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  1. Astro Battle
    `Astro Battle` is a science fiction Multi-directional shooter developed and published by Lava Lord Games for Microsoft Windows and Linux. The gameplay focuses on players designing star fighters to fight against other players` ships in an overhead melee. Development is continuous; New ships an...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Battl

  2. Astro Battle
    (arcade game) `Astro Battle` is a Space Invaders clone arcade game released by Bally in 1977 For the work=The Video Game Critic|url=http://www.videogamecritic.net/astroaz.htm-->--> References: External links:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Battl

  3. Astro Chase
    `Astro Chase` is a scrolling shoot `em up game, licensed by First Star Software to Exidy games for release as an arcade game. The game was originally released by First Star Software in 1982, on December 7th. The player is an astronaut who pilots a saucer-shaped fighter ship against aliens ben...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Chase

  4. Astro Lounge
    Name = Astro Lounge | Type = Album | Artist = Smash Mouth | Cover = Astro_lounge.gif | Released = June 8, 1999 | Recorded = July 1998-April 1999 at H.O.S. Recording, Redwood City, CA | Genre = Ska punk, surf rock, pop punk | Length = 50:26 | Label = Interscope | Producer = Eric Valentine | Last albu...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Loung

  5. Astro-Gnome
    The `Astro-Gnome` was a rather bizarre American automobile manufactured in 1956 by the Richard Arbib Co. of New York. Described as looking "like something out of a Flash Gordon film", the car had fluted aluminum side panels that had been anodized in different blending colors. It had a bubb...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro-Gnome

  6. Astrobase
    `Astro Base` was a toy made by the Ideal company in the early 1960s. The toy ran on 4 D Cell batteries. Besides a power switch, it had several features that includes the following modes of operation: Astro Scope: Switch to Astro Scope and a scene of spaceships, rockets, and jets rotates through a vi...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobase

  7. Astrobee
    `Astrobee` is the designation of series of American sounding rockets with 1 - 3 stages. Several versions were realized. The three-stage Astrobee 500 (first stage: Genius, second stage: Alcor, third stage: Asp) has a ceiling of 1000 km, a takeoff thrust of 161 kN, a takeoff weight of 900 kg, a diamet...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobee

  8. Astrobleme
    A terrestrial crater over 10km in diameter formed by the impact of an extraterrestrial body.
    Found on http://www.quartznall.co.uk/azhealthguid

  9. astrobleme
    (from Greek astron, blema, `star wound`), remains of an ancient meteorite-impact structure on the Earth`s surface, generally in the form of a ... [3 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/116

  10. astrobleme
    astrobleme (ăs'trōblēm") , large, circular structure ranging from c. 1/2 mi to 40 mi (.8–64 km) in diameter. Astroblemes are found at numerous places on the earth's surface, e.g., Meteor, or Barringer, Crater in Arizona, Brent Crater in Ontario, and Vredefort Ring in ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08051

  11. Astrobrite
    Overview : `Astrobrite` is shoegazing/noise-pop supergroup project from the musician Scott Cortez (Of STAR and lovesliescrushing fame). Astrobrite began in 1994 as a solo project and in 1995 the band expanded in order to tour. Astrobrite played their last show in 1997 and went on hiatus. In 2001, As...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobrite

  12. Astrocaryum faranae
    `Astrocaryum faranae` is a palm native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Brazil. This plant has a commercial value because it have oil seeds which may be used to make production of cosmetics. See also:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrocaryum

  13. Astrocaryum vulgare
    `Astrocaryum vulgare` (common names Tucum or Tucumã-do-Pará in Brazil, Aouara in French Guiana, Wara awara in Guyana, awarra in Suriname, Chontilla in Ecuador) is a palm native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation, typical of the Pará state in Brazil. This plant has edible fruit, which ar...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrocaryum

  14. astrocele
    Synonym: centrosphere. ... Origin: G. Astron, star, + koilia, hollow ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  15. astrocele
    Type: Term Pronunciation: as′trō-sēl Synonyms: centrosphere
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  16. Astrocyte
    One of the brain cells that supports the nervous tissue.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  17. astrocyte
    [n] - comparatively large neuroglial cell
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  18. Astrocyte
    is a type of neuroglial cell that is found throughout the CNS and which has a number of important homeostatic and structural functions including the formation and maintenance of the blood-brain barrier
    Found on http://www.medicalneuroscience.com/nglos

  19. astrocyte
    A glial cell found in vertebrate brain, named for its characteristic star-like shape. Astrocytes lend both mechanical and metabolic support for neurons, regulating the environment in which they function. See oligodendrocytes.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  20. astrocyte
    <pathology> A glial cell found in vertebrate brain, named for its characteristic star like shape. ... Astrocytes lend both mechanical and metabolic support for neurons, regulating the environment in which they function. ... See: oligodendrocytes. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  21. astrocyte
    noun comparatively large neuroglial cell
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  22. astrocyte
    (as´tro-sīt) a neuroglial cell characterized by fibrous or protoplasmic processes; collectively called astroglia or macroglia. Astrocyte in association with a blood vessel.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  23. astrocyte
    (from the article `animal development`) ...nerves; they establish contact with peripheral organs, which thus fall under the control of the nervous system. Cells migrating from the inner ... ...the cells with antibodies that bind to specific protein constituents of different neuroglia, neurologists have been able to discern two (in some ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/116

  24. astrocyte
    Type: Term Pronunciation: as′trō-sīt Definitions: 1. One of the large neuroglia cells of nervous tissue. Synonyms: astroglia cell, astroglia, Cajal cell2, Deiters cells2, macroglia cell, macroglia, spider cell1
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  25. astrocyte
    Greek astron = star, and kytos = cell, hence a star-shaped (neuroglial) cell.
    Found on http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/glossary/



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