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The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.

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A pathogenic microorganism.

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The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.

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The origin of an idea or project.

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the germ of civil liberty

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An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.

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To germinate.

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To grow, as if parasitic.

But this small village, germ of something more, why did it fail while Concord keeps its ground?

Here we have the germ of orders in the technical sense.

The tb germ is usually spread in the air.

In the relation between Zoroaster and Vishtaspa already lies the germ of the state church which afterwards became completely subservient to the interests of the dynasty and sought its protection from it.

Louis Pasteur came along around this same time and proffered the germ theory of disease and a vaccine for rabies.

Money scarce, men too were lacking; the institution of the militia, the first germ of obligatory enlistment, was a no less important innovation.

Koch discovered that methyl violet dye showed up the septicaemia germ under a microscope by staining it.

The male germ cells, called pollen, are produced in a part of the flower called the stamen.

Early in development of the fetal germ cells in both sexes, the germ-cell genomes are erased of methylation marks on the imprinted genes.

The consequence of this intussusceptive growth is the " development " or " evolution " of the germ into the visible bird.

Man's craving to know " the reason why " is already " among rude savages an intellectual appetite," and " even to the Australian scientific speculation has its germ in actual experience."' How does he try to satisfy this craving ?

His order and enumeration of the principles of being, his doctrine of the double aspect of intellect, and of the perfect beatitude which consists in the aggregation of noble minds when they are delivered from the separating barriers of individual bodies, present at least in germ the characteristic theory of Averroes.

He studied the properties of the cycloid, and attempted the problem of its quadrature; and in the "infinitesimals," which he was one of the first to introduce into geometrical demonstrations, was contained the fruitful germ of the differential calculus.

In the "Merchant Adventurers'" enterprises is to be seen the germ of the trading companies which had so remarkable a development in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Pharmacology is a branch of biology; it is also closely connected with pathology and bacteriology, for certain drugs produce structural as well as functional changes in the tissues, and in germ diseases the peculiar symptoms are caused by foreign substances (toxins) formed by the infective organisms present in the body.

In specific germ diseases a similar antitoxin forms, and in cases which recover it counteracts the toxin, while the germs are destroyed by the tissues.

Anthrax, for instance, is not a particularly deadly germ, but it sounds mean.

He is also studying how germ cell determining mechanisms evolved in vertebrate embryos.

White flour - made from the starchy endosperm only; bran and germ are removed as co-products.

At that time, germ cell tumors were the cause of death in 400 males per year in germ cell tumors were the cause of death in 400 males per year in Germany.

Male germ-line stem cells are cells that proliferate throughout the life of the animal to make male germ cells or sperms.

Mother Nature prefers cross-pollination and has some clever tricks to promote this, like ripening the male and female germ cells at different times.

The germ cells arise from a region of cytoplasm at the vegetal pole of the egg called the germ plasm.

If we find some really good bacteria then we can use germ warfare to help prevent these diseases.

Your computer mouse is also a popular germ hangout with more than 1,600 GPSI.

There was here in the Russian land the germ of republicanism or constitutional monarchy, but it was not destined to be developed.

Wheeler, the amnion is ruptured and turned back from covering the germ band, enclosing the yolk dorsally and becoming finally absorbed, as the ectoderm of the germ band itself spreads to form the dorsal wall.

This important proposal, the germ of the Nautical Almanac, was approved of by the government, and under the care of Maskelyne the Nautical Almanac for 1767 was published in 1766.

It contains no germ for further development.

The same dissertation also contains the germ of I-Iartley's system, as we shall presently notice.

The germ of the theory of determinants is to be found in the writings of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1693), who incidentally discovered certain properties when reducing the eliminant of a system of linear equations.

Delaunay, developed in his Theorie du mouvement de la lune (2 vols., 1860, 1867), because it contains a germ which may yet develop into the great desideratum of a general method in celestial mechanics.

The directional growth of germ tubes in relation to stomata and veins, and of intercellular hyphae in relation to veins, were recorded.

A special kind of cell division takes place in making germ cells, called meiosis.

The reverse is not true, and a compound may well be a somatic cell mutagen but not a germ cell mutagen.

The adjuvant treatment consisted in chemotherapy like using in germ cell neoplasm 's of the testis.

It is not necessary to seek the germ of gilds in any antecedent age or institution.

Here, in the gist of the " booklet " received from the hand of a female figure representing the Church, we have in germ the message of The Shepherd.

Several monthly publications had come into existence since 1681, but perhaps the first germ of the magazine is to be found in the Gentleman's Journal (1691-1694) of Peter Motteux, which, besides the news of the month, contained miscellaneous prose and poetry.

According to one theory, the germ lies dormant until December, when it begins to develop; but it is now believed that this long gestation is due to slow rather than arrested development.

Marches were formed on all the borders of the empire, and the exigencies of military service led to the growth of a system of land-tenure which contained the germ of feudalism.

In this event - the defeat of Sanjar, whose brother's son, Mas'ud, reigned over western Persia - occurring four years before the story of the Eastern conqueror was told at Rome to Bishop Otto, we seem to have the destruction of the Samiardi fratres or Sanjar brothers, which was the germ of the story of Prester John.

Its germ is to be found in the temporary camp on Chobham Ridges, formed in 1853 by Lord Hardinge, the commander-in-chief, the success of which convinced him of the necessity of giving troops practical instruction in the field and affording the generals opportunities of manoeuvring large bodies of the three arms. He therefore advised the purchase of a tract of waste land whereon a permanent camp might be established.

Soon afterwards he designed a hydraulic crane, which contained the germ of all the hydraulic machinery for which he and Elswick were subsequently to become famous.

The uncertainty of the wind might well suggest the trickery of a thief, and its whistling might contain the germ from which a god of music should be developed.

He states that the germ is never to be seen in the seed till the apices (anthers) shed their dust; and that if the stamina be cut out before the apices open, the seed will either not ripen, or be barren if it ripens.

Only he is saved who on the one hand is forgiven at baptism and so released from the power of Satan, and then goes on to live in obedience to the divine law; and on the other hand receives in baptism the germ of a new spiritual nature and is progressively transformed by feeding upon the body and blood of the divine Christ in the eucharist.

The reaction of 1815-1821 in favour of classics was followed by the more liberal programme of Vatimesnil (1829), including, for those who had no taste for a classical education, certain " special courses " (1830), which were the germ of the enseignement special and the enseignement moderne.

It covers the Pentateuch (1st ed., Constantinople, 1512) and the " Five Rolls " (Pesaro, 1519; the whole printed first at Venice, 1545); Germ.

Yahweh's kingdom cannot perish even for a time; nay, Isaiah argues that it must remain visible, and visible not merely in the circle of the like-minded whom he had gathered round him and who formed the first germ of the notion of the church, but in the political form of a kingdom also.