What's the difference between caruncle and wattle?

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.

Wattle


Definition:

  • (n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
  • (n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
  • (n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
  • (n.) Barbel of a fish.
  • (n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
  • (n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
  • (v. t.) To bind with twigs.
  • (v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
  • (v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The group given the small multilamellar positively charged liposome also showed significant delayed-type hypersensitivity (wattle swelling) (P less than or equal to 0.05).
  • (2) Beta stimulation with isoproterenol markedly reduced R and increased Q in normothermic birds, suggesting the presence of beta receptors in the wattle vasculature.
  • (3) The presence of cytoplasmic dihydrotestosterone receptors in the lungs, the comb, the wattle, and the ear lobes of the cock was demonstrated by sucrose density-gradient centrifugation.
  • (4) The mud and wattle huts in which pupils were taught have now been replaced with seven permanent classrooms.
  • (5) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian When she was a child living in a Tudor cottage in rural Cheshire, the walls were lumpy, and badly painted, wattle and daub.
  • (6) The faecal output of strongyle eggs was significantly related to breed, polledness, presence of wattles and age.
  • (7) Wattle reactions to an Eimeria tenella antigen and phytohemagglutinin (PHA) were studied in chickens infected with E. tenella.
  • (8) Until now the school has used temporary mud-and-wattle structures with grass-thatched roofs that sway in the wind or, in rough weather, simply collapse.
  • (9) Instead, let Australia summon up the sentiments of Henry Lawson's iconic 1891 poem, Freedom on the Wallaby , for today it is not the rebel's blood but a callous disregard for the vulnerable that "stains the wattle".
  • (10) The preoperative diagnosis may be suggested by the "turkey wattle sign" (i.e., fluctuation in the size of the mass with bending the head downward).
  • (11) Nitrogen and atom-% 15N excess (15N') were determined in the bones, the feathers and the remaining body (skin, lungs and windpipe, head with comb and wattle, lower leg without bones and with skin, pancreas and fatty tissue).
  • (12) Alpha blockade with phenoxybenzamine also resulted in pronounced vasodilatation, suggesting tonic alpha-sympathetic tone in the wattle vasculature under normothermic conditions.
  • (13) During moderate cooling, vasoconstriction in the feet and wattles of broody hens (but not of non-broody hens) freed non-nutrient blood flow for redistribution to the brood patches.
  • (14) Although delayed hypersensitivity was confirmed by delayed wattle reaction in 2-month-old chickens sensitized with living S pullorum, the sensitization did not markedly affect phagocytic and bactericidal activities.
  • (15) 5-HT and NE each depressed significantly the wattle response in 3 and 6 week old chicks.
  • (16) At 6 weeks of age, chickens were injected with 100 micrograms purified PHA-P. Wattle thickness measurements were taken 4, 24, 48, 72 and 96 h after injection.
  • (17) Injections were given 12 h prior to, at the time of, and at 12 and 24 h after an intradermal wattle injection with PHA-P.
  • (18) A rare case of a symptomatic venous anomaly of the parotid gland is described in a 14-year-old female patient who presented with Turkey Wattle sign.
  • (19) The study was undertaken in spring (n = 263 goats) and autumn (n = 165); the breed, age, polledness, absence or presence of wattles, and reproductive status were recorded for each goat.
  • (20) A double-wattled cassowary died following a clinical course of severe diarrhea, anorexia, and polydypsia.