What's the difference between adjacent and squinch?

Adjacent

Definition:

(a.) Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.
(n.) That which is adjacent.

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(1) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(2) A complex linkage between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix is illustrated both in the cord forming Sertoli and granulosa cells, and in the adjacent mesenchymal cells.
(3) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
(4) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
(5) Other DNase I hypersensitive sites located adjacent to the S14 cap site at -65 to -265 base pairs (Hss-1) or upstream at -1.3 kb (Hss-2), -2.1 kb (Hss-3'), -5.3 kb (Hss-4), and -6.2 kb (Hss-5) remained unaffected by changes in S14 gene transcription.
(6) The results, together with the known geometry of the enzyme, indicate that active site probes in the dodecamer are widely separated and that energy transfer occurs from a single donor to two or three acceptors on adjacent subunits.
(7) Fifty-four cases were analysed, and a two-fold excess of clustering within one year was observed, both within single districts and between adjacent districts.
(8) Sialosyl-Tn antigen expression also was observed in intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and in transitional mucosa adjacent to the colorectal carcinoma, which are considered to be cancer-related lesions.
(9) Three animals received unilateral lesions which included both the inferior parietal lobule and a portion of adjacent dorsal prestriate cortex (IPL-PS).
(10) Tunnel-like formations at different depths of the oral epithelium contained higher numbers of bacteria than those seen on the adjacent oral surface.
(11) This apparent lack of centrosomal staining was not due to problems associated with penetration of the antibody probes, since staining adjacent to and within the centriolar cylinder was observed when phosphoprotein antigens recognized by the MPM-2 antibody were localized.
(12) In the latter groups, specimens were taken from both polyp tissue and adjacent nasal mucosa.
(13) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
(14) When collateral marginal vessels were eliminated, adjacent arterial blood flow decreased to control levels and venous flow virtually stopped.
(15) Tissue sections, taken from foliate and circumvallate papillae, generally revealed taste buds in which all cells were immunoreactive; however, occasionally some taste buds were found to contain highly reactive individual cells adjacent to non-reactive cells.
(16) The model was activated, and the dipole potential generated by adjacent activated and resting cells was calculated to obtain a high-resolution QRS complex.
(17) The other three oncogenes namely c-K-ras, c-H-ras and c-myc, were not detected in these two carcinomas or the non-cancerous liver tissue adjacent to the carcinomas.
(18) The bony elements of both adjacent vertebral bodies are secondarily involved.
(19) In two cases that showed punctate or linear low density structures adjacent to the distal side of the tumor nodules to the porta hepatis, a daughter nodule was detected by CT at 6.5 and 9.2 months, respectively, after the appearance of the low density structures.
(20) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.

Squinch

Definition:

(n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.

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