What's the difference between bifurcate and divide?
Bifurcate
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Bifurcated
(v. i.) To divide into two branches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fibrinogen was scattered in the intercellular spaces, and located in the inner layer or edges of the thickened intima of the bifurcation with increasing plaque formation.
(2) In 60 patients, we examined 75 femoral bifurcations by duplex scanning and compared them with the independently performed angiography.
(3) Pathogenetically, the delta formation may represent an intermediate stage in the bifurcation process of a polydactylic ray.
(4) DNA oligodeoxynucleotides have been synthesized that enable these hypotheses to be tested; of particular interest is the combination of effects due to bifurcation (2) and methylation of the pyrimidines nucleotides (3).
(5) To elucidate the mechanism of migration of vascular smooth-muscle cells (SMCs) from media to intima, we have investigated the phenotypic modulation of the medial SMC at bifurcation of the celiac artery in 5 children and 3 young persons using a transmission electron microscope.
(6) The diagnostic accuracy of 5 MHz continuous-wave (C-W) Doppler with spectral analysis for detecting carotid bifurcation disease was evaluated.
(7) Although the most common pattern is for the right coronary artery to bifurcate at the crux giving the posterior descending (posterior interventricular) artery, a branch may arise before the crux, either as an aberrant acute marginal artery or as an early posterior descending artery, crossing the diaphragmatic surface of the right ventricle.
(8) The optimal geometry of the vascular bifurcation is interpreted on the basis of the principle of minimum work.
(9) Platelet accumulation was significantly higher at arterial branching points, 70% higher at intercostal artery bifurcations, and 150% higher at coronary artery bifurcations than in unbranched aortic intima.
(10) Therefore, we believe the indications for femorofemoral graft should be broadened to include all patients with unilateral aortoiliac occlusive disease where anatomic conditions are favorable and there is unilateral occlusion of an aortic bifurcation graft.
(11) Some part of bifurcations of arterioles showed a prominent localized vasoconstriction, and occasionally showed a complete luminal obstruction.
(12) Aortic bifurcation grafts should be used to construct the distal anastomoses beyond areas of significant disease.
(13) Some axons bifurcated into an ascending and a descending branch within the funiculi.4.
(14) Perforation of the bifurcation was well tolerated without later sequelae.
(15) A 65-year-old woman experienced transient paralysis of the left arm immediately after palpation of the right carotid artery; at surgery, a friable, atherosclerotic plaque was removed from the bifurcation of the artery.
(16) A case of a basilar bifurcation aneurysm associated with common carotid artery occlusion is reported.
(17) The carotid injection technique was modified by catheter implantation in the external carotid artery at the bifurcation of the common carotid artery.
(18) Right and left jugular vein segments were isolated by surgical technique for a 3 cm length, which included the bifurcation of the vessel, and left "in situ".
(19) The key element of the system is the bifurcation: depending on whether bifurcations are considered as a single entity or as a whole, either "local" or "global" geometry is employed.
(20) Carotid angiography, which was conducted in all cases, revealed a richly vascularized tumor in the region of the carotid artery bifurcation with characteristic "angulation" and "cuff" signs.
Divide
Definition:
(v. t.) To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
(v. t.) To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.
(v. t.) To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share.
(v. t.) To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
(v. t.) To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.
(v. t.) To subject to arithmetical division.
(v. t.) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
(v. t.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
(v. t.) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
(v. i.) To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
(v. i.) To cause separation; to disunite.
(v. i.) To break friendship; to fall out.
(v. i.) To have a share; to partake.
(v. i.) To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
(n.) A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The study of cellular cyclic AMP level in response to extracellular adenosine stimulation in dividing cells and quiescent cells showed that cells in defined medium had a lower extent of response to adenosine compared to cells cultured in serum-containing medium.
(2) In high concentrations of antiserum, some of the agglutinated cells of L. h. hertigi were enlarged and showed syncytial characters that included up to five nuclei, two dividing nuclei and five basal bodies associated with a single kinetoplast.
(3) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(4) The ACoA branches were divided into the small and the large.
(5) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(6) 310 patients with acute infantile gastroenteritis were divided into 2 groups.
(7) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
(8) To determine the correlation with clinical findings, the patients were divided into three groups: (1) symptomatic with monoclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns; (2) asymptomatic with monoclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns; (3) asymptomatic with polyclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns.
(9) A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was divided into three nonoverlapping probes.
(10) When the schizophrenics were divided into those with and without an abnormal response to PGE1, oleic acid was higher and eicosapentaenoic acid lower in those patients with an abnormal response.
(11) Treatment was divided into two categories named arbitrarily "no therapy" (general supportive measures) or "therapy" (causal treatment based on active drugs or measures aimed at affecting the cause of the disease).
(12) Left ventricular synchrony was assessed from regional volume curves derived by dividing the global ventricular region of interest into four quadrants.
(13) The serial changes in EF during exercise was divided into 5 types, including continuous increase (type A), initial increase but return to the baseline (type B), no change (type C), initial increase but later decrease below the baseline (type D), and continuous decrease (type E).
(14) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
(15) Transplanted cells divided in vivo and progressively migrated into the host brain from the site of implantation up to distances of about 1 mm.
(16) The subjects were divided into 4 ages groups, each comprising 8 horses (4 of each sex).
(17) Patients were divided into the following groups: control (followed without specific active treatment), corticosteroid group, azathioprine group, corticosteroid and azathioprine group, chlorambucil group, 5-fluorouracil group, colchicine group and isoprinosine group.
(18) Sixty-three patients were randomly divided into six groups by the following intrathecal morphine injection: group 1 (0 mg), group 2 (0.025 mg), group 3 (0.05 mg), group 4 (0.075 mg), group 5 (0.1 mg), and group 6 (0.125 mg).
(19) Rats were divided into four groups: drug naive controls; HAL-treated for 6 months; AMPH-treated for 1 month; and rats administered both continuous HAL for 6 months and concurrent AMPH treatment during the 2nd month of HAL administration.
(20) Eighteen rabbits (Kabushikigaishya BioTec Japanese white) were divided into 3 groups.