How to Use basal in a Sentence

basal

adjective
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  • This opens up room at the bud union for new fresh canes known as basal breaks.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The plants grow in tight, multi-stemmed clumps with mostly basal leaves.
    — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 29 May 2018
  • Their prime target is our roses’ tender new foliage, buds and blooms and the fresh new basal breaks at the base of the plant.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The plants grow in tight, multistemmed clumps with mostly basal leaves.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 17 July 2017
  • The most common types of skin cancers are basal and squamous cell cancers.
    — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • And for the philosophically minded, basal cognition casts the world in a sparkling new light.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Cut your stems at a 45-degree angle to expose as much basal area as possible.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Less fatal varieties—such as basal and squamous cell skin cancers—make up the bulk of those cases.
    — Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • The crust snaps like kindling, and then the sandwich is all creaminess, salt and heat, deeply basal flavors and brisk, bright ones, every note seemingly struck at once.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2016
  • The plant spends its first year in a vegetative state as a low-growing basal rosette, which produces a robust root system.
    — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The basal insulin is a biosimilar copycat to Sanofi’s Lantus (insulin glargine).
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 2 Mar. 2023
  • As the name implies, the circuit connects structures deep in the brain—the basal ganglia, which includes the striatum, and the thalamus—with areas in the cortex closer to the brain’s surface.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
  • There is a part of the brain called the basal ganglia that in both songbirds and humans is being used for learning, including learning how to imitate sounds.
    — Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Those canes that are fruitful will produce fruiting shoots at their basal half-dozen or so buds; the buds further out are capable of producing shoots that will fruit the next year.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 6 Feb. 2018
  • This is known as basal insulin and is needed for baseline regulation of blood sugar.
    — Ivan Paul, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2023
  • In order to test how exactly the cells influence sleep need, the team focused in on astrocytes in an area of the brain called the basal forebrain, which is known for having a large impact on sleep.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
  • These revelations have put the biologist at the vanguard of a new field called basal cognition.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The incidence of basal and squamous cell carcinomas, which are the most common forms of skin cancer in the United States and are rarely life-threatening, is 18 to 20 times as higher as that of melanoma.
    — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Women tend to have a slightly higher basal temperature than men.
    — Richard Klasco, M.d., New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Physicians identified the cause of Abienwi’s death as brain death secondary to basal ganglia hemorrhage, ICE said.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2019
  • He was put under local anesthetic and doctors removed basal cell carcinoma, a common, slow-growing form of skin cancer, from the right side of his nose.
    — Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2017
  • That includes wrinkles and dark spots, yes, but shielding your skin from the sun’s rays is also a must for preventing basal and squamous cell carcinoma (the most common forms of skin cancer) and melanoma (the deadliest).
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 10 May 2024
  • Other forms of skin cancer, like melanoma, tend to be far more dangerous and aggressive than either basal or squamous cell carcinoma.
    — Angus Chen and Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023
  • This is in addition to the continuous infusion of insulin throughout the day, known as the basal rate, which is varied every 5 minutes, according to the person's insulin needs.
    — Boris Kovatchev, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2021
  • The radar cross section has been tilted 90°. The leftmost white line is the surface radar echo, while the light bluespots along the basal radar echo highlight areas of very high reflectivity, interpreted as being caused by the presence of water.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
  • The 'basal' component was comprised of as negatively deflected slow waves.
    — Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
  • This thin skin is most likely to develop basal cell and squamous cell cancers, so the recommendation is to wear the largest pair of sunglasses possible to protect the eyelids and surrounding skin.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 30 May 2017
  • Your performance is now smooth and accurate, and your brain’s main activity has switched to the basal ganglia, the region involved with automatic functioning.
    — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 21 June 2023
  • That's not the case anymore: Young women are getting melanoma, and squamous- and basal-cell carcinomas (less-aggressive but still potentially deadly forms of skin cancer) are increasing.
    — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Low-level technologies such as biochar—created by burning wood in very low oxygen—alongside basal rocks, which absorb CO2 over thousands of years, make good fertilizer that locks carbon in.
    — Stephen Armstrong, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024

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