What's the difference between angiocarpous and calyx?

Angiocarpous


Definition:

  • (a.) Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule.
  • (a.) Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens.

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Calyx


Definition:

  • (n.) The covering of a flower. See Flower.
  • (n.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results, together with information from the amino acid sequences, infer that the native carotenoid, astaxanthin, is bound to each apoprotein within an internal hydrophobic pocket, or calyx.
  • (2) The involved calyx is punctured directly and dilatation performed to the stone without negotiating a wire into the renal pelvis.
  • (3) The host cannot encapsulate the parasitoid egg owing to the suppressive effect of the polydnavirus-laden calyx fluid injected by the female parasitoid during oviposition.
  • (4) A small population of nonadrenergic, VIPI nerves innervates the renal calyx.
  • (5) Flexible ureterorenoscopy is valuable for diagnosis of filling defects in the lower calyx and for treatment of stones in the upper and middle ureter.
  • (6) A sparse plexus of VIPI nerves innervates the rat renal calyx.
  • (7) Two antimicrobial fractions were obtained from the sponge Calyx podatypa from the Bahamas.
  • (8) The optimum photographing time was 15 minutes in the upper urinary tract (nephrogram, calyx, pelvis, upper ureter) and 20 minutes in the lower urinary tract (lower ureter, urinary bladder).
  • (9) It could be shown that nucleus and calyx may have a monomineral as well as a polymineral structure.
  • (10) A dense plexus of SPI nerves innervates the rat renal calyx.
  • (11) For example, in the cerebellum it recognizes myelinated axons and the calyx formed by basket cell axon collaterals.
  • (12) The smooth muscle and myofibroblast-like cells presumably assist expression of urine from the papilla and calyx, and possibly participate as pacemakers for the urinary tract.
  • (13) From September 1988 to April 1989, 400 patients with stones in the calyx (40%), in the renal pelvis (45%), in the ureter (15%) and with staghorn calculi (5%) underwent shock wave treatment.
  • (14) The rhabdom of isolated small photoreceptors is surrounded by a calyx originating from the soma, so that it appears to be located internally.
  • (15) The vestibular sensory epithelia contain two main types of hair cell innervation; bouton-innervated hair cells and calyceal hair cells characterized by a surrounding nerve calyx.
  • (16) The importance of selective arteriography and the interpretation of the "naked calyx" sign in the diagnosis of supernumerary renal arteries has been emphasized.
  • (17) If a fine deformity of calyx is shown on intravenous pyelogram, magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates renal scarring.
  • (18) Proper placement of the percutaneous nephrostomy tract through a posterior middle calyx and of a guidewire across the ureteropelvic junction is necessary in order to gain access to the narrowed area with a rigid cutting instrument.
  • (19) Subsequent to the elaboration of the activation calyx, the contents of cortical granules are released (cortical reaction) into the perivitelline space.
  • (20) Surrounding baculovirus occlusion bodies is an electron-dense layer reported to be composed of carbohydrate which we term calyx.

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