elongation

Examples of elongating

elongating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In the elongating blastocyst (day 13) fibronectin was found between the trophectoderm and endoderm cells.
Many plant species respond to shade by elongating the main stem and repressing lateral branch outgrowth so as to outgrow competitors and capture more sunlight.
When the fluid is released, it slides down the plane under gravity in the form of an elongating and thinning sheet.
If the signs were multimorphemic, elongating the prosody would function to allow the child more time to assemble the word.
The late-stage spermatid used was oval shaped, which suggested that it was an elongating or elongated spermatid.
The mitochondria differentiate structurally by elongating and becoming denser and crescent-shaped to surround the axoneme under the forming coarse fibres.
Rhizome elongation ceases and elongating nutsedge leaves become trapped beneath the clear film.
The force of the elongating radicle against the intact layer pushed the embryo, cotyledon end first, out through the opening at the cotyledon end of the seed.
Developmental potential of elongating and elongated spermatids obtained after in-vitro maturation of isolated round spermatids.
The cells appeared limited by the available space and could be seen elongating along the base of the suckers and frequently overlapped by radial muscles (fig. 1).
The use of seeds for studying the hormonal control of cell expansion growth at germination was therefore no improvement upon the growing pea stem or the elongating coleoptile.
This may be due to a compaction of the nucleus and/or a deviation caused by calculating the density on the small area of elongating nuclei.
We have now shown that the similarity solution for the bulk of the elongating sheet of fluid can be satisfactorily matched with edge regions in which surface tension is important.
The closure of small enterprises may increase risks by elongating journeys and adding to the complexity of the food chain process.
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