RICHLAND, Wash. â Cultured human lung cells infected with a benign version of anthrax spores have yielded insights into how anthrax grows and spreads in exposed people.
Photo Â© Lisa Taylor. Definition: Balustrade is a decorative railing supported by baluster posts. A baluster is the single, vertical post that can be made of wood, iron, or other material; the balustrade is several balusters spaced evenly and connected together. baluster is the single, vertical post that can be made of wood, iron, or other material; the balustrade is several balusters spaced evenly and connected together.
According to OED, baluster is derived through the French: balustre, from Italian: balaustro, from balaustra, pomegranate flower [from a resemblance to the swelling form of the half-open flower (illustration, below left)], from Latin balaustium, from Greek balaustion - Î²Î±Î»Î±ÏÏÏÎ¹Î¿Î½.nce it had been taken from the lathe, a turned wood baluster could be split and applied to an architectural surface, or to one in which architectonic themes were more freely treated, as on cabinets made in Italy, Spain and Northern Europe from the sixteenth through the seventeenth centuries.