What's the difference between arrow and sagitta?

Arrow


Definition:

  • (n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
  • (2) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
  • (3) In 2, 178 tattooed male conscripts in ages of 19-24 years, the most frequent tattoo was a heart mark or a mark of heart and arrow.
  • (4) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
  • (5) An arrow poison prepared by traditional methods from Acokanthera schimperi in the Maasai plains of Kenya was shown to contain acolongifloroside K as its major active principle, as well as smaller amounts of ouabain and acovenoside A.
  • (6) Added meaning was given to the design copy task through the use of stimulus figures that were representational of familiar objects--an arrow, a house, and a face.
  • (7) In Experiment 1, arrow cues were located centrally, near the fixation point.
  • (8) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
  • (9) Six edentulous patients were each provided with two complete dentures and the relation of the jaws to each other was determined by means of both the conventional checkbite and a combined Gerber arrow-angle registration.
  • (10) Conservationists and politicians have called on the EU to ban the import of lion heads, paws and skins as hunters’ trophies from African countries that cannot prove their lion populations are sustainable, following the killing of Zimbabwe’s most famous lion by a European hunter with a bow and arrow.
  • (11) After Branislav Ivanovic and Markovic had squandered decent chances, Kolarov doubled Serbia's lead with a 25-yard shot that arrowed into the top corner.
  • (12) Here, then, is Draghinomics' second arrow: to reduce the drag on growth from fiscal consolidation while maintaining lower deficits and greater debt sustainability.
  • (13) To help distinguish between these competing interpretations, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded to lateralized flashes delivered to visual field locations precued by a central arrow (valid stimuli) or not precued (invalid stimuli).
  • (14) Of these devices, the most widely used external central venous catheters include: the Davol (Hickman, Broviac, Leonard catheters, Arrow-Howes multi-lumen catheters, and the Groshong that requires no heparinization.
  • (15) This study examined the relationships between postural sway, aiming time, the cardiac cycle time and the placement of the first finger movement within the electrocardiac cycle, with the quality of the arrow shot.
  • (16) These villains have limited aspirations, and the man in the white hat has a limited arsenal of era-appropriate weaponry: a gun, a bow and arrow, a few grenades, maybe even a tank.
  • (17) With an exquisite “no look” pass, Fuchs delivered the ball Vardy arrowed beyond David de Gea to score for the 11th successive Premier League match .
  • (18) Two commercially available immunofluorescence monoclonal antibody (MAB) reagents (Bartels, Baxter Healthcare, Issaquah, WA; and Symex, Broken Arrow, OK) were evaluated as a means for detecting parainfluenza virus (PIV) both in shell-vial cultures and directly in clinical specimens.
  • (19) In the color condition the respective stimuli were a pair of solid red circles, four white paired-arrows, and a pair of white plus and minus signs.
  • (20) The design of the tube was the only factor found to be a significant determinant of the extrusion of the tube, although the experience of the surgeon affected the extrusion rate of the Arrow tube.

Sagitta


Definition:

  • (n.) A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow.
  • (n.) The keystone of an arch.
  • (n.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
  • (n.) The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes.
  • (n.) A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chaetognatha.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, we report a new type of photoreceptive cell in mesopelagic Sagitta zetesios, in which two receptoral processes emerge from single cells, in contrast to one in all the other species of Sagitta.
  • (2) The presumed photoreceptive region of the arrow-worms of the species Sagitta crassa and Spadella schizoptera consists of perforated lamellae which are unique as the photoreceptive structure.
  • (3) The sagittae of tire- and barrel-form toric surfaces differ off the principal meridians, as is shown by a numerical example.
  • (4) The exact equation for sagitta of spherical surfaces is generalized to toric surfaces which include spherical and cylindrical surfaces as special cases.
  • (5) The experience gathered in the correction of sagittal mandibular over- and under-development allows to make the following conclusions:--In the choice of osteotomy it is necessary that careful consideration be given not only to the proportions of the body and ramus of the mandible, but also to the angular interrelationships of mandibular bones.--Osteotomies in the body of the mandible are indicated especially in those cases where it is only necessary for parallel shifts to be made in the sagittal plane.--Osteotomies performed in the region of the angle of the mandible and the ramus of the mandible (Obwegeser-Dal Pont) enable both longitudinal compensation or adjustment in the sagitta.
  • (6) Generalized equations are derived for sagitta and lens thickness for surfaces of any form.
  • (7) The value of the second fundamental form is approximately double the sagitta.
  • (8) The gerbils' fleas are more abundant on D. sagitta than on the other species.
  • (9) Under study was the histological structure of the adrenal of the gopher Spermophilopsis leptodactylus L., jerboa Dipus sagitta Pall.
  • (10) A survey of the eye structure in 10 species of Sagitta (phylum Chaetognatha) which differ in habitat was carried out: 5 epipelagic, 4 mesopelagic and 1 bathypelagic species.
  • (11) A general routine exists for estimating dioptric power from any number of measurements of sagitta, lens thickness, meridional curvature or power, and prismatic effect.
  • (12) A method published elsewhere for estimating dioptric power from meridional measurements is generalized here to allow for measurements of sagitta, lens thickness, and prismatic effect as well.
  • (13) The histology of the Chaetognath's trunk is largely based upon works of Hertwig (1880) and Burfield (1927) and is revised here essentially on ultrastructural basis, in a study on Sagitta setosa.
  • (14) The existence of a visual pigment in this region was demonstrated by a histofluorescent technique using Spadella schizoptera, whose presumed photoreceptive region was much larger than in Sagitta crassa.
  • (15) 2) From the hemodynamic change, the progression of rapid increase of cerebral blood volume with increase of blood volume in the superior sagitta sinus during cerebral vasoparesis under intracranial hypertension is presumed.
  • (16) In four species, the sagitta exhibited a multifluted anterior part and a tapered posterior part; in Corydoras aeneus, however, the fluted part was absent, and a vertical component extended dorsally to terminate near the opening of the transverse canal.