What's the difference between acephalic and acephalous?
Acephalic
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In the acardiac, acephalic twin malformation the normal co-twin is put at risk because of the extra cardiac work-load.
(2) Even though motility was decreased, there were numerous acephalic sperms with different degrees of forward motility.
(3) Two cases are reported of acardiac-acephalic twin pregnancy, a rare malformation of multiple gestations with large placental vascular anastomosis.
(4) A case of an acardiac acephalic monster is described, and the literature concerning the incidence, classification and etiology of acardia is reviewed.
(5) Six ouf of eight cases were classified as an acephalous type, and two as an acardius anceps fetus.
(6) A case of acardiac, acephalic twin diagnosed by antenatal ultrasound is reported.
(7) Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) inoculated intraperitoneally with three acephalic cysts of Echinococcus multilocularis were very susceptible to infection.
(8) The deficient development of the peripheral immunopoietic system in acardiac acephalous monsters cannot be explained only by the absence of the thymus.
(9) We report an interesting case of a macrosomic acardiac acephalic fetus weighing 4.5-fold of another variable donor fetus (approximately 6 kg) in a twin pregnancy.
Acephalous
Definition:
(a.) Headless.
(a.) Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.
(a.) Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.
(a.) Without a leader or chief.
(a.) Wanting the beginning.
(a.) Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the acardiac, acephalic twin malformation the normal co-twin is put at risk because of the extra cardiac work-load.
(2) Even though motility was decreased, there were numerous acephalic sperms with different degrees of forward motility.
(3) Two cases are reported of acardiac-acephalic twin pregnancy, a rare malformation of multiple gestations with large placental vascular anastomosis.
(4) A case of an acardiac acephalic monster is described, and the literature concerning the incidence, classification and etiology of acardia is reviewed.
(5) Six ouf of eight cases were classified as an acephalous type, and two as an acardius anceps fetus.
(6) A case of acardiac, acephalic twin diagnosed by antenatal ultrasound is reported.
(7) Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) inoculated intraperitoneally with three acephalic cysts of Echinococcus multilocularis were very susceptible to infection.
(8) The deficient development of the peripheral immunopoietic system in acardiac acephalous monsters cannot be explained only by the absence of the thymus.
(9) We report an interesting case of a macrosomic acardiac acephalic fetus weighing 4.5-fold of another variable donor fetus (approximately 6 kg) in a twin pregnancy.