What's the difference between acantha and prickle?

Acantha


Definition:

  • (n.) A prickle.
  • (n.) A spine or prickly fin.
  • (n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The internal surface of the proventriculus is represented by numerous acanthae which fall close together.
  • (2) Other cuticular structures, viz., scales, microtrichia, acanthae, and aedeagal spines, which occur on the terminalia are not innervated.

Prickle


Definition:

  • (n.) A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
  • (n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.
  • (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.
  • (v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some peculiarities in the ultrastructure of these neurones were described as the presence of prickles, fringes.
  • (2) Single-unit sensory nerve recordings from the rabbit saphenous nerve were used to identify the receptors responsible for fabric-evoked prickle.
  • (3) Prickle cell masses invaded into the soft tissue in the deeper layer.
  • (4) In some of the distal and middle dendrites and dendritic spines [correction of prickles] in elderly ground squirrels there were plaques, composed of electron-dense material with structure similar to postsynaptic condensations, but without presynaptic specializations of chemical synapses.
  • (5) Desmosomes are most frequent in the prickle cell layer, where desmosome fields may occur, and in the lower functional cell layer.
  • (6) Membrane coating granules first reaching a maximum in the functional cell layer appeared in the upper prickle cell layer and few persisted into the surface cells.
  • (7) Oral discomfort such as prickling and burning sensations, metallic and bad taste was rare in both diabetics and non-diabetics.
  • (8) Gap junctions (nexuses) were observed primarily in the basal and prickle cell layers.
  • (9) Beginning to feel the first prickles of boredom, I thought of young Nathan, for whom Minecraft was life, untilĀ it wasn't.
  • (10) The emigrating ERM from PDL explants, as well as occasional proliferating ERM within explants, consisted of two cell types--outer basal-like cells, as described above, and inner tonofilament-rich prickle-like cells, suggesting a propensity for differentiation of ERM.
  • (11) Three layers were identified, as in the light microscopy of the oesophageal epithelium: basal, prickle and funtional cell layers.
  • (12) This system was attached to the upper arms of young adult volunteers who increased the voltage of the rectangular electrical pulses supplied to the electrodes until a reproducible sharp prickling pain sensation was perceived.
  • (13) Various cells were observed in expanded intercellular spaces of basal cell and prickle cell layers.
  • (14) CRBP concentrations were highest in maturing keratinocytes within the prickle cell layers of normal mucosa and in laryngeal papillomas, as estimated on the basis of immunoreactivity to CRBP.
  • (15) The fluid phase marker was taken up most avidly by the prickle cells but to a lesser extent in the functional layers and by basal cells.
  • (16) Light microscopical findings: Leukoplakia exhibited orthokeratinization and the thickening of prickle and corneal cell layers was seen.
  • (17) Prickling of the skin and hirsutism were common side-effects.
  • (18) In all sections of leukoplakia, the positive cells for EGFr were found in the prickle cell layer in addition to the basal cell layer.
  • (19) Each subject judged only one single pair with respect to which one tasted more fizzy ("spritziger"), dry ("trockener"), prickling ("prickelnder") and better ("besser").
  • (20) Untoward effects experienced in volunteers receiving BW 942C included heaviness in the limbs, nasal stuffiness, mouth dryness, facial flushing, skin rash, and prickling sensations.

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