What's the difference between accessory and complement?

Accessory


Definition:

  • (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
  • (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
  • (n.) Same as Accessary, n.
  • (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During electrophysiologic study, the effect of propafenone on the effective refractory period of the accessory pathway was determined, as well as its effect during orthodromic atrioventricular (AV) reentrant tachycardia and atrial fibrillation.
  • (2) These results are interpreted in terms of the accessory binding site theory of Ariëns, and suggest the existence of different accessory binding sites on the Ascaris GABA receptor.
  • (3) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
  • (4) This quantitative characterization of the properties of conduction and refractoriness of both the accessory pathway and ventriculoatrial conduction system and the relation between these characteristics and the accessory pathway location in ART patients provides additional insight into the prerequisites for the initiation and maintenance of this rhythm disturbance.
  • (5) To augment the in vitro expansion of LAK cells, we added highly purified human recombinant interleukin-2, phytohemagglutinin and accessory cells (Uc cells) to the LAK culture system, with which huge number of LAK cells (LAK-L) were generated from originally small number of peripheral blood lymphocytes of cancer patients.
  • (6) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
  • (7) A microdissection of the orbital nerves of the cat was made paying particular attention to the accessory ciliary ganglion.
  • (8) Amiodarone was able to suppress the premature ventricular beats, depress conduction and prolong refractoriness in both, the AV node and accessory pathway to prevent recurrences of atrioventricular reentry.
  • (9) The electrophysiologic effects of intravenous propafenone were studied in 15 consecutive patients with accessory pathways.
  • (10) Postoperative examination revealed division of accessory pathway and no regurgitation of mitral prosthesis.
  • (11) Accessory gland atrophy was restodred following the treatment with insulin and much improved with insulin plus hCG.
  • (12) ELS (or accessory lungs) is a rare congenital abnormality defined as a lung segment outside a normal lung, usually localized in the left lower thorax.
  • (13) The first spinal nerve and the spinal accessory nerve (XI) have no sensory projections, but the second spinal nerve has typical projections along the dorsal funiculus of the spinal cord.
  • (14) The electrophysiologic properties of bepridil, a calcium channel blocker with additional effects on fast response tissues, were investigated in 10 patients with atrioventricular accessory pathways.
  • (15) The antiarrhythmic effects observed are related to the slowing of the conduction velocity and to the prolongation of the refractoriness in the AV node and accessory pathways preventing the reentrance mechanism.
  • (16) After a brief review of the range of monitoring accessories, the author considers the problem of their hospital standardization (various needs of the different hospital units, diversity of the monitors, existence of central purchasing departments, pressure from the treasurer's office).
  • (17) Small extensions from the distopalmar outpouchings were seen and extended axially into the fibers of the suspensory ligament or between the suspensory ligament and the distal accessory ligament of the deep digital flexor tendon.
  • (18) Treatment with the analog significantly increased serum luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone levels, but suppressed accessory sex organ weights.
  • (19) Removal of accessory cells adherent to nylon wool column abolished MAS reactivity, whereas it has little effect on lymphoproliferation induced by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA).
  • (20) Enlargement of the jugulodigastric node is most often associated with tonsillitis, and the spinal accessory group of nodes with adenoiditis.

Complement


Definition:

  • (v. t.) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
  • (v. t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.
  • (v. t.) Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness.
  • (v. t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
  • (v. t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
  • (v. t.) The whole working force of a vessel.
  • (v. t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
  • (v. t.) A compliment.
  • (v. t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
  • (v. t.) To compliment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have cloned the phr gene that encodes DNA photolyase from Salmonella typhimurium by in vivo complementation of Escherichia coli phr gene defect.
  • (2) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
  • (3) Serum complement studies revealed decreased levels of C4, properdin, and C3.
  • (4) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
  • (5) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
  • (6) This linkage information was used to design complementation tests to determine allelism with previously characterized complementation groups affecting sensitivity to radiation.
  • (7) Most of the antibodies had some degree of complement-independent neutralizing capacity, but in common was a large neutralization-resistant fraction of virus (range 13 to 78%).
  • (8) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
  • (9) These studies show that complement activation can frequently be detected in the plasma of IgA nephropathy patients.
  • (10) Usually they are characterized by an increased level of complement components involved in the classical pathway and therefore reflect activation by antigen antibody complexes.
  • (11) Allelic complementation was not observed, despite testing of a large number of allele pairs, and alleles suppressible by the ochre suppressor SUP11 were absent from a sample of 48 spontaneous mutants and occurred infrequently (7%) among a sample of ultraviolet-induced mutants.
  • (12) Besides various skin tests with the antigens candida, trichophyton, mumps, streptokinase-streptodornase, tuberculin, DNCB and KLH also in vitro experiments measuring the immunoglobulin- and complement concentrations, the antibody production to KLH, the lymphocyte transformation rate to PHA, Pokeweed, Con A, PPD were done nearly in all patients.
  • (13) Skin allografts survived longer on ALS-treated, complement-deficient (C5 negative) recipients than on ALS-treated, complement-competent (C5 positive) recipients.
  • (14) These antibodies are usually characterized by the conventional platelet complement fixation test.
  • (15) This syndrome is consistently correlated with abnormally elevated serum IgG levels, antinuclear antibodies, anti ds- and ssDNA antibodies, and circulating immune complexes, as well as depressed serum hemolytic complement.
  • (16) This study was conducted using a standard complement-dependent microcytotoxicity assay.
  • (17) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
  • (18) Viruses isolated from ticks (Ixodes uriae) from a seabird colony on the Isle of May, Scotland, were shown by complement fixation tests to be related to the Uukuniemi and Kemerovo serogroups.
  • (19) In the present study, the role of antiperipheral nerve myelin antibody (anti-PNM Ab) in demyelination by generating the terminal attack complex (C5b-9) of complement was explored in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and other demyelinating neuropathies.
  • (20) The same marker was found in all metaphases from 2 different metastases, but skin fibroblasts from the same patient had a normal chromosome complement.