dehiscence's Usage Examples:

Thus the gonads are covered over by at least four layers of epithelium, and since these are unnecessary, presenting merely obstacles to the dehiscence of the gonads, they gradually undergo reduction.

Because of its effect on increasing blood flow to the gut, spinal anesthesia reduces the incidence of anastomotic dehiscence.

Each has an almost horizontal annulus resembling that of Gleichenia, but the dehiscence is lateral.

The annulus is horizontal and the dehiscence median.

In some Guttiferae, as Hebradendron cambogioides (the Ceylon gamboge plant), the anther opens by a lid separating from the apex (circumscissile dehiscence) .

--Seed -vessel (pyxidium) of Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) opening by circumscissile dehiscence.

The dehiscence of the sporangium is almost transverse, as in the Polypodiaceae, but the annulus is slightly oblique.

In size, position, arrangement, and manner of dehiscence the sporangia bear a striking resemblance to those of Marattia and Danaea among recent Marattiaceae.

) Samolus, anatropous with the hilum basal - together with the method of dehiscence of the capsule and the relative position of the ovary.

The cells of the wall of the sporangium are usually so constructed as to determine the dehiscence of the sporangium and the liberation of its spores.

The spores, when liberated by the dehiscence of the sporangium, give rise to the prothallus, which is now, owing mainly to the investigations of Treub and Bruchmann, known in a number of tropical and temperate species.

The sporangium, which corresponds on the whole to that of the Gleicheniaceae, has a somewhat oblique annulus; the dehiscence also is not truly median.

Synonyms:

indehiscent, dehiscent, organic phenomenon,

Antonyms:

dehiscent, indehiscent,