What's the difference between birdcage and cage?

Birdcage


Definition:

  • (n.) A cage for confining birds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He brings us his mackerel, and his marigolds, as a child just able to walk solemnly brings objects … a birdcage, or a colander … and deposits them as an offering before the attentive adult."
  • (2) The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the probe was compared to a 5-cm birdcage coil and exceeded the birdcage coil's SNR by three to six times at superficial structures.
  • (3) In her 1963 novel A Summer Birdcage , Margaret Drabble’s narrator Sarah describes a “loathsome flat” in the King’s Road, Chelsea, and an “unspeakably sordid” place in Highgate.
  • (4) Presented is a derivation of an exact closed-form expression for the spectra of resonant frequencies for magnetic resonance imaging birdcage coils in the limit of long coils with many elements.
  • (5) Although the birdcage resonator has been theoretically described for single- and multinuclear operation, this study provides the basic experimental guidelines needed for the fabrication and testing of such coils for various geometries and resonant frequencies from 10 to 95 MHz.
  • (6) This paper presents a general analysis, derived from lumped element transmission line theory, of the electrical behavior of unloaded, N-column birdcage resonators applicable to several versions of the basic design including low-pass and high-pass coils.
  • (7) In vivo microscopy was performed using single turn radiofrequency (RF) coils that were surgically implanted around the left kidney of two rats and inductively coupled to an external "birdcage" body coil.
  • (8) He nods when reminded of his father's birdcage analogy.
  • (9) The P-31 MR spectroscopic data were acquired by means of three-dimensional chemical shift imaging (phase encoding in three spatial dimensions) on a 1.5-T clinical instrument equipped with a specially designed quadrature P-31 birdcage coil constructed in the authors' laboratory.
  • (10) A formulation has been developed for the determination of self and mutual inductances in unloaded, eight-column symmetric birdcage coils using their expected resonant mode current patterns and well-known inductance formulas.
  • (11) She collapsed in Birdcage Walk, near St James's Park, on the final stretch of the 26.2-mile course, just one bend away from the finishing line.
  • (12) Claire Squires, 30, collapsed in Birdcage Walk, a mile from the finish line of the 26.2-mile event last year.
  • (13) Resonant radiofrequency (RF) coils were implanted around the left kidney of four rats and inductively coupled from within a birdcage body coil.
  • (14) We also describe a variant of the birdcage resonator which utilizes a novel tuning mechanism of simple construction.
  • (15) This analysis provides the first explicit evaluation of the total end-ring and column inductances L1 and L2 within each birdcage section at resonance with resulting excellent agreement in resonant frequencies between theory and experiment.
  • (16) Following protestations from Republican Political Prisoners, the jail administration responded belligerently by covering the birdcages with darkened Perspex and sheets of wood.
  • (17) A 16-turn birdcage-like RF coil of radius 5 cm, designed for a ROI of radius 4 cm has an average error of 0.79%.
  • (18) Ten low-pass birdcage coils with eight legs were evaluated and their four resonant frequencies were within 4% of theoretical predictions.
  • (19) Presented is a theoretical description of the self-capacitance of a low-pass birdcage coil.
  • (20) This latter expression is applicable to any two-port receiver coil assembly, including single coils with two modes, such as a birdcage coil, and in general, to any two ports of an n-port receiver system.

Cage


Definition:

  • (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
  • (n.) A place of confinement for malefactors
  • (n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
  • (n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
  • (n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
  • (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
  • (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
  • (n.) The catcher's wire mask.
  • (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
  • (2) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
  • (3) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
  • (4) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
  • (5) Each diet was fed to five or six individually caged hens for 42 days.
  • (6) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
  • (7) The designs of mechanical prostheses have evolved since the early caged-ball prostheses.
  • (8) In addition, various tissue cages and the use of skin blisters has been a popular means for testing antibiotic penetration into extra-cellular fluid.
  • (9) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
  • (10) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
  • (11) Also the spread of the strain in the cage was examined.
  • (12) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
  • (13) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
  • (14) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
  • (15) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
  • (16) However, airborne transmission to rabbits in adjacent cages did not occur.
  • (17) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
  • (18) In fish tests, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were caged at the discharge site and simultaneously at a reference area.
  • (19) Five week old female albino mice were grouped two, three, four and five per cage.
  • (20) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.

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