What's the difference between byzantine and palatine?

Byzantine


Definition:

  • (n.) A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
  • (2) Byzantine historians and chroniclers recorded events not only of national importance, but also of daily life.
  • (3) In the xenones of the Byzantine churches and in the hospitals connected to these, therapeutic regimes, cures and surgical interventions took place at night during incubation, following the example of the ancient Asclepieia.
  • (4) This is fitting since both worked through realms of indirect influence and power: Moses within the byzantine and barely accountable tangle of New York’s public authority powers; Jacobs in the inherently decentralised world of community organising and writings about urbanism.
  • (5) Asylum seekers have been left to navigate the byzantine process of applying for substantive visas on their own, negotiating complex forms in English – for many their third or fourth language.
  • (6) Observers of Pakistan's byzantine political scene have long suspected an excuse would be found to take Musharraf back to a life of exile in Dubai and London, which he had enjoyed until March last year when he returned to the country in a bid to stand for election.
  • (7) The byzantine eurozone architecture we have created is incomplete.
  • (8) Instead, we served as the weight that helped my parents understand this country – we forced them to learn English, as our Spanish waned; we translated documents that navigated them through this country’s byzantine tax codes and healthcare system; we taught them enough American politics so that they forsook their conservative leanings every election year and voted Democrat (You’re welcome, Hillary).
  • (9) On the face of it, if there is to be production, trade and consumption on a global level, such byzantine hierarchies are unavoidable – and with that, all the concentrations of power, the state-corporate alliances, and the veils of secrecy that are entailed by such arrangements.
  • (10) On Wednesday in Barcelona couples will celebrate his anniversary by exchanging roses and books; on 6 May in Bulgaria some will remember him by cooking a whole lamb ; and on 5 May – in a legacy of Byzantine rule – Palestinian Christians and Muslims will both participate in his feast day .
  • (11) We gather at the venerable United Artists Theatre, a sumptuous 1927 movie palace, all faux-Byzantine motifs and three tiers of balconies, bearing our $200 tickets and plenty of questions.
  • (12) Away from the coast you can still find isolated hiking trails and the odd Byzantine monastery.
  • (13) The resulting uncertainty has split families and forced refugees to navigate unsympathetic and byzantine immigration rules.
  • (14) The failure of the Grand Bargain led to a byzantine deal: if the two parties could not agree on a new deficit plan, then a combination of tax increases and spending cuts—cuts known, in budget jargon, as a “sequester”—would automatically kick in on New Year’s Day.
  • (15) Senate Democrats ready to revolt over TPP 'fast track' authority Read more Thanks to the alphabet soup of acronyms and the byzantine path the Trans-Pacific Partnership has taken, many people have ignored the pact.
  • (16) Here’s our summary Treasury committee chairman Andrew Tyrie has responded, saying the Bank must reassure the public that it is handling the crisis well , having labelled its governance structure “opaque, complex and Byzantine”.
  • (17) And he made sure visitors were left in no doubt that the flowering of Roman, Byzantine and Islamic cultures were mere historical footnotes to his own ascent as "king of kings".
  • (18) If so, then your goods were quite likely to have been routed through a byzantine world hosted – only on paper, you understand – by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where Amazon has located its European headquarters, slashing its tax bills around the world.
  • (19) Only in Britain would the beautifully byzantine Duckworth-Lewis method be invented.
  • (20) It is easy to accuse Clegg of mishandling the Rennard affair but he is at the mercy of a chaotic "open market" for vexatious litigation and of an upper chamber of Byzantine archaism desperately in need of reform.

