26 Metaphors for cells

The cell in which the venerable prelate was confined had been the office of one of the gaolers; it was somewhat larger than the rest, and Monseigneur's companions in captivity had succeeded in obtaining for him a chair and a table.

But these nerve cells are merely minor notes of the symphony.

A padded cell is a vile hole.

The cells are delightful to look upon, "a solitude within a solitude"; each consists of five rooms, two below and three above, reached by a staircase, the whole approached from a passage closed by a door giving on to the Great Cloister.

In Coleochæte, the male cell is a round spermatozoid, and the female cell an oosphere contained in the base of a cell which is elongated into an open and hair-like tube called the trichogyne.

The cells on the papillæ are the means by which the hairs grow.

Each cell, as you know, is a little house in itself, with three or four rooms and a garden; so we need space.

Their cell was a mere hovel, without furniture, except a horrid caricature of the Virgin and Child, and four books of prayers in the Bulgarian character.

The commonest of these is cell division, as seen in unicellular plants, such as protococcus, where the one cell which composes the plant simply divides into two, and each newly formed cell is then a complete plant.

The cell in which I reside is about a hundred paces from the habitation of the Count d'Artigas, which is one of the end ones of this row of the Beehive.

The cells are the largest of any in the Vittate division, and very regular and uniform in size and outline.

The wood-cells are cells which are elongated and with thickened walls.

The monks would show that a cell could be the blessed retreat of learning and philosophy, and that even in a desert the soul could rise triumphant above the privations of the body, to the contemplation of immortal interests.

Brain-cells are our best example.

Every cell was not quite a prison, where the imprisoned bird flew in despair against the window-pane; here sometimes was sunshine from God in the heart and mind, from hence also went out comfort and blessings.

Although he associated with the great in courts and palaces, a cell was his delight.

In some fruits, as the strawberry, grape, and banana, the cell walls are so delicate as to be easily broken up; but in watermelons, apples, and oranges, the cells are coarser, and form a larger bulk of the fruit, hence are less easily digested.

The third type believes that nerve-cells are the agents, and that resultant motor discharges are the acts achieved.

In the vast houses, is accommodation for rich and poor; a cell and clean linen, a bed and a monastic basin.

The microscope has shown us that every gland is a chemical factory in which the cells are the workers.

He warns her against becoming a 'babbling' or 'gossiping' anchoress, a variety evidently well-known; a recluse whose cell was the depository of all the news from the neighbourhood at a time when newspapers did not exist."

Their cells are the most complex, have the most numerous branches and association fibres.

But while we recognize the identity of cell-structure and egg-structure at this point in the history of the egg, we must not forget the great distinction between them,namely, that, while the cells remain component parts of the whole body, the egg separates itself and assumes a distinct individual existence.

The cells which live naturally isolated in the organism, such as the corpuscles of the blood and spermatozoa, were the first studied.

In brief, then, a cell is a mass of nucleated protoplasm; the nucleus may have a nucleolus, and the cell may be limited by a cell wall.

26 Metaphors for  cells