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Mycobacteria are Gram-positive, acid-fast, pleomorphic, non-motile rods belonging to the order Actinomycetales.
The area of an acre was standardized by Edward I as being land 40 rods long by 4 rods wide.
The needle must penetrate to the corpora cavernosa--the rods of spongy tissue in the penis core.
There are several stories about "riding the rods," as illegally riding trains was called (Ellison did this as a college student), as well as tales about growing up in the Midwest, with Ellison making use of his Oklahoma upbringing.
These specimens were everted and the intestinal sleeves secured onto 1 mm diameter stainless steel rods using 3-0 silk ties as described previously [ 15 ] . The distal ileal segments from 1-2 cm proximal to the ileocecal valve (immediately adjacent to the tissue used in the uptake experiments) and the jejunal segments were used for immunohistochemistry studies.