When hormones levels are low, the endometrial arteries react by becoming narrow. Endometrial arteries supply blood to the endometrium but are also beneficial during pregnancy. When a female is pregnant a placenta develops. The baby receives blood, nutrients and oxygen via the umbilical cord which is attached to the placenta.
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The second dorsal fin is less than a third as high as the first, and originates ahead of the anal fin. There is no midline ridge between the dorsal fins. The long pectoral fins are broad and slightly falcate (sickle-shaped), becoming narrow and pointed at the tips. The anal fin has a sharply notched trailing margin.
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The leaves are composed of several pairs of leaflets, each leaflet oval in shape and usually divided into lobes, sometimes deeply, the lobes becoming narrow, linear, or fingerlike. The inflorescence is a spikelike dense cluster of up to 50 flowers held erect on a tall, naked peduncle. The flower has four green sepals and no petals.
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Dietkirchen is situated directly on the west (left) bank of the Lahn River. Its prominent feature is the towering limestone bluff on which St. Lubentius is built. The central town of Limburg is located in a widening of the Lahn valley. Dietkirchen is situated at the eastern end of this widening, with the valley becoming narrow again near Runkel.
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Piperia elongata is a species of orchid known by the common names denseflower rein orchid, chaparral orchid and wood rein-orchid. It is native to western North America from British Columbia and Montana to southern California, where it grows in mountain forests and scrub habitat. This orchid grows erect to about 1.3 meters in maximum height from a bulbous caudex, its stem becoming narrow toward the tip. The basal leaves are up to 30 centimeters long by 6.5 wide.
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The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are brownish-ochreous with a suffused white patch occupying the dorsal half from the base to the middle, and extending at the base to the costa. There is an oblique dark brown spot from the costa at one-third and an irregular ill-defined dark brown postmedian fascia, obtusely angulated above the middle. A broader curved light indigo- grey fascia is found from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, becoming narrow and blackish-grey towards the costa, enclosing a small pale bluish spot above the middle, and cut below the middle by a very acute finely white-edged red-brown wedge from a short red-brown streak along the lower part of the termen.
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The forewings are pale fuscous grey olive, strongly suffused with dark fuscous purple, and partially, with brighter olive. There is an elongate patch of brighter olive suffusion along the basal third of the costa extending one-third across the wing, the lower half of the wing from the base to the end of the cell rather evenly suffused with dark fuscous purple. The discal stigmata are large and elongate, the first blackish purple, edged with olive, with a few white scales posteriorly, the second olive, anteriorly mixed with white scales, and centered with blackish purple along the veins. The posterior third of the wing is minutely strewn with white and there is a distinct marginal series of black dots on the ends of the veins along the posterior part of the costa, in the apex and along the termen, round dots becoming narrow strigulae downwards.
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It then passes through the community of New Center before having a sharp switchback and becoming narrow before crossing into Jefferson County. After crossing the county line, US 411 immediately enters the community of Chestnut Hill and has an intersection with SR 92 next to the Bush Bean Museum, which also right across the road from the Bush Brothers and Company Cannery plant and corporate headquarters. US 411 then enters some mountains and becomes curvy for a short distance before widening to a new 4-lane divided highway just before crossing into Cocke County. It continues along the new 4-lane highway into the city of Newport and ends at its national northern terminus at an intersection with US 25W/US 70 (SR 9) just a short distance away from that route's interchange with I-40 (Exit 432 A-B; though exit 432 A is only signed as US 411 on the interstate in both directions), with SR 35 turning right to become concurrent with, though unsigned, that route towards downtown.
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It then continues through countryside and farmland, passing by 411 Speedway, before crossing into Sevier County. US 411 immediately enters the community, through large enough to be a medium-sized city, of Seymour and goes through some neighborhoods before coming to an intersection with US 441 (SR 71; Chapman Highway; provides access to Knoxville) and SR 338 (Boyds Creek Highway; provides access to Kodak and Douglas Dam), with US 411/SR 35 turning right to become concurrent with US 441/SR 71 and continue as an undivided 4-lane highway through the heart of Seymour before leaving Seymour and some mountains and becoming narrow and curvy, though it maintains 4-lanes throughout. After several miles it then widens out to a 4-lane divided highway and stays that until it enters the city of Sevierville where it becomes undivided once again. They intersect with Old Knoxville Highway before crossing the Pigeon River and entering downtown at the intersection with SR 66 (Winfield Dunn Parkway; provides access to I-40), which is where US 441/SR 71 splits off, as Forks of the River Parkway, to go to Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and US 411/SR 35 continue straight into downtown.
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