BASAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does basal mean? 

• BASAL (adjective)
  The adjective BASAL has 3 senses:

1. especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem

2. of or being the essential or basic part

3. serving as or forming a base

  Familiarity information: BASAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem

Synonyms:

basal; radical

Context example:

radical leaves

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Derivation:

base ((anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or being the essential or basic part

Synonyms:

basal; elemental; elementary; primary

Context example:

a basal reader

Similar:

basic (pertaining to or constituting a base or basis)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Serving as or forming a base

Synonyms:

basal; base

Context example:

the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats

Similar:

basic (pertaining to or constituting a base or basis)

Derivation:

base (lowest support of a structure)

base (the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained)

 Context examples 

Epithelial cells found in the basal part of the intestinal glands (crypts of Lieberkuhn).

(Murine Paneth Cells, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Cells are characterized by columnar shape, crowding, and generally basal located nuclei.

(Mucosal Hyperplasia of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

It has an elongated nucleus and does not have basal lamina.

(Myofibroblast, NCI Thesaurus)

NPY regulates proliferation of multipotent postnatal neuronal precursor or basal cells by PKC-dependent rapid and transient activation of ERK1/2 MAP kinases (via NPY Y1 receptor subtype).

(Neuropeptide Y, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called basal cell nevus syndrome and Gorlin syndrome.

(Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

As seen by light microscopy one of its subdivisions is the basal (basement) lamina.

(Basement Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell usually of the epidermis that resembles a basal cell.

(Basaloid Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of pilosebaceous hamartoma characterized by basal cell epitheliomata, epidermoid cysts and comedones, and epidermal atrophy.

(Basal Cell Nevus with Comedones, NCI Thesaurus)

A basal cell located in the squamous epithelium.

(Basal Cell of the Squamous Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of basal cells in the epidermis with pale or clear-appearing cytoplasm.

(Basal Cells with Pale Cytoplasm Present, NCI Thesaurus)