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sessile 1. (of flowers or leaves) having no stalk; growing directly from the stem 2. (of animals such as the barnacle) permanently attached to a substratum sessile [′ses·əl] (botany) Attached directly to a branch or stem without an intervening stalk. (zoology) Permanently attached to the substrate. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| These lesions are typically unilateral, sessile, submucosal, and reddish-blue. Capillary movement of nearly axisymmetric sessile drops. albicans cells were in a sessile mode of growth compared with planktonic cells, with mRNA levels for the MDR1 gene transiently increased in 24-hour biofilms, which indicates that efflux pumps are upregulated in cells within a biofilm, possibly contributing to the observed azole resistance (9). |
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