What's the difference between ambulacrum and tube?
Ambulacrum
Definition:
(n.) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.
(n.) One of the suckers on the feet of mites.
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Tube
Definition:
(n.) A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
(n.) A telescope.
(n.) A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
(n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
(n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
(n.) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.
(n.) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
(n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
(v. t.) To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
(2) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(3) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(4) Average fluoroscopy time per procedure was 27.8 minutes of which 15.1 minutes were for nephrostomy tube insertion and 12.7 minutes were for calculi extraction.
(5) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
(6) This attack can take place during organogenesis, during early differentiation of neural anlagen after neural tube closure or during biochemical differentiation of the brain.
(7) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
(8) At first, immunofluorescence demonstrated the presence of laminin-binding sites at the surface of germ tubes.
(9) By 3 d in the chick embryo, the first neurons detected by antibodies to Ng-CAM are located in the ventral neural tube; these precursors of motor neurons emit well-stained fibers to the periphery.
(10) The flow of a specified concentration of test gas exits from the mixing board, enters a distributing tube, and is then distributed equally to 12 chamber tubes housing one mouse each.
(11) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
(12) Predominantly observed defects included neural crest cells in ectopic locations, both within and external to the neural tube, and mildly deformed neural tubes containing some dissociating cells.
(13) To provide a seal with low pressure-high volume cuffed tubes, cuff sizes of 20.5 mm and 27.5 mm are recommended for female and male patients, respectively.
(14) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
(15) Since the early 1960's nasotracheal tubes have been used for neonates with primary respiratory diseases which necessitated positive pressure ventilation.
(16) Multiple blood samples were obtained over one dosing interval following oral CyA administration in eight liver transplant patients before and after T-tube clamping.
(17) Capnometry was performed through the lumen (CO2d) and the proximal end of the endotracheal tube (CO2p).
(18) The normal tissues included the ovary, fallopian tube, uterine endometrium, uterine cervix, and vagina.
(19) A survey into the current usage of tracheal tubes and associated procedures, such as various sedation regimes and antacid therapy, in intensive care units was carried out in Sweden by sending a questionnaire to physicians in charge of intensive care units in 70 acute hospitals which included seven main teaching hospitals.
(20) The NJ tubes remained in place an average of 13 days, and the GJ tubes remained in place an average of 37 days.