What's the difference between arborator and prune?
Arborator
Definition:
(n.) One who plants or who prunes trees.
Example Sentences:
(1) The treatment led to decreased spinnbarkeit, arborization and sperum penetration in the cervical mucus.
(2) The degree of overlap varies with the thickness of the arborization and is in the order of 1-2 mu.
(3) The diversity of the non-Hodgkin's groups, the continued evolution of histopathologic classifications, and the great frequency of advanced disease in the lymphocytic subgroups make the Ann Arbor classification of only limited value for the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas.
(4) These tangential fibers are in part the preterminal arborizations of geniculocortical axons, since some of them have been shown to degenerate after geniculate lesions.
(5) After 4 weeks of in vivo growth, extensive growth of arborizing ducts was apparent in recombinants composed of urogenital sinus mesenchyme and a single adult prostatic ductal tip.
(6) The 10-year survival rates for patients with Ann Arbor stages II, III, or IV disease of 55%, 42%, and 40%, respectively, were not significantly different.
(7) Numerous CA fibers which are first observed at the level of the preoptic area, ascend through the central zone of the telencephalon and arborize profusely particularly within the medial zone of area dorsalis telencephali.
(8) It is believed that by looking at such subtle shape differences an understanding of what it means morphologically for a primate to be either more or less arboreal may be achieved.
(9) S2 amacrine cells arborized in sublayer 3 and made synapses onto amacrine cells.
(10) The observed damage was similar: a decrease of the total length of the dendritic segments of the apical tuft and the basal arborization.
(11) Inferior colliculus and commissural neurons form two populations that differ in their distribution in layer V, in somatic area, and in the form of their apical dendritic arbors.
(12) NMDA treatment reduced arbor density by approximately 50%.
(13) Y axons, whether originating from the deviated or the nondeviated eye, have substantially smaller arbors and fewer boutons in the A-laminae of the lateral geniculate nucleus compared to Y axons in normal cats.
(14) Murine F9 embryonal carcinoma cells exposed to retinoic acid and dibutyryl cyclic AMP gradually arborize and acquire a neuron-like morphology in monolayer culture.
(15) Although the drugs did not cause a desegregation of the eye-specific stripes, treated retinal axon arbors covered about half the area covered by untreated arbors or arbors treated with inactive analogs of the drugs.
(16) At birth, most cochlear neurons displayed peripheral arbors that embraced both inner and outer hair cell receptors.
(17) Results in previous studies of primates based on intra-axonal filling with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) staining of a limited sample of fibers suggest that corticospinal arbors branch widely to multiple motoneuronal pools.
(18) The Arbor was supported by Artangel , the arts commissioning body that produced Rachel Whiteread's House , her 1993 cast of a condemned terraced home, and Roger Hiorns's Seizure (2008), an empty council flat encrusted with cobalt-blue crystals.
(19) After differentiation, both Ewing's and neural lines developed neuritic processes with varicosities and little arborization, except for the initially undifferentiated Ewing's line (A4573) which displayed extensive lateral sprouting from neuritic processes after differentiation.
(20) Budd, Kenneth (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Alfred S. Sussman, and Frederick I. Eilers.
Prune
Definition:
(v. t.) To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.
(v. t.) To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.
(v. t.) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
(v. i.) To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.
(n.) A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of "Prune Belly" syndrome, its sonographic diagnosis, from the 15th week and its monitoring by sonography and biochemical exams of fetal urine for study of renal function is described.
(2) With an incidence of between 1 in 30,000 and 1 in 50,000 births, prune-belly syndrome (PBS) is a rare malformation syndrome.
(3) We report the clinical findings, diagnostic problems and treatment of a 1-year-old Coloured child (with classic 'prune belly syndrome') in whom the spleen had undergone torsion, thus simulating an intra-abdominal abscess.
(4) Others have found more striking-power, or more simple poetry, but none an interpretation at once so full (in the sense of histrionic volume) and so consistently bringing all the aspects together, without any shirking or pruning away of what is inconvenient.
(5) That is, when distal branches are pruned off surgically, the axon compensates by producing extra proximal branches.
(6) The current controversies revolving around the fetal treatment of hydrocephalus and obstructive uropathies (posterior urethral valves, prune belly syndrome, hydronephrosis) are compared and contrasted with the remarkably similar controversies that raged when fetal transfusions were first introduced.
(7) This organization supports rapid pruning of the list of drugs.
(8) The X-linked prune (pn) eye-colour mutation of Drosophila melanogaster has a highly specific, complementary lethal interaction with the conditional dominant Killer of prune (awdK-pn) mutation.
(9) Aggressive surgical management of patients with the prune belly syndrome provides improved abdominal wall function and appearance, and offers excellent testicular salvage.
(10) The prune belly syndrome is a well-recognized entity consisting of deficient abdominal musculature, cryptorchid testes, and urinary tract abnormalities most consistent with an obstructive phenomenon.
(11) Reduction cystoplasty is a useful procedure to treat a large, poorly functioning bladder in boys with prune belly syndrome who are candidates for urinary tract reconstruction.
(12) Staff, which account for half of the NHS's costs, are being pruned, and services are now following.
(13) Their growth could be divided into three distinct phases: first, a period of initial outgrowth (55-70%) during which the basic skeleton of major neurites is formed; second, a shorter period of rapid growth (70-80%) during which the basic skeleton is elaborated by the addition of many side branches; and third, a period of maturation (80-95%) during which the branches formed during earlier growth appear to be pruned.
(14) As the protests were staged the centre-left cabinet in Portugal called an emergency session to try to prune more from public spending, as it grappled with a debt and deficit crisis that has thrown the spotlight back on to the country.
(15) The pathophysiology of hyperammonemic encephalopathy in association with the prune belly syndrome and a review of the literature are presented.
(16) Male infants predominate and have either isolated genital abnormalities, hydronephrotic conditions, or classic prune-belly syndrome.
(17) Under the conditions of chronic caloric restriction, the phenomenon of exuberance was retarded and pruning was not observed.
(18) Cholangiograms showed attenuation and pruning of the intrahepatic bile ducts, some with beading and dilatation of the common bile duct.
(19) The majority of the new class of mutations, designated pnts-e, do not interact with the mutation Killer of prune (Kpn) at all of the experimental temperatures, i.e., pnts-e, Kpn flies do not die.
(20) It will need lots of tweaking to avoid annoying people – it's already being prodded to see whether it takes more or fewer clicks to reach the phone-dialer (more), and whether you can still set wallpaper (no, but your friends do with their picture – you may need to prune your friends).