What's the difference between arciform and bow?

Arciform


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the form of an arch; curved.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most patients had arciform enhancement of the spleen; uniform enhancement occurred in some patients with underlying malignant or inflammatory disease.
  • (2) (3) A row of regularly spaced ribosomes located in the concavity, but at some distance from the arciform filament.
  • (3) Macular, papulonodular and scaly, annular, or arciform lesions are represented, histopathologically by lymphocytic, predominantly neutrophilic, and mixed infiltrates with a prominent histiocytic component.
  • (4) They traced an arciform trajectory of variable width and height in the molecular layer.
  • (5) Ten circumferential motoneurons have small arciform motor fields, the distributions of which correspond to the regional specializations in circumferential band organization.
  • (6) In old age pulses with arciform ascent or deep-seated anacrotic inflection are found more often.
  • (7) An unusual annular and arciform erythema in an infant is reported.
  • (8) E-PTA staining shows that ribbons are positively stained around their borders only and that they are contiguous with the intensely stained arciform densities.
  • (9) Between 17 and 21 embryonic days mature ribbon synapses are observed on the surfaces of the conical-shaped, receptor pedicles where the ribbons and their synaptic vesicles are associated with the dense aggregations (arciform densities), seen earlier as isolated focal aggregations, and the receptor undercoating is restricted to non-synaptic regions.
  • (10) They were straight, sometimes slightly bent, rarely (one case out of 12) arciform.
  • (11) Arciform arrays of these sensilla on the upper and lower surfaces of each annulus presumably optimize the capture and absorption of odour molecules.
  • (12) In the first part, 108 patients (79%) had an arciform pattern of contrast enhancement; 22 patients (16%), a uniform pattern of high signal intensity; and seven patients (5%), a uniform pattern of low signal intensity.
  • (13) These events are followed by the appearance of synaptic ribbons which are associated with the presynaptic arciform densities and by a further differentiation of the cleft material and postsynaptic densities.
  • (14) Three different patterns were observed in the epidermis or mucosa: MCs grouped in clumps, linear and arciform arrangements, and scattered MCs.
  • (15) A patient is described herein whose eruption was composed mainly of arciform, annular, and target-like vesicles.
  • (16) Arciform constrictions could combine to form an annular constriction in peristalsis.
  • (17) The patient exhibited an arciform bald patch on the scalp and follicular mucinosis in both lesions.
  • (18) Arciform constriction can center eccentric ingested prey within the pharyngeal lumen during peristalsis.
  • (19) The technic of transaortic eversion thrombendarterectomy from the renal artery by means of a posterior arciform seems to be preferable.
  • (20) A 65-year-old man with recurrent erythema migrans arciforme et palpabile (EMAP) is reported.

Bow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
  • (v. t.) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
  • (v. t.) To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
  • (v. t.) To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
  • (v. t.) To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
  • (v. i.) To bend; to curve.
  • (v. i.) To stop.
  • (v. i.) To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.
  • (v. i.) To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
  • (n.) An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.
  • (v. t.) Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
  • (v. t.) A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.
  • (v. t.) An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.
  • (v. t.) The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
  • (v. t.) An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.
  • (v. t.) An arcograph.
  • (v. t.) Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
  • (v. t.) A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
  • (sing. or pl.) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
  • (v. i.) To play (music) with a bow.
  • (v. i. ) To manage the bow.
  • (n.) The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.
  • (n.) One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
  • (2) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
  • (3) We have urged the government not to bow to the pressure of the opposition against this law.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mark Karpeles, president of Mt Gox bitcoin exchange, bows his head during a press conference in Tokyo after a $400m hack.
  • (5) We see central bank leaders seemingly bowing to political pressures .
  • (6) The tangential force caused massive swelling and one week later bowing of the forearm was noticed.
  • (7) Following the last model’s disappearance backstage, Galliano appeared briefly in front of the audience and bobbed a blink-and-you-missed-it bow, dressed in the white lab coat that is the uniform of the Maison Margiela label for whom he now designs.
  • (8) She walked around her Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in a crop top that showed her belly button ring; she also established herself as a hard- working MP for that area.
  • (9) A case of acute plastic bowing fractures of both the fibula and tibia in a child is presented.
  • (10) It soon became a standard text for aspiring Young Conservatives and Bow Groupers in the days before the Thatcherite tide had engulfed even those institutions.
  • (11) At 12, Focus E15 were served with a notice to appear in Bow magistrates court at 2pm.
  • (12) Labour's Michael Dugher said he welcomed the prime minister "bowing down to public pressure".
  • (13) We report four patients with unilateral bowing of the lower leg, affecting only the fibula.
  • (14) Isolated bowing of the ulna is rare, yet its occurrence, particularly in conjunction with congenital dislocation of the radial head, has been documented.
  • (15) Tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), when isolated from human colon fibroblast (hcf) cells, is N-glycosylated differently than when isolated from the Bowes melanoma (m) cell line (Parekh et al., 1988).
  • (16) President Obama's speech on Thursday seemed to put a neat bow on the past four years.
  • (17) Before negotiations have even started, the proposed trade deal between the EU and United States has been heralded as a game-changer: an unprecedented stimulus package for the European economy, a shot across the bow for British Eurosceptics and a chance for Europe and the US to set the standard for global trade before China beats us to it.
  • (18) Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows at the Tyndall centre for climate change research at Manchester University say global carbon emissions are rising so fast that they would need to peak by 2015 and then decrease by up to 6.5% each year for atmospheric CO2 levels to stabilise at 450ppm, which might limit temperature rise to 2C.
  • (19) On Saturday the president said he had no intention of bowing to critics' calls for him to step down.
  • (20) The present study was undertaken for the purpose of detecting the influence on upper first molars by the dynamic behavior originated in face-bow construction.

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