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The ingredients are apposed rather than completely mixed.
Throughout the length of the bar the two plasma membranes are closely apposed, separated by a translucent space.
At their synaptic sites, photoreceptor terminals contain ribbons apposed to apparently normal postsynaptic triads.
A gelatinous clear structure apposed to the lesser curvature of the seminal vesicles.
The amnion and chorion are inverted with their connective tissue layers apposed and connected at their internal surfaces by an essentially cell-free socalled 'spongy' layer.
In some regions the focus was up to 6-11 cells deep and the membranes of adjacent palisading cells were closely apposed.
Despite the similarities in response, arthropod mortality is generally greater in response to high carbon dioxide as apposed to low oxygen atmospheres.
In the lizards all the cyst wall layers were closely apposed.
Junctions between intimately apposed cell membranes in the vertebrate brain.
