vegetal pole

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vegetal pole

n. Embryology

The portion of an egg that is opposite the animal pole and that contains most of the yolk.

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veg′etal pole`

the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.

[1895–1900]

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knerii, they were prismatic in the vegetative pole, with heights of 61.1 [+ or -] 9.6 [micro]m (Fig.

knerii, cubic follicular cells in the animal pole and prismatic ones on the vegetative pole were observed; similar to what has been registered for Cichlidae (Normando et al., 2009; Martins et al., 2011).

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In a 1997 essay titled "Siting Vexation Island," the artist cites Gilles Deleuze's topology of naturalist and realist violence in the French philosopher's Cinema 1 The Movement Image (1983).(4) In the latter, Deleuze differentiates between these two concepts, which he refers respectively to "a vegetable or vegetative pole (permeation) and the animal pole (acting out)," and emphasizes the potential for violence that exists in both.(5) Lest one be too hasty in introducing "vegetative violence" as a critical category to decode Graham's film, however, "Siting Vexation Island" indicates that what is also at stake is the engagement with the moving image and, ultimately, with the dynamic relationship between realism and artifice in the medium of film.