What's the difference between calamus and umbilicus?
Calamus
Definition:
(n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
(n.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.
(n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the ventrolateral medulla (VLM), PNMT-ir cell bodies were concentrated rostrally and extended from the caudal pole of the facial nucleus to a level posterior to the calamus scriptorius.
(2) The spinal cord was transected at the level of calamus scriptorius either completely (spinal preparation) or partially (funicular preparation).
(3) An ethanol extract of Acorus calamus rhizomes was screened for CNS effects using a battery of 20 tests in rats and mice.
(4) Water soluble dried powder of alcoholic extract of roots and rhizomes of A. calamus L. was used.
(5) Calamus oil, widely used in pharmaceuticals was highly effective.
(6) In its pharmacological properties the studied asarone is identical with asarone obtained from Acorus calamus and Guatteria.
(7) The extract exhibited a large number of actions similar to alpha-asarone (an active principle of A. calamus) but differed from the latter in several other respects including the responses to electroshock, apomorphine- and isolation-induced aggressive behaviour, amphetamine toxicity in aggregated mice, behavioural despair syndrome in forced swimming, etc.
(8) Abnormal feathers, characterized by thinness and increased transparency of the calamus and rachis, and loss of barbs, were induced at a high frequency by inoculating day-old chicks with reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) propagated in chicken-embryo fibroblast (CEF) cultures.
(9) The main fraction, GF-3, separated from SCM-proteins of fowl feather calamus by gel filtration, was separated into seven peaks, C-1 to C-7, by ion exchange chromatography on a DEAE-cellulose column.
(10) Kesari powder, calamus oil, palm drink, toddy and Kewra essence were found to be strongly mutagenic; garlic, palm oil, arrack, onion and pyrolysed portions of bread toast, chicory powder were weakly mutagenic, while tamarind and turmeric were not.
(11) In the ventrolateral medulla, we found that labeled cells extended from the level of the retrofacial nucleus to the calamus scriptorius.
(12) Green naswar of Bannu, grey naswar, red naswar, and the remaining three herbs, namely, Acorous calamus, Azadarachta indica, and Zanthozylum alatum, exhibited no mutagenic activity under the present experimental conditions.
(13) The elution patterns were used to compare the components of different feather parts, barbs, rachis + medulla, and calamus.
(14) labeled cell bodies in the brainstem were confined to the nucleus of the glossopharyngeal-vagal complex, from approximately 1.5 mm caudal to 1.5 mm rostral to the calamus scriptorius (obex).
(15) In all cases, GF-3 was the main fraction and the percentages with respect to the total peak area found for barbs, rachis + medulla, and calamus were about 65%, 74%, and 93%, respectively.
(16) When HRP was injected in the A-V node area, S-A node area, right atrial wall and right ventricular wall, the labeled neurons were principally found in the lateral half of the dorsal motor nucleus (DMN) and in the medial solitary nucleus (MSN), were almost the same in number bilaterally, and were chiefly from the calamus scriptorius to the upper cervical cord.
Umbilicus
Definition:
(n.) The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel.
(n.) An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
(n.) The hilum.
(n.) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
(n.) Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
(n.) One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
(n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chemically isolated separate preparations of the non-aggregating protein-chondroitin-keratin sulphate (PCKS) fraction from the hyaline cartilage and hyaluronic acid (HUA) of the vitreous body and of the umbilicus were investigated by electron microscopy.
(2) Cultures were collected from the external ear, throat and umbilicus of all infants within 5 minutes of birth and at day 4 of life.
(3) Pneumoperitoneum may be indicated in the investigation of a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum, in the exclusion or confirmation of remnants of the omphalomesenteric duct, in chronically moist lesions of the umbilicus resistant to symptomatic treatment, in suspected cases of non-communicating urachal cysts which cannot be diagnosed by cystogram, and in the differential diagnosis of abdominal tumours related to the umbilical region.
(4) Faecal specimens were cultured daily for E. coli as were swabs from the rectum, groin, umbilicus, head, hands und mouth.
(5) The only consistent pattern distribution was that mff were recovered from all 10 hides at four sample sites along the ventral midline near the umbilicus.
(6) A lace used in obstetrics for ligation of umbilicus served as the tourniquet.
(7) Cultures were taken from the catheter tips and from the umbilicus at the time of withdrawal of the catheter.
(8) Plasma arginine vasopressin was more than 5 times greater 15 min following birth than immediately prior to clamping the umbilicus, and it fell progressively over the ensuing 2-5 h to levels not significantly different from before birth.
(9) The masculinisation of the external genitalia begins as early as day 47 by a rapid increase of the anogenital distance: on day 60, the penis opens under the umbilicus and the scrotum is well differentiated.
(10) A pooling of contrast medium (8 X 2.5 cm) under the umbilicus was detected by a fistelography from the umbilicus, and a low density mass was detected under the abdominal wall between the umbilicus and the dome of bladder on a CT scan.
(11) Complete removal of the skin and fat between the umbilicus and the pubis is always possible if the operating table is put in a proper position for closure.
(12) Two additional trocars were inserted at the level of the umbilicus at the anterior axillary lines.
(13) Massive hepatomegaly (below the umbilicus) was demonstrated in 18 patients.
(14) In one case a mass was localized to the bladder wall and immediate juxtavesical region; in the other case an advanced locally invasive lesion was seen to engulf and fisulize loops of small bowel and extend through the umbilicus.
(15) The defect concerned the lateral thoracoabdominal area, on both sides of the umbilicus, jointed with a fine linear communication, and have the classical butterfly wind-like shape.
(16) The ligamentum teres hepatis connects the umbilicus to the left lobe of the liver, and thus a hepatic lesion can spread through the ligament to the umbilicus and the anterior abdominal wall.
(17) The skin at the bottom of the umbilicus and the abdominal fascia under the umbilicus were excised round.
(18) Our procedure uses a single flap or brings two flaps together, to form a three-dimensional structure with a single or double suture line, so that the umbilicus will retain its depth over a long period of time.
(19) The umbilicus was not reconstructed because of the danger of recurrence.
(20) Necropsy of the fetuses revealed serogelatinous edema in the SC connective tissue of the ventral abdominal region (especially around the umbilicus), exaggerated amounts of serohemorrhagic fluid in the abdominal, pleural, and pericardial cavities, and hemorrhagic kidneys, with diminished consistency.