What's the difference between acalycine and calycine?

Acalycine

Definition:

• (a.) Alt. of Acalysinous

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Calycine

Definition:

• (a.) Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx.

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• (1) Differences between calycine units and the type I hair cell of mammals are discussed, and evidence that suggests an equilibratory function for the lacertilian papilla neglecta is presented.
• (2) The neuroepithelium contains two populations of sensory cells within a matrix of sustentacular cells; one population (non-calyceal hair cells) is supplied primarily by boutons and clublike terminals, while the other (calyceal hair cells) is served by calycine terminals that invest from one to five sensory cells.
• (3) In 1978 we described 18 patients with acute spontaneous rupture of a pelvi-calycine system; these have now been followed up with the exception of four patients.
• (4) The process manifested clinically by steady hypofunction of osmotic diuresis in the absence of bacterial inflammation and calycine-pelvic destruction.
• (5) We conclude that because of a significant loss of calycine synaptic endings, the structure of calyces of Held becomes less complex with advancing age in rats.
• (6) The results also demonstrate, however, that formation of persistent and functional synapses with NM neurons throughout development is not sufficient to induce any axon to assume the calycine form of a cochlear nerve endbulb.
• (7) In the light microscope, aberrant axon terminals labeled in vitro with HRP appear to form boutons quite unlike the large calycine endbulbs made by the normal cochlear nerve (CN) endings in NM.
• (8) This includes the loss of calycine axosomatic terminals synapsing with MTB principal cells.
• (9) These fibers form the largest calycine endings in the cristae ampullares and also the spoon endings in the tangential vestibular nucleus of the medulla oblongata.