held by the already existing synaptic connections.
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