Palatine


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
  • (n.) One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.
  • (n.) The Palatine hill in Rome.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the palate.
  • (n.) A palatine bone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most often, constrictor fibres follow the course of the pterygo-palatine nerve, when dilator fibres follow the infraorbital nerve.
  • (2) In the mouse, Meissner corpuscles, glomerular corpuscles, and Merkel cell nerve endings were seen in every palatine ruga, though the first antemolar ruga also contained simple and atypical lamellated corpuscles.
  • (3) If the abnormal sensation, such as a lump or choking, in the throat was mainly caused by inflammatory changes in the palatine tonsils or their surrounding tissues and conveyed via vagal nerve branches distributing there, the sensation might be reduced by topically injected Impletol (Procaine and caffeine in saline solution), i.e.
  • (4) The purpose of tonsillectomy is the complete removal of the palatine tonsils with minimal blood loss while avoiding unnecessary trauma to adjacent tissue.
  • (5) For the purpose of ascertaining the peculiarities of cellular differentiation of lymphoid cells of the palatine tonsils experiments were conducted on rabbits immunized intravenously and subcutaneously with streptococcus and paratyphoid B antigens; a study was made (in the blast-transformation reaction) of a comparative response of the lymphocytes of the palatine tonsils, the thymus, the spleen, the appendix and the regional lymph node.
  • (6) A study was made of the production of a blastogenic factor and lymphotoxin in the cultures of lymphocytes of the palatine tonsils removed from patients with chronic tonsillitis; the activity of this blastogenic factor and lymphotoxin was studied in the test-cultures of autologous and allogenic lymphocytes and the transplantable HeLa cells.
  • (7) She also has no serious rivals in the CDU, which still emerged as the biggest party in Baden-Württemberg and made small gains in a separate vote in neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • (8) The teeth were loaded up to breaking at their palatinal crown surfaces.
  • (9) As for specimens of total 118 tonsils, 52 palatine tonsils obtained at autopsy and 66 palatine tonsils obtained by tonsillectomy from patients with the diagnosis of chronic tonsillitis were used.
  • (10) The activity and isoenzyme profile of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), alkaline and acid phosphatase were studied in tumors of the tongue, cheek, oral floor, soft palate and palatine tonsils (n = 100), leukoplakia (n = 7) and in the oral mucosa at corresponding sites in healthy subjects (n = 66), to develop tests for early detection, monitoring and prognosis of oral cancer.
  • (11) The palatine fibromucosa is not the same throughout the various regions of the palatine vault and its role differs in maxillary growth.
  • (12) Similar distribution patterns also were observed in palatine rugae that had received mechanical stimulus during fixation.
  • (13) The results obtained in the present study suggest that prostaglandins may play an important role in normal differentiation of the developing palatine region.
  • (14) In light of the following findings the authors conclude that toxoplasme tonsillitis did not occur in their series: toxoplasma antibodies failed to be increased; their titers in seropositive children were low; toxoplasma was not isolated from tonsillar tissue; no direct microscopic evidence of the parasite could be established in smears of cell aspirate from lymph nodes regional to the palatine tonsils; the same smears failed to present the cytopathologic picture characteristic of nodal toxoplasmosis.
  • (15) Cortisone also reduces fetal muscular movements, which may explain why displacement of the tongue from between the palatine shelves is delayed.
  • (16) Cell suspensions of human bone marrow, spleen, lymph nodes and palatine tonsils have been investigated for the presence of intracellular immunoglobulins by a direct immunofluorescence technique, using monospecific antisera against human Ig heavy chains alpha, mu and gamma and light chains kappa and lambda.
  • (17) From these findings, it is concluded that the lingual tonsil transiently responds to aging from the first to the 2nd decade, when the pharyngeal and palatine tonsils have dominant functions, and becomes active from the 4th to 5th decades, followed by a decrease in function after the 6th decade though its activity persists in elderly individuals.
  • (18) The distance of the foveola palatina from the papilla incisiva and palatinal raphe was measured.
  • (19) We describe a method for determining the nickel content of small tissue samples by flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry in this case biopsy specimens from human palatine tonsils.
  • (20) This study compares the effects of a pulsed laser and a continuous laser on freshly removed human palatine tonsils and skeletal muscle tissue.

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