In the human fetus as well as in the eye of the infant a delicate ortholinear central canal was similarly in evidence; however, the canal could not be demonstrated in the eye of adult humans.
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Ortholinear
Synonyms for "ortholinear"
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The course of the fistula was ortholinear and caudally directed.
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When monocytes are placed in a gradient of formyl-methiornyl-leucyl-phenalanine (FMLP), their velocity increased two to threefold, the percent of observation time spent remaining stationary decreased to 5% and locomotion was much more ortholinear.
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When a crystal formation involves a cell that is similar but angled within its cage, the Bravais lattic projects the angled cell from well-defined points in an outlying ortholinear grid, as in the illustration.
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