What's the difference between caruncle and seed?

Caruncle


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Caruncula

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By means of hybridization of nucleic acid, we detected DNA specific for papilloma virus, type 6a, in a caruncle papilloma of a 45-year-old female patient suffering from genital warts.
  • (2) We describe two patients with different adnexal locations of localized extramedullary plasmacytomas, one under the conjunctiva of the caruncle and the other under the tarsal conjunctiva.
  • (3) The caruncle and 16 control sheep, each with indwelling vascular catheters, were studied between 121 and 130 days of pregnancy.
  • (4) Weights of the fetus, fetal membranes, cotyledons, caruncles, and uterus were recorded as were weights of the fetal liver, heart, kidneys, spleen, lungs, stomach complex, intestines, and semitendinosus muscle.
  • (5) It was concluded that collagenase caused collagenolysis and loosening of cotyledon from caruncle, but collagenolysis and cotyledon-caruncle separation were not facilitated by the presence of hyaluronidase.
  • (6) Total uterine blood flow measured with isotope-labeled microspheres rose more than tenfold following 30 microgram per kilogram of either estrogen, as did blood flow to the myometrium, endometrium, and uterine caruncles (p less than 0.05).
  • (7) prescapular) lymph nodes and uterine caruncles, cotyledons or foetal tissues.
  • (8) in whom the external genitalia and urethra were closely examined, a urethral caruncle was noted in 1 pt.
  • (9) In subsequent pregnancies, half the caruncle fetuses were growth retarded or small (weight more than 2 SD below mean weight for control fetuses) with the remainder, normal-sized (weight within 2 SD of mean weight for control fetuses).
  • (10) The investigation was performed in fetal cotyledons, which are attached to uterine caruncles to form units, called placentons.
  • (11) C. jejuni colonies were identified in caruncles and placenta by light microscopy and immunoperoxidase techniques.
  • (12) All the birds fed zearalenone frequently showed strutting behavior, displayed an increased size and coloration of caruncles and dewlaps, and had swollen vent tissue.
  • (13) Tumor resection was performed under the preoperative diagnosis of caruncles, but, histopathological examination revealed adenocarcinoma.
  • (14) The pigmentation on or round the cornea is independent of iris colour in Caucasians, but is related to melanosis of the bulbar conjunctiva, the caruncle and the plica semilunaris.
  • (15) The results indicate that fetal growth retardation due to restriction of placental growth after removal of endometrial caruncles is associated with chronic hypoxaemia, polycythaemia and hypoglycaemia.
  • (16) Intrauterine growth retardation was induced by removal of endometrial caruncles in the ewe prior to conception thereby reducing the size of the placenta in a subsequent pregnancy.
  • (17) Oxygen tension (P02) and content in the common umbilical vein and in the descending aorta were significantly lower in small caruncle fetuses compared to controls but only P02 was lower in normal-sized caruncle fetuses.
  • (18) Ocular adnexal oncocytomas have been reported to arise in the caruncle, lacrimal gland, and lacrimal sac.
  • (19) 1, maternal (caruncle) and fetal (cotyledon) portions of the placenta as well as uterine endometrium were obtained from cows at mid-gestation and evaluated for angiogenic activity by placing tissue samples on chick chorioallantoic membranes (CAM).
  • (20) A 50-year-old, black woman presented with a 1-cm, polypoid lesion on the posterior edge of the urethral meatus that had the gross appearance of a urethral caruncle.

Seed


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Seed
  • (n.) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
  • (n.) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
  • (n.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
  • (n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
  • (n.) The principle of production.
  • (n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
  • (n.) Race; generation; birth.
  • (v. t.) To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
  • (v. t.) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus, a dietary 'no observable effect level' for subchronic ingestion of C. obtusifolia seed in rats was less than 0.15%.
  • (2) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
  • (3) Cissus quadrangularis was mutagenic, while 'decoctions' of cumin seeds, aniseeds and ginger were not.
  • (4) The major protein component in seeds is storage protein.
  • (5) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
  • (6) Furthermore, the animals did not increase their intake of sunflower seeds, a preferred diet for hamsters.
  • (7) Although not yet characterized, glycinin-related genes could encode other glycinin subunit families whose members accumulate in minor amounts in seeds.
  • (8) A procedure for cultivation of the seed material for biosynthesis of eremomycin providing an increase in the antibiotic yield by 24 per cent was developed.
  • (9) At 10 weeks only the seeded grafts could be assessed because all of the control grafts had occluded.
  • (10) Cells dissociated from 6-day rat cerebellum were seeded on glass coverslips coated with polylysine on one half and hyaluronectin on the other.
  • (11) The observed signals from germinating seeds of Phaseolus aures and decaying leaves of Eucalyptus are presented to show that the signals have characteristic kinetics and intensity.
  • (12) The accumulation of the mRNA corresponding to a rice high pI alpha-amylase gene, OSamy-c, was stimulated 20-fold by exogenous GA3 in half-seeds lacking embryos.
  • (13) Previous work from this laboratory had shown that Leguminosa seed extracts contain lectin-bound proteins.
  • (14) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
  • (15) Y-79 cells, seeded into a Matrigel matrix, form round colonies over a 3-week period similar to those of control, weakly metastatic murine melanoma cells.
  • (16) During the procedure of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), the release of free oxygen radicals as a result of ischemia and reperfusion which plants the seeds of post-operative low cardiac output and arrhythmias has grave consequence on the reestablishment of cardiac function.
  • (17) Production of the vaccine basically consists in the multiplication of the working seed under standardized, well-defined conditions guaranteeing consistency of the vaccine lots.
  • (18) In cereals and legume seeds the activity of chymotrypsin inhibitors is generally lower than that of the trypsin inhibitors.
  • (19) The amino acid sequence of the smaller subunit of conglutin gamma, the simplest of the three globulins from the seeds of Lupinus angustifolius cv.
  • (20) Virus in the seed lot was not identified correctly, and the titer of homologous antiserum was mistakenly considered to be low as a result of neutralization tests conducted with the aggregated virus.