Definitions
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- adjective medicine Occurring within a
subarachnoid cistern .
Etymologies
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intra- + cisternal
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Examples
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Gupta doesn't claim to know whether the virus, which he calls HICRV (human intracisternal retrovirus), is the cause of the strange illness or just a marker for it.
The Mystery Deepens 2008
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Cax carries an insertion of an intracisternal A particle retrotransposon into the fourth intron of the Pofut1 gene and represents a hypomorphic Pofut1 allele that reduces transcription and leads to reduced Notch signalling.
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Christy RJ, Huang RC (1988) Functional analysis of the long terminal repeats of intracisternal A-particle genes: sequences within the U3 region determine both the efficiency and direction of promoter activity.
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