What's the difference between appendage and clasper?
Appendage
Definition:
(n.) Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.
(n.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.
Example Sentences:
(1) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(2) After completion of the biopsy, a J-shaped 5F bipolar pacing lead was inserted via the sheath and positioned with the lead tip directed medially against the interatrial septum or right atrial appendage.
(3) The purpose of this study is to determine the sensitivity and specificity of two dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of thrombosis of the left atrial appendage.
(4) Thus careful examination of standard ECG leads for paced P waves of low amplitude, prolonged duration and specific morphology can help in confirming atrial capture following pacing stimulus from right atrial appendage.
(5) The results indicate that position along the appendage does not influence the developmental sequence of events of regeneration, but that it does influence the rate of growth and the structures to be replaced.
(6) The appendages were about 125 x 30 A; the central ring had an outer diameter of approximately 100 A and an inner diameter of 40 A.
(7) In this last region, we can find a more or less reduced true tail or a terminal appendage without vertebral element.
(8) Before therapy considerable destructive changes in nerve fibers were seen, i. e. Schwann cell cytoplasm and nerve cell appendages edemas, no neural tubes in the appendages.
(9) Of 70 children scrotal explorations, torsion of appendages was found in 33 cases (47%).
(10) Synaptic contacts (GRAY I) are established with the grape-like appendages in the branching zone of P-neuron dendrites.
(11) Of the 84 adolescent scrotal explorations performed, 72 (86%) had torsion of testis, and 8 (9%) had torsion of appendages.
(12) Electron microscopy reveals that Toh+ amacrine cells are postsynaptic to amacrine cells and a few bipolar cell terminals in stratum 1 of the inner plexiform layer and are primarily presynaptic to AII amacrine cell bodies and lobular appendages, and to another type of amacrine cell body and amacrine dendrites hypothesized to be the A17 amacrine cell.
(13) A practical classification of left atrial calcification is proposed according to the dominant lesion in each group: (a) Calcification of the left atrial appendage alone (Mitral stenosis).
(14) The innervation and myocardial cells of the human atrial appendage were investigated by means of immunocytochemical and ultrastructural techniques using both tissue sections and whole mount preparations.
(15) Many HBox genes sustain their expression in the appendages of the adult newt.
(16) Wounds made at intervals from 2-24 weeks after irradiation in normal or irradiated ileum were repaired immediately and wrapped in normal or irradiated appendages.
(17) A course of treatment resulted in clinical improvement and appearance of small-diameter appendages of nerve cells on the periphery of nerve fibers that were often not completely covered with Schwann cell appendages.
(18) Among the relay cells, these differences relate to soma and axon diameter, dendritic orientation, and the presence or absence of grapelike dendritic appendages.
(19) When taken together these cases show that just over 50% of the degenerating terminals are presynaptic to spiny appendages and are located within the synaptic clusters (glomeruli) described previously (King, '76).
(20) Surgical techniques used (alone or in combination) included an isolation procedure in 1 patient, cryoablation in 4 patients, and excision of atrial appendages or portions of atrial free walls in 7.
Clasper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.
(n.) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.
(n.) One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera.
Example Sentences:
(1) John Ormerod, who joined the ITV board in January 2008, will replace Clasper as chairman of the audit committee.
(2) Sir Peter, 62, is believed to be backing BAA chief executive Mike Clasper to take over as chief executive.
(3) It utilizes the clasper from male pharate adult European corn borers and measures the incorporation of [14C]N-acetylglucosamine.
(4) Earlier this week ITV named non-executive director Mike Clasper, the former head of airports operator BAA, as Crosby's replacement .
(5) ITV has named board member Mike Clasper as non-executive senior independent director to replace the outgoing Sir James Crosby.
(6) Photograph: Oliver Clasper Away from the main competition, James Franco continues his journey through the landmarks of American literature, adapting William Faulkner's classic 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury for the screen.
(7) Photograph: Oliver Clasper As Anwar had nightmares about his past, so did Oppenheimer ("A family reunion transforming gradually into a scene where somebody I loved was being tortured or killed").
(8) (1972) transformations from eye to abdominal like structures, eye to antennal like structures, eye to palpus like structures, rostralhaut to genital like structures, rostralhaut to clasper teeth, and rostralhaut to antennal like structures were observed.
(9) The two subspecies of Glossina palpalis (Robineau-Desvoidy) occurring in Liberia could be reliably separated morphometrically by measuring the width of the terminal dilatations of the male inferior claspers.
(10) The more acute shape of the ninth sternite separates X. bantorum from all types of X. cheopis; however, the length of the first process of the male's clasper and the number of setae on this process are significantly different among all three groups; the Nilotic strain of X. cheopis is intermediate to the others.
(11) You are therefore wrong to associate me with accountability for performance in this area.” HMRC’s chairman at the time was a business outsider, Mike Clasper, the former chief executive of airports operator BAA.
(12) Clasper, who used to run the airports operator BAA, will take over from Crosby on 1 January in a move that coincides with the arrival of chairman Archie Norman .
(13) Clasper was appointed to the ITV board in January 2006.
(14) Chitin synthesis is maximum in claspers taken from animals 5 and 6 days postpupation.