What's the difference between bifurcation and division?

Bifurcation


Definition:

  • (n.) A forking, or division 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.

Division


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
  • (n.) That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
  • (n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
  • (n.) Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
  • (n.) Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.
  • (n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.
  • (n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.
  • (n.) The separation of a genus into its constituent species.
  • (n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.
  • (n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.
  • (n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.
  • (n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
  • (n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
  • (n.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
  • (n.) A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
  • (2) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (3) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
  • (4) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (5) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
  • (6) Whereas the growth and division of normal cells is carefully regulated to meet the needs of the body, tumor cells proliferate autonomously and continually, eventually interfering with and destroying the functions of normal tissue.
  • (7) Tuberclebacilli did not stimulate macrophage division.
  • (8) But on June 29, 2011, Lois G Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the watchdog's report.
  • (9) Cause-specific mortality comparisons were also made among the employment subgroups and by duration of employment in the company division using an internal analysis method.
  • (10) Postoperative examination revealed division of accessory pathway and no regurgitation of mitral prosthesis.
  • (11) The Disability Division of ActionAid-India supports 38 non-governmental organisations involved in disability programmes in India.
  • (12) This column is located ventral and lateral to the dorsolateral division of the trigeminal motor nucleus, and just medial to the descending trigeminal nerve rootlets.
  • (13) The retail and wholesale divisions powered the improved profits.
  • (14) From these results we concluded that the mutants have some defect in cell division after low doses of UV irradiation, similar to the lon(-) or fil(+) mutant of E. coli.
  • (15) The cellular groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus (TUMM) are positioned at the interface between the lateral and the medial hypothalamus, and form an array of cellular groups indicated in our study as the intermediate division of the hypothalamus.
  • (16) In the meantime, the proliferation of salmonellae appeared to occur extracellularly in the peritoneal cavity as evidenced by their division.
  • (17) Hybrids obtained following fusion of normal human diploid fibroblasts with different immortal human cell lines exhibited limited division potential.
  • (18) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
  • (19) Anti-IgM antibodies also induced DNA synthesis of PBL-B, but their ability to induce cell division was less than that of anti-IgD antibodies even when used in combination with IL-4.
  • (20) The Tea Party movement has turned climate denial into a litmus test of conservative credentials – and that has made climate change one of the most sharp divisions between Obama and Romney.