What's the difference between beech and leech?

Beech


Definition:

  • (n.) A tree of the genus Fagus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Academisation and a school system on the brink | Letters Read more Perry Beeches has been a favourite of Cameron, as well as former education secretary Michael Gove and his successor Nicky Morgan .
  • (2) The pollen of ash (Fraxinus), oak (Quercus), beech (Fagus) and plane tree (Platanus) was regularly found in high percentages during these years.
  • (3) Beech tar, in a concentration of 5% induced a 19% increase in orthokeratosis.
  • (4) If the majority of relevant tree pollens are to be included in a diagnostic or therapeutic programme in Western Sweden it should contain birch, alder, hazel, beech and bog-myrtle allergens.
  • (5) In previous experiments it was found that birch, beech, alder, hazel and oak are pollens with importance in pathogenesis of early pollinosis in our region of Central Europe.
  • (6) Published on 27 March 1963, Beeching's report, The Restructuring of British Railways, outlined plans to cut more than 5,000 miles of track and more than 2,000 stations.
  • (7) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
  • (8) The erythrocytes in beech marten are clearly smaller in size and volume and have a lower mean corpuscular hemoglobin than the erythrocytes in mink and ferret.
  • (9) It served as an inland diversionary route until its closure under Beeching in 1962.
  • (10) One feels alone but not lonely amid the tall centuries-old ash, beech, birch, oak and yew, and the woodland is well preserved and conserved.
  • (11) In experiments carried out with beech sawdust treated with 0.1 M of sulphuric acid a digestibility of 3.7% was found, in sawdust treated with 0.47 M of nitric acid a digestibility of 61.6% was found and after a neutralization with ammonia it amounted to 72.2%.
  • (12) 4110), adenocarcinomas of the nasal sinuses, induced by oak and beech wood dust (No.
  • (13) An electron microscopic study of beech leaf white rot shows a certain number of characteristic developmental stages which are identical whether the material is from in vitro experimentation or from natural incubation.
  • (14) Luke Sookdeo, a pupil at Perry Beeches Academy, Birmingham, had a word for his "haters" after getting an A in English literature and an A* in drama.
  • (15) There was still snow in June this year in the Northern Velebit national park, which contrasts lush beech forest with more austere pine-spiked ridges, and here there is a proper day's hiking to be had, requiring detailed maps, sensible shoes and a chat with the ranger beforehand.
  • (16) He had close and affectionate relations with the monarchs, as revealed in one poem entitled Lines for January 20th death of his father, George V. The poem reads: "Beyond the river-side; The frozen fields stretch wide; To where the beech-clumps bide; Leafless and still; In snow upon the hill; I think of One who died."
  • (17) "The crucial lesson to take from the Beeching anniversary is that you have to be flexible when planning transport infrastructure.
  • (18) As a result, when Ofsted publishes its final report the school is all but certain to be downgraded to "inadequate" – Ofsted's harshest rating – and be placed in special measures, stripped of its governors and managing trust, and handed over to new, approved management – with one candidate being the Perry Beeches academy trust, a successful group of academies frequently praised by Gove.
  • (19) Partial identity between the major allergens of birch, beech, alder, hazel and oak pollen extract could be identified by means of RAST-, ELISA- and CRIE-inhibition as well as further types of crossed immunoelectrophoresis.
  • (20) Another prominent lesbian Anglican, Vicky Beeching, said: “Social and religious attitudes are shifting among young people.

Leech


Definition:

  • (n.) See 2d Leach.
  • (v. t.) See Leach, v. t.
  • (n.) The border or edge at the side of a sail.
  • (n.) A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.
  • (n.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
  • (v. t.) To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
  • (v. t.) To bleed by the use of leeches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Leech saliva inhibits superoxide production by neutrophils stimulated by tetradecanoyl phorbol acetate or polyhistidine.
  • (2) We compared the molecular nature of the rat brain opiate receptor with that of the invertebrate leech, Haemopis marmorata, and the protozoan, Tetrahymena, in order to examine the issue of apparent receptor heterogeneity with respect to biochemical structure.
  • (3) Serotonin plays an obligatory role in the initiation and expression of leech feeding behavior by its differential modulation of central neuronal networks and peripheral glands and muscles.
  • (4) Leech-treated flaps showed poorer reperfusion than untreated flaps.
  • (5) Thus, even though normal leech development comprises a nearly invariant cell lineage, lineage relationships are open to considerable reorganization under experimental conditions.
  • (6) When I first saw the video I instantly recognised something about the voice,” Leech said.
  • (7) Touch (T) sensory neurons in the leech innervate defined regions of skin and synapse on other neurons, including other T cells, within the ganglionic neuropil.
  • (8) Sensory processing in the local bending reflex of the leech (Hirudo medicinalis) was studied by examining the input-output relations of the reflex.
  • (9) Blood meal size increases slightly with leech size: 8.4 g for 1-g leeches and 9.7 g for 2-g leeches.
  • (10) Leech AP neurons react to axotomy by increasing excitability and resting potential of the cell body membrane.
  • (11) Antistasin is a 119-amino acid protein initially isolated from salivary glands of the Mexican leech, Haementeria officinalis, that exhibits potent anticoagulant properties resulting from selective inhibition of blood coagulation factor Xa.
  • (12) Mark Leech, editor of ConVerse , the national newspaper for prisoners, said the former MP should expect "to find himself in a prison reception that is cramped, cold and busy – with up to 200 prisoners being processed each day".
  • (13) The use of leeches and blood letting of 100 years ago may seem absurd by today's standards.
  • (14) We were able to record large signals without averaging from barnacle and leech neurons.
  • (15) There are at least three hirudin transcripts detectable in leech RNAs that are different in size, site of synthesis, inducibility by starvation, and relationship to hirudin activity.
  • (16) A combined action of acetylcholine and serotonin is demonstrated to produce, in ultrastructure of the Retzius neuron of the leech, changes similar to those resulted from synaptic activation.
  • (17) The authors conclude that the use of medicinal leeches shows promise as a safe and effective method of providing temporary venous drainage in replanted digits.
  • (18) The possibility of leech endoparasitism should not be overlooked in people presenting with epistaxis or hemoptysis and a history of recent contact with fresh water lakes or streams in tropical regions.
  • (19) Individual mechanosensory neurons in the leech segmental ganglia were eliminated in vivo by intracellular Pronase injection.
  • (20) 3), was developed using the powerful musculature of the common leech (Haemopis sanguisuga).

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