What's the difference between bicameral and unicameral?

Bicameral


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ultrasonography is thus regarded as essential for the diagnosis of bicameral gallbladders and for detecting any calculi within them.
  • (2) An in vitro bicameral coculture system was used to demonstrate that pachytene spermatocytes stimulate incorporation of [3H]mannose into Sertoli cell oligosaccharides.
  • (3) A patient with Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries (CTGA), mild incompetence of left A-V valve, complete atrioventricular block without associated anatomic lesions, in whom a bicameral permanent pace maker has been implanted, is described.
  • (4) The effect of progesterone was studied on the sulfate entry in glandular epithelial cells of guinea-pig endometrium subcultured in bicameral chambers on matrix-coated filters in a chemically defined medium.
  • (5) Uni- and bicameral milliporous cylindrical microchambers were used.
  • (6) The cells of chick embryo hematopoietic organs were cultivated together with mouse bone marrow cells in bicameral diffusion chambers under normal conditions and in activated erythropoiesis.
  • (7) The bicameral chambers were utilized in a number of studies on protein secretion, and it was revealed that numerous proteins are secreted in a polarized manner.
  • (8) Interactions between pachytene spermatocytes and Sertoli cells were investigated using the bicameral culture chamber system.
  • (9) The coculture of uterine and peritoneal cells in bicameral chambers provides a tool to study the paracrine interactions of cells that comprise the endometriotic lesion.
  • (10) The influence of rat round spermatid protein(s) (RSP) on protein synthesis and secretory function of Sertoli cells was used in the bicameral chamber system.
  • (11) Among its agenda items is a bipartisan, bicameral bill that seeks to abolish the NSA’s ability to collect data in bulk on Americans or inside the United States without suspicion of a crime or a threat to national security.
  • (12) of primary cultures of porcine thyroid cells grown as a polarized, confluent monolayer on a filter in a bicameral chamber system has now made it possible to study in more detail the barrier function and vectorial ion transport in the thyroid epithelium.
  • (13) An impermeable confluent monolayer is defined when the cells of the Sertoli cell epithelial sheet are able to prevent hydrodynamic equilibration of fluid levels between the apical and basal reservoirs of a bicameral chamber.
  • (14) These filters had been impregnated with reconstituted basement membrane and suspended in bicameral (two houses) culture chambers.
  • (15) We have utilized an in vitro experimental model whereby confluent epithelial sheets of PA-III cells are grown on Matrigel-coated filters in bicameral chambers (Millicell-HA).
  • (16) A bicameral tumor measuring 8 x 6 mm in size was recognized in the right lung (B5bi) upon gross examination.
  • (17) The transport of iodide was studied in porcine thyroid follicle cells cultured in bicameral chambers.
  • (18) The intracellular regulation of thyrotropin-stimulated iodide efflux was studied in polarized porcine thyrocytes grown as a continuous, tight monolayer in bicameral culture chambers.
  • (19) It is now possible to examine polarized secretion by Sertoli cells in vitro by growing them in dual environment (bicameral) culture chambers such that there is a separation of the apical and basal compartments of the cells.
  • (20) Immature rat Sertoli cells were cultured for 7 to 14 days on Millipore filters impregnated with a reconstituted basement membrane extract in dual-environment (bicameral) culture chambers.

Unicameral


Definition:

  • (a.) Having, or consisting of, a single chamber; -- said of a legislative assembly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only 4 children had a true unicameral cyst; the others had 2 or more cysts or had compartments with free or restricted communication to the main cyst.
  • (2) We reviewed 59 patients treated for unicameral bone cysts.
  • (3) The most common associations were with solitary or unicameral bone cyst, and with osteoclastoma.
  • (4) An unusual case of a unicameral bone cyst located in the head of the first metatarsal is presented with a review of the literature.
  • (5) Twenty-one patients were treated operatively for unicameral bone cysts by subtotal resection without any form of bone graft, and all but two patients had satisfactory, prompt healing.
  • (6) Thirty-two unicameral bone cyst cases from various hospital centers in the San Francisco Bay Area were reviewed in order to compare the results of different treatment methods.
  • (7) We measured the prostaglandin level in the aspirated fluid of a unicameral cyst before and 4 months after corticosteroid injection.
  • (8) Progressive tibia valga occurred in an adolescent girl after curettage and allografting of a large unicameral bone cyst of the tibia.
  • (9) The etiology of the unicameral bone cyst remains undefined.
  • (10) Radiological incorporation of the graft was seen at about 3 months in unicameral bone cysts, at 4-6 months in aneurysmal bone cysts and at 6-9 months in giant cell tumours.
  • (11) A unicameral abscess was revealed in 5 cases, a multicameral one--in 3.
  • (12) The difficulty of differentiating an aneurysmal bone cyst from a giant cell tumor of bone is acknowledged and certain similarities to unicameral bone cyst are noted, with reference to some intriguing hypotheses put forward in the literature.
  • (13) Unicameral bone cysts are rarely observed in the foot.
  • (14) The localisations of bone cysts known under the title of "intraosseous ganglion, synovial cyst of bone and solitary unicameral cyst" are summarised from the literature.
  • (15) How does a government go from a comfortable majority in a unicameral parliament to poll predictions of electoral annihilation in a single term?
  • (16) This is a case report of bilateral unicameral bone cysts located in the hamate bones of a 22-year-old man.
  • (17) Unicameral bone cysts in 57 patients, seen at the Alfred I. duPont Institute between 1949 and 1982, were studied retrospectively.
  • (18) In this paper we have presented a 13-year-old boy whose unicameral bone cyst of the proximal humerus was, after sustaining a pathological fracture, obliterated with conservative management of the fracture.
  • (19) Sonography showed multiloculated fluid in 61% of cases and a unicameral mass in 39% of cases.
  • (20) Most political theorists hold the view that small, homogeneous countries such as Ireland are best served by unicameral legislatures.

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