What's the difference between american and morpho?

American


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.
  • (n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
  • (2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (4) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (5) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
  • (6) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
  • (7) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (8) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (9) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.
  • (10) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
  • (11) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
  • (12) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
  • (13) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
  • (14) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
  • (15) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
  • (16) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
  • (17) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
  • (18) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
  • (19) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
  • (20) All F. tularensis strains were found to have enzymatic activity irrespective of their subspecies, but neuraminidase activity was higher in the strains belonging to the American subspecies.

Morpho


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Regarding the tamoxifen-resistant RTx6 cells, TFP but not morpho-BPE induced inhibition of the proliferation.
  • (2) Under analysis were results of examination of the morpho-functional state of gastric mucosa in late periods (5--12 years) after resection of the stomach in 109 patients and after selective proximal vagotomy (SPV) in 32 patients.
  • (3) Common characteristics and peculiarities of conditioned reactions to time have been revealed in units of the hypothalamic ventromedial and perifornical nuclei in accordance with morpho-functional properties of the examined structures.
  • (4) Revealed in the course of alcoholization morpho-functional changes of cholinergic tongue structures can be in the basis of the disturbance of the taste.
  • (5) After a brief review of the essential principles of morpho-psychology, the authors study a number of special morpho-psychological types presenting with a significant frequency maxillo-facial deformities, themselves special, and which for this reason they call "morpho-psychological types with a high orthodontic risk".
  • (6) Without any morpho-functional alterations of the endothelial lining cells, severe exudation and leucocytic trapping could not be induced.
  • (7) The research was carried out on the vorestomachs, abomasum and on the various tracts of gut of adult Cattle, Sheep and Goat, because Ruminants, not previously studied with respect to this problem, have, as is well known, particular morpho-functional characteristics of the digestive system.
  • (8) Morpho-behavioural distances between three endogamous Muslim groups (Sunni, Shia and Bohra) and one Hindu group (Brahman) of Madhya Pradesh, separately for males and females, were estimated.
  • (9) Morpho-functional changes in scorpionfish pinealocytes have been observed during an increase in potassium sodium or magnesium content of the sea water.
  • (10) In this preliminary experiment of the possibility of substituting an segment of ureter with a segment of the saphenous vein in dogs, authors are showing the histological changes on the veno-ureteric anastomosis and the normal morpho-functional condition of the kidney.
  • (11) In order to clarify this hypothesis, we examined the effects of discrepancy in the number of enamel organs and dental papilla on histo- and morpho-differentiation of the recombinants by renal subcapsular transplantation.
  • (12) In this regard, the d-tyrosine levels, considered as a proteolytic index, confirm the action of acetyl-carnitine on the cell morpho-functional integrity.
  • (13) This seems to be due to powerful adaptive mechanisms in the regulation of deposition and dissociation of excessive amounts of active serotonin as well as to the morpho-functional recuperation in the transcapillary exchange.
  • (14) This complex of modern morphological methods made it possible to search for etiological markers of nephrological diseases, the determination of their morpho- and pathogenesis, performance of detailed differential diagnosis of certain morphological types of glomerulonephritis, elucidation of their nosological entity.
  • (15) The authors have taken up previous studies by Martin (1969), and by Johnson (1973), and carried out an experimental study on white rats aimed at evaluating the morpho-functional changes of cells from the exocrine pancreas under the influence of 5-fluorouracil (Ftorafur), a cytostatic drug which is a general inhibitor of protein synthesis by cells.
  • (16) On the 21st day they are in different morpho-functional states and consist of dark and light cells.
  • (17) In relation to the venous transition we concluded that, the morpho-functional architecture of the region, do not suggest the existence of a morphological sphincter but, in fact of the physiological sphincter.
  • (18) As inferred from our previous investigations on the vasculogenesis of several districts of the central and peripheral nervous system in the chick embryo, also in the developing optic tectum growth and distribution pattern of the vessels seem to unfold step by step under the local influence of earlier occurring morpho-histogenetic processes of the corresponding neural substratum.
  • (19) The neuropathological examination showed a normal morpho-histogenesis of the brain.
  • (20) Given our present understanding of nasal physiological morpho-function, these results support, but do not demonstrate, an adaptive role for human nasal index variation.

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